So, the “Major Project” is completed. Students are currently doing the very last activity-writing a reflection blog post about what they learned – and I’ve read some very interesting thoughts on the matter. I gave them a list of questions as a guide as they write and the very last question was, “how can Mrs.…
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When I found this particular MOOC and considered joining it (knowing I was starting grad school and was about to begin the BIG class project about midway through it) I looked at it as an opportunity to connect what I was learning in grad school (I’m working on a Masters in Educational Technology) to what I want to do in my classroom.…
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Today is the last day of my annual spring break. It started anxiously, as I was scheduled for jury duty at my local courthouse. That, happily, fell through, so I spent the week pretending I wasn’t a teacher. Not as easy as that sounds, trust me.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In addition to this lovely professional reflection blog, I have a personal blog and a classroom blog. I actually haven’t time for any of them, but because all the noise in my head needs to be sorted and put somewhere, one of the three places works for me.…
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So, we’re at the point in our project where the design teams have made decisions about whose building the space rover, whose preparing the presentation and whose making sure everything gets done. I was sitting at my desk Thursday watching my classic introvert work feverishly at the computer on her Glogster.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So, yes, we’ve been blogging at Planet Science. Its been going well. I’ve kept it all relatively quiet as we’ve learned how to conduct ourselves online and how to present ourselves in a way that we won’t regret in the future.…
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I love using technology in my classroom. When I first considered using it, my thought was, oh the trees I would save because I wouldn’t have 7,000 worksheets/papers/notebooks, etc. to plow through. I can do quizzes and tests online and give alternate assessments that won’t require filling out pieces of paper. …
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My family thinks I’m insane. I can open a streaming movie on Netflix, get it going, then minimize the movie, then insist they all be quiet so I can”watch” my movie in peace. My principal thinks I’m not paying attention at staff meetings because I’m the one sitting in the back of the room, grading papers and/or leafing quietly through my Flipboard while she explains for the 7,000th time what needs to happen to improve grades. …
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So, I took this class on teacher leadership and have a colleague taking a similar course this month and we got to thinking; why isn’t there a professional learning community in this damned building? His focus is administration, mine is educational technology, we know what we need to have happen. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...My SILENT interpretation of some very powerful words…
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