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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Well, just to let you know, I did not fall off the face of the earth. I have been working on the St. Raphael’s School technology plan and focusing primarily on the importance of 21st century skills. I am currently working on finalizing the survey for the parents.
This afternoon, I had a neat opportunity. Each […]

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This year I am going to be offering a monthly parent education series. Here is a copy of the presentation for further review.

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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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Oh busy! busy! busy! As I am starting on the various little tasks that this school year has given me, I thought I would give a quick synopsis of our technology plan and some of the little ideas. This post will be short as I have spent most of my day writing down the plan.
This […]

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Last spring we hosted the Spring Fling- we had close to 30 participants from various schools around the archdiocese. This year we decided with the energy that the Spring Fling we could not keep our energy bottled up- so we decided that we would host a day in the fall. We affectionately called the day, […]

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Today was the last article in the series- it talked about looking forward. As I read the subtitle it said that the school would move forward with whatever tools they had. Looking at SRS, I find it interesting that we move forward with the tools we have everyday.
When I first started I learned that every […]

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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 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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