Ned’s Keeper

I need to take one minute to pay homage to my alma mater. Congratulations Alabama on one amazing opening game. It looks like the team I knew so many years ago. Here we come Auburn! ROLL TIDE ROLL!

So here is my funny story… I download all of my pictures to my Picasa account so that my family can see them whenever they get a moment. Sunday night I was uploading som of my stuff for my husband to get at work. I noticed a small map at the bottom of my account. [...]

After quite a bit of encouragement, I wanted to share how I set up my elementary technology lab. As the technology teacher in an elementary school, I feel like I have the best job in the school. Students want to be in my classroom, so I rarely have any behavioral issues. I believe in classroom [...]

So after getting the website up and taking some time to breathe and reflect on all of the ideas going through my head over the last week… I decided to set a meeting. I contacted the Instructional Technology Director and explained the project. She was very excited about the idea and helped me set up [...]

So, I was prompted, through twitter of course, to take a moment to go watch “The Next 5000 Days” by Kevin Kelly on Ted Talks. So my question is, how do we get our students ready for graduation at the end of the next 5000 days? If the world wide web was created in the [...]

While I sat on my duff today, I worked from home finishing up the school website. Take a look at it here and tell me what you think. I need to add graphics to some of the pages and finish up, but it is pretty good for my first try at CSS. I did use [...]

I spent the day today working on getting my room back into some semblance of order. I think I made a pretty big dent in things. In our school, we have to remove everything from the walls and floors as well as anything that cant be easily rolled out of the way. I packed up [...]

Well, I have gotten quite a few thoughts out on the site and am now talking to people within my district and elsewhere that I think can help me focus on the details needed to get this project off the ground. My school has happily agreed to allow me this project and even offered to [...]

As I sit here tonight, enduring another summer storm common in coastal Texas, I realize it’s just the beginning. We have had severe weather all day and lucky us… it’s just a good moment for reminding us about preperation. The second gulf storm of the season, Eduoard is heading right for us. Only one other [...]

So, I have been tring to prepare a website for a project I want to start at my school. This project will hopefully involve several classes outside of our region of the world, so the kids can get a feel for the world outside of their neighborhood. Many of my students are limited in their traveling [...]