School, Instruction, and Technology Part 2
We just finished a 4 day institute “Teacher Tech Camp” with 18 teachers. This was our second year to give this a try. This year we used 2 labs so the groups would be small. This enabled more sharing and more one to one assistance as we shared new technologies with most of the group. One or two teachers knew much of what we offered but signed up anyway. Each day the participants spent time working on their new blog at Edublogs, discovering

Google Swirl Images
Have you tried the new functions in image searches with Google? You find one picture but not just- one picture leads you to another but becomes graphically connected to the entire path of where and how you got to that picture. So as you search for images, you also see in a graphic organizer where one group of pictures are connected to a multitude of other pictures. You can find it in Labs, here’s and example:

Connectivity, Collaboration and Social Networks
As I haven’t been here in a while I’ve been thinking much about the tools of the web and how we use them. To an entire generation iPods, netbooks, DVD, Google and the Internet are all part of daily life. To another generation they have no idea what these might be or what social networking entails. Here’s an example: I got  an email from a retired teacher who asked about posting material on a website. She complained about all the tabs that appeared with each li

Apple’s Tablet
WOW! I can hardly wait to see this tool. Look to Wired Magazine for a great photo. You can also learn everything they know about the tablet. We might see it in March. It looks like a giant iPod Touch from the photo at Wired. Check it out.

New Directions, New City, New Adventure
It has been some time since I made a post. I’ve swamped. I recently retired from Memphis City Schools, then moved to Texas and took on a new job. My new title is communications services administrator. I now will manage a web, a private Facebook tool known as Go Lightly, and all print media as well as marketing efforts on the part of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. This is an honor society for women leaders in education. There are over 100,000 members and located around the world. In November, Panama will join the society. So I’ve been packing and movin