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 [...]
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I do love this site. You are able to upload pictures, video or even a worksheet, then once you create a free account (by the way, educators get a free Pro account! Saves you $60!!!) you can leave a comment next to the picture (I will call what you upload a picture from here on [...]
Like I’ve said many times, I’ve been very blessed, and this job, working for CA BOCES is one of them. This summer I’ve been able to just go “hog wild” exploring sites, trying different things and looking to find things to use in the classroom. I’ve been to NECC, Albany, NY for a DATAG workshop, [...]
My first summer tech camp and I couldn’t have been happier with the teachers and admin help we received at Franklinville the past 3 days. Day 1 was showing projector integration resources and help. Our wiki was just something I threw together quick in the afternoon to give them links. One thing [...]
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 [...]
I used to always tell my math students before taking one of my tests to grab as many jacks as you can. That, and of course to use good “Mathish”. The reason I say that about the jacks is because I would say that I’m throwing 45 jacks on the ground. Pick up as many [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have had the opportunity to meet Zemote (Jeff O’Hara) on-line…..actually in Twitter after Steve Dembo’s blog post about the new on-line site Jeff (I’m going to have to call him Zemote from here on in) is creating with Nic Borg called Edmodo. I originally heard that it was going to be an educational Twitter! However, [...]
To be safe, my wife and I exchanged last night our Valentine’s Day cards and gifts. We thought of going out to dinner, but she made Chicken Parm! Winner, winner.
I survived my Tech Connect out at GVCS where we used Google Docs, podcasting with Audacity and looked at some digital media and using zamzar.com to [...]
