Archive for July, 2007

Free Power Point game templates

July 31st, 2007

I knew I could do these things.  But I never wanted to take the amount of time to set it up.  Now it don’t have to and neither do you.  http://www.divshare.com/download/1417610-a34

Tech Depot? Ed Depot?

July 31st, 2007

A few weeks ago I commented on David Warlick’s What I Wish I’d Said blog entry because I was feeling frustrated over a slow network connection. In the comment I started that perahps it would benifit our schools if more educators were trained like IT guys. Today I read the coments that were added since [...]

Podcasting and Educators

July 25th, 2007

  So today we finished up the first of 2 classes on podcasting.  I’m happy to report that I didn’t cover the material too quickly.  As a matter of fact the internet connection was so SLOOOOOOOW at school today that moving quickly was impossible!  Everything was moving at the speed of really cold molasses syrup.      But [...]

Tech at the County Fair

July 22nd, 2007

Today is the last day of the Iroquois County Fair. My husband bought booth space to display his Grasshopper line of lawn mowers. So I’ve been out here every day sitting behind the table.
On Thursday night we discovered that a local radio station, WGFA, was offering free WiFi!!! So on [...]

From Web Pages to Interactive Communities

July 18th, 2007

I’m in the end of the process of preparing to teach a small class of teachers from IW how to podcast.  I’ve been into the school 2 times just to check everything over  with another teacher (Laurie Rodriguez).  Laurie and I team teach something tech related every summer to the staff that are interested.  The [...]

It’s a start!

July 12th, 2007

Today has been one of those days when I was enveloped by an avalanche of learning!  I subscribe to a few great tech ed blogs and one of them lead me on a journey of learning today. I was reading Cool Cat Teacher by Vicki Davis.  She put up a post called “Teaching and Learning through [...]