A Teacher’s Thoughts

Others have told me their students are completely dialed in to the new technologies that permeate our e-connected world. I don’t know, maybe it is our rural location and the percentage of students who still suffer the pains of dialup, or no service at all, but other than MySpace an occasional Facebook account, and a [...]

Wikis it Seems It seems this falls’ theme was the wiki. Starting with our team’s Amistad project, students and teachers alike began to discover how to leverage the features of a wiki to enhance, inspire, and document learning. While most students and teachers had used a wiki to retrieve information, only a couple of students [...]

Today was the final challenge in our Remotely Operated Vehicle Challenge. After about a week of planning and practice the groups from our two classes had their final challenge; navigate to a given location, put a cap on a jar. The simplified assignment from my previous post is: Working with another 8th grade science class [...]

Ok, so it was the end of February, but the new labs are finished (minus some small punch list items) and we have been fully using our new space. I certainly have more to add about the wonderful opportunities these labs will provide our middle school students, but for now take a look. The classroom [...]

When I wrote about what someone might see when walking through a technology integrated classroom, my goal was to provide a quick view for a group of administrators and school board members in my district. The list was clearly missing something. Jeff Utecht’s Post on evaluating technology use in the classroom goes this next step [...]