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I live in the Texas Hill Country and am a technology educator. My role is to provide teachers and students with the tools they need for learning and living in the 21st century. I use this site to post interesting things I find on the web in the areas of education, technology, and my hobby of design admiration.

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High School Notes

Tivy teachers, thank you for allowing me to come in and converse with you. I hope we all get to have a great conversation together tomorrow. I am really excited and nervous to meet with you all. I compare tomorrow to that first lesson we all do each year after all the rules, syllabus, and handouts are gone over. This is that first shot for me and I want to cover so much in so little time.

I have that right mix of nervous energy and fear on that first lesson. I love teaching. I love working with people and helping them get the right tool into the right hands.

My philosophy summary is based on this quote from Alvin Toffler: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

These are all links I think I might cover (and then some).

http://jadkins.tumblr.com - this site where I post interesting microblog topics.

http://mrjadkins.googlepages.com/ - My contact site that includes links to places I converse, music I enjoy, and books I have read.

http://kerrvilletechnology.pbwiki.com/ - Links to resources already established and used in classrooms across the world.

Cloud coverage: The cloud is the idea of moving applications and files from a hard drive to the world wide web.

http://delicious.com/engadkins - My bookmarks online

http://docs.google.com - My documents, spreadsheets, presentations online

http://me.com - My calendar, inbox, address book, etc. online via Apple

http://www.flickr.com/photos/techxas/ - My pictures online

http://www.slideshare.net/mrjadkins - My presentations online

and

http://www.voicethread.com - A view of an intern

The web in my pocket: Places I go to get information or have it sent to me.

http://www.pageflakes.com/joel.adkins/24260533 - My Pageflakes

http://www.twitter.com - Microblogging

These are conversation starters: Interesting videos sparking world-wide discussion.

TED Talks with Sir Ken Robinson

Did you Know? Karl Fisch’s interesting look at globalization

Do you believe in me? Dallas ISD’s 2008 Convocation Keynote address

The Machine is Us/ing Us - Creative look at how we are the machine

A Vision of Students Today - Discussion topic of kids in colleges