Ready for a New School Year!

Teachers—are you ready to begin integrating technology into your classroom again this year?  I’m ready to share ideas with you on how we can work together to engage the students by using a digital camera—a video camera (yes…we’re getting one this year!)—a laptop—a school pad—a SMARTBoard—a computer lab—videoconferencing equipment…

I’m looking forward to another exciting year […]

Summer PDA Offerings

July 16
Using Audacity to make great music and sounds. 
Check back for time and location
August 5
“PDA Palooza”
The ITRTs will be offering a variety of sessions—something for everyone.
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We’ve Got the Power!!!

We’ve got the Power JFKMS!  I have posted Power Points of the SOL Released Test Items for 2007 for review if you’d like to use them.   I have also posted other technology-type reviews and websites on the page that you can use with your students.  These review and websites are also available from home.  Check the […]

The Help Desk

I recently read an article in the Technology section of The Virginian-Pilot and found some very helpful information that I wanted to share on my blog.  These are a couple of excerpts from the article “The Help Desk Problems Solved Here.  The Most Asked Questions of the Year” by Bill Husted.
Should I turn off my […]

Upcoming STAR Training Sessions

STAR Training Sessions for the 2nd Semester have been placed in your mailboxes and you can also view them by clicking on the Calendar tab above.  These training classes are NOT mandatory…you will receive 1 STAR point and 1 Recertification point for attending each the hour long sessions.Training sessions taught by other ITRTs at other […]

3 Words…

Students—Teacher Appreciation Day will be here before we know it.  Now—I’m sure that you appreciate your teacher every day…but there is an entire WEEK designated for teacher appreciation.
This year, we’d like to incorporate a little technology into showing your teachers exactly what they mean to you.
So—what I’d like from you are 3 words (nice words!) […]