Sunday, November 15, 2009

Chat Session

I just completed my first chat session for this technology class. What a great discussion we had. It was nice to feel like I could actually "talk" with the people in my class and get to know them a little better. Thanks Dr. Morgan!

Monday, November 9, 2009

NETS & 21st Century Tech

How exciting that my school district is focusing on NETS and 21st Century Learners. Teacher and student standards were just introduced to staff at a faculty meeting and more PD is being offered through RCET this month to administrators. Good timing for this course.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

SEM

My husband works for a company managing their SEM or Search Engine Marketing. Search engines help people find information on the Internet quickly and offer advertisements. SEM is currently growing much faster than traditional advertising and other channels of online marketing. I find it very interesting. It learns the way people find and use web sites and gives you valuable insight into how to guide your marketing campaigns and what to do with the data you gather. My point to this with education is that I think there could be a similar program made which analyzes opinions on parent/community views on local education which gives you valuable advice in guiding community needs within the schools.