Week 6 – April 27 to May 1:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Week 5 Recap: Every week I hope to reach more kids than the previous week. Just like Week 4, between Zoom meetings, posting stuff for students, responding to student questions, checking student …
Category: Tech Integration
These are blogs I've written about integrating technology into my Science classes.
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Apr 20
5th Week of School Closure
Week 5 – April 20 to 24:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Recap of Week 4: Monday the 13th was business as usual, which means Bloomz Post for parents for the week at about 9 am, a random event for each of the three classes …
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Apr 14
4th Week of School Closure
Week 4 – April 13 to April 17 (back from spring break!):School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Starting the 4th week of our school being closed, really my 3rd week teaching online, I had to extend the deadline for the Hydro Dynamics Project that we …
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Apr 14
3rd Week of School Closure
Week 3 – March 30 to April 3 (and spring break, April 6 to April 10) School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Chimacum is a small, rural town in Washington state. As rural towns go, it’s small and the nice thing is that it’s close …
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Apr 14
2nd Week of School Closure
Week 2 – March 23 to 27:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 My students’ 2nd week of being out of school was really my first because the week prior was spent working with my district admin and with my fellow teachers helping us all get …
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Apr 14
1st Week of School Closure
Week 1 – March 17 to March 20 (because Monday, March 16, was a student day and most of our students showed up).School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 March 16 was our last day with students. I have to say I panicked. I focused on …
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Mar 15
School Closure Planning
Updated 3/15/20 at 3:15 pm PDTSchool Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 My school district was being proactive. Seeing how the spread of COVID-19 was causing many schools around us to shut down, we started to meet to discuss what we would do in the case …
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Feb 21
Broadcasting Esports Games
I was able to start a Minecraft Esports Club for my 6th graders even though I know nothing about what I’m doing and I’m learning as I go along and I’m learning by trying and failing. Why would I also try live streaming when I don’t know anything about that, either? To offer students the …
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Mar 04
This Year’s NCCE #NCCE19
I Tweeted out the sessions and workshops I attended at this year’s NCCE Conference so I could keep track of all I did so I put them together into a Wakelet. Here’s what I went to (the Keynotes were both amazing even though I shared a lot of pics from the 1st Keynote):
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Apr 07
Engineering with Sphero and Knex
Curriculum is a great guide. I’ve taught for years with no curriculum and all that freedom is a bit much and comes at a cost. When I’m designing all the curriculum I teach it takes a lot of time, especially since I have to make sure it fits within the scope and sequence of my …
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