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Holiday Spirit
Beyond our holiday video that I produced with the help of Drs. Lane, Geyer, and Gretz, there was some real holiday spirit alive today at Goochland Elementary School through a reading campaign. Students...
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4th Grade Presentation to School Board
Last night, GES fourth grade teachers Nicole Carter, Krystle Demas, and Joe Beasley presented their recent classroom activities with iPads as part of Goochland Elementary’s Reflections presentation to...
View ArticleVisiting the Computing Club
I recently wrote about the establishment this year of a computing club at Goochland Elementary by our elementary ITRT, Zoe Parrish. I came back to visit the club more recently this week and had the...
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1:1 Year 1
At this week’s board meeting, we presented some details about our 1:1 expansion next year for grades 5 and 6 across the division. Included in this presentation was some of the numbers involved in all...
View ArticleDrive for the Summer
Students in our iPad 1:1 program at GES may be interested in learning how to archive some of the content on their iPads for safekeeping over the summer. Over the summer we will be updating all iPads to...
View ArticleInexpensive Broadband Program Options
Comcast offers the Internet Essentials program which brings broadband, a laptop computer, and digital literacy training to qualifying students and their families. If a student is currently eligible to...
View ArticleDigital Citizenship: Games
I wanted to re-visit some topics related to digital citizenship for parents and to provide resources. In this first post, we’ll look at video games. That video was from 2013, and I wanted to update the...
View ArticleTransient and Anonymous Social Networking Tools
A couple years ago, Snapchat just came out and was one of the new, popular tools for sending messages that could include video or photos that disappeared. Billed as a feature, this service offered its...
View ArticleUtilizing the Khan Academy as a Teacher with Students
Video tutorials are not everyone’s idea of the ideal learning asset. The idea of reducing education to a bunch of embedded online videos really did not sit well with a lot of educators as the Khan...
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