| Date |
Event
(event underlined is hyperlink to pics or info) |
| 9/14/08 |
Mr.
Cooley ran the 2008 Erie Marathon on Sunday, Sept. 14th. His goal
was 3 hours and 30 minutes. After 18 miles, he was on pace!
At mile 18, he was struck with the worst leg cramp pain he had ever
experienced, and his pace went from 8:00/mile to 11:00/mile! The
loss of 3 minutes per mile over the last 8 miles added 24 minutes to his
race, and he finished the race in 3 hours 55 minutes. He finished
in 101st place out of 409 runners (top 25%) and 15th out of 47 runners
(top 33%) in his age class. He was so dehydrated due to the
temperature of the race of over 80 degrees and extreme humidity, that he
ended up at the emergency room Sunday evening requiring 2 packages of IV
fluid.
|
| 5/19/08 |
Mr.
Cooley successfully runs his first marathon at the 2008 Cleveland
Marathon in a time of 3 hours 57 minutes. He learned many things
during this race that he hopes to apply to his next marathon in
September of 2008 at the Erie Marathon. Mr. Cooley is training to
run that race in a time of 3 hours and thirty minutes.
|
| 2/12/08 |
Mr.
Cooley's goal of producing vodcasts of all daily lessons and creating a
mini-lesson library are so successful that he applies to present Vodcasting
101 at the prestigious Pennsylvania Educational Technology
Expo and Conference (called the Pete & C). His application is
accepted, he receives high marks from his peers for this presentation
that can be viewed at Tech Conference Center.
|
| 11/25/07 |
The
students of the Castle house participated in the 4th Annual
Thanksgiving Food Drive. The students and families brought in 29 turkeys and over
650 pounds of food. The Westmoreland County Food
Bank was truly thankful to help families provide a nice Thanksgiving dinner.
|
| 8/28/07 |
Mr.
Cooley received a free gift of 32 handheld Classroom Participation
System (CPS) devices from eInstruction valued at around $2,600.
eInstruction generously provided the handheld devices after Mr. Cooley
emailed the president of the company, Dr. Ward, and explained why he
felt he needed the CPS hardware in his classroom. Mr. Cooley and
his students are excited to use this technology to assess the students
abilities or interests with activities from polling the students on if
they liked an activity to testing the students on various concepts
allowing the handheld devices to record and grade the student's answers
to the exam and place the graded information into an electronic grade book.
|
| 8/26/07 |
After
four wonderful years as a member of the 7th grade T-Rex house, Mr.
Cooley moves to the 7th grade Castle house which provides him with a
much larger room to employ all his technology gadgets. He will
miss his T-Rex partners, but the ladies teachers of the Castle house
will make him feel at home in no time.
|
| 7/19/07 |
Mr.
Cooley returns from the Keystone summit with new tools and tricks that
will amaze his students. He hopes to create vodcasts (video
podcasts) within the first few weeks of school, and for the first time,
students will make vodcasts as well! In addition, Mr. Cooley hopes
his students who are absent will be able to call into Mr. Cooley's room
and view the current lesson from the computer monitor at
home.
|
| 5/4/07 |
Mr.
Cooley is awarded the state level award for the Keystones:
Technology Integrator. Mr. Cooley is one of one-hundred
state-award winning teachers out of the 800+ teachers that were
nominated for Keystones that will now attend the Keystone Summit from
July 15-19 to learn the latest technology trends of the classroom.
He hopes to use these techniques to find a new challenge for him next
school year, such as using Streaming Video to create a visual component
to his audio podcasts.
|
| 3/26/07 |
Mr.
Cooley's presentation of "Spec-tech-ular Interactive
Mathematics" receives high marks. This presentation that can
be viewed at Tech Conference Center. Many participants rate the presentation as one of
the best of the day. A few days after the conference, a prominent
member of the Pittsburgh Technology Council contacted Franklin Regional
administration and spoke well of Mr. Cooley & his presentation and
Franklin Regional School District.
|
| 2/28/07 |
Dr.
D'Arcangelo recognizes Mr. Cooley as one of the 2 Keystone:
Technology Integrators of the district. This award allowed Mr.
Cooley to submit a portfolio to the state of his technological infused
teaching techniques and gadgets he uses to help his students
mathematical proficient.
|
| 2/15/07 |
The
Teachers Teaching
Teachers Conference accepts Mr. Cooley's bid to present his
technology presentation entitled, "Spec-tech-ular Interactive
Mathematics". The presentation will highlight podcasting, interactive
whiteboards, and interactive hand-held devices.
|
| 1/17/07 |
Mr.
Kelly, FRMS principal, nominates Mr. Cooley to present at the 2007
Teachers Teaching Teachers Conference; this conference
showcases many of the technology-infused classroom practices conducted
round the city of Pittsburgh
|
| 1/12/07 |
Mr.
Kelly, FRMS principal, nominates Mr. Cooley as a Pennsylvania Keystone:
Technology Integrator. This award is given to teachers who
incorporate technology into the classroom instruction to enhance
students' mastery of the concepts
|
| 11/24/06 |
The
students of the T-Rex house participated in the T-Rex 3rd Annual
Thanksgiving Food Drive. The students and families brought in 24 turkeys and over
750 pounds of food. The Westmoreland County Food
Bank was truly thankful to help families provide a nice Thanksgiving dinner
|
| 11/15/06 |
Mr.
Cooley creates his first podcast for his students and their parents to
review to help heighten their mathematics abilities
|
| 11/08/06 |
Mr.
Cooley attends the Three
Rivers Technology Conference and learns the skills necessary to
podcast his classroom lectures
|
| 1/21/06 |
Westmoreland Co. Food Bank published
our totals of the 2nd annual T-Rex
Thanksgiving Food Drive
|
| 11/22/05 |
The
students of the T-Rex house participated in the T-Rex 2nd Annual
Thanksgiving Food Drive. The students and families brought in 19
turkeys and over 910 pounds of food. The Westmoreland County Food
Bank was amazed at the quantity of food!!! Great job!!
|
| 9/16/05 |
The
students of the T-Rex House participated a contest to raise the most
money and goods for the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
|
| 1/20/05 |
Westmoreland Co. Food Bank published an article about the T-Rex
Thanksgiving Food Drive |
| 11/20/04 |
Mr.
Cooley was nominated by his T-Rex House members for Carnegie Science
Center's (CSS) Teacher Excellence Awards in the area of
technology. |
| 11/20/04 |
The
1st Annual Thanksgiving
Food Drive raised 14 turkeys and over 300 cans and boxes of food!
(Check out the pictures) |
| 9/1/04 |
Mr.
Cooley received a $2,000 grant for improved technology in his classroom.
(Check out the letters of congrats from Sen. Rick Santorum & Gov. Ed
Rendell) |
