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 20, 2010
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 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 12, 2010
Image via CrunchBase Re-posted from Blogger. I am more than a little frustrated this evening. Until recently I have been using Zoho Writer to prepare my blog posts and then as a work around to add labels and Zemanta, post it as a draft to Blogger‘s blogwriter for final editing and integration with Zemanta. This… [Read more…]
December 31, 2009
After all the research about which Productivity Suite I would use with my new Mac, I decided that that I would use a combination of Google Docs and Microsoft Office for Mac 2008, with gDocs being my primary Word Processor. I explained in WHICH PRODUCTIVITY SUITE FOR MAC? my needs in a Productivity Suite and… [Read more…]
December 27, 2009
I will be picking up my MacBook Laptop tomorrow and have been researching what applications or software I should be using. I still am concerned about which direction I should be taking regarding a productivity suite. NEEDS: A productivity suite that includes Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Slide Show capabilities. I really do not need an… [Read more…]
December 17, 2009
This week I have been working with my three Special Education classes (a total of 22 kids) on learning Google Docs. This has been a great opportunity for me to observe my students behaviors when learning something new, but fairly similar to something they have used quite often previously. The learning curve, was much steeper… [Read more…]
November 29, 2009
Image by Stephen Edgar – Netweb via Flickr I installed Windows 7 on my machine about three weeks ago and per my usual procedures, that meant that it was time for me to re-boot my Tablet back to factory Specs this weekend. I have this “terrible” habit of wanting to try new things (software/applications), different… [Read more…]
November 18, 2009
Image by Martha★ via Flickr I have “whined” a little bit this week about the amount of paperwork that Special Educators are required to complete as part of our job. I was described by co-workers at my previous school – as being rather anal about my paperwork. I took and still take it as a… [Read more…]
January 1, 2008
Well the new year is upon me/us. I have several things that I am going to accomplish this year, but I am going to limit myself on this list. 1. Loose weight (isn’t this the number one goal for a lot of us). But I for some reason each Sept – Dec, I go into… [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 29, 2010
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