I had a separate drive set up on our server. All of our work is saved on this drive. It took a lot of teaching, reviewing, and saying the same thing over and over again - but it paid off. It's been much easier this year. I sometimes wake up…
I started my faculty with blogging this year. It helped a lot having the support of the Administration. I set up a wordpress blog for every teacher near the beginning of the year and a few teachers really took off with it. Then the Administration…
I am doing an instructional facilitator position at my school next yr. Mostly looking at data, organizing it and making sure we're using it. I will still be the tech coordinator for my building so I hope to make time for tech opportunities with other classes, especially skyping.:)
I'm sorry for the delay, Ruth. I just saw your post! Benton Elementary is in Southeast TN. We're a public elementary school. I would love to collaborate with your school next year. I will be leaving my classroom, but the new job hopefully will provide more opportunities for me to work with other grade levels with technology. Just let me know!
With your work in Technology at Montgomery Prep, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
Here’s a Public Class on Technology Integration you might be interested in given by Nellie Deutsch.
Hello Ruth! I'm glad to hear that your first year in the lab went great. I'm also happy to report that my year was great too! I really enjoyed working with multiple grade levels for a change. I also enjoyed helping the teachers learn new things and become more comfortable using technology. I'm already looking ahead to next year and thinking about ways to improve.
Hi Ruth, I too have been teaching 2nd grade and am moving into the computer lab this year. I would enjoy sharing ideas with you as we both move into this new role, if you are interested.
I guess we too are neighbors since I am just outside of Birmingham.