• We Are All Self-Directed Learners Now

    Posted on September 11, 2013

    We are experiencing a renaissance of information and ideas with our country’s leading educational institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).  The introduction of Apple’s iPad released April 3, 2010, has ushered in new era of popular interest in the quality of software development in...

  • Message from the Executive Director to the MassCUE Membership

    Posted on September 10, 2013

    Welcome back to another school year.  Most of us start the year with recounting a summer experience.  I would like to tell you about the MassCUE/LearnLaunch Beta Teacher event that was held on July 23, 2013 at the Hoag Center in Waltham in partnership with LearnLaunch. Let me give you...

  • Visit LearnLaunch at our fall MassCUE/M.A.S.S. Conference

    Posted on September 1, 2013

    October 23 and 24, 2014 Welcome back to another school year. Most of us start the year with recounting a summer experience. I would like to tell you about the MassCUE/LearnLaunch Beta Teacher event that was held on July 23, 2013 at the Hoag Center in Waltham in partnership with...

  • Authentic Digital Assessments: Web2.0 tools to prepare students for the real world

    Posted on August 27, 2013

    As a technology teacher, I often focus on tool instruction. As an integration specialist there is less emphasis on tool instruction but more emphasis on choosing tools to accomplish a task. As an adult looking at the whole picture, my primary goal is to prepare students for life during and after...

  • Solid State of Mind

    Posted on August 22, 2013

    Solid-state storage technologies have greatly elevated our computing devices in the past few years. From flash memory storage found in iPads and other tablets to solid-state drives (SSD) found more commonly in laptops, Ultrabooks, and now even desktops, SSD technologies provide tremendous speed advantages to their spinning hard disk drive...