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I’m Building a 3D Printer – Day 2
A few days ago I posted about being part of a class for teachers and educators where we build a 3D printer and learn to use it and the keep it to use with our students and teachers. Today we … Continue reading → Read More...
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Update: Rethinking School District Social Media Policies for Teachers / Students
One of the challenges of my job as STEM Learning facilitator for 6 counties, has been that some of those counties (school districts here are by county, so every county is it’s own school district) have very restrictive online access … Continue...
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High Hopes Project 1st Design Meeting
I posted this over on our “High Hopes Project” blog and decided it fit well here too: We refer to The High Hopes Project as a “model” STEM project. One aspect of that modeling is that we’ve designed it to … Continue...
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Take a Virtual Field Trip To the Deserts and Grasslands of Africa
I still work with too many teachers that are reluctant to jump into the online learning world with their students because they don’t know how, don’t know how to make connections with classrooms or experts, and other various reasons. So … Continue...
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Our First Blog Posts! (yeah!!!)
It’s been a long time coming, but my new class of 4th graders posted for the first time on their blogs today. Our new MacBooks are up and running, we’ve learned how to turn them on, find our class wiki page … and now how to post to our...
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Tue, Dec 15 2009 3:59 PM
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Reason #23 for being part of a PLN
Professional Learning Networks are all the rage with … um … people that are part of professional learning networks (PLN’s). Why? So Monday I’m attempting a “Pre - Skype” - Skype with Maryjo Chmielewski’s class...
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Thu, Nov 19 2009 9:00 PM
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Blessed, Motivated, Challenged
I’ve written several posts about the process of getting back to 1:1 after having to “retire” the 9 year old iBooks my class had been using. Very unexpectedly my school district decided to replace the ones that our new wireless system...
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Sat, Nov 21 2009 10:29 AM
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Repost: Can You Hear Me? … Can You Hear Me Now?
I was recently asked about this post from 2007 about our editing phones, and thought it was time to repost it now: Teaching my students to be CAREFUL proofreaders is always a struggle. Most of my students are second language learners so they already struggle...
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Sun, Nov 08 2009 4:02 PM
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Thanksgiving lesson ideas
I’m teaching 4th grade this year and so I can’t spend much time teaching about Thanksgiving. At least not as much as I did 2 years ago when I last taught 5th grade. 5th grade studies American history and so it is a natural year to teach the...
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Wed, Nov 18 2009 8:26 AM
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My Post On Huffington Post – NBC’s Education Nation and the ‘In-Depth Education Discussion’
I’m posting my Huffington Post blog here since they said I could! : ) As a teacher with 30 years experience teaching in both private and public schools I really want to commend NBC News, Brian Williams and all the … Continue reading →...
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Mon, Oct 04 2010 10:36 PM
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Race To The Top “Winners” (2nd round) Announced - So Why Do I Feel Like We All Lost?
So the RttT 2nd round “winners” were announced today and what bothered me about it the most I think, is that it shows that a very narrow-minded policy is going forward and the negative side of me sees only bad things for education. Not only because I...
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Playing With a New Theme
If you are a regular to this blog you will note some changes here. I have wanted to change the look and workings of this blog for quite awhile, but time and knowledge have always held me back. I am not a real techie type, I don’t know php programming...
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Fri, Jul 23 2010 11:35 PM
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Constructive Learning Is …
7 Years ago Doug Noon, an elementary teacher in Alaska, who some will remember for his fantastic blog “Borderland,” which unfortunately he decided to end awhile back, challenged his readers to write their own blog posts about what constructive...
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Thu, Oct 17 2013 8:52 PM
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HackEd ISTE 2013
Just spent the day at what used to be called EduBloggerCon (and a few other iterations over the years). As always great folks having conversations about where education could / should be going. Now I’m actually sitting in the … Continue...
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Sat, Jun 22 2013 3:20 PM
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Independence Day
It’s been a tough year or so under “new” administration, and short of actually revolting, a change needed to happen and so it has. I’ve taken a new position in my school district being the Gifted and Talented specialist at … Continue reading →...
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