A Mad Scientist

I received great news Friday.  A local businessman and a god friend has decided to sponsor my classroom tech project.  He has donated the necessary money for me to purchase 10 laptops for the class.  I am very excited!
Here is my plan.  I have created four websites for my class to publish and communicate what [...]

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Okay, I really love the exposure I am getting to all these technologies available to teachers.  However, I am concerned about the amount of time that it will take to maintain a blog, wiki, website, and various social networks… not to mention a class,  personal life, and family.  Please give me a few ideas by [...]

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I have been waiting all camp for day 3!  I want to create podcasts and vodcasts.  More importantly, I want my students to create podcasts and vodcasts.  Really, who wants to listen to the teacher?  This would be a great active learning and engaging method of teaching.  I was already excited about this.  However, after [...]

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Wow!  There are a lot of tools out there.  With all of these technological tools a teacher can easily be overwhelmed.  So this is what I decided.  One, not every technology is best for every instructional goal.  For example, if you want to teach a student how to work within Microsoft Word, then a screencast [...]

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I am finally here. Right now, other participants are signing-up for their blog page, so I thought I would briefly tell you about my opening impressions. I am totally excited! We will be blogging, wiki-ing (if that is the right term), and all kinds of tech geek stuff. Being a wannabe tech geek, I am [...]

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