http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:42:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim Holt has an important blog post today on his site Intended Consequences. He shares the hypcrosity of Unilever with their videos for Dove showing girls how a plain Jane is turned into a super model and the ads the same company runs for Axe. Tim asks for teachers to ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/08/22/108/ So often in the blogosphere and at conferences we hear about passion. Great teachers show passion in working with students and have ways of reaching them, we want our students to be passionate about learning and we want them to follow their passions in their future work place. Well, tonight ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/08/03/passion/ NECC 09 has come and gone and after reading many blog posts about it today I realized I better get busy on my own post. I'm going to start out with a quick post of the things that are running through my head at the moment. 1. Goals-I didn't do a ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/07/05/necc-09/ I'll be leaving for NECC in DC on Friday. I am so excited to be attending my second NECC conference. My daughter is a little worried about me. I'm doing what I tell her not to do. I'm meeting people and actually rooming with people that I have met on ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/06/23/necc/ Well, it's certainly been a long time since I've blogged here! I think about it frequently but just don't seem to have enough hours in the day. The good news is that I'm still blogging but in a much different way. I'm doing the 365 photo thing on flickr. As ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/06/23/photo-blog/ Oops, some how February slipped by with out a single blog post and if I don't get busy the same thing will happen again this month. I know, we're all busy but I do need to make more of an effort to post at least once a month and preferably ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/03/07/pics4learning/ In December our first grade teachers did an Eric Carle author study and as a result each class rewrote one of his stories. The art teacher helped out by drawing a simple outline of each character or object in the story. The children then filled the outline with scraps of ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/01/25/digital-stories/ Last year I joined Flickr and I saw Tweets about people joining a 365 photo group. I looked at it briefly but quickly decided there was no way I'd ever keep up and forgot about it. Later in the year I joined Photo Friday at the suggestion of Ann Oro. ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/01/24/a-picture-a-day/ I was tagged in the 7 Things Meme by Ann Oro and Lori Feldman. Here are seven very random things you don't know about me. I grew up in Elgin IL and when I was in 9th grade we moved to Moline IL. I went to college in Wayne NE. A week ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/01/03/7-things-meme/ I don’t usually do much for resolutions as a new year rolls around. Sure there’s the lose a few pounds and eat healthier but that’s about it. On the other hand I can come up with several resolutions for my professional life. So with out further ado here they ... http://elementarytechteachers.edublogs.org/2009/01/03/new-years-resolutions/