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 [...]

Data enhanced education

Friday, August 15th, 2008

As a high school math teacher in a previous life before taking this job in professional development with CA BOCES I always valued the importance of gathering data.  Then, I enjoyed trying to make inferences from it, and look for possible sources of error or reasons why it might be skewed.  My wife would tell [...]

Tech Camp

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

High Schools New Face

Monday, July 21st, 2008

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 [...]

Shaking off the rust…

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Need to get back in the swing of this blog. Paperwork, paperwork. Need to find more time, somehow.
Survived a morning workshop with teachers thanks to fellow colleague (@tclarkeee). Nothing bad, but it is hard when it is the last week for teachers, the sun is shining and some of them are thinking of finishing up [...]