This is a blog designed for two purposes:
1) This is a place for educators to come to find new pieces of technology for their classroom.
2) This is also a way for me to ensure that I try to keep finding new technologies for my own classroom.
First off, let me give you a little bio information. I am a fourth year teacher who began his career in a small rural area school just north of Kansas City, Missouri, and I am now teaching at Lynbrook High School in the Silicon Valley in California. I have spent a large number of hours in a variety of educational settings, including underprivileged inner city schools with marginal access to technology, and schools who thrive with a great number of resources and frequently place students in high ranking positions in companies like Google, Yahoo!, etc.
I am a Secondary Mathematics teacher and I also teach JAVA computer programming. Before I got into education I spent three years majoring in Electrical & Computer Engineering. This background really emphasizes my love for technology and my understanding that it really needs to be present in today's world of education to keep our product relevant to the students we teach.
Having said these things, my primary focus here will be to introduce technology that is either free, or highly inexpensive to add to an existing laptop or tablet (I use an iPad so most tablet apps introduced will be referenced from this perspective). Many people would be amazed at the number of things that are out there that can make our lives easier as educators.
My goal with this blog is to introduce a new piece of technology/app that I have found useful or think I may find useful in the future for my classroom. I hope to blog about a new piece of technology every week, but this may move to every other week depending on my schedule.
If you have any recommendations or suggestions about future topics please feel free to comment and let me know! Otherwise, I hope some people find this blog to be useful in some way!
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