{"id":237,"date":"2009-02-16T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=237"},"modified":"2010-04-14T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T06:52:46","slug":"tech-tips-from-a-catholic-technology-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/tech-tips-from-a-catholic-technology-expert","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tips from a Catholic Technology Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-238\" title=\"Colette Cassinelli\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cassinelli-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Colette Cassinelli\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cassinelli-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cassinelli.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colette Cassinelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we prepare students to be people of faith in the 21st century, we need to be more and more familiar and comfortable with new technology tools.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m always on the lookout for useful technology tips, and Colette Cassinelli&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechvision.org\/\">edtech Vision<\/a> has plenty of great suggestions and tricks for using technology in the classroom.\u00a0 Colette is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/educators\/gtc.html\">Google Certified Teacher<\/a> and works at a Catholic high school in Oregon.\u00a0 She describes herself as a &#8220;technology evangelist,&#8221; and blogs regularly about teaching with technology.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechvision.org\/\">edtech VISION<\/a> and learn <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechvision.org\/?p=537\">how to subscribe to RSS feeds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechvision.org\/?p=495\">why G-Mail is Colette&#8217;s choice for reading email<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechvision.org\/?p=483\">how to be a highly connected person<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Colette is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicteachers.ning.com\/\">Catholic School Teachers Network<\/a> and will be presenting &#8220;Google Tools for Catholic Schools&#8221; at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncea.org\/events\/NCEAConventionCentral.asp\">NCEA convention<\/a> in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we prepare students to be people of faith in the 21st century, we need to be more and more familiar and comfortable with new technology tools.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m always on the lookout for useful technology tips, and Colette Cassinelli&#8217;s edtech Vision has plenty of great suggestions and tricks for using technology in the classroom.\u00a0 Colette &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/tech-tips-from-a-catholic-technology-expert\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tech Tips from a Catholic Technology Expert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[45,159],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-blogs","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-3P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1446,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/blogs-by-catholic-teachers-principals-and-catechists","url_meta":{"origin":237,"position":0},"title":"Blogs by Catholic Teachers, Principals and Catechists","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"August 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The good news is that there are Catholic teachers, administrators and catechists who are willing to share their wisdom, knowledge and experience with anyone willing to follow their blogs. 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