More instructional tools for our teaching repertoire
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 [...]
World of Warcraft promotes learning
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 [...]
Google offers new paradigm for access to the Internet
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 [...]
Developing an RTI dashboard for vertical/horizontal information
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 [...]
Take your students for a trip around the world.
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 [...]
Dream Team works hard to make for smooth cutover….
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 [...]
Four critical questions to ask ourselves when examining technology for our schools…..
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 [...]
Foreign language utilizing Web 2.0
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 [...]
BOCES#1 digital media and our schools
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 [...]
A teachable moment…iTunes and H Drive
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 [...]