These are blogs I've written about integrating technology into my Science classes.
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/
Mar 07
Our middle school is on Year 2 of our work with a WA STEM PD project. Here’s a video I put together to share the major highlights of our work with WA STEM: In the video I share some resources that we’ve been using for our PLC work. The WA STEM PD project was inspired …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/03/07/wa-stem-pd-work/
Feb 22
I’ve been fortunate to, after years of following people on Twitter who got to attend cool conferences and meet face-to-face with virtual friends, to have been able to go to the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) for the past two years at Seattle and Portland! So last spring, I took a risk. I was …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/02/22/presenting-at-ncce-2016/
Feb 15
As a WA STEM PD school on year 2 of our grant work, we get to use an IrisConnect LiveView camera. What we’ve learned from WA STEM research is that WA state teachers want effective Professional Development (PD) that includes observing models of instruction, having time to practice and reflect, get peer coaching, and receive …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/02/15/live-coaching-pd/
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