A New Day
I have not been very good at keeping up with my Blog, so now that I have a few co-workers posting to theirs, and I have attended David Warlicks workshop, I am feeling the need to get started and try and stay on top of this.
Thus far I have only used this Blog when I first got started and then when we were begining to teach blogging throughout the district, so for now it looks a little sloppy. I will be make some tweaks to clean it up.
I hope I can begin to use this get some feedback on shift that is coming, we will either be apart of it, or be left behind when it comes.
Where will you be?
Want to know what I am talking about? Take a look, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Blogging is fun
Teresa Lawson makes blogging fun.
TCEA 2008
Just got back from TCEA 2008 in Austin, I had a fabulous time. I even got to do a presentation on Geocaching, GPS units, and GIS applications. If you attended my session, I hope you walked away with some useful information. My co-presenter created a wiki for our presentation I am adding it here in this post as well as putting it on my blogroll. Please feel free to join wiki spaces and visit our wiki and add some of your own links or links to other helpful or instesting sites.
Here is the link to our GPS wiki, http://tceagps.wikispaces.com/.
Enjoy!
Welcome to my Blog!!
What positive effect do you feel blogging will have in our class?
Where do I want to go?
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GPS in the Classroom
This year the school district I work for purchased 35 Garmin Legend GPSr units. We had a department team building day to become familar with these devices and to try and start generating ideas for classroom uses that would engage students in their everyday learning. I have been very active in the hobby of Geocaching for just over a year now, and I can see some uses for using these devices instructionally. I would really like to build a good base of lessons or ideas that incorporate the use of GPSr into the different curriculum areas.
If you have used or know of someone who has used GPSr units in a classroom setting, please post the ideas or links to what they are or have done.
Welcome!
Hello,
My name is Jeffery Womack, and I am an Instructional Technology Specialist for the Birdville Independent School District in Haltom City, Texas. This is my first official Blog, so be patient with me as I start this process.
Currently I am responsible for the Palm Handheld devices in our district. I also have developed a love for GPSr units and the game of Geocaching, so I am currently working on ideas for implementing GPS units into the classroom.
I look forward to this new venture into the world of Blogging.
Jeffery
