Tech-Savvy Teacher

June 29th, 2010 | Tags: ISTE10 | Category: paper and paperless world, tech savvy teacher rants | Leave a comment

GREAT first day at ISTE!  Mike and I attended some excellent sections and I met a number of acquaintances and friends alike.
I was inspired by my last sectional today on Universal Design for Learning.  They made a number of interesting arguments about refashioning materials to make them accessible to diverse populations.  Among their demonstrations was [...]

June 29th, 2010 | Tags: ISTE10 | Category: folks that don't get it, media authoring, paper and paperless world, textbooks | Comments (3)

My battery indicator days I have less than an hour to work with here, so, let’s see if I make it through this session.
I am sitting in a packed house for “Beyond Print: Digital Curricula for the Diverse Classroom.”
As a new curriculum director of a K-12 online school, the digital curricula development question is an [...]

June 28th, 2010 | Tags: ISTE10 | Category: new media, old media, paper and paperless world | Leave a comment

I registered today with ISTE in Denver.  Doing it on Saturday makes this a largely painless process.
As usual, I received my usual goodie bag full of whatnot: the standard conference tote bag, an actually decent laptop  sleeve (note to ISTE… best branded giveaway ever… nice work) and a handful of fairly useless propaganda from vendors.
The [...]

June 26th, 2010 | Tags: iste, ISTE10, ISTE2010 | Category: iste, paper and paperless world | Leave a comment

It is official because I received the yearly “welcome back to school!” letter from my district’s central office. School will start soon!
I have a lot on my mind as I plan on making a number of changes this year, many of which I’d like to blog about to help get the community feedback. [...]

August 9th, 2009 | Category: paper and paperless world, random thoughts | Leave a comment