For the last few weeks, I’ve been working with the good folks at join.me to help them see how their product could be embedded into education. I’ve had the chance to interview a librarian for a case study of how she uses join.me to support remote patrons and interview a join.me user about how he [...]
On March 10, 2011 I had the privilege of presenting a full day of professional development to the faculty and staff at Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood, SC. I presented several times during the day exploring such topics as: Engaging Today’s Learners – Opening Keynote Cognitive Load Theory and Motivation – Breakout session Question and [...]
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary decided to “go Google” and needed someone to train their trainers. They turned to Palmetto Learning to provide excellent training for their trainers on the details of Google Apps including how to handle the migration training for their end users. We set up a series of webinars to teach them how [...]
On Friday, February 18, 2011 I had the privilege of traveling to Cane Bay High School to conduct a Google Workshop for Educators. Throughout the day more than 150 educators came through the session and learned about advanced features of Google Search, Google Docs, and Google Earth. Cane Bay High School is not far from [...]
As a Google Certified APPS Edu Trainer and Google Certified Teacher, I use Google products a lot. One of my absolute favorite Google products is Gmail. I use Gmail daily. In fact, I have used Gmail every day for years now. I can recall having to get an invite for the service to be able [...]
As mentioned before, I’ve been working with InFocus on spreading the word about the IN3916 Interactive Projector. I have one, and absolutely love it. It’s added a new level of interactivity into my classroom. What a breath of fresh air to not be tethered to the board any more! It just so happens that InFocus [...]
On Monday, December 20, 2010 Chris presented a webinar to the Instructional Technology staff at Selah School District 19 in Selah, Washington. They approached us about the decision they are trying to make between Google Apps for Education and Gaggle. While I do not work for Google I am somewhat of a Google evangelist. I [...]
I’ve been working with InFocus on exploring how their new line of Interactive Projectors can be used in the classroom. As a classroom teacher, I’ve been using mine with my kids for several weeks now and thoroughly enjoying putting it through its paces. One of the places I regularly go for good advice, reviews, and [...]
On Monday, November 1, 2010 I had the privilege of delivering the opening keynote presentation for Greenwood SD 50‘s first Student Engagement Conference. I talked about engagement as possibly being an idol. I talked about the notion that we often seek engagement without really defining what it is, let alone quantifying some measure of determining [...]
Denver Public Schools recently contracted with Palmetto Learning to develop an online course. The course is designed to teach professional educators new strategies to help students for whom English is a second language. Specifically, the course centered around one strategy, the use of non-linguistic representations. My job was to introduce the topic and find interesting [...]
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