Karen Fasimpaur's Blog – March 2009 Archive (3)

I do a lot of professional development on integration, and I am always surprised by how many teachers, even those who use computers every day, don't know what I consider "must-know" tech skills. I'm not talking so much about broad areas like word processing or spreadsheets, but more small skills that make life easier no matter what application you're using.



Here are some "must-know" tech skills on my list:



- Right-clicking

- Tabbed browsing

- Efficient file… Continue

We expend a lot of effort to make sure that only student first names and last initials (or sometimes use aliases to avoid even that) online publishing.

However, student first names, last names, and even pictures appear routinely on school web sites as a part of honor rolls, sports team listings, and other extracurricular activities.

Why the discrepancy? And what exactly is the concern with having student first and last names appear online?

I have been talking for a while about the need to get technology integration more into the mainstream of curriculum discussions. Technology shouldn't be a separate subject or another thing to implement -- it should be one of the tools we use to accomplish our curriculum goals.



One way to move this to the mainstream is for experts like all of us to present not only at technology conferences, but at curriculum conferences.



Another way to do this is to get involved in… Continue