Vicki Davis is the IT Director and technology teacher at Westwood Schools in Camilla, GA. Also know as the CoolCatTeacher, Vicki is a national spotlight speaker at several education technology conferences. Vicki was the 2010 TICAL Conference keynote speaker. TICAL’s Director Rowland Baker got a chance to speak with Vicki in Little Rock, AR. Vicki shares how several global collaborative projects she helped create (Flat Classroom Project, NetGen Project, Digiteen Project, and Eracism Project) have assisted students in developing cultural literacy and 21st century skills.
As the ease-of-use and culture of Web 2.0 social media merge with the 3-D virtual environments we’ve come to associate with computer gaming, exciting new opportunities exist for using collaborative virtual worlds in education. In this episode, PARC research scientist Michael Roberts offers some examples and suggests these environments might be particularly useful for triggering student interest in science and technology.
Jack Jarvis, principal at Hidalgo Elementary School in Fresno Unfied shares an efficient and effective way to push out notifications to his staff via Really Simple Syndication (RSS). This automatic push out of messages allows teachers to receive notifications without ever having to check their email. Now, informal information can quickly be sent out!
Vicki Davis is the IT Director and technology teacher at Westwood Schools in Camilla, GA. Also know as the CoolCatTeacher, Vicki is a national spotlight speaker at several education technology conferences. Vicki was the 2010 TICAL Conference keynote speaker. TICAL’s Director Rowland Baker got a chance to speak with Vicki in Little Rock, AR. Vicki shares how several global collaborative projects she helped create (Flat Classroom Project, NetGen Project, Digiteen Project, and Eracism Project) have assisted students in developing cultural literacy and 21st century skills.
