Educational Leadership & Technology » end of year http://tsbray.edublogs.org Education: Learning, Thinking, Teaching, Administration Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:10:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Heading to Peru! http://tsbray.edublogs.org/2009/06/10/heading-to-peru/ http://tsbray.edublogs.org/2009/06/10/heading-to-peru/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:33:00 +0000 tsbray http://tsbray.edublogs.org/?p=93 On Saturday June 13, my wife and I will be flying to Peru. We will spend the entire summer traveling and studying Spanish. My beloved Macbook will be turned into the IT Office, so I will be with it for an entire seven weeks (I’m already suffering from separation anxiety). But I will have my iTouch with me, so when and if I find free wifi, I will be updating from it. This will mean that the blog is basically finished for school year 2008-09. It was been a fast, productive, and rewarding year as the middle school dean of students and middle school technology integration specialist. I will be back blogging on a regular basis in August — when school year 2009-10 kicks off here at KIS.  I plan to do some summer reflection on the school year and write in an old fashioned journal that I will be carrying with me. Thanks for reading and following the events at KIS through my blog.

]]> http://tsbray.edublogs.org/2009/06/10/heading-to-peru/feed/ 0 End of Another School Year http://tsbray.edublogs.org/2009/05/28/end-of-another-school-year/ http://tsbray.edublogs.org/2009/05/28/end-of-another-school-year/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 00:08:20 +0000 tsbray http://tsbray.edublogs.org/?p=92 Well it is time to say goodbye to another school year, but I think 08-09 will be one I remember for a very long time. It was an action packed year for me as I learned the ropes of administration and worked closely with teachers to encourage and support their use of technology. The list of achievements for the Technology Integration Specialists at KIS is quite impressive:

  1. First ever Phoenix Film Festival
  2. First ever Korea International School podcast
  3. First ever Korea International School Youtube channel
  4. First ever Technology Showcase
  5. Development of the Middle Matters KIS MS publication for parents
  6. Several on going Wiki projects like our technology sharing wiki and middle school advisory wiki
  7. Not to mention the countless hours spent planning and supporting teachers

I feel like it was been a productive year with technology. Teachers are trying new things in the classroom and students are making amazing collaborative projects with technology. It is actually working!

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