Switching gears

Monday, August 18th, 2008

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, [...]

Lively.com : Google

Friday, July 11th, 2008

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 [...]

NECC 2008

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Looking forward to my first National Conference. I was trying to find a good way to use a Voicethread together so people could respond to the schedule and talk about what workshops/seminars they were going to. Then I realized that will be difficult with the INCREDIBLE number of things being offered. How [...]

Working with 4th graders and iMovie today.

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

     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 [...]

Edmodo becoming more of a reality

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

 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, [...]