-
Dean Mantz
Male
United States - Share
- Applications
- Blog Posts (6)
- Discussions (12)
- Groups (13)
- Photos (7)
- Photo Albums
- Videos (6)
Dean Mantz's Groups
-
Instructional Technology
26 members
-
Kansas Group
10 members
-
DigiSkills
421 members
-
John Dewey's Import on Education Reform
83 members
-
Elementary School 2.0
394 members
Dean Mantz's discussions
Help Me Change YouTube URL
Replied Oct. 18, 2007
Discovery News
Technology Integration for Everyone
Profile Information
- Hometown:
- Smith Center, Kansas
- School / Work Affiliation
- Sterling USD 376
- About Me:
- I have recently accepted a different position. I am now working for USD 376 in Sterling, Kansas as their Network Coordinator. One of the biggest benefits of taking this position is getting to work with my wife and be in the same school district as both of my children. I previously worked for USD 405 in Lyons, KS. I worked for the district for fourteen years. I originally taught at the middle school. I was responsible for developing an Exploring Technology module class. I also taught American History. In 2000, I assisted in the development of the Rice County Technology Academy. The academy provided opportunities for students to enroll in a variety of career curriculums. Students could participate in A+ training, Webmaster curriculum, and develop themselves as Certified Cisco Network Associates.
I have truly enjoyed my time working with kids and teachers on how to integrate technology. I have participated in McREL's program, Intel's Master Teacher training, and LoTi's mentorship program. Another venture I have truly enjoyed is becoming a member of Discovery's Star educator network. I find that the programs offered by Discovery are an excellant source of supplemental materials for all classrooms and grade levels.
- Website:
- http://www.ustream.tv/dmantz7
- Skype Account:
- dmantz7
- Twitter / Plurk / Other Account:
- dmantz7
Dean Mantz's Photos
Dean Mantz's Videos
-
Presidents_Day9
Added by Dean Mantz
-
Why Teach Technology
Added by Dean Mantz
-
Medieval Helpdesk
Added by Dean Mantz
Dean Mantz's Blog
ESSDACK Technology Integration Study Group 4/4/2008
This blog will be live from the ESSDACK Technology Integration Study Group that meets the first Friday of each month in Hutchinson, Kansas. See you Friday!
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 at 8:20pm —
Thoughts as a result of Wesley Fryer's video "Strive to Engage not Enthrall" PD video.
With our laptop program we have teachers that want to have technology available and accessible, so they select to have classroom discipline and do manage and observe the students. This is a big emphasis out our middle school. I have had 3 Internet browsing violations from those students in 3.5 years compared to the high school; I may have that in a month. I feel that the reason our middle school teachers do a good job is that they do get up and observe students, interact with them while they kee… Continue
Posted on March 12th, 2008 at 10:14pm — 2 Comments
Thoughts after reading Wesley Fryer's weblog on school Internet filtering.
As a former teacher and now the Director of Technology for a school district in Kansas, I agree with many of these comments. I too am deeply involved in developing our technology and providing a "Differentiated" scheme to our school district Internet as well as providing additional training for the implementation of technology as a resource and not just another tool. Our school district has a 1:1 laptop program with students in grades 7-12. The lower levels of students are about 1:1.5. Unfortun… Continue
Posted on March 12th, 2008 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments
Unitedstreaming.....more than streaming videos
Download jeopardy template_with video and image placeholders.ppt Download MACE.zip This zip file contains all of my presentation materials from the MACE Conference in Bonner Springs, Kansas. I have also included a few extra information and instructional PDF f…
ContinuePosted on December 4th, 2007 at 12:32pm — 7 Comments
Open Source in Education
As a Director of Technology I have to wear many hats and maintain a limited budget. So, I am always looking for ways to get educational based applications that are educational based and provide higher level order of thinking challenges. Well, one weekend I spent time searching for open source software and came across the article I have uploaded. It provides open source software for PCs, Apples, and Linux OS systems. I have read through the 77 pages and downloaded several recommended applicati…
ContinuePosted on October 5th, 2007 at 6:29pm — 3 Comments
Chat
About Classroom 2.0
Steve Hargadon
created this social network on Ning.
LIVE Conversations
Translate This Network
More Information
Need help using Ning in an educational setting?
Ning announces trial program for grades 7 -12 student networks--now ad-free:
Finding Interesting Discussions:
Forum posts can be organized by the use of "tags." To see discussions on specific topics, click on the links below. Standardized tags you can use to have your posts included in the link results are shown in parentheses. You can also help by adding tags to others' posts. (To participate in the discussion on standardized tagging here at Classroom 2.0, see this page.)
