• Tales of a Tech Gypsy – Slippery Slopes

    Posted on September 1, 2014

    “Educational change is not constrained by lack of technology but a lack of sociological imagination.” Diana Rhoten As a new school year begins, and our high school library undergoes a radical transformation in which outdated books are stripped from shelves and digital workstations are added, I find myself pausing to...

  • Tales of a Tech Gypsy – AASL Intellectual Freedom Award

    Posted on July 28, 2014

    This is my first blog post in “OnCUE,” and I’m happy to begin this process of sharing ideas about all things tech, library and education-related, on behalf of MassCUE. On this 24th of June and first day of summer vacation for the Sharon district, I have been frantically scrambling to...

  • Providing a MassCUE Online Course

    Posted on July 22, 2014

    MassCUE offered me the opportunity this past winter to offer an online professional development course through their site. Although I had offered online and asynchronous courses before through Moodle, this proposal involved learning and utilizing the Edmodo interface to build and deliver the course. Additionally, through this experience I was...

  • Making Connections

    Posted on July 20, 2014

    I was fortunate to be able to be part of two exciting conferences this past month: ISTE 2014 in Atlanta and BLC 2014 in Boston. If you have never been to ISTE, the only thing I can say is ISTE seems to be on steroids, compared to the MassCUE/M.A.S.S. fall...

  • ISTE2014

    Posted on July 17, 2014

    The annual ISTE conference is always packed full of sessions, meetings with vendors on the exhibit floor, networking, crowds, and, almost always, heat and humidity. This year’s conference in Atlanta had plenty of all of the above and surpassed expectations in several categories, including humidity. I always have my own...

  • ISTE Wonderland

    Posted on July 7, 2014

    Attending my first ISTE conference was much like what Alice must have felt like when she entered Wonderland. As Lewis Carroll boldly stated, “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” I learned to expect the unexpected and witnessed some magic. I saw what was...

  • Presentations with class . . . yours or another!

    Posted on June 30, 2014

    As the winner of a MassCUE Initiative Grant this year, I was pleased to incorporate new technology in my classroom for a twist on an existing project. My Entrepreneurship students use funding provided from another grant to run their own small business for the duration of the trimester course. As...

  • Freedman Gossip Project

    Posted on June 27, 2014

    A HUGE thank you to MassCUE for their support of the Freedman Gossip project. This grant was used as part of a cross curricular project between writing, technology, music, and the arts. The Chromebooks were primarily used in the music and writing portion of the project. The grant met our...

  • Professional Development through MassCUE

    Posted on June 23, 2014

    The plight of the “busy teacher” is one that, as MassCUE Professional Development workshop facilitator, I can relate to on many levels. Doesn’t it seem like the 21st Century educator just keeps getting busier and busier? The expectations to keep current and stay up-to-date with the latest advances in technology...

  • Is Coffee All We Have in Common with Curriculum

    Posted on June 11, 2014

    This past April, I attended a pair of technology conferences that I had expected going in, would have some degree of overlap. Aside from offering free coffee, the topics, attendees and themes varied widely and didn’t mesh at all. On Thursday, April 10th, I attended a conference offered by the...

  • Grants

    Meet the 2014 Grant Recipients

    Posted on May 1, 2014

    Meet the 2014 Grant Recipients Congratulations to the 2014 MassCUE Grant Winners. Each recipient has a great story to tell. See how these grants were utilized to make a difference in the classroom and in their students lives. Grant Recipient #1 Kristin Bergeron, Technology Integration Specialist Falmouth Public School 62...

  • Learn new skills at your own pace and timing.

    Posted on January 6, 2014

    A little more about these online workshops: All instruction and activites for these new four-session workshops are done entirely online. Each session is a week long,  The first session is an orientation and then the next three are content sessions.   Participants have one week between sessions to do the assignments...