SBISD EdTech Blog

After repeated visits to the district Accountability and Research Department for answers on how to evaluate technology initiatives, I realized that the only language they speak is TAKS, and they speak it very well. However, I need methods for measuring technology initiatives that have nothing to do with TAKS testing and scores. The ACTIVclassroom initiative is sandwiched in between two TAKS tested grades and it is actually a grade with the Writing TAKS test; however, I question using TAKS as the sole data point for measurement. So I began researching methods of evaluating technology initiatives that would use a variety of data points and would help me to determine exactly what benchmarks should be evaluated. I did not know where to start. Read More »

I am in Atlanta at the NECC 2007 . Currently, I have the pleasure of sitting in an Advanced Blogging workshop with David Warlick - Advanced Blogging or Sidebar Envy. I am excited about being in this workshop. I mean c’mon! I’m sitting in a workshop with David Warlick! How lucky can a geek girl get?

The workshop is not just about blogging, but about all the “things” that go with it. Hence the name, “sidebar envy.” Even better, the woman who actually coined the phrase “sidebar envy”, Sharon Peters, is sitting in the workshop as well. Read More »

The site is a “work in progress.” But then, isn’t every web page? The formatting and the style of blog will change just as soon as I have more than 5 minutes to get it done. I’d like to have this site look very similar to the flipchart repository and the EdTech website. Even though these are done in three different pieces of software - Wordpress (the blog), Drupal (the flipchart repository), and the EdTech website (DNN) - I’d like to get the style sheets from these three sites and try to make them as closely styled to one another as possible.

Hopefully, I and a few other people in technology in SBISD will contribute to this blog on a weekly basis. Anybody??? Right now, its just me.

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