One of my main goals many months ago was to become an “expert” on Google Tools and maybe even apply to go to the Google Teacher Academy (GTA)……however, I have not been as good on that goal as I would like to have been. My realization was the workshop Rick Weinberg put on today for [...]
What an incredible collaboration at High Schools New Face from JMT of the Western New York BOCES. Held at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, NY. There are way too many people to thank and acknowledge here, but I will talk about our cohort and some of the national presenters.
First of all if you’ve neve been to [...]
Well, anyone who knows me, knows I was floored with Voicethread.com from the first moment I saw it. Almost as much as Twitter!
Rick Weinberg showed Voicethread to a Tech Connect group he was working with back in December, and I couldn’t join and upload photos fast enough! [...]
From the very beginning when I was shown Twitter at the NYSCATE conference out in Rochester, NY this past November, I had this problem, of “Who do I decide to follow?”. I had never seen Twitter and had a hard time wrapping my mind around it. I just thought I’d get all these [...]
Rick Weinberg let me stay and work with some 4th graders from GVCS today. The students have been working on this project the majority of the year, and Rick has been in from time to time to help them work with some of their information. These students came today with photos, video and audio about the Seneca Indians and [...]
Having been new to this job (still under a year anyways) and having to learn a TON of stuff, the one thing that caught my eye was at my first conference in November (NYSCATE). One of the presenters there (Carol LaRow) was a Google Certified Teacher. I remember asking her afterwards how you obtain that [...]
Trying to work with DimDim to do an online teaching/collaboration, then I remember that we have purchased Adobe Connect Pro (formally Breeze) or all the teachers in our area. How nice is that? Playing with options and plan on showing it off this Friday for my Tech Connect. I have also used Elluminate and you can [...]
