We launched our student blogs today – below is a copy of the email sent to parents.
We are very excited to share with you our new educational technology initiative that is taking place at Avoca!  We are calling this initiative, Blog Wild! In a continuing effort to go green, as well as to integrate 21st [...]

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On Thursday, October 29, my colleague Gail Soriano and I gave a presentation on school technology professional development at the National School Board Association(NSBA) T+L Conference.
Below is a copy of that presentation which breaks down into two halves:
1. An overview of the PD practices we use here at Avoca and
2. Results from a survey we [...]

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Along the same lines as a previous post regarding laptop apps, here is a list of the plugins that make the Avoca do all of the things we are able to do. First the fundamentals – running wpmu 2.8.4a and hosting here at school on a dedicated mac server. Install was done by John Kirn [...]

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Below is a short video showing how you would add parent emails into your contact database in First Class.  Remember to hold down the Shift key when dragging the databases to your Contacts folder.
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You may have heard of Twitter and wondered what it’s all about – check out this presentation by Evan Williams, co founder of Twitter, that describes what it’s all about. If you want to give it a go let one of your tech team members know and they will help you get started.

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Was meeting with the sixth grade team and we were discussing the popularity of Facebook. I was sharing with them the statistics of who is on Facebook which are surprising to most. Check out this graphic which shows that users age 35 and older are the fastest growing group on Facebook – although 18-24 year [...]

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Bowling
Looking forward to bowling on Thursday….

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If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28787998/from/ET/
My favorite portion is the team being used to Macs but finding not only PCs but six year old Microsoft software and that they were struggling to put captions on online [...]

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This is a humorous take on powerpoint

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