Recently, I traveled to Summit, NJ and Kent Place school to work with my colleague Lisa Thumann and a wonderful group of teachers and network administrators. This was a new event for me, as it was a Train-the-Trainer event. The goal of this event was to train educators and IT professionals so that they were [...]
Columbia, South Carolina is home to the National Advocacy Center. The NAC is the principal training center for the US Department of Justice to train US Attorneys from around the country. When the Office of Legal Education (inside the NAC) needed an expert to teach US Attorneys about Instructional Design, they called me. I was [...]
On Saturday, November 19 I had the pleasure of teaching a group of educators from around South Carolina how to use Google products with their new iPads. The teachers we a part of a grant program designed to help these teachers incorporate new technologies into their classrooms. The training was lots of fun to give, [...]
On November 2, 2011 I had the pleasure of traveling to Wagener, SC to present to teachers at Wagener Salley High School. The school had an early release day and they asked me to come in and talk with them about a few topics. I presented three sessions, leaving time for teachers to try out [...]
Each year the K12OnlineConference provides tremendous professional development for free, and entirely online. This year, they have selected me as one of their keynote speakers. I am thrilled to have been chosen and look forward to participating in the conversation. Read the full post announcing all the keynote speakers here. Here’s to great learning opportunities!
While I was in Florida about a month ago talking with educators from Newpoint schools, the topic of email came up. It turns out that the educators with whom I was working had a rather strong dislike of their existing email system. They complained of it not functioning properly, and that it felt antiquated. I [...]
I am spending three days in Florida this week working with educators at NewPoint Schools at their annual retreat. NewPoint is moving towards Google Apps in all of their schools so they brought me down to talk to them about the overall notion of increasing student collaboration as a pedagogical shift as well as the [...]
This week Chris is attending, conversing, and presenting at ISTE. For more information on Chris’ open source session, click here. If you’re in Philadelphia, please feel free to reach out!
On Tuesday and Wednesday (June 21 and 22) I will present to Beaufort County Schools Teachers! I am excited to work locally and in fact, I have never been to Beaufort before. I know some good folks there, and am looking forward to working with these teachers. The first day’s workshops will be all about [...]
I was thrilled to be asked back to Cane Bay High School to conduct a Google Workshop for Educators. You might recall I was there in February doing the same thing. Today, I taught on Google Search, Google Books, Google Maps, and much more. I had a great time! The question always arises as to [...]
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