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Using Technology to Teach Reading

My daughter is learning to read to just like every other first grader our there.  As a mom, this is my first time going through this experience since most of my teaching career has been in the secondary grades.  So I’ve decided to help her the only way I know how and that involves using technology. [...]

Apple Remote Desktop – A Good Thing?

Over the course of the next couple of days at my school we are requiring that all students in the 1:1 laptop program permanently change their computer settings.  As a school we are going to require that each and every student in the 7th and 8th grade have their Remote Login and Remote Management boxes [...]

Creating vs Controlling Student Online Profiles

There are nearly 400 students in my middle school and I’ve gone and created a student blog for every single one of them.  Some of the students blogged last year for the first time and, overall, they did a great job.  As I was browsing some of the work they put up on their blogs, I [...]

Transforming the Tech Role

I have a fantastic opportunity ahead of me this school year. I am a Technology Integration Specialist.

The first week of school consisted of three days of training with just new teachers and two days of orientation with both new and returning teachers combined. I found myself repeating my job title over and over again [...]