Mathematics and Computer Science Teacher going to bat for Web 2.0.
Posted in Teaching, k12online06 on Nov 24th, 2006
The irony behind watching the presentation titled “Trash to Treasures: Creating Your Own Computer Lab” at the k12 online conference is that my situation is the total opposite. I am a brand new teacher with brand new set of 24 computers in a room with new network layout, new tables, and a new wireless projector. [...]
Posted in Blog, Classroom Website, Teaching, Wiki, k12online06 on Nov 24th, 2006
It was very interesting listening to Chris Kaminski and his students discuss, through the k12 online conference, their experiences and thoughts concerning Web 2.0. As a young teacher, I felt like I was one of the students pleading to use technology in more classes and to have teachers that understand Web 2.0. I may not [...]
Posted in Teaching, k12online06 on Nov 24th, 2006
Anytime that content filtering is discussed form an educational technology point of view, the discussion turns into a business-like talk where money, community, and the users become the focal point. Is this necessarily negative? I definitely think that each school that serious implements technology or has an inordinate amount of technology will eventually need a [...]
Posted in General, Teaching, k12online06 on Nov 23rd, 2006
At the k12 online conference, Julie Lindsay discusses the idea of a Professional Learning Environment in her presentation. I am a believer in an environment like this which provides links, content, and discussion that is involved in the learning process. I run my school website using Drupal, a content management system, which gives me many [...]
Posted in General, Teaching, k12online06 on Nov 23rd, 2006
I’m a mathematics and computer science teacher, but my first love was geography and weather. I used to, besides eating cottage cheese, draw maps all of the time of the world, the United States, and just about anything that had to do with latitude and longitude. From the age of 3 to around 7, I [...]
Posted in General, Teaching, k12online06 on Nov 22nd, 2006
At the k12 online conference, in their presentation titled “Toward a System of Online Curriculum-Sharing”, Rob Lucas and Kevin Driscoll discuss and show many examples of websites that allow teachers to share lesson plans and curriculum. As a young teacher, I have explored these website on my own and these resources are important to both [...]
Posted in Blog, General, Teaching, k12online06 on Nov 22nd, 2006
The Basic/Advanced Training Keynote by Alan Levine at the K12 Online Conference was an open box to me because it didn’t send a message to me, it made me click on the links contained on the keynote post. Is this a bad thing? Absolutely not, because I realized the power of tools like SlideShare, Writely, [...]
Posted in Blog, General, Teaching, k12online06 on Nov 22nd, 2006
As i’m listening to Bud Hunt, in his “A Week in the Classroom” keynote at the k12 online conferene, I keep thinking about all of the educational resources that continue to get blocked each and every day. As a teacher who has students on the internet all of the time in web development and programming, [...]
