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Yikes, budget cuts... we have a hiring freeze and no raises but at least no jobs have been cut yet at my university...
One of the things I promote at my school is customizing the Desire2Learn homepage (that's the CMS we use). Does Moodle allow ja...
Hi Laura....sorry to get back so late to your comment...we'e been very busy with budget cuts, layoffs, rolling out a 1:1 in 16 of our 5th grade classrooms ( I know sounds at opposite ends of the spectrum...5th grade is through EETT Competitive gra...
Hi John, I had seen that when you joined the Ning here, and had "tagged" it with Delicious to add to our firesidelearning member stuff online - and I was so excited to see you using a blog that way... I used to work for the IT academic services un...
A little rainy today...and oh, gee the temperature has really dropped with the wet weather...I think it's only going to get to ....maybe 60 today :-)
Hi John,
Really good stuff; I'm sending the link around school, and we need Fireside to be hooked up to your group's work as well. Thank you for sharing! I'll have my students do a test run on the educational games section.
So, how's the weather...
Hi All...
In my school district we do monthly meetings with teachers and staff from around our schools and share the latest information related to learning and technology that we've gathered from the previous month. Most of the resources are eith...
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- Director of Technology for the Sylvan Union School District in Modesto, CA. We're a K-8 school district with approx. 8,000 students.
- About Me:
- I'm a life long learner and advocate for the use of communication tools for learning.
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Hi All...
In my school district we do monthly meetings with teachers and staff from around our schools and share the latest information related to learning and technology that we've gathered from the previous month. Most of the resources are either low cost, opensource, or open betas.
I thought I'd share the link: http://eett.sylvan.k12.ca.us/wordpress
...if any one cares to check-it out :-)
In my school district we do monthly meetings with teachers and staff from around our schools and share the latest information related to learning and technology that we've gathered from the previous month. Most of the resources are either low cost, opensource, or open betas.
I thought I'd share the link: http://eett.sylvan.k12.ca.us/wordpress
...if any one cares to check-it out :-)
Posted on February 5, 2009 at 5:38pm — 5 Comments
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- At 12:23am on April 18, 2009,
Ellen Pham said…
- Hi John! I love your blog! I have been trying to organize my 'finds' and put them up on ONE ning :D... It's a work in progress, I've just started but if you would like to check it out, I'd love to have your input... Library in a Box... (I am getting a bit lonely all by myself!!)
I'll read your blog more thoroughly and put together a list of resources you might like...
Thanks for the friendship,
Ellen : )
- At 7:40am on January 29, 2009,
Connie Weber said…
- Hi John,
Well, just jump in here and get outside the woes of budget-cuts, if even for a few moments now and then. You may find yourself uplifted by being able to refocus on learning, And this community will benefit from your perspective, your questions.
- At 4:00pm on January 28, 2009,
- Hey... Hi! So glad you came. Very happy to see you here.
Thanks for the techno-advice; glad we met in the recent educon talk.
Well, can't wait to hear your voice on the site. Join right in on the conversations, share some references and links you like.
Sylvan Technology Leadership Blog is fantastic!!!
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