Kassblog

I am currently working on the following, having just returned from a a two-week absence from school.

• Determine what site license to purchase for Adobe Creative Suite CS5
• Grant parent website privileges to recently admitted families
• Create website scripts to better track summer workstation maintenance and employee transitions
• Teach Facebook fan pages and Scratch to fourth and fifth grade classes
• Finalize summer project list
• Re-launch our collection of “computer help” articles
• Prepare for a school administration discussion of “just in time” tech support
• Continue work on our admission website tools
• Analyze upper school laptop survey results
• Follow senior project blogs
• Give the department’s iPad a spin

I don’t think that I will attend any ed-tech conferences this summer. I did not attend any this academic year, either. I have grown a little weary of the ed-tech bubble, in which discussions rarely focus on teaching and learning, which should be the main topic of any education conversation. We also had a bit of a slow year of conferences in Portland, relative to last year.

While away, I coordinated a tour for the Maru-a-Pula Marimba Band from my old employer in Botswana. I feel lucky to have spent two weeks with these remarkable children and their teachers. Here is a taste from one of our school performances.