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Apple Camp: Guam

After months and weeks of planning and coordinating, revising, then planning and coordinating again; Apple camp: Guam finally has become a reality. Through the generous offering of Gerard Chua of Apple Singapore and the tireless assistance of Cheri Wegner and the folks at Marianas Electronics (The Official Apple Distributor in Guam), Apple Camp: Guam [...]

Filed under: Educational Technology, Mac, Presentations, Professional Dev't.

Blogging 101 & 102

We had our official class on Educational Blogging for graduate credit. In attendance today, Saturday, March 11, 2006 were: Cecille, Norman, Kathy, Ichie, Chris, and Maricel. I provided information about the graduate credit requirements of the class. We will probably meet twice for the class, but the rest of the time, [...]

Filed under: Edu-blogging, Educational Technology, Professional Dev't.

Thoughts on eBooks…

This was a comment to Rekha’s post on eBooks:
“I agree with Janet.  I know there are eBooks of Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series.  I may refer to those for passages I’d like to review — scenes I may have forgotten.  But I would rather hold books of those types and bundle [...]

Filed under: Edu-blogging, Educational Technology, Palm Handhelds, Professional Dev't.

Podcasts and Vodcasts

I recently uploaded podcasts and vodcasts created by teachers and students into our school’s web site.  I also submitted via iTunes, but the podcast list in iTunes hasn’t updated yet.  I found www.feedburner.com and created an account for our school.  The feed can be found here:   http://feeds.feedburner.com/StJohnsSchoolPodcastsguamUsa
Enjoy listening/viewing the casts!

Filed under: Edu-blogging, Educational Technology, Palm Handhelds, Podcasting

Handheld Reporter: Janet!

Janet came up with an interesting read on her Handheld Reporting post. Read all about it here.
Janet wrote about our class #4 on eBooks, BlueTooth, and Docs To Go & Printing. Whew! A lot of topics to go through in a few hours. But everyone seemed to pull through well. Enjoy [...]

Filed under: Educational Technology, Palm Handhelds, Professional Dev't.

Moodling along…

I’ve been working on a project that involves using Moodle as an e-portfolio portal.  Currently, Moodle is not available “out of the box” to do this.  I’ve seen a number of interesting links that lead to sites where other Moodle-using teachers have modified Moodle or cleverly used modules, etc. to come up with an e-portolfio-type [...]

Filed under: Educational Technology, Moodle, Open Source

Staff Development – MMMS

Professional development day of MMMS was spent at C&I in Tiyan. There were about 25 attendees in my presentation: An Introduction to Blogging as a Professional Development Tool.
I started the presentation by immediately havingthe attendees create a blog through EduBlogs.org. I learned from my last presentation on blogging that emails sent by the blogging [...]

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