A Teacher’s Thoughts

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 [...]

There seems to be an undercurrent buzz of “So what” coursing around the edublogosphere lately. Perhaps it is the continued tiresome rush of new tools flooding the web and our desire to play with them. There is nothing wrong with playing with these new tools. Are we not modeling curiosity, exploration and learning in doing [...]

Digesting a conference has always been a process that involves time for me. This may take a little longer. I attended Wikis Across the Curriculum presented by the cool cat teacher over in Augusta, Maine. We created a wiki as part of the conference while the whole event was streamed live on ustream. Here are [...]

Ok, so its not Shanghai, but none the less, getting a bunch of tech minded folk together for a couple days of sharing, collaboration, and learning is a good thing. The Association of Computer Technology Educators of Maine are sponsoring Learning in a 2.0 World, to be held the end of next week in Augusta [...]