Summer is going by far too quickly! My summer actually ends around August 16th, when my school has their Technology training start and that Thursday & Friday is new teacher orientation (which I plan to take part in, to see what I should have known last year when I started in October). With less than… [Read more…]
July 19, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Something I have wondered both as a parent and as a Teacher – Do other teachers actually like all the students they have in their classroom? Now this might seem like a dumb question and it seems that just about every teacher would answer “of course they like their students”. There is… [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
Image via CrunchBase On July 6, 2010 I wrote my A Google Experiment blog post, where I decided to use: Google Chrome gMail gCalendar gContacts Picassa as my primary web application/software for those tools, to see how they work for me. I have used these Google products before, but due to my school’s firewall, I… [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
This post is about the frustrations I have felt as a Special Education teacher, Special Education student’s parent and having been involved in Special Education since 1989. It may not be this way everywhere, but from what I have seen and heard, what I have written below does bear some resemblance to reality, in far… [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
This is an updated version of my blog from November 4, 2009 when I created the Resource Room 220 blog. I have gone back and rewrote it for clarity AND to refocus the post on why I named my blog Resource Room 220. Why have I decided to create a blog named Resource Room 220? … [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
Today my blog Resource Room 220 officially re-0pens. Resource Room 220 on WordPress.com has been in “sleep” mode since March 3rd, but actually had almost as many visitors during that “down” time as my regular blog that I updated on a consistent basis. In my What Did I Learn While Moving Back to WorkdPress.com blog… [Read more…]
July 17, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Tonight was a bittersweet night, I deleted the first blog (hshawjr@blogspot.com) that I ever created back in 2007. As I have discussed in my blogs over the past week, it was time to move on, which I have done tonight. Even though I have deleted my Blogger blogs (all but one –… [Read more…]
July 17, 2010
This has been a very busy week to say the least. I have changed blog hosts to WordPress.com, focused what direction I want this blog to go, put together a new theme, transferred my data from Blogger and today at 4:00 will delete all but one of my Blogger blogs. In addition to dropping a… [Read more…]
July 16, 2010
Since I decided to move back to WordPress last week, I have learned a lot about changing a blog over to a different blog host. In the process of this transfer, I ran into several questions about the physical setup and how they would relate to my goals for Resource Room 220. I found that… [Read more…]
July 16, 2010
Image by teddy-rised via Flickr What have I learned in switching back to WordPress.com? First and foremost that it actually would have been much, much easier and less time-consuming to simply stay with Blogger as my blogging host. The change-over is not as easy as it seems, sure importing all your blog posts from Blogger… [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.
July 20, 2010
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