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 Thanks for stopping by! You've found my 'home' on the web, a site I developed using Joomla as a personal & professional "digital repository," and as a sandbox in which to learn and explore Joomla and other innovative web technologies.
I am an educator in my fifth year of teaching (as of September 2007) in the K-4 Computer Lab at Northfield Community School in Northfield, NJ. I left the business world in the summer of 2002, a year after 9/11, because I wanted to pursue my dream of teaching as a second career. Today, I have that dream job, and am surrounded every day by the two things I love most: children and technology.
In addition to my classroom teaching duties, I help my fellow educators teach more effectively using technology in their lessons and lead in-district professional development workshops. To find out more about what we do in my class, visit my eBoard. I also have a K-8 edtech focused blog, http://www.ncs-tech.org, where I write about the coolest and most useful tools available on the web today.
Outside of school, I teach online, part-time for Walden University in their Graduate School of Education Master's Program, specaiizing in Integrating Technology into the Classroom. I enjoy it tremendously. It has helped me experience what I believe is the future of education. Teaching online helps keeps me sharp and connected to like-minded educators focused on improving their professional practice.
Earlier this year Walden awarded me a $10,000 Faculty Excellence Grant to study the multi-user virtual environment called Second Life. I'm documenting everything I experience on my project blog, http://www.storyofmysecondlife.com.
In addition to teaching at Walden, I speak at local, state, regional and national conferences, lead workshops for the Southern Regional ETTC, do consulting for K-12 districts, and also have a thriving home computer repair business (though I do less and less of that work and limit my practice to people living in my home town, as a way to stay connected to the community.)
You can find my personal blog here. I once wrote something every day, but lately, I've been Twittering more than blogging. Chances are there will be entries on either of my other two "work related" blogs above, though, which I maintain as both vocation and avocation.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by. If you want to get in touch, drop me a line.
Best, kj |