SRS 2.0

In February, St. Raphael’s Catholic School hosted their annual State of the School. As I was assisting the teachers on their presentations and talking about various topics regarding educational technology, a nagging thought kept coming into my mind, “What is Global Contribution?” We talk as educators that we want our students to contribute to the […]

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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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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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When I first started at SRS, I really was not nervous. I was told by a coworker to get these teacher’s to use technology I would have to work with these teachers non-stop, that made things a little uneasy. However, I started by upgrading much of our school’s infrastructure; new computers for the teachers and […]

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This summer I have been working on preparing many Web2.0 tools for our school.
WordPress: I have had so much fun over the past few weeks blogging with WordPress. The ease of the program and the fact that it is embedded in our web server, makes it so much more manageable in my eyes. Probably the […]

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I called my boss this morning to talk to her about the ideas for SRS 2.0 and in true millennial and digital native fashion, I multi-tasked. On the cell phone while at my house I finished my small chores, then entered my car switched to my bluetooth headset and talked on my hour drive. By […]

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Big ideas I guess at one point start small. I just finished working on a draft of our school’s annual report. The report’s goal was to highlight the accomplishments of our students which I believe it did. I could have written a small magazine on the success of our students but for printing and time […]

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So I was asked, “SRS 2.0, what are you going to do?” I thought about this, how might I prepare our teachers to use tools that are Web 2.0. So today, I worked on setting up all of our teacher’s with a WordPress account on our website- I’ll put their links on a blogroll. Each […]

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