Hello - Retired Educator; Now Photographer
Sep 1, 2020 15:04:59 #
Formerly a Math teacher, in 1990 I became the first Technology Integration Teacher in New York State. For the next seventeen years I taught teachers how to incorporate technology into their instructional strategies and students how to use technology as a tool to learn and publish their accomplishments.
Photography is a natural motivator for kids. My students and I used some of the very early digital cameras and enjoyed the evolution of them as they captured images of people, bugs, architecture, science experiments, and much more. I was fascinated with how even reluctant students would write volumes about the images they captured as if they were compelled to explain what this little slice of time meant to them.
I retired in 2006 and decided to take my own interest in photography to the next level and I've been learning and practicing ever since. I enjoy photographing everything, always looking for that image that clearly defines a person, a place, or a thing. Often it’s just capturing an image that describes an ordinary thing in an extraordinary manner.
I have been a Partner at Image City Photography Gallery on University Ave., Rochester, NY, for the past 12 years and I enjoy making mostly architectural images, but occasionally strays into some street work and portraiture.
Photography is a natural motivator for kids. My students and I used some of the very early digital cameras and enjoyed the evolution of them as they captured images of people, bugs, architecture, science experiments, and much more. I was fascinated with how even reluctant students would write volumes about the images they captured as if they were compelled to explain what this little slice of time meant to them.
I retired in 2006 and decided to take my own interest in photography to the next level and I've been learning and practicing ever since. I enjoy photographing everything, always looking for that image that clearly defines a person, a place, or a thing. Often it’s just capturing an image that describes an ordinary thing in an extraordinary manner.
I have been a Partner at Image City Photography Gallery on University Ave., Rochester, NY, for the past 12 years and I enjoy making mostly architectural images, but occasionally strays into some street work and portraiture.
Sep 1, 2020 15:17:42 #
Rochester, the home of the yellow god, no less. Architectural photography is a branch in itself. I have done some professionally and it's quite a discipline.
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donmenges wrote:
Formerly a Math teacher, in 1990 I became the firs... (show quote)
Welcome aboard. Have fun. Look forward to seeing your images.
Sep 1, 2020 16:24:28 #
donmenges wrote:
Formerly a Math teacher, in 1990 I became the firs... (show quote)
Welcome to the Hog.
At first your title turned me off - I am a retired "Classroom Teacher" - to me (Los Angeles Unified School District) "Educator" was usually used by a paper shuffling office critter, not a "Teacher".
I took a class similar to what you describe taught by a Professor of Geography (and former department chair at the university). It was actually aimed at teachers who wanted to produce their own multi-media materials for use in the classroom and covered everything from making posters to overhead projectors and power point etc. It was a few years before the time frame of your account, I taught from 73/74 until June 2007.
Then my last 13 years I was at a very large high school in East Los Angeles* that was in the federal "Digital High School" program. Computers in every classroom, multiple computer labs - mostly PC, but one Mac - 2 or 3 roll around racks with 30 laptops that could be taken to classrooms. Nearly 200 laptops available for staff to check out like library books. Every student had an account on the school district system and a Wifi on steroids (3 mile range) mounted on the main building so students could access the system from home and repeaters all over the campus inside buildings so classrooms could better access the wifi in spite of the older buildings being rebar reinforced concrete with brick facings. (Earth Quake "Proof" supposedly) They put in fiber optic to the whole campus so the wifi was just for the laptops etc. and only about a month after they finished they started a redo with over twice the bandwidth because by that time the campus was up to over 500 computers in classrooms, offices and labs. They probably had to upgrade it again because less than two years after I retired they issued tablets to all the students. Over 4000 on three year round tracks at the time, then they built a new high school in East LA and the school went down to "only" 2500+.
*James A. Garfield High - actually had a movie made about a teacher and his AP Calculus students turning conventional wisdom about kids in East Los on its head. That would be Jaime Escalante - "Stand and Deliver". The students used to brag to other schools about "Our School Has Its Own Movie".
Sep 1, 2020 16:43:27 #
Thanks Robert! Teacher/Educator... A rose by any name..... You'll notice that my "bio" begins with Math Teacher. Actually I started before you; 1970 - 2006. 1990 was when I started the Tech gig.
Sep 1, 2020 16:49:55 #
donmenges wrote:
Thanks Robert! Teacher/Educator... A rose by any name..... You'll notice that my "bio" begins with Math Teacher. Actually I started before you; 1970 - 2006. 1990 was when I started the Tech gig.
OK
I got a late start due to a 3 year break between my 2nd year of college and my third to travel with my Uncle Sam 66-69.
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Isn't a principal an educator also?
A teacher is an educator who teaches?
A teacher is an educator who teaches?
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