google doc practice, food contests for fun

discussion posts

Here is a teacher's blog or discussion forum that high school teachers could use.
http://www.teach-nology.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=2cc6ebbb1929fd3b09bbe8712895ecd0&f=5
I looked at some of the blogs and found some of them interesting. It is formated like a thread, going from one comment to the next person's, so it was easy to view. Some of the topics I could get into. I could not find a discussion board for teachers in just my area but this site was general enough to find something of interest. I wonder though how teachers have the time to do all this posting and reading etc. I doubt I would do this unless I had to.

Grant sites:
http://www.69.12.29.100/crnew/teach_awards.asp
This one is from Best Buy.

http://www.ed.gov/programs/techinnov/index.html
This is a Federal gov. grant program

http://www.eds.com/about/community/grants/

Three Tech Goals

My three tech goals are the following:
to finally get a doc. camera and a LCD projector in to my 2 classrooms
to get the tech support person to set up everything working correctly in both classrooms
to incorporate all the tech information from class into my teaching

The first 2 goals should be completed by the start of the next school year and the third goal will be on going. The completion of all three goals will improve my teaching and my student's learning.

Two Article reviews

ehttp://www.nea.org/newsreleases/2008/nr080204a.html
This article is from an NEA publication about President Bush's proposed budget for education. His budget proposals came out just a few days after his State of the Union address. In his address he talks wonderfully of the good NCLB is doing and how great our educational system is and then he puts out a budget with major cuts to major programs. One of the programs being Career and Tech Ed. so I am not a supportor of this budget.
http://proquest.umi.com.proxy.cityu.edu/pqdweb?index=6&did=1417848741&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1203391350&clientId=8931
This article is in support of CTE, which ties in with the first article. It does not have to do with computer technology. But the article points out the importance of CTE and preparing students for the future.

http://www.webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/29578-060705190305/

I found this web quest to be attractive and engaging. It has the students go to 3 different cafe web sites and research their menu and pricing information. The students then make their own menus and calculate the prices. We do not have a pro start program at our school but I could adapt this web quest to use in my classes.

Post for Jan. 19

I have been working hard on my web site. I think I know how to do the basics, still have things I need to fix but we seem to have the time to do that, which is nice. It is great to not be overly pressured so can play around with the site development. I feel I am learning alot of information about technology, that will be useful.