February 17, 2009

Over the mountain and through the woods, off to the IU10 I go; yep, quite stupid, but you have to know where our IU is, and you might understand. I took teacher K with me, and she did a great job showing some of the things she did. I loved the questions she generated from the group of CFF coaches. There was another teacher there from another school (she also was a PV grad like K), and she did a great job on some of the things she was doing in biology. We had an oovoo discussion with Beth, who is from PDE, and talked about other ideas dealing with CFF. I am going to digress here and write bout two concepts from my soapbox. First, I am going to talk about K. I had no hand in her hiring, but I must admit that I am so proud to have her in my former position. She has great vision and is not afraid of dealing outside the box. I like her pizazz, and her ability to ascertain situations. What a great addition to PV and the teaching profession. She will create a great footprint on her students. Secondly, I am going to promote an IU10 regional conference for CFF. Do not get me wrong. I attended PETE&C and loved it, but I feel a regional conference hosted by one of the school districts would allow more people to attend and would allow more interaction among the participants and presenters. The important part to all of this I feel would be more collaboration among the schools and the teachers. We need to break down the barriers that exist and promote more with the internet 2.0 concept....For all of my Italian contacts.....Addio.....flick

April 22, 2008

Happy Earth Day to all!!! This is a time when I reflect on some of the technology and the good and harm it does to our planet. I am still the eternal optimist because I say that there is more good than harm, but with the ever burgeoning technological advances, I wish that more people would recycle their old technology the correct way. Enough of the soapbox. I spent most of the day troubleshooting. I did do some collaborative teaching, but most of it dealt with IT issues. I have also noticed that some students want to play with taking the keys off of the lappys. This creates two issues. One is the plastic breaks easily under the keys, and two teachers need to check the computers while they are being shelved. I did have my meeting after school and warned the teachers who were there about this problem and asked them to check the puters before being shelved. I also talked about the wiki and office 2007. I gave them a handout on word and nonlinear ppt's. I also told them that I have a wiki posted. Another teacher is interested on doing some online blogging with his class so I will get that ready tomorrow. We will see what tomorrow brings. adieu.