SRS 2.0

Last week, I received an email telling me to read a blog posting by another Director of Technology. It was called “What I Do”. As I was reading this, I began to think I too should write a post about this too and thought I would have a bit of fun with what I do […]

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I originally had this as the second part of my last post, until I realized it would solidify that I was completely random! So I moved it to its own post.
One of my favorite quotes, I used to have on a poster in my bedroom, on it was a gymnast standing on the balance beam. […]

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I find myself incredibly busy throughout the month of November. The past two months, I have found them to be a blur, with reflection time but little time to write the reflections into thoughts.
I have been working in my spare time to write my novel for NaNoWriMo, I only have about 2,000 of the challenge […]

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This year I am going to be challenging myself during the month of November. I will be challenging myself to write an entire 50,000 word novel as part of the National Novel Writing Month. I hope this will be a challenge that will help me explore other avenues and interests, since my friends are on […]

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I found it interesting that in Part 3: Computing the Cost of this 5 part series in the Stillwater Gazette they began talking about numbers- the “true cost of ownership”. Since costs are the pinnacle of most technology enhancements- usually it is the first thing that is brought up in a discussion, I found it […]

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I am really enjoying this series in the Stillwater Gazette. Yesterday’s article talked about the Intangible Benefits. The article prompted me to think about critical thinking and Bloom’s taxonomy- things I learned about during my psychology training and my pre-service teacher days. I was wondering how exactly do we measure critical thinking? There is no […]

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I got a great email yesterday telling me to check out my hometown’s newspaper. They were going to be having a five-part series about Technology in the Classroom. Today, I will reflect on yesterday’s article: Inside the High-Tech Classroom.
The article talked about Oak-Land Junior High- the first school in Minnesota to ever try 1 laptop […]

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This morning I met with our school’s Technology Task Force. We will be starting a large project this year, writing the school’s official technology plan- which is slated for release February 2008. We are also looking for new members who would be willing to join our Technology Task Force, we meet roughly once a month […]

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Earlier this summer I joined a few Nings- I joined one about Laptop Learning which I have found very beneficial to gather ideas from other educators. I also joined one about global collaboration. One of the neat projects I participated in this past weekend was a video conferencing session with educators in Europe, Asia, Australia, […]

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Over the past few weeks I have been working on getting ready for the first two weeks.  These first two weeks are jammed pack with many projects, programs, and upstarts.So what is up in Room 11? We started NWEA testing, yes even though it was hot in the computer lab we were able to begin […]

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