• ThinkBright

    This morning I was reminded again about a HUGE resource available to teacheres around the country for free – PBS. The national PBS websites have many resources available, and our very own WNED here in WNY has its own website that acts as a portal (entry page) to these resources. The WNED site, called ThinkBright, […]

  • QuestGarden !

    I was just in Bernie Dodge’s session on “Obstacles to Faster Webquest Creation.” If you have ever done a webquest, you know that they are great, but take time to create and manage. Bernie unveiled a new webqeust generating (and hosting) tool called QuestGarden that will be available Sept. 1st. It takes many of the […]

  • Internet2

    If a dial-up modem connection is the size of a soda straw (in terms of how much data can travel through it), and a cable modem is the size of a water main pipe, then Internet2 is built on pipes the size of the water intakes in Niagara Falls. Internet2 is a new portion of […]

  • Wiki – mania

    Wikis are websites that anyone can edit. It is another unique product of the online revolution. One of the neatest projects that has come out of this is Wikipedia – an online, community-created and edited encyclopedia. In concept it is just like traditional encylopedias. The primary difference is that the authors are anyone who chooses […]

  • Day 1 Theme

    The theme that came out of today (based on my participation in the Tech Coordinators forum and Keynote) is: Knowledge is a conversation, not a destination. We know this, but we don’t always practice it. Schools are still entrenched in “disbursing” information for the purpose of testing. Technology in the hands of kids at home […]

  • Epic 2014

    At the Technology Coordinators forum, David Warlick spoke about telling compelling stories. He showed us the following site. Want to spend a few minutes thinking about the future? Check out this compelling account of what happens by the year 2014. Its about 8 minutes long, and worth it – a very thought-provoking show. Epic 2014

  • Its Gotta Be Good…

    Upon arriving at the Philadelphia Convention Center for the first workshop at NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) I was greeted by this artwork which consists of thousands of coffee cups massed together. Lots of computers and lots of coffee in one place – this is definitely going to be a good time…

  • Connected

    For my Additional Professional Hours for this year, I have been participating in an online professional development community titled Tappedin (www.tappedin.org). It is an online campus that has virtual buildings for colleges, teachers and students. In a typical event, there is a live chat among participants on a given topic (ELA, Science, Blogs, Library of […]

  • WITS Tip

    Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) On the WITS homepage there is a link in the left navigation column for the Staff Directory. This is the electronic version of the printed book we receive each year. The two big advantages of the online version are that you […]

  • Podcasting

    No iPod needed, but the lastest craze is audio broadcasting over the internet, or podcasting. If you make an mp3 recording and save it on your computer, you can set up a webpage that broadcasts it for those who want to get it. It can be downloaded by interested people and then put onto a […]