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When I worked as a teacher in the classroom about 3 years ago at a different district before moving to the technology department where I am currently, I kept asking our Technology Department to provide me student email accounts, but was always turned down. Finally, I searched on my own and found Gaggle.net, and immediately used it with my students. My students loved it. Gaggle.net not only provides an email account, but also provides other tools that students found useful, especially the digital… Continue

So, I try and go to the session called "Comic Strips in the Classroom" but had no luck. I show up to the room where the session was to be held and there were a ton of people waiting to get in. So, being the gentelman that I am, I waited my turn and did not cut in line like many others. ;0) ...Well, by the time I got up to the door, it was standing room only; however they would not allow standers, everyone had to be sitting in a seat. So, I was a little disappointed that I could not attend the se… Continue

One of the more creative and awe inspiring sessions I attended was the session at the end of the day called "Creating Music for Media Projects". The title is actually a bit misleading as the session was under the Video Tech session and dealt with more than just creating music. It dealt with the pre-production, production and post-production of creating not only music, but video projects as well.

Mr. Robert Goetsch went over some projects his students created in his Video Tech I, II, and III cla… Continue

This morning, my first day at the TCEA 2009 Conference, I attend the Interactive Classroom Projects Using Nintendo Wii Controllers session presented by Robby McCraw at 10:30 AM. Robby is a history teacher who happened to figure out how to modify a Wii controller to make it work as an interactive white board and "virtual reality" tool to be used with Google Earth and other applications.

I was a little disappointed that Robby could not show us an actual demonstration of his creation, he did provi… Continue