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 [...]
Quick thoughts on some sites I’ve found this week and at the very least have interested me….
Phonevite is looking great to me. I first thought you may only get 25 calls total for free. However, after two e-mails to Phonevite I found out that you can send up to 25 people at a time a [...]
Trying to work my way around Lively, Google’s new MUVE release. Since I’ve had little time to play, I’m hoping for help. Since I couldn’t get my name, or mcarls, I had to go with my third option of Dukefan12.
I even tried to start Plurkville as a place to meet for educators on Plurk, but [...]
Now that I’m back to work and survived the holiday weekend I’m trying to get back in the swing of things. Here is what’s on tap:
Wednesday, leave for DATAG conference in Albany, NY. I found out to be careful Googling this one, there is another site NOT quite committed to DATA!?!? This workshop should be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sitting in my office after the long weekend and a morning meeting that helped me get refocused on our Tech offerings for next year. At CA BOCES (Professional Development), we offer Tech Connect trainings to area schools in Cattaraugus & Allegany Counties in Western New York. Schools who did not participate in [...]
Good closing for this year’s WNY-PLP in West Seneca by Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach. Throughout this process I don’t know what others have learned (even my own district), but I know I did learn quite a few things. I started to build my network, and I think that especially early on, it gave me [...]
Completed the Tuesday workshop out at STW with Catt-LV teachers and they just soaked everything up. We looked at quite a bit with Voicethreads again and one of the teachers showed what her kids have started to do. They worked on setting up their class wiki with pages for each unit (two teachers work on this [...]
Helped (very slightly) with the Technology Integrators Forum out at STW in Salamanca today for a collaborative effort between WNYRIC and our CABOCES. Mansell Wells initiated the idea and set up the wiki here. It was very enlightening and I thought went well. There were a few administrators in and out throughout the day, and [...]
