Summer Learning

Here are some excerpts from a great book I’m reading; “Be patient with yourself…carefully plan your day…You have to be “on” for anything that comes your way. You have to work long hours, often feeling completely exhausted at the end of the day….You have to be extremely organized, and have lots of initiative and an [...]

NECC Information

Over on Plurk some of us have been posting our three goals for the day. It seems to help us keep focused. Well, today I just had one big job-go through all my notes, cards, handouts, etc. from NECC and post the links and information I had gathered. I decided to post everything over on [...]

Three Summer Goals NOT Related to School Work

After posting my three PD goals I decided it was important as well to post some goals unrelated to work-gasp! And they don’t include housework or weeding either.
1. Continue to play with the macro lens and find a blog or book about digital photography to learn more about the different settings.
2. Read the latest John [...]

PD Summer Goals Meme

Awhile back Andrea over at EdTech Workshop tagged me for the PD Meme started by Clif Mims. I knew it would be easy since I already had my summer goals written down. The hard part has just been remembering to post them and tag 8 more people. My summer has begun and I have a [...]

Answers to Twitter Questions

Recently, Lee over at Geeky Momma’s Blog posted these questions regarding Twitter. I figured it was easier to answer them here than as a reply. I was sitting right across the room from Lee during this discussion. Here are most of Lee’s questions and my answers plus one additional question.

How [...]

Passionate People Along Route 66

This post is going to be a little different today. As I read blogs I often read about educators that are passionate about what they do and I hear that we need to help children find what they are passionate about to write about in their blogs. Well, I just finished traveling Route 66 from [...]

NECC Goals Part II

Well, NECC has come and gone so it’s time to reflect on how well I did meeting my goals.

I’m hoping to connect with other elementary tech teachers. As I wondered through the poster sessions I chatted with many presenters and handed out my card to quite a few of them and invited them [...]