Introduction to Richard Zukowski

Richard Zukowski is a Social Studies teacher at Grafton High School in Grafton, West Virginia.  He just finished his fourth year teaching World History, Media Productions, and AP American Government and Politics at GHS.  Prior to Grafton High School, he had taught West Virginia Studies at Taylor County Middle School and was a Special Education teacher at Taylor County Middle School and various elementary schools in Marion and Taylor counties.  He has also taught college level American History classes for Pierpont Community and Technical College as an adjunct professor.

Mr. Zukowski has Bachelor's and Master's degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.  He has endorsements in West Virginia in Social Studies (5-12), Specific Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, Mental Impairments, Autism, as well as Principal endorsement.

Mr. Zukowski has incorpated many web-based applications into his classroom at Grafton High School.  He has the belief that students are not expected to know every bit of material, but they need to know how to access information and utilize it to create a product.  The following chart is how technology should be utilized in our classroom and our world:

This is the foundation of this blog.  Mr. Zukowski is going to sample some web-based applications on this blog and explain how he used it in his classroom.  Viewers of this blog are welcome to take his ideas and use them in their own classrooms and feel free to make comments about each topic.

You can contact Mr. Zukowski by email  at rzukowsk@access.k12.wv.us, richzukowski@gmail.com, Google+, and Twitter @richzukowski.