Ed Tech Geek

I viewed the video Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the lawfrom the TED conference, and was very impressed with Larry as a presenter. He is poised, well spoken, funny, and the flow of his presentation is very enjoyable.  I found him to be very entertaining.  I loved how he compared the norms [...]

[Read more]

Wow. That is about all I can utter at the moment. I just finished listening to Going Global with Alan November, and I have a new fear for this county. For years now I have feared our county’s environmental destruction and disregard for our natural resources and waste, but now I have [...]

[Read more]

Please visit the following link to listen to listen to “Crossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age” by Karen Richardson:
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=185
I chose this as my last session because this touches upon the topic of our last class.  I really enjoyed the discussions that we had in our last class, and I found that this presentation [...]

[Read more]

Please visit the following link to listen to “The Collaborative ABC Project: Using Technology To Tell Stories” by Kevin Hodgson:
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=182
Ever since I was introduced to the concept of digital story telling I loved it. I introduced this concept to my staff by reading them a story I wrote about my summer vacation and then [...]

[Read more]

As a current technology specialist, it is embarrassing to admit that this blog is truly my first blog experience. As a first timer I don’t feel that I have a great platform for sharing a strong opinion of the use of web 2.0 tools in school. I can piggy back on the ideas [...]

[Read more]

The following question was offered as a common question received in a school:
You can copy this music cd for me–can’t you?
This is a fabulous question. The catch is the difference between what “can” be done and what “should” be done. With the speed of technology today, it very common for something to be [...]

[Read more]

Please visit the following link to listen to “The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style” by Kurt Paccio and James Gates:
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=171
Kurt and James each had their own seperate presentations in this session. Kurt introduced sPresent and James presented splashcast. I watched Kurt’s presentation on my iPod this weekend, and I couldn’t wait to get [...]

[Read more]

Visit the following site to listen to “Classroom 2.0 or You Live Where?” by Clarence Fisher:
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=150
This session was the keynote for the Classroom 2.0 strand of the K-12 Online Conference. Clarence shared his thoughts on the use of web 2.0 tools to create a new type of classroom. First of all I have [...]

[Read more]

Fourth grade students have a wonderful science unit on simple machines. They learn what defines each of the simple machines (inclined plain, screw, wedge, lever, pulley and the wheel and axle). They are also introduced to and find additional examples of each of the simple machines. They then go on to use hands on [...]

[Read more]

I have recently read an excerpt from Linda Hoyt’s Make it Real, Strategies for Success with Informational Texts, and I currently have all kinds of wonderful ideas for teaching writing floating around in my head. Many of these ideas are sending memories flooding back to me from my own days in grade school, and some [...]

[Read more]