Webcaster in the Making

I’ve been really busy the last few weeks. It all started about six months ago. I really enjoy listening to educator podcasts like Speed of Creativity and Bit by Bit among others. I was happy, then came along live interactive webcasts. I was hooked! I started participating in weekly [...]

Effective School Technology Leadership

So how are you spending your 4th of July? I am here enjoying some time off. Looking forward to a barbecue and fireworks this evening at my daughter’s middle school. I am also responding to Calling All Bloggers! by Dr. Scott Mcleod from Dangerously Irrelevant. I have been an educator [...]

Read Write Web Class

I am not referring to teacher class I am completing this week. I am referring to building and maintaining a Read Write Web Classroom. These last few weeks have given me a good overview of the different tools available to my classroom. There continue to be challenges to integrating technology in classrooms [...]

Sunday SnowClones

O.K. I listened to Dave Comier’s Presentation in FOE2007 on Tuesday June 5th. I tried to follow the presentation regarding snowclones. (Not a lot of sucess). Now today I am back. It’s interesting how we can come together to explore learning. Presentation was fast paced at [...]

Social Networks for Teachers

Interesting conversations going on at Edtechtalk around social networks. The discussion for me centers on the use of Ning and Classroom 2.0. Here’s my take;
I participated at our local edtech conference this past week. The reason I bring it up is because the conference offered round table discussions. It was a conference [...]

I’m Back!

Hi everyone. It’s been a busy time of year. I’ve managed to stay out trouble the last few months. I am looking forward to having a very cool year. I started teaching 8th grade this fall. (Day 6) I am still in Survival Mode. As the year progresses I plan [...]

Life in the Big City

I seem to be very busy lately. It was raining most of the weekend and very cold (high 40’s is freezing for us city folk in LA). And I missed CUE. I’ll have to try again next year. I have’nt kept up as much with my bloglines. When [...]

Mile Race

I am going into the final turn of my mile race. I started this race four years ago when I came out of the classroom (not closet…. just classroom). I had been teaching for six years and was ready for a change. My first lap; During my first year out, I was [...]