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 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
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 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 10, 2010
Image by mariaguimarães via Flickr Re-posted from Blogger. Are you indispensable? Sometimes that is a loaded question, it inevitably leads to the next question, “Why are you asking me that?” Do you think for a minute when you submitted your retirement/termination papers at the end of the last school year or if something happens to… [Read more…]
June 25, 2010
This song and video touched my soul. I originally found it on Welcome to NCS-Tech! blog. Thank you for putting it on your blog Kevin. It is something that I wanted to share with other teachers! “No-Try not! Do or do not. There is no try.”
February 14, 2010
I have been using OmniFocus since January and it has made a significant difference in how I feel about keeping on top of my workload! Below are my first two posts about OmniFocus: OMNIFOCUS – IS TAMING MY PRODUCTIVITY PROBLEM OMNIFOCUS AS A LESSON PLANNER Does this mean that I get everything done when I… [Read more…]
February 13, 2010
Vacation started for me yesterday around 2:30 P.M. EST. Those who are not or have not been a teacher, really don’t understand the need and the value of the teaching profession’s many “vacations”. To be honest I didn’t either; before I before I became a teacher…mostly I was jealous of the the number of days… [Read more…]
January 30, 2010
This is a weekly blog on 5 good things that happened this week with my students. 1. A student that was almost suspended earlier in the week because of some of his actions in my classroom and elsewhere at school, was able to sit down and talk with me about some things. We haven’t been… [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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