A Teacher’s Thoughts

I learned about Favikon at the SimpleBits blog. This was a fun little tool. Nothing really educational, but I made and uploaded three favicons in no time. The very favicon located in your address bar right now. I used this one for my class web site, Investigate, Collaborate, Learn I created this one for the [...]

This morning I wrote that I was off to the FIRST Lego League competition. Well I am home now and our team pulled off the Cinderella Story. After scoring a dishearteningly low second round, followed by just enough points to not be last in the final round, the kids took home the prize; first place [...]

I have been involved with a First Lego League team for the past two years now. We didn’t go to the competition last year, but today, we are going. This has been such a positive experience for each of the team members this year. I have seen a great deal of motivation come from these [...]

My students have not fully begun blogging yet, although they comment regularly on my science class blog, as well as two other class blogs. As we complete setting up student blogs and as students begin blogging on the ISS07 site I want to help them make the transition from commenting to posting. I created this [...]

Yesterday, Diane Hammond and Susan Stiff of the Yes-I-Can Science program came to my school to do some presentations and hands-on activities with our eighth graders. The experience was incredible for these students on a number of levels. The academics and learning about space science and exploration was fantastic. But hidden behind the entire event [...]