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I went to blog a few weeks ago and because of a server that needed to be replaced, I could no longer upload pictures. Oh, no! I think our provider for this web site has fixed that problem now, though, so it's time to get back at it. The latest pictures I have are from Priscilla Robinson of her TAG students working with both Skype and with a web quest that she created for them.
I had someone say to me the other day, "We are so behind with technology in our district." I about fell off my chair. I wanted to adamantly tell this person that they must not be aware of all the good things that are going on in classrooms around the district. Our teachers are working very hard to make the best possible use of the technology we have, and we have a lot! Furthermore, our technology staff and our administrators are working very hard to plan for the future to make sure all our students and teachers have even more access to the technology tools students need to learn in 21st century ways. Way behind? I don't think so. While we talk about the future and how to provide and manage laptops for every student, our teachers continue to learn new ways to use technology in the classroom, including researching and information evaluation and collaborating and presenting and. . . you get the drift. We are not waiting for that golden opportunity in the future when we have everything we ever dreamed of. We are teaching the students we have now with the technologies available to us, and we're doing a great job of getting to that next step of more access for our students and teachers. Many of our staff and teachers have started to blog. Please go to our main web site to take a look: Click on any building link there, and you will see links to both administrative pages, where administrator blogs are linked, and also links to the staff emails and blogs. Take a look. You will be impressed by what our staff members are doing. Also, let me direct you to Karen Hixon's class web site, created for her unit on prairies: https://sites.google.com/site/proprairie/ What a wonderful way for students to learn the material and to also display their learning using technology every step of the way. We relish the opportunities we have to use technology in our schools. We just set up our brand new Google domains for staff and student use. We just finished updating a mobile lab of computers at the middle school and a mobile lab of computers at the high school to provide all the new tools we want to use in classrooms. We'll be deploying more laptops for students to check out for use outside the district. We have 62 more laptops arriving on Friday for two mobile labs for student use, one at the high school and one at the middle school. We have new networkable reading software to deploy at the elementary school. And, we have new music creating software on order for use at the middle school. That's not the mention all the new Flip cameras and digital cameras we've purchased over the past month or so for students to use, or the additional document cameras deployed for presentation use in classrooms. We are on the move, and we are moving fast! Congratulations to our teachers who are working so diligently to keep up with educational strategies that use technology. I just put the stuff out there and show the teachers some basic uses. They are the heroes!
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