Peggy Soong Yaplee's Blog (3)

I recently asked a professor how to cite a wiki, podcast and blogs and she sent back a scathing retort that I should not even entertain the idea of using any of these resources as valid sources for any of my papers that I was writing. It thought this was very interesting and rather, how should I say some what prejudicial towards tools that are being used on the Internet.…

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As I am organizing my thoughts around my future dissertation, I find myself facinated by the fact that computers have been around for at least 25 years and there is still an issue with technology integration into the classroom. For the past 20 years I have been teaching at the middle school and high school level. Although I started out as an elementary teacher, at the time all the openings were at the middle school and high school level in science and technology. Not many openings at the… Continue

Well, I am working on a plan to introduce Internet 2.0 training to my new staff I will be going to this next fall and there are a lot of transitions that I need to make, moving from high school to elementary students. However, the skill set of some of the students in the Urban High School had skills of many of the elementary students I have worked with before.

My goal is to create an inservice center around what teacher's in the school are already doing. Especially in the area of…

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