By Tool:
- Blogging ("blogging")
- Calendars ("calendars")
- Collaborative Documents ("documents")
- Collaborative Idea Maps ("ideamaps")
- Collaborative Spreadsheets ("spreadsheets")
- Course Management ("cms")
- Gaming ("gaming")
- Google Earth ("gearth")
- Interactive Boards ("iboards")
- Instant Messaging ("im")
- Internet Telephony ("telephony")
- Mapping ("maps")
- Microblogging ("microblogging")
- Online Meetings ("meetings")
- Photo Sharing ("photos")
- Podcasting ("podcasting")
- Presentation ("presentation")
- RSS & Readers ("rss")
- Screencasting ("screencasting")
- Social Bookmarking ("bookmarking")
- Social Networking ("socialnetworking")
- Social Notetaking ("socialnotes")
- Start Pages ("startpages")
- Video Conferencing ("videoconferencing")
- Video Sharing ("video")
- Virtual Worlds ("virtualworlds")
- Webmail ("webmail")
- Wikis ("wikis")
- Art ("art")
- Biliteracy-Bilingual Education ("bilingual")
- Biology ("biology")
- Chemistry ("chemistry")
- English ("english")
- English as a Foreign Language ("efl")
- English as a Second Language ("esl")
- Foreign Languages ("fl")
- Geography ("geography")
- History ("history")
- Math ("math")
- Music ("music")
- Physical Education ("pe")
- Religion ("religion")
- Science ("science")
- Social Studies ("socialstudies")
- Acceptable Use Policies ("aup")
- Administration ("administration")
- Assessment ("assessment")
- Collaboration Opportunities ("collaboration")
- Computer Labs ("labs")
- Cyberbullying ("bullying")
- Elementary ("elementary")
- Gifted ("gifted")
- Inter-Classroom Collaboration ("inter-classroom")
- Internet Safety ("safety")
- Middle or Junior High ("middle")
- Online Education ("online")
- Open Source Software ("oss")
- Parents ("parents")
- Philosophy / Pedagogy ("pedagogy")
- Pre-K ("prek")
- Professional Development ("pd")
- Secondary or High School ("secondary")
- Software & Service Reviews ("reviews")
- Special Needs ("specialneeds")
Latest Activity
33 minutes ago 
1 hour ago 
1 hour ago 
1 hour ago 
2 hours ago
3 hours ago © 2008 Created by Steve Hargadon
Comment Wall (22 comments)
You need to be a member of Classroom 2.0 to add comments!
Join this network
All the best,
Clif
http://clifmims.com
I am just writing to ask what your opinion of ning.com is for the classroom. I made a ning website for my 1st grade classroom. At first, our firewall was not blocking the site. Now it is, listing it as a "personals and dating". I am having a super hard time with my tech. guys. They can't figure out where the pictures, videos, etc. are posted (IP addresses) to "unblock" them from our Firewall (Watchguard). It is unfortunate that they will not unblock the site. They have given me permission to log in without the firewall to show the site to my kids, so we can look at things. However, I wanted to have sites for my teachers and other classrooms...they will not allow everyone to do this. Do you deal with these kind of issues in your district?
I have a contact in Maize (Kansas) who is willing to do a project using VoiceThread. She's going to send me a Teddy bear and I'll take picutres of the bear around the school, which the kids can comment on through voicethread and send to her. Then the Teddy gets sent on to someone else. Think any of your teachers might be interested? or someone on a worldwide scale?
Let me know......
Pete
http://web.mac.com/timholt/Byte_Speed/Pod_Speed/Pod_Speed.html
Enjoy.
Tim
Hey...we made it back from Thailand. Skype worked great, however we could only video conference with one person at a time. What was great was the option to be able to call land lines while we were overseas! The cost per call was peanuts!
See ya at nerds!
Love your photos! You've got a beautiful family.
I'm not too sure how to put the code for your weather widget on my page, but I'm going to try. I'm still a newbie at this sort of thing.
I'm certainly willing to help with any migration projects your teachers may have, if I can. I'm wondering if any of your contacts may be doing something to do with either The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, or Chicka Chicka Boom Boom? I've actually had a contact from someone just outside Wichita who wants to work on Chicka. Now, she tells me that you guys get back to school with kids on Aug. 15. Is that true all through the States? Here in Ontario, we don't have kids until the Tuesday after Labour Day, and the way our entry for kindergarten at my new school works with staggered entry, I probably won't have the full class until the following Monday.
Let me know what you think. Cheers
View All Comments