Truger’s TechTalk

This is a story about my personal adventures at ICE 2009. There are no exciting links to new information, just some wisdom to share and story to tell that has a happy ending.
This years ICE conference was very different for me. I felt a whole new layer of responsibility, it could have something to do […]

Things have gone from 0 to 60 in my life lately. All of a sudden I find myself very overwhelmed. There are so many things to talk about. I have been on a fast track personal and professional learning journey.
Professionally, I know more about the Universal Design for Learning than I ever thought I would. […]

This Saturday, Jan 31st if you are in the Chicago area and want to attend a GREAT professional development activity…come to the NICE Mini-Conference. The NICE Mini-Conference is being held at Adlai Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire from 8:30 - 1. There is no pre-registration and the cost is $5 at the door. We have […]

I’ve been tagged by Mark Dunk (AKA Unklar) to contribute to this meme. The idea is that you share 7 things about yourself that would be unknown to your readers. Here are the rules:

Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
Share seven facts about yourself in the post - some random, some […]

Now that I have had some time to decompress and get caught up on work I can now share more of what I learned at Il-TCE. Aside from the having most amazing workshop, I was able to meet the most amazing people. Many of them were fellow DEN members that I only knew virtually.
First on […]

I have just arrived home from another amazingly successful IL-TCE (Illinois Tech Conference for Educators). It was a wild week of learning, presenting, networking and trial and error.
The week started off with my presentation of a 2 day workshop on “Clay in the Curriculum”. Everything went fabulous. I had 8 people and the groups just […]

This past Wed we had our 3rd snow day of the year. This is in a district that just not have have snow days. I was actually kind of bummed out, yet another day of being locked up in the house trying to entertain my kids. Just then the phone rang, it was a parent […]