Keeping the Dream Alive

Thank you for your patience! I have been very busy since our brief time together and apologize for not sending the video links sooner. I was in the process of trying some new things on this blog and ran into some minor technical difficulties.

The videos I tried to share with you on April 14th are located on the page “Videos to View”. There are two other videos you should take a look at also. You may or may not have trouble viewing the videos here at school because they involve a flash player and are located at “youtube.com”

This blog will become my main professional blog. I will make this a place to share knowledge and expertise and would like to engage in conversion with all who wish to better utilize technology in a classroom. I have decided to wait on setting up my student blogs until next year as there are too many activities going on as this school year comes to an end.

Please take a look around and I welcome your comments.

Today after teaching my normal load of classes, I went down to the Lower School division(grades PK-5) of the PK -12 school where I teach. I gave short presentation on Web2.0 and shared with them a TeacherTube video titled “Pay Attention” by Darren Draper. Next I showed a slide-show entitled “Its Elementary-web2.0-in-the-elementary-classroom” by D. Kuropatwa. After that presentation got them excited, I took the group to various grade level blogs so they could what some teachers are doing with classroom blogs. The hour was soon up but before they left overwhelmed I stressed the importance of just picking one new piece of technology to try in the classroom and not over do it at first. One teacher stayed to learn how to Google on her cellphone and another stayed to set up her personal blog right on the spot!

See the link under Blogroll (bottom right) to a power point presentation done by two professors of education called “Did You Know?”

Welcome to my blog! Please join me on my journey as I strive to better integrate technology into a middle science classroom! Check out my vision statement on the “about this blog” page.