Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Tomorrow will mark two weeks of our new school year and two weeks of using digital technology. After spending most of my summer trying to learn all about Web 2.0, I felt pretty good about my newfound knowledge. However, the Friday before school started on Monday, I realized I had not tried my LCD projector, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m still adding notes from NECC 2008. Some of these notes may not make much sense, but I can add to them as I learn more. I attended a very popular session called Wonderful World of Wikis, led by wellknown teacher, Vicki Davis.
Wiki Basic
www.wikispaces.com
I have a wikispace at www.dawnthompsonunlimited.wikispaces.com; however, it is undeveloped at this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
Cyber Gals from the math and English departments synergize.
This summer, rather than lie by the pool or relax in a hammock, I started hosting BYOL (laptops) gatherings, which is quite anachronistic since my house is nearly 100 years old-hardly the site for a cyberden. I found that by working side by side with co-workers, we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
We’ve become a nation of fear, which reminds me of one of Mark Twain’s quote:
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom
that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a
hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Fourteen of us from AHS travelled to San Antonio for the National Education Computing Convention. In attendance we had our principal, five members from English/foreign languages; three, science; one, math; three, history; and one, career technology/counselor. All fourteen had an amazing experience. We attended seminars on wikis, podcasts, pen-based technology, grant writing, second life, electronic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Welcome to my blog. I teach high school English and French. I look forward to using this blog as a means of communicating with my students, parents, community members, and fellow teachers this year.
If we want to control the future, we must create it! Author unknown
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