The start of school typically means changes to our technology tool-kit and this year is no exception.  With the advent of our 1:1 initiative, several new tools are available that can benefit students and teachers alike.  Although formal training sessions and support materials will be provided, I’d like to highlight some of the major resources [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]