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Need Help Applying for Google Teacher Academy
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Started this discussion. Last reply by coakes Jul. 21, 2009.
SOS getting logo onto iTunes
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Janice Friesen Mar. 11, 2008.
Help Need Audio Tips
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Janice Friesen Nov. 16, 2007.
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Cheryl,
How did you start with your 30% co-teaching and 30% coaching? That sounds great. Some weeks I am having the following percentage which is a little frustrating to me:
40% Office and paperwork
10% meetings (weekly staff meeting, district meeti…
Eric,
Your situation sounds familiar even though I am in an Elementary School. In our district they have become really serious about having us in an instructional position rather than a tech support position. We have a Work Order system online and…
My job is called Technology Instructional Partner and it is very similar to what Alice does. In this district it has changed from a Campus Technology Coordinator that focused on Technology to a job that focuses on Instruction. In my elementary schoo…
Maybe we will meet there sometime! The DC one was too soon and not a good time for me... So we will both keep trying!
Janice
I decided not to apply this time, but next time I am going to plan to get my video done early enough to be viewed, critiqued and edited. Last time people saw some things that now I realize I should have edited, but I just didn't have time.
Janice
I think that this looks great also. I like the personal story. It seems like I know you and understand why you want to go.
Janice
I am curious about this because I make a lot of handouts and I just use Print Screen and paste and then edit the picture with Word. Is there something I am missing? As for moving screen capture we have SMARTBoards and learned recently that the Recor…
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- At 12:30pm on September 24, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said…
- Hi Janice,
With your interest in Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
Here’s a Public Class on Technology Integration you might be interested in.
- At 10:05am on April 2, 2009,
Kathy Epps said…
- It varies. I tend to listen to techy stuff in the morning - Seedlings among them, and fiction, archeology, book talk, etc., in the afternoon.
- At 2:44am on February 24, 2008,
- I forgot to mention: I have a 40 min train and bus trip to school each way, and I use that time to listen to podcasts - liquid blogs! In the morning I seem to choose ICT related podcasts, ("Seedlings", anyone?) and on the way home I tend towards more general info - "The Naked Scientists", "Digital Planet" (from the BBC), "Penguin Books", etc.
- At 2:26am on February 23, 2008,
- Hi - I read your question about the iTunes logo, so of course went to the Bluejays' page to check out what you're doing - it looks interesting. I've subscribed to the podcasts for my own iPod, and added the link to a list of audio stories for young children we keep on the sidebar of a Class 2 blog. If you see comments "from Geneva" on the stories, that will be us!
About "how do you keep up?" - I "follow" the forum threads I'm interested in by email, and try desperately to read through the blogs at least once a day to keep the unread hoards under 100. I use Google reader, and just scroll through all the new items. When there's one I want to spend more time or thought on, or want to blog about, I email it to myself. I'm using Gmail, so there I've put filters (with their different colors) on the different sources of email - so I can pick out quickly what came from school, what's "personal" and what's come from a blog or ning. It does take a little time, but it also keeps my mind alive!
- At 7:56pm on October 17, 2007,
Janice Friesen said…
- I have a question... I am now a member of at least three Nings, My Space, Facebook, Blogger.com, and I have a bunch of Wikispaces... How is it possible to keep up... I am sure I have joined lots of other things that I have totally forgotten... What do you do?
Janice
- At 10:11pm on October 16, 2007,
Alice Barr said… - Welcome Janice! Glad you could join us at the Ning!
- At 4:55pm on October 16, 2007,
Bob Sprankle said… - Welcome, Janice! Thanks for joining us!
Bob
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Eric, it is tough when no matter what you say, you still get the trouble tickets. That happens here in WOCSD too. We all try to help out, but really the tech people who can take care of the problem quickly need to be the ones. Otherwise, the problem…
When I was hired, my job description was to work in two elementary school buildings; a K - 2 school and a 2 - 4 school (second grade is split in half in my district). My job description was in coaching, lesson development, curriculum design, tech. p…
I got to make my own schedule. So, I only have one office day. It is usually really long, but also important that I am visible in the schools. Then I spend certain days in certain schools. I find the responsive teachers ask me to co-teach, so I capi…
Fantastic and emotionally provocative work! It is hard to encourage teachers to change when, for so long they have been working one way and it has been enough! Change can be stressful but fom this change and stress can come great things. We just hav…
Fantastic presentation of what is a real and continual problem in our schools where education has become part of a market economy!
Janice,
We also use an online ticket system for staff to report tech. issues and software install requests. It is REALLY nice to say to a teacher "please put a request in Trakker." I ask them to not stop me in the hall or email me because their req…
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mmm...interesting info...as for me on mac I like Macvide ScreenCap
Cheryl,
How did you start with your 30% co-teaching and 30% coaching? That sounds great. Some weeks I am having the following percentage which is a little frustrating to me:
40% Office and paperwork
10% meetings (weekly staff meeting, district meeti…
Eric,
Your situation sounds familiar even though I am in an Elementary School. In our district they have become really serious about having us in an instructional position rather than a tech support position. We have a Work Order system online and…
I really like Jing and how I can post to YouTube, then embed the video to my webpages.
Cheryl
Here is an example:http://www.tinyurl.com/wocsdwriting
Great conversation! I am part tech integrator and part tech coordinator, so they call me a Collaborative Content Coach for Technology K-12, 3 buildings. Most of the time I support teachers and their projects by helping them embed technology into the…
I am in year three of a newly created tech integrator position. I started out covering both the high school and middle school, but after a year it was determined that this was more than one person could cover efficiently. Now we have a tech integrat…
My job is called Technology Instructional Partner and it is very similar to what Alice does. In this district it has changed from a Campus Technology Coordinator that focused on Technology to a job that focuses on Instruction. In my elementary schoo…
Great conversation here.
Below are some Tips that we receive at parent conference time:
1) Framing at the start of the conference….
“It is wonderful to have the opportunity to speak with you for five to eight minutes about ______’s work so far this…
Wow, this is a great topic and thread of conversation. I sometimes would have parents who had not experienced pleasant school situations, but with a calm voice, an agenda and showing off their student's work, most often ended up with positive meetin…
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