Recently, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask what applications we include on our laptops in our 1:1 program. While I listen to the Cubs v. Reds(3-1 Reds at the moment) let me list them for whoever is interested. A few fundamentals first:
We replaced all of the middle school laptops with White Macbooks running Leopard. We [...]
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Laptop Program Apps
July 24th, 2009 · Add Comments · Practice, Tech Tips
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The Printed Blog
February 3rd, 2009 · Add Comments · Future Thoughts, Practice
I take the train to school frequently and outside my station people are often passing out flyers and other stuff which the environmentalist in me declines.
But as I was watching the local news on Chicago public access tonight, I realized that what they were passing out was The Printed Blog – a newspaper comprised of [...]
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Talia for President
December 1st, 2008 · Add Comments · Articles, Practice
Check out this article about middle schooler Talia Leman and her project randomkid.org:
Talia for President
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Concord Consortium
February 10th, 2008 · Add Comments · Practice, Websites
2. The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. There are many interactive materials at this site for many different subject areas. Check it out:
http://www.concord.org/
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Documents for April 10th Meeting
April 9th, 2007 · Add Comments · Access, Equity, Practice, Proficiency
The following documents will be discussed at the April 10th Technology Committee Meeting
Technology Timeline
SmartGoals
Action Plan Description
Access Action Plan Template
Practice Action Plan Template
Proficiency Action Plan Template
Equity Action Plan Template
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Two articles on Tech Literacy Testing
February 20th, 2007 · Add Comments · General Documents, Practice
I came upon two articles dealing with a new test by ETS regarding student tech literacy skills – they are attached below.
County schools put students’ computer skills to the test
ETS Tech Literacy Test
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New Student Standards for Tech
February 8th, 2007 · Add Comments · General Documents, Practice
To keep pace with the changing demands of a new global economy, the International Society for Technology in Education is revising its nine-year-old National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), a pioneering set of guidelines for what students should know about, and be able to do with, technology. ISTE has released a draft version of its new [...]
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First Class
January 11th, 2007 · Add Comments · General Documents, Meeting Dates, Practice
At the January 26th Practice subcommittee meeting, Keith Mann from Graphtech will be presenting an application called First Class. This is a little hard to describe but it is an environment that all student, teacher, and administrators could work in that would bring many disparate things we do together. I would be interested to get [...]
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Blogvangelist
December 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Practice, Proficiency
I have been emailing with Will Richardson to try to get him to present at Avoca next year – below is one of the articles he sent me about his work – good recap of the web 2.0 tools we have talked about and how Will promotes them for use in classrooms.
Blogvangelist
visit Will’s blog at
http://weblogg-ed.com/ÂÂ
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Data Collection and Analysis Report
December 13th, 2006 · Add Comments · Access, Equity, Practice, Proficiency, Systems and Leadership
Below is a copy of the Data Collection and Analysis Report template.
enGauge Template
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