Where am I going with all this?

I work at Croom Vocational High School, where I teach 12th grade English, am the English Teacher Coordinator, and am Instructional Coordinator.  I like traveling, reading, and swimming. I earned my M. Ed. from George Washington University's Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

As part of STEP, I would like to improve my use of technology within my classroom 1) for myself, and 2) for my students. Since I know that I am a "boring" teacher, I would also like to learn to use technology as a tool for reaching my students.

Google Video, chat, tips

Today was an advanced features day.  Among other things, we were given Eyeball web cams.  We had them in our hands for a few short moments, and were told that we need to employ them as part of our google project, but now they are being "processed" by Ms. Pockey. 

A usual, we had a lot of adventures.  I am still struggling with this blogging stuff.  It doesn't like me, and I don't like it, but it is a good place to reflect on how much we are learning.

Today's STEP training

Today we learned about using google docs and how to post some of them to our web page.  It is really quite amazing all the things cloud computing makes possible.

I am so overwhelmed by all of this!

 

What I've done already

My Jeopardy test review game is the first thing I've done with this new STEP tool.  It worked well for one class, but not so well for the other.  I'm going to have to keep working on this.  It did keep the students' focus, though. (a free homework pass makes a really good prize for the winners.)

STEP Training # 1

9/29/2010

Today, a lot of good, general information about the Sharing Technology with Educators Program.

The coolest thing so far has been the Jeopardy game one can create at Jeopardylabs.com.  I am hopeful this will help motivate my students to study for their Beowulf test.