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obligatory edu-blog includes updates on the "project"
of Moodle/ELGG integration at a public high school in addition
to rants, raves and commentary on the manner in which
information and communication tools are changing the world and education. |
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Mr
Maher's
History
Classes |
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provides students with access to class content and materials, in
addition to administrative announcements, schedules, and
assignment rubrics. The first step
to opening the high school history class with technology is
creating a web presence. Parents, tutors,
other teachers, special education support teachers all have
access to the course schedule and content. Copywritten materials
are provided to students in a self-contained, password protected
site |
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Integration of
Technology in High School History |
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Integration
Presentation |
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this
presentation is somewhat dated (5/06), it provides an overview of the different ways in
which technology can be integrated with a history school history
course.
Currently
(2/07), Moodle and ELGG are replacing FirstClass as the teaching
environment of choice.
(This
flash presentation is about 10M)
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F2F/Online Education Presentation |
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F2F/Online Education
Handout
F2F/Online Education
PowerPoint |
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is the handout and PowerPoint for a presentation for Principles
and Practices of Curriculum Development and Supervision at
Caldwell College. It was designed to provide a
context for thinking about the integration of technology in
education and introduce a program whereby a school district
could digitize all of its curriculum materials. These
would be the first steps to enabling a public school to enhance student
learning by combining the best qualities of face-to-face and
online education. |
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Teacher-
Help
Web Site
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district teacher in-service day in September, 2004, I presented a
teacher-training workshop concerning the use of FirstClass as an
instructional tool. As a compliment to the workshop, I
created a web site with step-by-step illustrated instructions to
help teachers when they returned to the classroom and actually
started to use FirstClass. |
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PowerPoint
Presentation |
FirstClass
is an e-mail/information management system. All students
have an e-mail account and each class has common mailboxes
through which they can access materials (notes, assignments,
etc) and submit homework.
This is a
PowerPoint I prepared for a presentation to the Iron Hills
Conference Principals meeting in January, 2005. It includes
screenshots of FirstClass and it's use in creating a
"paperless school". It also includes examples of
how FirstClass can be used to assign, collect, grade and return
homework. FirstClass
is a compliment to the class web site because copy-written
content and other protected materials are distributed to
students through this self-contained, password protected
system. |
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Technology
Applications in Social Studies |
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Technology
Professional Development Program Survey |
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designed and presented a staff workshop introducing practical
applications of technology to social studies education in 2003. No
professional development program of this sort is going to be
successful without a thorough needs assessment. I
distributed this survey before the program in order to determine
exactly what teachers knew, and what they wanted to know. |
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