About Me
I have been in public education for 18 years, including 11 in the elementary and middle school levels. The highlight of this time was being selected as the district secondary teacher of the year in 2000. The past 7 years have been in my current position as an Instructional Technology Specialist in Birdville ISD, in the enchanted suburbs northeast of Fort Worth. A lot has changed since I learned basic programming on a Commodore Pet back in the 80s. Unfortunately for a lot of students, many classrooms have changed very little in that time (or much, much longer). I am completely psyched by the unstable nature of technology! It is completely opposed to sitting still, and the changes that happen here affect everything else in our profession. That is why I do what I do–to help teachers keep up and see where they and their students fit in with all of this evolution occurring around them. I have presented at TCEA regional and state conferences, CAST, and Jump, and have consulted on Web 2.0 technologies. In my spare time, I am working on a PhD in educational technology, I go fishing whenever possible, play goalkeeper on a soccer team, and volunteer with a single parents ministry through my church.
If you wish to reach me about consulting (Web 2.0, general technology integration), you may reach me via this blog or by email at randyrodgersits <at> gmail <dot> com.
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June 13th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
What a forward-thinking educator!! Genius!!
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October 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Greetings from the DC area!
Thanks for the post on sketchcast. That is a very cool site. I am looking for animated-type ways to do technology lessons for our teachers and students. Do you have any other creative arts sites or projects? Also, are there site that have other people’s sketchcast work?
Thanks!
Ryan Osweiler
http://portermsblog.edublogs.org – Tech Osweiler Page!
Instructional Technologist
Woodbridge, VA
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October 8th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Ryan,
You might want to check out Kerpoof.com . It is a fun site for creating student artwork. Also, given the ages of your students, digital pics would be a great thing to explore. Picnik is a tremendous tool for editing images. Scrapblog is another good site. This one allows students to create visual blogs in the form of slideshows, including text, graphics, photos, and music. Hope this helps!
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November 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Is this the same Randy Rodgers who graduated Richland High School in 1986?
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November 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hey, Teresa! It sure is. How are you?
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January 15th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
My dearest techno-savvy Billy Crystal:
Champion:
While you have been chunking challenging chips for change, I have chuckled while the chalk churns. I choose to chime in on the chains, yet cheeky children in “ch…evys” constantly chant their cheesy chaff in my chamber chipping at my “ch…ivalry.” I’d rather be chasing chatter about this charter wich chu.
Cheerio!
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May 28th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Hi Randy, I came across your blog on the net. I had the opportunity to undertake some research on web 2.0 earlier this year and produced a directory of free web 2.0 tools for teachers. I thought you might be interested in having a look, there may be one or two sites new to you. It is a work in progress so still a few sites and categories to add.
The address is http://web2educationuk.wetpaint.com
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August 18th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Hey Randy,
For my organization’s website, I am writing a series of stories about good educational blogs for higher education educators (and students) to read. I was interested in yours. Would you mind if I pulled some quotes for the story? If not, I’ll make do without them! I’ll make sure to shoot you the link to the story if it’s published on our site so that you can see it!
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