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First teaching job
Maury High School, Norfolk
Culture shock! -
Give up on public education
Newspaper in Educaiton Lady for VA Pilot / Ledger Star, Noroflk
Teachiang at all levels; learning to do PD. -
NIE consulting
Landmark Communications, Roanoke and western Kentucky -- lots of PD -
Misc. PR work
Rediscovering public educaiton is where I want to be. -
ACPS
English teacher AHS -
Attend Central Virginia Writing Project
Become committed to process vs content. -
Fisrt in school to use a computer gradebook
Appleworks spreedsheat; approved by old-school principal as long as I maintained a paper copy too. -
Take my own Apple 2C and printer to my classroom
Used solely for teacher productivity. -
Period: to
Sit in parents' seat at conferences
Vow never to drop educationese. -
Computers at AHS
Labs - Difficulet to get spcae in the schedule.
VA Pen - first email
1 computer per classroom
Turmoil as library goes to online catalog and the card catalogs disappear. -
Become interested in Gardner's Learning Styles
Vow to put students in charge of their own learning. -
Web 2.0 beginnings
Experiment with NiceNet -- allowing kids to chat in real time. -
Begin library certification
Begin library courses which require more use of computer and internet; stillhave dial up at home. -
Period: to
C.R.I.S.S traingin
Will never teach the same again. Continues and gets Trainer Certification. -
Period: to
ongoing PD
NTTI, NTTI Master Teacher, NETS*T certification, Teachers First Advisory Board, etc. -
Full time library job @ WAHS
Earnest work toward certification necessitates switch to DSL at home -- finally! -
Jouett Library
Sole librarian in MS library.
