Tip of the Iceberg

As so many teachers came back from the Christmas holiday with a new iPhone/iPod Touch, I decided to make the first Wired Wednesday for 2010 focused on apps. We had a great turn out, and there was a real buzz in the lab as people talked over each other to share their favourite apps. I [...]

New Year: Kids start TODAY! New Job: Flexible Timetable, k-5 tech integration & support at UWCSEA East. New Toys: 14 Creative Vado HD Video cameras 12 iPod Touches 11 Digital Blue Microscopes 22 Acer Aspire One Netbooks 1 Visualizer Getting Started: I introduced some of our new toys during a whole staff meeting. I demonstrated [...]

Way back in January, Katie and I began our foray into staff technology PD with our Connecting East initiative. It was loosely based on the 23 Things model started by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. What made it different is we didn’t choose to focus on 23 Things, but instead had 10 [...]

Photo credit: niko si Had a bit of a despondent moment last week, wondering whether I was making any difference to anyone with this staff initiative on technology PD. Although we have a good number of people turning up each week, it still seems we have such a long way to go. Perhaps I was [...]

Photo credit: kris247 Our PD initiative to encourage more technology use with the teachers at our campus is underway. I’m extremely excited and hopeful that our already-busy colleagues will come to the party and take part. Katie and I have tried to differentiate our approach so that we are catering to the needs of all [...]

Photo credit When I first signed up for Twitter I won’t lie; I wasn’t overly impressed. I didn’t know who to follow, I didn’t know what to say. After all, surely the ‘status update’ function of Facebook would do the same thing. I persevered, followed more people, shared some interesting things I found and then [...]