My summer schedule, while far from relaxed, has afforded me opportunities to spend some “quality time” exploring a few of my favorite applications.  After David Jakes visited our campus a few weeks ago and gave a Google Earth workshop, I decided to dig a little deeper into this highly versatile and immensely powerful tool.  Here [...]

This week I had the good fortune to attend a two day workshop at Whitfield School lead by veteran history teacher and technology specialist Tom Daccord.  Although specifically geared toward history teachers, many of Tom’s ideas and resources can be applied to any curriculum or grade level. Best of History Web Sites Created by Tom [...]

A few weeks ago, in an effort to get teachers and students to broaden their online search/research horizons, I proposed taking a one week hiatus from Google search. A few colleagues joined me in my quest, a few questioned my rationale, but the overwhelming response was “good luck with that!”. Now that my generally “Google [...]