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In an effort to get teachers in Culpeper podcasting, we are conducting an inservice on it. I am currently working on finding excellent examples of how it can be used in the classroom, both by the teachers and by the students. If anyone has projects they are personally proud of completing and want to share, please send me the link.

Thanks in advance.

In an effort to involve more teachers in using technology with their students, my colleagues and I are preparing to talk to the superintendent about making 21st Century Literacy the district's theme for next year. Part of our presentation involves showing what is being done already in our district and another part looks at what other districts are Virginia and the U.S. are doing.

We can certainly track some projects down, but I was wondering if anyone here has any Web 2.0 projects that you woul… Continue

This afternoon I am working with a class of second graders on Think.com. This is a free site that provides a secure setting for basic web 2.0 practice. I am excited to see how they take to this. We will be starting with a lesson on internet safety. I hope that their typing skills, or lack thereof, don't make this run so long that they become bored with it.

While I am always kidding that I am the most important person in my own personal universe, I have never really thought that anyone would find my thoughts all that interesting outside of my lovely wife and my dog. My dog well he would find anything I say interesting as long as I give him a greenie when I am done. And my poor wife loves me for some unknown reason and is thus blind to the pedestrian nature of my thoughts. Of course, she might just be humoring me and awaiting the day that the dog ca… Continue

Settling back into the routine at work today. Had a lot of teachers to catch up with after being out for VSTE, ice (what there was of it), and flu. As usual I am resolving to try and sort out all the great resources I saw at the conference and find teachers to use them, but as SOL fever hits my teachers I just hope to tread water until the fall when I can get some of this implemented.