April 2010 Blog Posts (106)

National Library Week, first sponsored in 1958, is an annual celebration of the contributions of America's libraries and librarians sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across

the country.

Our nation's school, academic, public and special libraries make an impact in the lives of students today more than ever and serve as crucial technology hubs for people in need of free…

Fellow Educator,

My name is Bryan O’Black and I currently serve as the Director of Technology for the Shaler Area School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The…

I like the fact that anybody can publish things on the internet for all to see. Sites like flickr and utube allow people to post and comment on some crazy and often amazing things....maybe more often crazy. I have used utube to learn how to play the banjo but finding exactly what I want is not easy. That we have to filter through what is good and bad or interesting to us can take a lot of time. I think it really contributes to the difficulty I have with these sites. I get tied up looking at…

4 week Technology Camp has a great impact on students who had no previous computer access.

The Challenge

Dallas McPheeters was asked to prepare a Summer Technology camp for 430 students in an elementary school near the US/Mexico border. All the school had to offer to facilitate this was a set of eight year old PCs running…

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Yesterday I was home sick. It happens to all of us sooner or later, and usually at the worst possible time. Staying home yesterday for a doctor's appointment in the morning (Where they so do not get that you…

Title: Global Communication and Today’s Foreign Language Students

Presenter: Rosa Shely, Spanish teacher, Earl Warren High School

Date: April 10, 2010

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Location: Northside Activity Center, San Antonio, Texas (On Culebra just inside Loop 410)

Contact: Dr. Barbara Pino of UTSA…

The P assionate Redheads invite you to attend our Purple Passion Masked

Ball on Thursday, April 8 from 6:00pmSLT to 8:00pmSLT at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selby/67/204/56. DJ Shockwave will

be spinning the tunes at Club Cutlass for this event. This event is

formal, so please wear your tuxedos and…

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=12272

Reflection on "A Vision of K-12 Students Today”…

If you haven't already submitted a proposal for a presentation or workshop at FETC 2011, do it now! The deadline is Friday, April 2.

Last year, FETC had attendees from every state and about a dozen countries. You hear terrific keynote speakers, and many of the sessions are led by educators who have insightful and cutting edge ideas about using technology in student learning.

Here's the link to apply online:…

Rather than update my links page I will start using the blog function to put up info

Ok. This is might sound lame, and it won’t take you more than two seconds to guess that I am an English teacher. Today, my classes took a day away from the computers to do research. We actually used those bound paper piles in the library known as books. I will admit that, at times through the day, it was painful, mostly because the computers were within ten feet at all times, and the research might have been easier…

I am looking for a collaborator to look over my curriculum mapping that I have started on Wiki. I am new to classroom 2.0, Wikis and curriculum mapping. Any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

http://larandaskaggs.wikispaces.com/Curriculum+Mapping