Being cutting edge is attached to a lot of anxiety-making behaviour. Tomorrow I stand in front of my peers presenting my views on strategies for getting your staff to engage students thru technology. People are constantly surprised that this is what a teacher-librarian does. This is what I'm presenting:
Adventures in leadership thru technology
Also this week I wrote a Guest Blog on the Canadian Education Association website.
My good friend D was over and I was wowing him with my new toy the Livescribe Pen. It's a pen, that makes a video recording of what you write, and an audio recording of what you say. For people like me, who work really really hard to stay on top of the datasphere and emerging technologies, the Livescribe is a lovely way to enjoy the act of writing, and still digitize what I say. I come up with new ways to use it in the classroom all the time. This short 1 minute video is a Pencast (Livescribe recording) of what first popped into D's head when he saw it working.
Pencast Pluses with D
So what does it make you think of?
Adventures in leadership thru technology
Also this week I wrote a Guest Blog on the Canadian Education Association website.
My good friend D was over and I was wowing him with my new toy the Livescribe Pen. It's a pen, that makes a video recording of what you write, and an audio recording of what you say. For people like me, who work really really hard to stay on top of the datasphere and emerging technologies, the Livescribe is a lovely way to enjoy the act of writing, and still digitize what I say. I come up with new ways to use it in the classroom all the time. This short 1 minute video is a Pencast (Livescribe recording) of what first popped into D's head when he saw it working.
Pencast Pluses with D
So what does it make you think of?