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John has been CIO/CTO at Seattle Public Schools, Oakland Unified School District, and Fremont Unified School District. . Previously, Mr. Krull was Vice President of Technology at the Charter Management Organization (CMO) Envision Schools that runs four high schools in the Bay Area. He prides himself that he has a strong technical background along with a deep understanding of the field of Education. He earned both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle. His earlier professional background includes: Autonomy, Sr. Director Application Services, IT, and Training; Microsoft Corporation, Systems Engineer Manager; Shoreline Schools, Teacher, Technology Coordinator; Seattle Pacific University, Adjunct Instructor.

CAT student blossoms with Speech to Text Software

A student at City Arts and Technology (CAT) was having trouble writing. She’d get blocked and was unable to get her thoughts down on the computer. However her verbal skills were very good. The LC team at CAT got a great idea. They got MacSpeech Dictate, with the world-renowned speech recognition engine, Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The …

CAT Teachers Using iMovie to the Max

Amy Wong’s and Stanley Richards’ Lower Division Science classes are using iMovie to make public service announcements (30 to 60 second movies) as part of a big project that will culminate as part of an exhibition at CAT on March 20th. Along with the movies the student groups are writing up answers to in-depth questions …

Impact Academy Launches Claymation Project

Matt Reichling, Tech Coordinator, and Daisy Cook. Spanish Teacher, are teaming up to enable Daisy’s students to create claymation projects that will be ready for their next exhibition. They will be using the iStopMotion software running on several Mac G5 towers that will be set up in Daisy’s room. Daisy and Matt kicked off the …

Metro starts Digital Music Club

Brian Tester, the Tech Coordinator at Metro, has started a Digital Music Club. He has transformed the once hodge-podge tech room into a studio able to handle about five club members at a time. As part of this new initiative Brian is teaming up with the multi-talented Kokou Katamani and has built out a high-end …

Using Google SketchUp to create model “Green” dwellings

Paul Ferraris, lower house Digital Media Teacher at CAT, is doing a cool project using Google SketchUp. As part of a larger project on “Going Green” Paul is having students design green homes using SketchUp. As you can see from the picture of Paul’s demonstration design, this program can do a lot. I’m looking forward …