iPads in a Catholic Elementary School

For the past two days I have been training teachers at Our Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic School on how they can use their new iPads in the classroom.  It was a ton of fun helping these teachers see the power of an iPad and how easily it can be integrated into...

Social Media ROI

I recently attended a luncheon that discussed the topic of Social Media ROI or Return on Investment.  It was an interesting presentation but ultimately I came out with more questions than answers. What that said, here are a few things that I did learn from the...

Rebooting my blog

Well, I’m back… I know that it has been a while but I have decided to reboot my blog.  What do I mean by that?  Well, I have been struggling with what type of content to place on this blog and website.  I have also spent too much time worrying about Search...

ISTE 2011

Over the next few days, I will be in Philadelphia attending the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference.  This is the premier educational technology conference in the country and attracts over 10,000 educators from around the world.  On...

My 5 Favorite Web 2.0 Tools

I have previously posted about my Top 5 iPhone apps, so I thought I would take a moment and share my Top 5 Web 2.0 Tools.  This is probably more like the tools that I use everyday and how I use them.   Wikispaces – This site allows you to quickly and easily...

A Memorial Day Story

On May 30, 2011, my family and I attended the 144th Annual Memorial Day Parade in Gettysburg (after the boys marched as Cub Scouts in the Carlisle parade).  While it was EXTREMELY hot that day, I had a terrific time with the family touring the battlefield and watching...

Improving Productivity with Google Forms

Have you ever wanted to quickly create a web form to survey or collect information from your students, faculty, staff or stakeholders?  If you answered yes, then you will definitely want to check out Google Forms. I use Google Forms for my graduate courses to collect...

My Top 5 Free iPhone Apps

As I use my new iPhone more and more, I have actually noticed that I am using a few applications all day everyday.  So, I thought I would take a minute and tell you about my top 5 iPhone Apps and how I use them. Evernote – is an online system that allows me to...

Creative Commons Searching

If you are doing a presentation, movie, website or project you are at some point going to be looking for images or graphics to put into your work.  Now, you could do a Google Image search, find the image(s) you want, save them to your computer and then post them to...

Non-linear Powerpoint Presentations

Linear versus Non-linear PowerPoint If you think of most PowerPoint presentations that you have seen, I would venture a guess that most (if not all) have been linear.  In other words, the presenter went from Slide 1 to Slide 2 to Slide 3, and on and on until you...