Since Monday I’ve been having conversations about teachers and their lack of participation in social networking. I’ve been reflecting on the whole idea of teachers and networking. For years teachers have been encouraged to move out and interact with other teachers. They’ve been encouraged to share with other teachers, collaborate with other teachers and build…
Perspective affects everything that we do. It affects how we view a situation, how we react, our decisions and a myriad of other things. Now, I have the perspective of someone who is an administrator, thinks technology in schools is important, believes schools need to alter and change to assist students to become thinkers and…
Like many of you, I occasionally do a little ranting when it comes to the problems with some of the things that go on with the technology in schools and the level of availability of different websites. I’ve also been known to rant every now and then about other things that go on with schools…
I’ve been using classroom Walk-Throughs for the past 7 months in order to get to get into the classrooms in my school, get to know what the teachers are doing, familiarize myself with the curricula in the various grades and just acquaint myself with how this form of supervision might work for me. Now, I…
I returned from our yearly administrator’s seminar yesterday a bit tired but with a host of ideas for creating a better climate for our school. While we were there, we were given two new tools that I feel are really going to help our staff to focus their efforts and move us forward. Now, to…
As school began, I promised myself that I wouldn’t allow my network connections to interfere with my work. As last year came to a close, I was finding that much of my evening was spent checking the various networks of which I was part and keeping up with the ever-growing RSS feeds in my reader…
Communication. It’s something that most people don’t usually think about and when they do they believe they’re pretty good at since, well, it’s how the world moves. In the f2f world, spoken communication is only one way we get a message. The body language of the person, tone of voice, inflections, speed of speech and other…
I’ve just returned from a week of holidaying and relaxing. I was away from access to all technology and that was good. I enjoyed not going through my gmail, RSS feeds, email, Classroom2.0, twitter, blogs and online information. Now that I’m back, I’ve spent time sifting through these and getting caught up which, to my…
This past week has been very busy as I have been working in construction/painting fields, something I did before I turned to the profession of education. There have been some really long days which, combined with working in some warm temperatures, have left me with little energy for any type of work except reading. I…