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, [...]

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 [...]

Meetup.com

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Saw this interesting video from Jane Hart and her blog.  It was showing off Meetup.com and how to meet people and connect Face 2 Face.  I will try to embed the video below……..
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 OK, didn’t work, the video is from Lee Lefever of the Common Craft Show, the link through blip.tv is here.

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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 [...]

Preparing for Web 2.0 Workshop and Tech Connect

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

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 [...]

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, [...]

Voicethread and Animoto with family pics (again)…..

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Getting ready for our Division Day and using Moodle with other BOCES staff, I tried to whip together a Voicethread and let Thomas make some comments….I know, I know, I need to get new pictures (I use the same ones for everything).

I’m also using Animoto more and more…..Man, those guys are nice.  They are starting [...]

Edmodo and other topics before Spring Break

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Glad to be down with NYS Math 7 and 8 grading!  Teachers are very good around here about getting that done and helping each other, so it went well, and I was am fortunate to have great teachers in Cattaraugus and Allegany County.  Oh yeah, lay off the Duke comments…..I know they’re out.  2009 is [...]