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More instructional tools for our teaching repertoire

Posted by bapthorpe on Jun 8, 2010 in General Thoughts, Pedagogy, Software, Technology Stuff

This summer our teachers can get their hands on some new tools that will enhance their instructional repertoire for the 2010-11 school year.  One tool is called Livestream.  Livestream can allow teachers to broadcast from their classrooms on the Internet to an audience that they can control.  In other words, this year Mr. Woods and [...]

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World of Warcraft promotes learning

Posted by bapthorpe on Feb 9, 2010 in General Thoughts, Pedagogy, Software, Technology Stuff

I was catching up on my reading this week and in the ISTE publication Learning & Leading with Technology Nov. 2009 issue I was drawn to the section on new multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs). I have long felt very strongly that these settings held enormous potential for advancing student learning. It was three [...]

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Google offers new paradigm for access to the Internet

Posted by bapthorpe on Dec 2, 2009 in General Thoughts, Pedagogy, Software, Technology Stuff

Earlier this year Google Wave got a lot of attention when it was introduced to the web.  There was quite a but of buzz and speculation about this being a “really big deal”, but after using it for a few months I understand why this excitement has cooled off as it is nothing more than [...]

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Developing an RTI dashboard for vertical/horizontal information

Posted by bapthorpe on Nov 18, 2009 in General Thoughts, Software, Technology Stuff

One dimension of our technology work that is often overlooked is developing data systems that provides teachers and educational leaders with timely information that helps inform our actions to improve student learning.  This year we have been developing an articulated RTI K-12 strategy that will be very helpful for teachers who are already feeling very [...]

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Take your students for a trip around the world.

Posted by bapthorpe on Sep 11, 2009 in General Thoughts, Pedagogy, Software

The Internet offers us the exciting opportunity to take our kids for tour of our world.  Using video web cams, panoramic photography, and real time images our students are able to see the world for what it really looks like.  Dr. Kimberley Ketterer offered these sites in an article she wrote in Learning & Leading [...]

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Dream Team works hard to make for smooth cutover….

Posted by bapthorpe on Aug 29, 2009 in General Thoughts, Hardware, Software, Technology Stuff

This morning at 7 AM the team responsible for making the switch from the old network to the new network were hard at it again.  John Poland, Ross Ciulla, Tom Devitt, and Jason Scott compile the perfect “dream team” of experts in making this switch over.  The complexity of this work is really something….it requires [...]

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Four critical questions to ask ourselves when examining technology for our schools…..

Posted by bapthorpe on Jul 15, 2009 in General Thoughts, Hardware, Software, Technology Stuff

The vision for our technology use at Fairport Schools has been articulated via the work of the TVT team.  The capital projects are underway to bring us the infrastructure required to realize this vision.  To assist our teachers and administrators with determining what is contemporary technology  versus out-dated technology, we have identified a litmus test [...]

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Foreign language utilizing Web 2.0

Posted by bapthorpe on May 8, 2009 in General Thoughts, Pedagogy, Software, Technology Stuff

On Tuesday I had the privilege of watching a presentation made by foreign language teachers on web 2.0 technologies. I was very impressed by their demonstration of delicious, polleverywhere and glogster. This is exactly what our technology vision work is calling for and capital projects are enabling.
I also learned about possible limitations [...]

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BOCES#1 digital media and our schools

Posted by bapthorpe on Jan 22, 2009 in General Thoughts, Pedagogy, Software

I attended a multimedia meeting at Monroe #1 BOCES today. They provide digital media and hard media to our schools. Jeremiah Frink, Director of E-Learning did a research overview which points to media is best used when it is directed to the needs of the specific learner. He presented the results of [...]

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A teachable moment…iTunes and H Drive

Posted by bapthorpe on Dec 4, 2008 in General Thoughts, Software

Wow, our H Drive has filled up and doing an inventory of our network we have found illegal copies of music files in peoples’ folders. I asked a colleague for their reaction and I was surprised to learn that their perception was that it was ok to take their own personal cd and copy [...]

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