Each TechnoTuesday
Posted in Learning, SYP, Twitter, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2008
Today I had a young 20 something year old teacher share with me the ringtones that students use that supposedly adults can’t hear (but she can–she’s but a babe!). She invited five of us into her empty room, and played the tone (which apparently is a free download.) I had heard of it before, but [...]
Posted in SYP on Jan 5th, 2008
Yesterday I conducted an experiment to see if new flooring in sections of my library were causing my sunburn-like, itchy discomfort, and swelling around my eyes that I have been suffering with since early November. Hypothesis: New flooring/carpeting in the library office and video editing studio are causing me to have an allergic reaction (as [...]
Posted in Carolyn Foote, Digital Video, Eye Surgery, Social Networks, SYP, Twitter on Jan 3rd, 2008
Now I’ve heard it all! I think I may be allergic to work, but allow me to explain. I am new at a school that just underwent a major renovation. The library acquired a state of the art video production studio and new shelving. The office was carpeted along with the renovations. This was finalized [...]
Posted in SYP on Nov 29th, 2007
My sixth grade students ( a group of about 8 girls) put together a video for our morning news show on locker care. Not expert, but good enough! I’m sharing here. All was made here at school. Almost 3 minutes in length. A little rough around the edges.lockersmov.mov Download Title Guess I need to upload [...]
Posted in 21st century, Professional Development, South Carolina, SYP on Nov 25th, 2007
I read where Kathy Schrock and Doug Johnson recently provided a history or timeline of sorts to document their careers, so thought I’d take a moment to do mine. I am no comparison to those two who are quite accomplished educators. But it does help me when I reflect over my growth. In taking this [...]
Posted in Social Networks, SYP, Wes Fryer on Nov 19th, 2007
[This open letter is to Wes Fryer and anyone else reading and or seeing all the media coverage of the Megen Meier MySpace/Suicide Tragedy--his comments were closed (even tho his site said otherwise) but I want to speak to the issue. If you are not familiar with this story, click here.] Wes thanks for posting [...]
Posted in 21st century, Blogging, Dean Shareski, Digital Video, Education, Library, Podcasting, SYP on Nov 17th, 2007
In recent years (if I must pinpoint a date it would be the summer of 2005) I became aware of the growing trends of podcasts in education. I explored podcast creation briefly, even making a couple of podcasts for my former school, using kids for all the talking, to post episodes that could be subscribed [...]
Posted in 21st century, Blogging, Education, Professional Development, Social Networks, SYP, Twitter, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 on Nov 11th, 2007
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2007/db071111.gif The above link goes to a Doonesbury cartoon that hits so close to home. Thanks to my friend Diane Cordell who shared it via Twitter this morning, I had a small chuckle. It reminds me of that new video circulating among bloggers called A Vision of Students Today. If you have not had a [...]
Posted in Collection development, SYP on Nov 6th, 2007
Today I made a huge display out of a section of empty shelves. You see, with the big weeding project almost done, I had two whole cases EMPTY–top to bottom, side by side. What to do? They are mounted on the wall, so there will be no moving them. So I lined the border with [...]
Posted in Education, Google, Information Literacy, Library, SYP on Nov 3rd, 2007
Problem Background: I am new in my district this year, even though I’m a 22 year veteran. This week I had a couple of sixth grade science teachers ask about using the library computers (20 in all) for a webquest they were completing, because there were some unavailable times in the computer lab to them. [...]
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