Charles (Butch) Morrow

Over RSCD's winter break, I traveled to Austin, Texas to visit my father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew. While we were there, I went on several college visits with my youngest son, Declan. He is a Junior at Bishop Kearney High School here in Rochester, NY. He wants to get out of New York and go back to Texas to attend college.  I visited three campuses with him: Austin Community College, Texas State at Round Rock, and St. Edwards (Austin). I have included several of the pictures I took from our visits. This will be part of Declan's visual catalog of his college visits to help in his decision-making. This is an example of what a student could do with pictures as a reference to be able look back over the college visits. This pictures were taken on my Kyocera Android cell phone.  This is a picture of the main entrance to Austin Community College in Round Rock, Texas. This campus if 25 minutes from Austin. It is also located beside the campus o

I enjoyed reading about the various ways of using Emojis in the classroom. I experimented with developing my personal Emoji to my emails and added a few to my Smart Board page for my Resource classes. My plan is to add several more Emoji's to notes such as: This could be added to math notes at the point where some of my students need redirecting ( I wonder if I could add a sound file of cymbals that links to this pic?) I am thinking of adding this Emoji at the end of the classwork . Still thinking of a song to link to this. I will be suggesting to the teachers whose classes I push into to add these or one's of their own.

   I live in Rochester, New York.  (Not many Red Sox or Patriots fans here.)  Previous to Rochester, I have lived in New Hampshire, Texas, and Ohio.    I am a 7th grade Special Education teacher at an elementary school, K- 8.  I started teaching in the late 1970's (dating myself). As a Consult Teacher, I am privileged to work with several outstanding teachers in ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies at my school.    I earned my Masters degree in IT back in late 1990's when designing a webpage or using PowerPoint was a big deal. Through the years, I have found that technology and software are constantly changing and if you blink, you will be left behind. I have blinked too often and now I am trying to catch up, which is why I am doing Cool Tools .   

Greetings everyone out there in the education and sports world. This is my first attempt at blogging. Please be patient as I learn, experiment, and tweak my page.