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- Blog Wild @ Avoca November 9, 2009We 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 [...] […]cmbrown
- Exceptional Professional Development from Exceptional Schools November 2, 2009On 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 [...] […]admin
- WPMU – Plugins that power avoca37.org October 19, 2009Along 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 [...] […]cmbrown
- Directions for Adding Parent Emails August 24, 2009Below 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. fc_add_emails_2 […]admin
- Laptop Program Apps July 24, 2009Recently, 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 [...] […]cmbrown
- To Twitter or Not to Twitter March 2, 2009You 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. […]admin
- The Printed Blog February 3, 2009I 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 [...] […]admin
- Demographics for Facebook January 27, 2009Was 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 [...] […]admin
- Just in case you have forgotten…. January 23, 2009Bowling Looking forward to bowling on Thursday…. […]admin
- New staff find White House in tech Dark Ages January 22, 2009If 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 on […]admin