EdTech Professional Development
Like many private schools, our school has one teacher for each grade level. Collaboration between teachers of the same grades is difficult, if not impossible for most of us; thus, professional development becomes an important part of our collaboration, learning, and growth. When you mention professional development to people, most people’s eyes will glaze over, […]
The Poverty Project
For the past few years, I have been doing a very special project with the eighth graders at our school. It covers curriculum in religion, social studies, language arts, science, and math – and it even uses technology throughout the lesson. For those in non-parochial schools, the religious aspect can be left out of it […]
Email Etiquette for Students
I teach my students e-mail etiquette as part of their first lesson in accessing their Google Apps for Education accounts. My rules are not complicated, and they work really well for our particular students. Always include your name in the subject. I don’t know who pinkfluffyunicorns1357 is. Plus, it’s a good habit to get into […]
Google Apps for Education
I will put a huge disclaimer up front: I am a complete, die-hard fan of Google, but I do not have any financial gain for recommending or using (or passionately advocating for) Google products. I started using Google in 1999, after leaving AltaVista search engine behind. My husband told me, “You’ve gotta check out this […]
Why we chose to go PC at our school
And I don’t mean politically correct. The technology lab at the school where I work was full of six-year-olds and eight-year-olds, which would have been great if I was talking about the ages of the students. Unfortunately, I was talking about the ages of the outdated iMacs and eMacs that were falling apart on us. […]
My name is Lisa, and I’m a geek.
My academic history does not reflect my addiction affinity for technology. In my undergrad studies, I majored in linguistics, psychology, and nursing. I earned a masters degree in education with a concentration in teacher leadership. In fact, I didn’t take any real computer courses until last year when I began a graduate certification program in […]
Kindergarten
Kindergarteners love to play with the computers in our school lab. Sure, some of them are still trying to figure out the alphabet, but all in all, they love technology class. It never scares them, and they aren’t afraid to push buttons and try new things. Even when a task is difficult (like trying to […]
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