Image by cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr Presenter: Jason Ohler I was so impressed by last night’s MLTI Keynote by Jason Ohler that I decided to attend his morning session on New Media Narrative in the Classroom at the MLTI Summer Institute in Castine, what many are calling Digital Storytelling. The ideas he presented last night just… [Read more…]
July 29, 2010
Jason Ohler – provided the MLTI Keynote presentation last night, he provided an introduction (from me at least) to Digital Story telling. I have seen the sites and even downloaded some PDF things on Digital Story telling, but I have not taken the time before, to see what it actually is about. Ohler’s keynote really… [Read more…]
July 29, 2010
The name of the afternoon session at the MLTI Summer Institute by David Patterson was “Shoot Yourself”. The name is rather misleading, but the content was not! I have always wanted to learn more about Photography and I learned more about it in the 3 hours with David yesterday afternoon than I had previously on… [Read more…]
July 29, 2010
Image via CrunchBase The second half of the Introduction to Google Tools Day 2 of the MLTI Summer Institute has been been great! This morning’s first session was with Rich Byrne on Blogging, Google Books and Custom Search Engines. Rich used the Commoncraft Blogger video to show what is blogging and did a great job… [Read more…]
July 28, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The first day of the 2010 MLTI Summer Institute – Digital Citizenship Raising the Flag – Learn about Google Tools is over. It was a great day! At the start of the presentation the presenters discussed with us about the issues with Google not working well with the new MLTI image due… [Read more…]
July 26, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Last Sunday, I replaced the front storm door. Before I go any further I want everyone to know that I am not a carpenter! During during this 6 hour ordeal, I got frustrated, tired, swore a bit, walked away, swore some more and then eventually “goober carpentered” it together. If I had… [Read more…]
July 25, 2010
Cover via Amazon I finished reading Teach Like a Champion (TLAC) a couple of days ago and needed to reflect a bit lot before actually writing this post. In my opinion the model presented in TLAC is very heavy into a Behaviorist, Teacher-centric model of teaching i.e. what has been characterized as the “Factory Method”. … [Read more…]
July 24, 2010
This has been a very good week, I created my first website (for my classroom, I will be tweaking it until school starts) better that website than my blog. Getting over that “fear” I had about creating a website is very satisfying to me and using Google Sites was extremely easy. Maybe now I will… [Read more…]
July 22, 2010
Image via Wikipedia I am just a bit excited, I got my final confirmation email yesterday for the Digital Citizenship: Raising the Flag, the 2010 MLTI Summer Institute and the Google Tools Pre-Institute (sponsored by ACTEM) at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. Why would something as relatively minor as going to a summer institute… [Read more…]
July 21, 2010
Today has been a totally amazing day. I crossed off one the most dreaded items on my TODO list today – create my first Webpage. Of all the things I have done in the tech side of my life, the one thing I haven’t done is complete a working webpage. Why? I have had way… [Read more…]
This blog focuses on teaching from a Special Education Teacher's perspective. I plan to provide my observations and/or insights into Special Education, English Language Arts, the help students receive in my Resource Room, pedagogical ideas and integrating technology/Web2.0 tools into the classroom.
My views have been molded by my experiences as a parent of a Special Education Student, a retired Coastie, teaching in a Special Purpose Private School and a Public School system.
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