Ed Tech

http://www.mrselak.com/ is up and running!
For now, this site is hosted by blogger. I designed the site in Dreamweaver and pasted the html into the “customize page” section. Now it looks fancy, rather than a bland page.
I also purchased mrselak.com. It is tricky to forward a domain purchase to a blogger host. I finally figured it [...]

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These are links from my conference presentation last week at “Celebrating Technology”. There are three categories of free, useful websites for teachers: Google applications, sharing sites, and meeting people sites. These are some great gems.
Google
Gmail
http://mail.google.com
2.8 GB of free email and storage space.
Gspace
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1593/
Use your Gmail space for file storage.
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
Browse the earth through satellite imagery.
Google Docs
http://docs.google.com
Collaborate [...]

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The goal of a PowerPoint presentation is not for the presenter to read aloud each slide for an audience.
Quite simply, this one point (no pun intended) will drastically increase the quality of a presentation. Of course, there are exceptions, where the goal is to read aloud the words; however, unless your audience is a class [...]

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Teacher will use technology if it is exciting and easy. As a tech leader at my school site, making technology immediately useful is the litmus test–”Will it make my life easier NOW!?”
There are simple ways to get teachers to use more technology; however, each step must be easy. Sharing an excel sheet for assessments can [...]

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