No more bookshelves in libraries?!? Beanbag chairs!?!
Yesterday I went to RIT for an event sponsored by the RRLC where David Lewis spoke about the future of media centers (libraries). Very interesting.
Essentially the Google’s Digital Book Project, (check out the Writing Road blog) will have all published works digitized within 5 years. Noting the rise of popularity of portable reading devises like [...]
Staying focused…our technology framework
In order to increase time for teachers to meet the individual learning needs of students, we at the ISC understand our mission is to enable these opportunities to the very best of our ability. To achieve this mission we have focused our work on putting the administrative and instructional resources for FCSD within a [...]
Who wants to be a millionaire? Let’s ask the audience….
Group response systems (GRS) have become popular in contemporary classrooms and at Fairport we use a GRS product called Senteos. These are used in conjunction with Smartboards. But why is this technology important? Is this just another example of having “Stuff” because it is “cool” and “new”….. My answer is NO.
A recent [...]
Doodle 4 Google
Have you heard of the Doodle 4 Google contest? The contest is for K-12 students to redesign the Google logo. Each school can submit up to six entries for this year’s theme “What I Wish for the World.”
How could you work this contest in to your curriculum and lessons?
This may be a project the art [...]