Jaime Steward - sad74tech.blogspot.com
Laura Rice - www.tealead.blogspot.com
Joyce Knowles - actemworkshop.blogspot.com
Maria James - mjamestech.blogspot.com
Cathy Starbird - cathstar.blogspot.com
Debbie Haynie - mrshaynie7.blogspot.com
Monday, October 15, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
ACTEM Conference, Big hit for blogging in the classroom
tag: actem, education, blogging, technology
So I just came back from the ACTEM conference, and boy am I excited from all the great information that I and all the other teachers from my district came back with. I wish that the conference wasn't on a Friday so that I and the other teachers don't loose any of this excitement over the week-end. I would have been great to meet with them tomorrow. The topic that I tried to learn the most about was about blogging and other Web 2.0 resources in the classroom. My district was had Moodle for 3 years now, but I have not been able to motivate the teachers to use it, and I know that with blogging students can get so much great information that we ourselves can not always give them by ourselves. My hope is that this will be a good jumping point for other teachers to start integrating technology into their classrooms, and get more confidence in using web 2.0 and use even more of it in their classrooms.
So I just came back from the ACTEM conference, and boy am I excited from all the great information that I and all the other teachers from my district came back with. I wish that the conference wasn't on a Friday so that I and the other teachers don't loose any of this excitement over the week-end. I would have been great to meet with them tomorrow. The topic that I tried to learn the most about was about blogging and other Web 2.0 resources in the classroom. My district was had Moodle for 3 years now, but I have not been able to motivate the teachers to use it, and I know that with blogging students can get so much great information that we ourselves can not always give them by ourselves. My hope is that this will be a good jumping point for other teachers to start integrating technology into their classrooms, and get more confidence in using web 2.0 and use even more of it in their classrooms.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
21st Century High School Teacher Laptop Professional Development
| Here is a link on www.MaineLearns.org about the State's plan to give all High School Teachers laptops and professional development. The purpose behind this is to help high schools in Maine have all students “career, college and citizenship ready” in the 21st Century. The teachers are getting MacBooks, with tons or great software on them. The high school teachers will also have access to StudyWiz. For those of you that don't know what StudyWiz is, think of Moodle, only cleaner looking, and a little bit easier for teachers to use. They also have NoteShare, DataStudio, and lots of other software. How with all of this effect that the state of Maine has put into this, let's hope that this will help enable the teachers to enable technology into the classroom, and help convince our government to start a MLTI program for all high school students like they do for our 7th and 8th grade students. | |
Monday, July 9, 2007
Student Technology Handbooks
Right now I'm working on handbooks for a school district to use for students and staff of using technology in the classroom. In my state all of the 7th and 8th graders have laptops. It's known as the Maine Learning Technology Initiative program or MLTI. In that grade it's great giving these kids technology, but it also can have some negative effects. I'm hoping that by making handbooks on what is expected, some great how to's and great ways to use the laptops at home, it will cut down on the some of the problems of the kids using the laptops as a distraction tool as opposed to a learning tool. If you have anything that you think would go great in here I'm all ears.
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