Welcome!

This weblog will document my activities as a New Trier High School social studies instructor and GCT (Google Certified Teacher). What I'd like to feature includes:
  1. Tools which transform instruction, not just tools for the sake of using existing technology
  2. Applications of these tools to my own teaching in the classroom
  3. Demonstrating how the fair use of copyrighted materials can enhance digital learning and media literacy
I am available for speaking engagements. My specialties are Social Studies and Multimedia Integration, as well as Copyright and Fair Use advocacy. Feedback and questions from any visitor is very much appreciated!




District 219 Tech Conference


Thanks to all who attended my breakout sessions at the District 219 Tech Conference, which was conducted under the themes of "1:1 and Web 2.0" on April 9th, 2011 at Niles North High School in Skokie, Illinois.

As promised, here are the slides from my four presentations. Please feel free to contact me for further information (located in the right sidebar):

--

For those of you who attended my Blogging session, here is a link that features some of the best student- and teacher-related blog information I have found on the web.

I tried to keep the amount of links to a minimum to encourage usage. However, if these are not enough, I have tagged over 200 web pages with the term, "blog", on this site.

The main blogs I author are also linked below:

"An American Studies" — co-authored with John S. O'Connor, my English teaching partner. It features links to all (40+) of our students' individual blogs.

"Modern World History": a class I taught last year which used a different blogging platform called Posterous, somewhat similar to Tumblr. It allows you to post just about anything via email.

"US History": a class I currently teach in an experimental classroom, it also uses the Posterous platform instead of Blogger, my traditional favorite.

--

For those of you who attended my Copyright and Fair Use session here are some more resources:
--

Thanks for visiting!