Beware the Ides of March… What is an Ides?

Do you know what an Ides is? In the ancient Roman calendar supposedly developed by Romulus the Ides is the 15th of March, July and October and the 13th day of every other month. While the phrase Ides of March became synonymous with doom thanks to William Shakespeare, it originally was a simple feature of the Roman calendar. Check out a picture of the Roman calendar here.

Speaking of Shakespeare… did you know you can access the full text of all his plays, including Julius Caesar online? The good folks at MIT have archived them here.

Newsletters for your classrooms

I have run across a very simple web site for making attractive newsletters. Letterpop is a free website that provides you with several high quality graphic templates and allows you to fill in the content. It is easy to do and produces an attractive product. You could easily use this to make classroom newsletters or have students create a newsletter about their family or some other topic.

This is what is great about the new world wide web (Web 2.0), it allows you to easily create products. Before we could only read knowledge from the web, now we are able to create and present.

An introduction is in order

Hello.

My name is Eric Bouvier and on January 22, 2007 I became the Director of Technology and Curriculum for the Auburn Public School District.

For the past eleven years I have served as the Director of Technology for the Sutton Public School District, in Sutton, Massachusetts. During my time there we experienced the technology explosion in education. Pockets of technology use expanded into district wide use with computers in every classroom and office. The network became an indispensable resource for not only our administration, but for all staff and students. E-mail revolutionized communication both internally and externally. The Internet arrived and changed the way we find and process knowledge forever. All these “events” have offered us a window for change in education, a chance to grow beyond our school walls and expand educational opportunities for our students.

While I enjoyed my time in Sutton I am very excited to be part of Auburn. I believe that this is very exciting time for educational technology. The web is changing from a read only resource to an application that offers exiting new ways to create, publish and collaborate. I welcome the opportunity to help Auburn effectively and efficiently integrate these new technologies.

This blog will be my attempt to increase communication with the community and keep you up date not only with what is going on inside the school, but also with other technology news as well.

Thanks

Hello world!

Welcome to the Auburn Public Schools in Auburn, Massachusetts.