We are all back, rested and recovered, from a holiday break. I had a wonderful time getting a lot of things accomplished at home and spending time with my daughter who came from Alabama to visit. I hope all of you also had a restful time at home with your family and friends.
This week is an pretty active one for me. I am continuing to work on the Civil Rights Data Collection federal report for our district and can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! I hope to have it all completed and entered online by the end of the day Tuesday. I will also be working on my December newsletter, putting the December menus on the district Website, and working with various teachers on establishing their Websites. I am happy to report that Mr. Cummins now has a live site for the high school. Again, if any of you wish to learn about SchoolLoop and get your initial page established, just let me know. It only takes an hour (or less) for me to guide you through the basic steps of setting up a page. It really is easy!
I will be gone the last three days of this week, attending the Technology Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. I hope to attend many sessions and bring back all sorts of information for our district.
I attended the regional TIS meeting in Murray on the 19th and as part of that meeting, we had a demonstration of lots of handheld electronic devices. Many of these are now finding their way into college classrooms and ultimately, they will probably find their way into our public school classrooms. This week I want to share a few sites with you so you can find out more about these handheld devices:
Entourage Edge and Pocket Edge
Dell Streak
Kindle (from Amazon)
iPod Touch
iPad
HP Palm
If you are interested in more information about these types of devices and others, check out this page for Teacher Tap - it contains a whole site of information and links that might be useful.
