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About Adrienne Michetti

Adrienne Michetti is currently a full-time Masters student in NYU's Educational Communication and Technology program. Prior to that she taught at United Nations International School in Hanoi, Vietnam, an IB World School running all 3 Programs. Her experience has been mainly in MYP English A but has experience teaching many different disciplines and ages from K-12 in four different countries. She was also an MYP Workshop Leader for the Asia-Pacific Region and has been in international education since 2001 -- always MYP. She is passionate about learning, technology, music, writing, creativity, and her Mac. Adrienne blogs at connect. create. question. and Pockets of Change. If she's not Tweeting or blogging, you might find Adrienne doing updating her iTunes library, singing in her band, practicing yoga, or cooking up a storm at home with her cats.
Website: http://msmichetti.edublogs.org
Adrienne Michetti has written 4 articles so far, you can find them below.


Simple Sites

I’m a big fan of the KISS principle. Thus, my excitement to see that GoogleSites — already a simple way to create a website — now has templates. Could website creation GET any easier?? The vid below explains how to use them. Cross-posted at Pockets of Change.

Why Technology Isn’t Reforming Education — Yet

From Clark and Salomon (1986): General media comparisons and studies pertaining to their overall instructional impact have yielded little that warrants optimism. Even in the few cases where dramatic changes in achievement or ability were found to result from the introduction of a medium such as television, . . . it was not the medium [...]

Round Two and Version 4: Diigo

The first time ’round, I wasn’t convinced. I tried Diigo more than whole-heartedly, for an entire month. I felt very much like it was good, but not really good enough — poor interface (not intuitive), clunky on the Flash / Javascript it relied on, a toolbar that got in my way, etc. I just generally [...]

Easy Blogging 101

It’s not really new, per se, but it certainly fits under the heading of a simple tech tip: an ultra-lite blogging platform. What could be simpler than click-and-post? Yep, I am definitely talking about a small thing that can make a big difference. I’m referring to a new blogging sharing platform called Posterous. Yes, I [...]

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