As Technology Director
ADMINISTRATOR OF BLACKBAUD EDUCATION EDGE
- Setting up NetClassroom (Blackbaud’s portal for students and parents) so students can make course requests.
- Creating classes and enrolling groups of students into these classes.
- Inputting school timetables manually.
- Setting up FAWeb (Blackbaud’s portal for faculty) so teachers can record grades and attendance for classes.
- Managing processes for creating report cards.
- Redesigning report cards and transcripts.
- Creating transcripts.
- Running GPA calculations.
- Creating queries and data exports.
- Writing how-to user guides.
WEBMASTER OF SILVERPOINT/FINALSITE WEBSITE
- Redesigning and reimplementing pages and faculty, parent, student and alumni portals.
- Designing and implementing new pages.
- Managing an interface redesign project.
- Importing student and teacher accounts into a backend.
- Writing how-to user guides.
ADMINISTRATOR OF GOOGLE APPS
- Creating Google accounts for students and teachers.
- Writing how-to user guides.
ADMINISTRATOR OF MOODLE
- Importing student and teacher accounts.
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
- Writing and maintaining policies and agreements for students in elementary, middle and high school on:
- Google Apps
- Computer games
- A bring your own technology (BYOT) program
- A one-to-one iPad program
- Creating surveys on the above to gather information and measure progress.
- Coordinating a technology team comprising of a systems administrator, systems technician and technology teachers.
- Detailing and managing technology budgets.
- Coordinating a migration from Rubicon Atlas to Google Docs for curriculum management.
- Coordinating a migration from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps.
- Managing a middle school one-to-one iPad program.
- Managing a project to locate, evaluate and eventually install a system that supports asset, alumni and human resource information management (this project is ongoing).
- Coordinating the setting up of Edublogs for digital portfolios (this project is ongoing).
- Managing school social media accounts, including Flickr, Vimeo, Facebook and Twitter.
- Working with administrators, teachers, staff and parents to implement and evaluate technological programs/initiatives and systems.
- Evaluating various models of laptops, tablets, cameras, projectors and printers, and various types of software.
- Troubleshooting technological problems of teachers, staff and students; both hardware and software.
- Meeting with vendors and negotiating pricing.
- Managing parent-teacher conference sign-up forms via Google Apps.
- Overseeing the installation of technological equipment.
- Designing infographics, logos and other work.
As Computer Science Educator
- Teaching the IB Computer Science and IB Information Technology in a Global Society courses.
- Teaching the IGCSE Information and Communication Technology course.
- Teaching introductory computer science and digital citizenship to middle school students.
- Teaching mathematics to middle school students.
- Teaching technology to elementary students.
- Heading a technology department.
- Supervising computer science-based IB Extended Essays.
- Redesigning a middle school technology course to focus on digital citizenship.
- Setting up a website for student-made mathematics video tutorials.
- Setting up a website for IB Computer Science.
- Integrating the Java-based Greenfoot and BlueJ development environments into computer science courses.
As Technology Coach
- Giving workshops on:
- WordPress and Google Drive, Docs and Calendar for setting up class websites.
- Twitter for professional development and collective notetaking.
- Google Docs for unit planning and organisation.
As Robotics Coach
- Coaching robotics to elementary, middle and high school students using the Lego Mindstorms and VEX systems.
- Planning robotics tournaments.
As Yearbook Coordinator
- Forming yearbook teams/clubs.
- Coaching Jostens’ Yearbook Avenue software to students and teachers.
- Coordinating yearbooks to a successful completion.