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Friday, June 20th, 2008

A Weekend Chuckle

Teaching is caring about students. Caring to provide them with the best education possible. Everyone works hard to make it happen. This clip gives us a chance to have a brief chuckle about the important work we do.
Smile.
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c157590b2fa1a7d093a3&page=1&viewtype=&category=

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

School 2.0

The Brighton Central School District had the privilege of being part of the U.S. Department of Education’s School 2.0 Project. The project demonstrates the interconnectivity of technology with all of the stakeholders that make up a school’s community. Click on the link below to visit the School 2.0 website. Click on launch ecosystems, then on  [...]

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Catch Me If You Can

Technology is changing so rapidly that it is mind boggling. Things that used to appear only in the movies are now happening in real life. Truly, if you think it, you can make it happen.  This demonstration of touch screeen technology in 3D is nothing short of mind boggling. Technology waits for no one and [...]

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

WEB 2.0

There are many clever ways to present what sometimes appears to be complex information. The term WEB 2.0 is bantered about quite frequently with some confusion as to what it means. The video link below will tell you everything you need to know about WEB 2.0. Then you decide how to effectively use the tools. [...]

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

25 Days To Make A Difference

Recently at a workshop in Buffalo I had the opportunity to meet a very special 5th grader. Last December she decided to make a difference by asking people on her blog to carry out 25 acts of kindness during the month of December. She asked each person who visited the blog to pay it forward. [...]

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Thinking Differently Is Okay. Collaborate

There are so many ways to learn and we all learn differently. That is the beauty of education. The key is to listen and learn from each other. The clip below demonstrates that collaboration does not always mean being right but to listen and process input from divergent views. There are so many different ways [...]