The end of August was an incredibly relaxing time after a very busy 2008-2009 school year followed by 6 weeks at Summer School for the Performing Arts. We spent a few weeks on Lake Ossipee in Freedom, New Hampshire resting, reading and enjoying our lazy summer days. A few days home to check in at [...]
Wow – 400 Freshmen right before lunch on a Friday with a full moon! My presentation was titled “Technology Tips”. By the time they all settled in and quieted down, I had about 19 minutes to get it all in. My objectives were clear; be positive, encouraging and offer some advice for Internet smarts. The [...]
Today I had a couple of my “techie” students helping me update a lab. While waiting for some downloads I asked them to think about a utility that would help in moving documents from the desktop into a folder. I then showed them Automator, a Macintosh scripting tool. They mumbled and started toying (research) and [...]
Andy Carvin recently posted on learning.now about a law that will mandate Online Safety curriculum schools. We’d like to think that we are doing enough but we may have to so even more. I am especially interested in having parents actively involved in the online safety education of students. A conversation about use (I am [...]
In addition to sharing information with teachers in my school, I am hoping that this blog will help to build my online technology integration Personal Learning Network. With an ever growing student and teacher population at Westford Academy and the ever changing web, it is hard to keep up. Web 2.0 seems to offer a [...]
