A Technology Odyssey.A Technology Odyssey.

A passion for learning, a commitment to

teaching students, helping them connect to

the real world, their world

Thanks to Cindy Lane for the first two background images.

Remember 600 baud modems? When you would start a download and then walk away to come back later to see if the download was complete?

That is where I started my odyssey with the internet and technology.

Why?Data for helping to connect myurban inner city students withthe larger world. Engaging them with the world.

Gopher?Telnet?

Where did it all start?

From Telnet and Gopher to Netscape!!!

From just collecting data on earthquakes and weather

To assisting local college instructors.

How do you use this new fangled stuff with students?

How do you get teachers up to speed?

Remember teaching colleagues how to access email for

the first time?

No one knew exactly how to proceed, there were no roadmaps for integrating technology yet. We worked on trial and error sharing as we went along.

What was next?

That lead to a Palm Innovation Grant and an Intel Odyssey story

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I heard a speaker, Eliot Soloway, speak about the possibilities of hand held computers.

I had to have one! I bought a HandSpring Visor on my way home.

Elliot beaming~!

On my own pathOver the next few

years I learned to use all kinds of cool tools that I shared with teachers and students ….

Palm IIICs,

Vernier Handheld probes,various Microsoft applications,

Inspiration, and more.

….but where was I going?

Intel Teach provided the

…the road map, a format, and the research to back it up!

Now used to influence…

Over 6000 teachers in my district, due to changes in the curriculum guide format and the inclusion of projects

Two local universities have hired me to assist their student teachers and in-service their preservice teachers

Student centered

more global

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Lessons that infuse 21st Century skills,

not being the sage but learning WITH the students

meeting the needs of all students

are Project based

What is next on the path?

Hope to incorporate Intel Teach into the universities for credit.

Influence the university instructors to begin using more Web 2.0 tools in innovative and creative ways

Become more skilled and able to share more Intel resources with teachers

Thank you Intel

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