The Mike and Sean EduCon Podcast

Please check out Mike and Sean’s Podcast introducing our EduCon session – Subversive PD:  Creating a culture of collaboration to bring educators into the 21st Century.

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Technology Liaison Duty

Every full-time teacher in our HS is assigned a duty in addition to teaching their assigned classes. Duties generally include hall monitor, cafeteria monitor, study hall proctor and technology liaison.  For the past 2 1/2 years I have served as the technology liaison for the Foreign Language department. In addition to assisting members of the [...]

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An off day

Today my Latin 1 class didn’t go very well. It wasn’t a bad class, nothing dramatic happened. But nothing really clicked either. This year our school has switched to a rotating schedule with 7 classes that drops one class each day. So today my Latin 1 class met for the first time since last Thursday, [...]

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Showing up is half the battle

Some thoughts for my students during cold and flu season: Please do your part to stay healthy and be in school. If you aren’t in class, for any reason, you should know by now that every homework assignment is posted on Edline. Often the handouts are uploaded, links are provided. I know you might not [...]

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Saturnalia 2009

It’s been so long since I’ve written, but I feel like I’ve neglected writing about my Latin classes. So much of my students’ work over the past year has involved integrating technology into our projects and learning. But one activity that comes around each December and has barely changed over the years is our Saturnalia [...]

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The Power of Twitter

Today I’m at the MassCUE Conference at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. It was exciting to pull into the parking lot this morning and come up to the Fidelity Investments Clubhouse. As I listen to the keynote address I can look out the window and see the field where the Patriots play. Throughout the day [...]

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Playing with avatars

My five year old daughter loves to play with my computer. I try to keep her on the machine set up with kids’ games and links preset to sites that are Mom-approved. But often she’ll look over my shoulder and ask to feed the fish on my iGoogle home page.  The other day she told [...]

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TPACK For Languages – More teaching tools

Yesterday I wrote about the TPACK for FL Teachers workshop that Drew McAllister had invited me to Skype into. It was fun to share some of what I’ve learned with other FL teachers and to see (via video) professionals collaborating over the summer to integrate technology into their curricula. Yesterday I focused on Google Docs [...]

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Ah, summer…

You may have noticed that I haven’t written here in quite a while. As soon as school ended I became full-time mom again and have tried to take advantage of time away from school to relax and get rest. I’m always surprised by my (non-teacher) friends who tell me how luxurious it must be to [...]

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Fellow Scouts honor a friend

Recently I wrote about Eddie Charest, a student of mine who passed away suddenly after school.  His spirit and enthusiasm has clearly inspired many.  Derrick Z. Jackson reports on one effort to honor Eddie an article in yesterday’s Boston Globe, The highest honor for a fellow Scout.  Kevin and all of the Boy Scouts who [...]

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