I’ve missed my blog, so I decided to spend a few moments today reflecting on my teaching year so far, as well as the things/people for which or for whom (!) I am most thankful. I hope that if any of my former online classmates from this fall still check their Google Reader accounts, they [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!
Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Imagining Education in the Year 2020
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In ten years, my current second graders will graduate from high school. What will the world be like in 2020? Things are currently changing so fast, especially in the way we communicate with each other, that it is a bit difficult to imagine. I think it is a given that we will be much [...]
Web Applications
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged collaboration, Google docs, Powerpoint, school libraries, web applications, web applications in elementary school, Zoho Show on November 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The web application I would like to try for collaboration with my colleagues is Google Docs. Right now, we collaborate on documents in two ways: fellow building teachers and I use the teacher drive at school to post documents for each other to view and edit, but, of course, this only works when we [...]