Ruth’s Ruckus

I found this great video that I wanted to share, but it was on YouTube, and so it was blocked at my school.  I’m going to try a different version of the same video…This one was posted at teachertube…

 Let’s see if I can make it work…

So, I’m preparing some stuff for the teacher’s summer camp that we will be offering…OK, I’m really avoiding writing Chapter 1 of my dissertation.. but anyway, I happened on this great Blog and some interesting materials.  Let’s see if I can get this slideshow to show up…

I went to the VSRA conference last week.  My presentation was packed!! I was quite surprised since for the last few years the maximum number of folks at a tech presentation at the conference was 4!!  We had close to 60 people…So anyway I learned a lot from this general session that I went to.  I don’t usually go to general sessions, but this one sounded interesting.  I’ve got to find my handout again because the guy (a prof from UCONN) was very good.

 He showed us this video:

I hope I did that right.  I really thought it was worth sharing.

The longer I work in this department, the more I realize that it is important that we work as a team.  In so many ways…I mean we all service the same client, the students.  Whether I’m teaching the teachers how to work with technology in their classrooms or if my tech specialist is making sure the machines in the classroom are working – it’s all for the kids right?  Somehow (not that I understand how), but somehow from time to time folks in the department forget that.  They seem to think that they are there to protect our stuff from those that use it  as opposed to serve the kids.  It’s funny how the objective gets muddied.  I mean we do need to make sure the stuff is safe, but the objective is to allow access not to deny it.

I’m very glad that my tech specialist understands this.  There are nights we stay after school getting equipment ready or setting things up for teachers so that they can use it.  There are those who don’t understand that principle. 

In my work group for example, several people have no idea what it means to work together.  They would much rather sit and wait for others to do the work.  Then they want to reap the benefits…I guess it’s that way everywhere.