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Well, here it is mid-October all ready and I have not posted one thing since school began, September 2. The first thing I need to do is look back on how I did on meeting my professional and personal summer goals.
First the professional goals which were a part of Cliff Mims’ Meme; I completely met [...]
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Tomorrow is the first day of school for students and being in the lab it means it’s the first of 6 first days for me! Last year I know I was very inconsistent in what I told each class about rules/procedures and expectations for the coming year. So now as I begin year two I’m [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Well, I made it here on time, actually we landed 20 minutes early. After reading Tweets on Friday of delayed flights, missed connections, lost luggage and hotel rooms given away I was a little nervous but all went well for me. I’m glad I brought a surge protector bar to plug in my gadgets. There [...]
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This week I’m holding a mini lesson after school for the elementary teachers in my buildings. The focus is on sites they can use at home this summer with their own children/grandchildren. My hope is they’ll see the value of the sites and find ways to use them in their classroom next year. I’ve put [...]
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It’s hard to believe my first year as tech teacher is almost over! With the end of the year just around the corner, I think it’s time to reflect on the year.
Dissapointments
One of my goals was to get the classroom teachers into the lab more on the days I’m not there. That did not happen. [...]
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Like Sue Waters I’m trying to finish up my homework on the Comment Challenge at the last minute! I had a five day wekend last weekend and I really had planned on completing many of the tasks at that time. But we ended up having nice weather and I chose to spend much of my [...]
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