GEC Computers in
the Classroom Website
Look to this web site for information and tips
for using the computer effectively in the classroom. There's
all kinds of K-12 computer resources all freely available.
Feedback, comments, suggestions, are always welcome. Email
me.
My blog appears here.
Newsletter
The newsletter
GEC Computers in the Classroom is updated monthly and
features a variety of hints and tips for the classroom as well as introducing new resources for use in the classroom.. 
Professional Development Wiki
Many Professional Development
activities end up being posted here. Please feel free to join the wiki and contribute or just help yourself or link to any of the resources. If you see errors, omissions, typing mistakes, or inaccuracies, please go ahead and edit.
Digital Photography Exhibition 2010
Students in the Greater Essex County District School Board show off their digital photography skills at the Gibson Gallery in Amherstburg.
8 Weeks to Web 2.0
If you've always wanted to explore Web 2.0 and find out what it's all about, check out this online course on my Wiki. "8 Weeks" is based upon summer holidays - you can do it in a shorter or longer period of time. Attendance isn't taken!
Blog Roll
Greater Essex County teachers and school are blogging. This page contains a list of the blogs that we know about. If you're blogging and want to be added, send me a note and I'll get you added.
2008 Canada General Election
A collection of references and resources surrounding
the October 14 Canadian General Election.
Specialty Pages
When special events or things that just peak my
curiosity arise, I'll do my best to create a page or two
of resources.
Computers in Elementary Schools
The Greater Essex County District School Board
Computer
Skills Document describes how growth in computer skills prepares
our students. Many other districts have adopted our document
as the basis for their own implementation of computers
in the Elementary panel.
The Acceptable
Computer Use Document was last revised in June 2006 This
document is in PDF format.
Links
What would any educational website be without a list of
significant internet resources? Are you
in search of Websites suitable
for the Classroom? These
links have all been featured at one time or another in
my monthly newsletter.
del.icio.us Site
Visit my de.licio.us site and join my network while you're
there.
Backflip
site
My personal stash of resources are on my Backflip site.
Or,
do you want to see all of
them in one page? (Warning
... big page)
Webquests
The Webquest Locator was a personal project to identify
and categorize webquests that would address Ontario Curriculum
Expectations. The multi-curricular nature of a good webquest
makes the use of webquests particularly effective.
Viruses
and worms
In this day and age, unfortunately, this is
a fact of life. Some research and ideas about prevention
appear here.
Palms and Probes Project
Imagine doing science experiments where you get the results
immediately so that you can talk about the experiment
and what you just did. You can with portable computers
and scientific probes.
Women
in Technology
This exciting initiative pairs the Greater
Essex Chapter of Women in Technology with Grade 7 and
8 girls to encourage them not to close the door on
mathematics and sciences.
eTeacher
As elementary teachers work with Report Card production,
there may be questions about file management and transfer.
Assistance can be found online here.
FirstClass
Your FirstClass account can also be your web presence.
Click to link to my FirstClass website ,
blog ,
or podcast.
OSAPAC
RSS News feeds
OSAPAC
now features three news feeds. One deals with news in
general, the second with currently shipping software titles,
and
the third deals with the popular downloads from the Learning
Object Repository. All three news feeds can be read from
this page.
My Google
Co-op Search Engine
I would invite you to become a contributor to this Custom
Search Engine. When you go looking for things, where do
you start first?
Just for fun - for no apparent reason - when something
strikes my fancy, I'll add it here.
BookIT
Manual
Please log into BookIT and download the file
from the resources menu.
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Workshops
Winter
and Spring Institutes are offered to Greater Essex County
teachers. Complete listing appears by following the “Workshops” link.
Use BookIT to
register and follow the instructions in the Summer Institute
Booklet.
Without
a doubt, the kindest comment that I ever received about
this website and my newsletters came from Education World
where we were listed in their article “Ten
Unique Resource Sites for Educators”. It's
pretty cool and humbling to think that you put something
on the internet and others happen to stumble on you and
enjoy it
A further honour happened when David Dillard
recognized the site in Net-Gold here in
2005 and again here in
2006. I read Net-Gold daily and would encourage you to visit
their Yahoo resource page or to subscribe to it.
