Rich’s EDTEC 700 Blog

You know me. My name is Rich. I live in Fresno, California. It is over 100 degrees almost every day now! Because it is so hot here most of the summer, my wife Lois and I are water people and spend as much time as we can at Pismo Beach or floating on our boat at Shaver Lake. If we can’t get to big water, we swim in our pool. We love water! I play golf and ping-pong.

I have been a teacher for Madera Unified for 26 years now. I have taught 4th and 6th graders. I have been a Technology Coach for the district for five years. I work at different school sites daily, training teachers, working with students at the computer, and maintaining equipment.

I have only created one blog and that was for Terri Linman’s 572 class. It has not been maintained very well and had only one added post….. I have no experience with wikis other than using Wikipedia from time to time. I have never created a podcast, although I subscribe to a few. I do have thousands of songs on my ipod, though. I am not sure where I am headed with all these new tools at the moment. We have started a blog here at Madera Unified for a week-long summer training we are doing right now with about 150 teachers. The training is about using the Promethean software with their interactive whiteboards. We are hoping the teachers will use the blog to post their thoughts about the training, questions they may have, or ideas they wish to share.