Sep
9
Fall Follies
September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Every June my ed tech colleague and I meet and plan and strategize, saying “This summer will be different! Our new computer image will be flawless! It will be cloned onto every machine without a hitch! We’re so organized this year, nothing can go wrong! We’ll come back in August ready to focus on curriculum [...]
Jul
12
Off to BLC ‘08
July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I leave SF early tomorrow morning to attend the Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, MA. Five of my MCDS colleagues and I will be attending together. I absolutely can’t wait. Haven’t heard of this conference? Visit http://www.novemberlearning.com or watch this video:
Oct
26
Upper School Teachers Adopt Classroom Technology
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Over the summer, we continued the process of creating a standard classroom technology setup in our 4th-8th grade classrooms. Almost every classroom now contains a permanent mounted LCD projector, DVD/VHS player, stereo tuner, speakers and lectern. In a growing number of classrooms, we have also installed interactive whiteboards and document projectors. Teachers’ feelings about this [...]
Oct
17
Tickle Me ELMO
October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
We have begun experimenting with document cameras this year, and have been really happy with the Lumens DC-155 XGA Digital Visual Presenter model (seen at left) we’re putting in place all over campus. (ELMO is another popular brand — the name stuck since our new one’s red!) The coolest use I’ve seen thus far has [...]
Apr
29
1st Grade Podcasts – Almost Halfway There!
April 29, 2006 | 2 Comments
Who’s brilliant idea was it to try to upload 56 1st graders’ stories as podcasts before the end of school?! Oh yeah…mine… I’ve been trying to wrestle with a combination of Audacity, GarageBand, archive.org and edublogs to make the whole thing work for free (excluding the price of GarageBand and my time…)
To give [...]
Mar
30
Podcasting 1st Grade Stories
March 30, 2006 | 1 Comment
Each Spring, the MCDS 1st Graders host the First Grade Library as a culminating project to celebrate their collective growth as readers and writers. Students hand write a series of stories, edit the stories, type them into a PowerPoint template I’ve created for the project, print the stories out, illustrate each page and bind them. [...]
Feb
5
Teaching with an LCD Projector
February 5, 2006 | 2 Comments
My colleague and I led an afterschool workshop this week on teaching with an LCD projector. I’ve put the agenda for the workshop below in the hope that someone might find these notes helpful…I know that when I Googled “teaching with an LCD projector” I only found vendor websites and instructions for setting up specific [...]
Jan
23
Tablets and Cell Phones and Palms — Oh My!
January 23, 2006 | Comments Off
Oh…the modern conundrum…which gadget to use, and for what? Since September my purse is now filled with a cell, an iPod mini a Palm Zire, a 1GB USB thumb drive and occasionally a Sony digital camera. My school laptop is a Gateway tablet. So which gadget should house my calendar and list of contacts? I [...]
