Blog Juice for Educational Technology

The first week of school is usually an exciting time for all parties involved; teachers are eagerly anticipating starting the year strong with their wonderful students, and students are anxious to see how much everyone has changed over the summer. The first week for me was definitely exciting (started a new position at a new […]

My friend gave me a call last night and while chatting he mentioned how excited he was about getting back to school, especially in terms of using technology. Apparently his district is having digital projectors placed in every room this school year, and his Tech Director has begun the year with a fantastic two day […]

Here I sit in my new computer lab, in a new school building, in a new school district, and so far I have to say…I’m impressed. Obviously having a room full of 30 brand new desktop computers installed with Open Office and few signs of Microsoft products helps, but more importantly the technology coordinator for […]

I must preface this post with an apology. I have not blogged in quite some time, and despite my best efforts to compose an inspiring, interesting, or useful piece of information I’ve found my attention being pulled by other aspects of my life, moving into our first house being one of the largest.
That’s not to […]

In the hustle and bustle of 4th of July tomfoolery (usually involving firecrackers and high-school inspired stupidity) and preparing to purchase our first home, I’ve neglected the blog and forum a bit this summer. Never fear, though! There are all sorts of great goodies planned for the forum and the site in the next month, […]

I have yet to make it through a school year without finding at least one or more teachers that do a “this day in history” lesson in their classroom. Usually most of these “lessons” are a simple 5 minutes at the beginning of the day as a student, or the teacher, reads from one of […]

The posts have been few and far between since the summer started, and for this I apologize. I’m not sure whether the lack of a need to reflect on the weeks teachings’ or just the laziness of Summer has overtaken me. Either way, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the semi-failed podcasting project I […]

A while ago, Google announced that they had made all of the complete works of William Shakespeare available for searching online. While nothing noteworthy can be said about putting the works of the Bard online (it’s been done before), Google’s ability to search for specific passages and lines within each scanned text is rather helpful […]

Creating budgets, maintaining classroom bank accounts, and other activities that help students understand the concept of financial management are often found in classrooms from 2nd grade up to seniors in high school. I’ve taught enough students how to balance checking accounts, plan out spending sprees, and create budgets that I’ve taken to having them create […]

In my last post, I pointed out the often humorous predictions of future technology. I also shared a fake image created to make past predictions of today’s technology seem even more far-fetched. Having shared that image with my students (who were quite surprised to learn the image was fake), I used the “computer of the […]

Former IBM Chairman of the Board, Thomas J. Watson, was once quoted as saying “I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers.” Of course this was back in the late 1940s, when most mainframe computers still required a small gymnasium to be housed in. I recently went searching for this quote to serve […]

Today the Tech Savvy Educator is officially one year old! I know, I know, one year and we’re already walking, talking, blogging, and collaborating. Just imagine what we’ll be up to during year two.
I choose June 1st of 2005 as the official launch so that I would have time to focus on blogging and community […]

I noticed that my last few posts have been focused almost entirely on Science, so I thought it was time to write about processing and mapping skills that work across disciplines. I have to thank Kevin Clark, an instructional technologist who works for our local REMC, for blogging about a fantastic new tool for allowing […]