A blog post I put out to this year’s COETAILers….cross posted here Some rights reserved by stevendepolo Ready or not a new school year is upon us and the CoETaIL Program continues to expand. This will be the second year of CoETaIL under this site and structure and the expansion of the program to international schools continues to grow. Here’s a list […]
It’s been said many times: If you give every student a laptop but do not fundementally change the way you teach than the power of the new technoogy will never be reached by stevendepolo OK….maybe not exactly like that but I’m sure you’ve heard quotes like it whenever talk turns to 1:1 programs. The real question is: How does teaching […]
At ISB we’ve struggled over the past couple of years in defining our web spaces. Although we’ve been getting better at using the “Core 3” (Moodle, Google Apps, WordPress) we still need to define spaces based on purpose and audience. One thing I’m focusing on this year is creating what I’m calling a Virtual Bulletin Board for our high school […]
Throughout a day at work I end up taking and sending a lot of screenshots to teachers to help them troubleshoot issues or just to remind them where to click. I thought it would be fun to keep all the screenshots from one day at work and let them tell the story of what teachers are working on, where they’re […]
A great feature popped up in my Google Apps for Educaiton GCal the other day. I was putting in some meetings and noticed an “Appointment Slots” link in the event window. Not sure how long it’s been out (please somebody tell me it hasn’t been years), but it’s turning out to be a fantastic tool for education. Basically you can […]
So a new school year is upon us, as today was the first day for students at ISB. I spent the first hour helping new middle school students find their way around the school….what fun. ISB set a new record for the amount of new students this year. A HUGE turn around year with 100s of families leaving and 100s […]
In May I noticed I was being asked to hold more and more trainings at my own school and around the world on Google Apps as schools make the move to Google Apps for Education (GAFE). It’s simple, cost effective, and just so vaulable of a resource to have school wide that making the argument not to go to GAFE […]
View from my place in bangkok Still trying to remember where my summer went, I find myself back in Bangkok and preparing for the year ahead. This could be a big tech year for my school. Things are in place to start really using technology in some innovative ways. Not that we haven’t in the past, but the systematic changes […]