Author: Michael

  • Purchasing Tip

    Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) If you are in the market for a new computer at home, you have access to educator’s prices for being affiliated with a school. For Dell computers, the district has a special code (and website) with the employee purchase program. See […]

  • Wireless…So Close, Yet So Far

    Wireless acccess to the network from anywhere in the building is still spotty. If you are close enough to an access point, it is great. If you are not close enough, it is not so great. IT has made a committment to get the wireless overlay network totally fixed during next school year. When that […]

  • WITS Tip

    Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) On the homepage of WITS in the left column, you should see a blue heading titled Student Intranet. Underneath are links to For Parents and Student Showcase. To see current (or past) PTSA newsletters, other information for parents, or recent work […]

  • Staff Development Day

    Thanks to an outstanding staff for a great day today. I feel one of my most important jobs is professional development. The more teachers feel comfortable integrating technology, the more it can benefit the learning process. I hope you found the day as beneficial as we hoped it to be.

  • Are we making a difference?

    “…good pedagogy trumps good technology. Bolting technology onto the current industrial model of school, “integrating technology across the curriculum,” has the hidden danger of freezing an outdated curriculum in place longer than it deserves. We need a lot of bright people to spend a long time thinkng about what children should learn in order to […]

  • oneword

    Ideas are awesome. Thinking out of the box is key to having a unique voice. Oneword.com provides just that – one word – and you have 60 seconds to write the first thing that comes to mind about the word. Very cool. Very fast. Very fun. Go for it – what do you have to […]

  • Web Tip

    Tuesday’s Technology Tip.. (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) Google has added a new service to its map feature which has satellite images of the mapped location. Type in an address, click on the satellite link, and you get a bird’s eye view, with decent zoom and resolution. Go to […]

  • Which Printer?

    Here is a question that comes up all the time. “I just printed – which printer will my stuff come out on?” At home, with one printer, the answer is simple. In school we are networked, which means you can print to just about any printer from any computer. So the question becomes, “which printer […]

  • iSafe

    In the last couple of days I have heard about a program called iSafe. In the online world it is increasingly important for students (and adults) to be careful of who they interact with and how much of their real identity they share. iSafe is a program that teaches students how to stay safe while […]

  • Welcome, SIGTC!

    This entry is in anticipation of the SIGTC event on Tappedin this evening. I started this blog last year after NECC. Bernie Dodge’s session on Blogs and Wikis was the catalyst for me. I ended up with teacherhosting.com as the host as that was what the folks at NECC were using last year for the […]