Tech2Go

In these times of shrinking budgets I know I should be more active to track down alternate funding sources. One recent search of possibilities led me to the Hewlett-Packard site. Here’s an excerpt from their description of the Technology for Teaching grant:
The HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative is designed to support the innovative use [...]

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Why didn’t I think of this?! What a great convergence! Next fall the kindergarten students entering our schools will be the class of 2020. Karl Fisch from Arapahoe High School has created a simple, and powerful video to highlight our need to look ahead.
You can see the 2020 blog post that started the discussion on [...]

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I showed the previous post to a colleague and they were distracted from the assessment discussion because they were so interested in Google Scholar. I suspect that might be indicative of others - so here’s a quick plug for this great search tool.
Here’s an excerpt from Google’s own answer to, “What is Google Scholar?”

Google Scholar [...]

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Just read a good article in the Journal of Staff Development by Rick Stiggins & Jan Chappus. What A Difference A Word Makes is a discussion about the design of formative assessment in the high-stakes testing world of K-12 education. The little word that makes a big difference is “for”. Assessment FOR learning instead of [...]

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Some of our newest handhelds (Zire 22s) are having problems running the (old) version of Sketchy. Anyone else having trouble? We’d love to get this application going on the Zires!
Maybe answers at GoKnow?

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Before there was a Tech2Go blog site there was a Tech2Go podcast site. This was an experiment to help further my own professional learning, and to keep the conversation about technology integration going. I welcome you to check out the podcast site and maybe even subscribe to the podcast. Let me know a topic you’d [...]

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 I had a great discussion with a colleague this morning about the role of leaders in our education systems. Are you free to risk and innovate - to show a picture of what future practice could look like? Are you struggling to lead a system (or part of it) in a new direction? How are [...]

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After a few hours of time to refelct on yesterday’s session with Will Richardson I’m liking PageFlakes as a nice “next step” for teachers. While I prefer certain aspects of a wiki page, it seems many similar benefits could be attained (more quickly too) with a PageFlakes page dedicated to a research topic, or themed area [...]

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