These are blogs I've written about integrating technology into my Science classes.
Jan 18
I’ve been working on my school district’s tech committee since I started working at Chimacum in 1997. Our most recent district tech plan included a plan for moving our middle school to a 1:1 model. The plan required pretty substantial funding, the likes of a Tech Levy or a portion of a Capital Levy or …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/01/18/student-tech-support-edtech/
Jan 14
In my classroom students have iPads, Samsung Galaxy Tabs, Netbooks, Chromebooks, Laptops, or iMac desktop computers to choose from to do work that requires technology. Some of my devices are old enough that they are glitchy at best and downright frustrating to do anything other than surfing the net. We had some troubles when first …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/01/14/multiple-gafe-accounts-shared-devices/
Dec 09
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post reflecting on a wonderful STEM summit I attended on Dec 1st, the WA STEM Summit 2015. I was wondering which takeaway I wanted to share the most or what I was going to write about the takeaways. And I will, but this blog post is about the …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2015/12/09/working-in-isolation/
Nov 24
When I received a couple of Samsung Galaxy Tablets running the Android OS I created a teacher account to buy and download apps for the devices. I then added student user accounts so that kids would not have access to my account, especially my credit card. In order to do that I made the student …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2015/11/24/android-tablet-accessing-gafe-tools/
Nov 17
When I first got a bunch of iPads, the first generation ones, and kids started using them, it was great. I slowly but surely built up to a 1:1 and I’m used to it now. As the iPads have gotten older I’ve been slowly but surely working to replace them with technology that can meet …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2015/11/17/problems-with-tech-google-classroom-with-older-devices/
Oct 13
[A comment was left on this post wondering if asking Bluehost, where my webpages and WordPress database are housed, if they could solve the problem. So I submitted a help ticket. One of the Bluehost database support dug around for and found the problem! He said that he had to repair the .htaccess files. Doing …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2015/10/13/wordpress-troubles-again/
Apr 06
I wrote a post for the Learn 2 Earn blog called How to Use Discussion Forums to Engage Every Student and it’s live! I share some tools that I have used with my Science students in grades 6, 7 and 8 over the years. Having a discussion forum for a face-to-face classroom allows for a …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2015/04/06/discussion-forums-in-science/
Apr 06
I took my Twitter Wakelet notes from NCCE 2015 and put together all the notes from the 1:1 implementation sessions I attended. I attended as many of those sessions as I could to best help my building prepare for our 1:1 initiative for the 2016-17 school year. Next year, 2015-16, will be our planning year …
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Mar 23
This year I was tweeting so much of what I was learning at NCCE 2015 (#NCCE2015) that I just used Twitter as my note-taking format! Here are my tweets (I’ll be writing more about what I learned later):
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Jan 02
After writing about the 21st Century C’s I added the Caring C to the list of skills I had put together. I also found some other skills to add to it. It seems to me that Caring fits better with life skills than the four C’s. If we can help students practice the following skills …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2015/01/02/skills-learned-in-school/
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