These are blogs I've written about integrating technology into my Science classes.
Jan 11
I just found out about an update to Google Classroom from THE Journal that allows teachers flexibility in pushing out assignments to students! So now when I add an assignment, question, or post I can send it to the entire class OR I can select individual students, or a single student, to send it to! …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2017/01/11/differentiating-with-google-classroom/
Dec 01
This post was originally published at the CORELaborate blog here. Do you correct student papers and give students feedback? Do you use rubrics to score their work and provide feedback? Have you tried Doctopus and Goobric? Those two tools together are awesome! Make sure you have Doctopus and Goobric installed: Here’s how they all work: …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/12/01/doctopus-goobric-sweet-combo/
Nov 30
Had a great day at the 2016 WA STEM Summit in Redmond, WA, at the Microsoft Conference Center! I put together my Tweets from the day along with a small assortment of the many Tweets that flowed! We started the day with an amazing breakfast and some great speakers (Tweets from the morning are at …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/11/30/wa-stem-summit-2016-wastemsummit/
Jul 07
Chimacum, WA is home to a lovely lake that for a few months of the year, late spring and early summer, becomes toxic, deadly toxic! Some of my 6th graders researched our deadly lake and wrote about it. Here’s a great blog post written by one 6th grader about our deadly lake!
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/07/07/6th-grader-writes-about-our-own-deadly-lake/
Jul 06
This 6th grader wrote a nice piece for a water pollution Public Service Announcement (PSA) activity we did in class. Check out her blog post and see what you think!
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/07/06/6th-grade-ocean-pollution-public-service-announcement/
Jul 05
Here’s another of my 6th grade blog posts. This one on the topic of social media and cyberbullying. Check it out and see what this student has to say!
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/07/05/social-media-and-cyberbullying-6th-grade-post/
Jul 04
Yes, I admit it, I don’t teach digital citizenship. Well, not directly anyway. I do not teach direct digital citizenship lessons, I just haven’t had the need. I’ve looked into resources such as Common Sense Media and they have some great lessons. I’ve even set them aside and planned to use them. I just never …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/07/04/i-dont-teach-digital-citizenship/
Jun 06
I’m re-publishing this post here because I have some of my best grant examples for people to see linked below. And go here to see my advice on Getting Even More Money. I have learned the benefits of grant writing. In my 31 year career, I have gotten grants for 26 of those 31 years. …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/06/06/sample-grant-proposals-reboot/
May 23
Two weeks ago I wrote about a failed grant opportunity. I had written and submitted a proposal to CenturyLink for their CenturyLink Teachers and Technology program back in January. We were supposed to find out if we got the grant by April. When April came and was quickly becoming May I started to panic. Was …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/05/23/perseverance-and-obsession/
Mar 28
Back in 1998 my school put the first model of iMac in my classroom, the Bondi iMac pictured on the left. I rotated groups of students through the Bondi iMac as they created websites using HTML as part of the projects they were working on at the time. We’ve come a long way since the …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/03/28/older-imacs/
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