Google Tools with Rick Weinberg

Friday, November 14th, 2008

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 [...]

NECC 2008 Day 2

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I was going to start off the day at the Hyatt about integrating technology into the curriculum, but the presenter never showed (they didn’t show for Rick Weinberg’s either).  I then headed over to HGCC 103A to hear David Jakes and Dean Shareski’s presentation for 11:00 on using PowerPoint.  It gave me a chance to [...]

How do you decide WHO to follow on Twitter?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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 [...]

Google Certified Teacher

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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 [...]