Dabbling with Movie Maker

Our students are coming up from the primary division so well prepared that we are able to add on to our tech curriculum. We decided add movie making.

I know that teaching children how to make web sites makes it easier to help them view other web sites more critically. My hope is that we […]

Outlook Meeting Scheduler as Field Trip Notification System

Last fall I wrote about how we were using the meeting scheduling feature in our Outlook Enterprise mail system to check in with staff during emergencies that arise during vacations. We are now putting the same system to use in solving a different problem- field trip notifications.

If you’ve never seen it deployed, within Microsoft […]

How do you support your music teachers?

This year, we’ve been forging new ground integrating technology into our elementary music curriculum. I’d love to take credit for it, but I can’t; all the good ideas are coming from the music teachers themselves.

I’m new, but what they tell me is that one of the recommendations from the mid-term WASC visit (that’s our […]

Skype in Your Letterhead?

This evening I received a quotation for purchasing an iPod for my music department. The vendor is a local Singaporean reseller. In the signature area, along with all the things I’m used to seeing, such as address, phone and FAX, this vendor also listed their Skype ID. I’ve never seen that before.

What does it […]

Social Networking for the Under-14 Crowd

Will Richardson posted today that Nickelodeon and Disney are entering the social networking market. Their target is the under-14 crowd. Nickelodeon’s site launched in January. Disney’s is still in beta. Will links to an article at USA Today that provides a comparison table.

I plan to spend some time checking these out. Many of our […]

A Promethean Task?

Trial by fire this past week. Tomorrow will mark my one week anniversary of being relocated while unexpected repairs have forced the closure of my office, my lab and the other rooms in my wing.

With the closure of my lab, I took over one of the drop-in labs. This has been a real problem […]