Just a few thoughts about GTA…
What happens when you invite the latest and greatest educators to Google Teacher Academy in Mountain View? You become a family. The GTAMTV14 cohort is an amazing, talented, and inspirational group of teachers, administrators, coaches, and other educational professionals who were chosen to become Google Certified Teachers. Many of us met on July 29th at […]
MERIT is…
life-changing, inspiring, amazing, awesome… I could go on forever. Making Education Relevant and Interactive through Technology (MERIT) is an educator professional development program at Foothill College’s Krause Center for Innovation. It is a year-long program in creating fun, engaging, learning-filled, student-centered environments in classrooms around the world. While most of the teachers accepted into MERIT […]
Revolutionary War (EXPLORE)
Today, I told fifth graders in my tech class that their homeroom teacher (Ms. Flynn) decided she wanted to be greedy. Normally very kind and happy, Ms. Flynn had changed overnight into a mean, grumpy tyrant. She was going to start taking Flynn Bucks (her positive reward system) away from the students. She was going […]
50 Things I’ve Learned about Teaching
I have been working in education for the past eight years, and I look back and see how I’ve developed my own (very strong) beliefs about teaching and learning. Many of these have been inspired by things I’ve learned through ed-tech conferences, teaching my own classes, reading, and being surrounded by great teachers on Twitter. […]
A Good Day
Today was a good day. I started teaching at 8:00am, and I saw half of the 5th grade class for 50 minutes. Today, we created Glogster posters. The students had to become residents of the original thirteen colonies and convince others not to follow or participate in the Stamp Act of 1765. My requirements were […]
My First EdCamp
My very good friend Shyra and I decided we’d trek ourselves down to CSUFresno to attend our first EdCamp. EdCampCV was headed by Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler) on February 25, 2012. For those of you who don’t know what EdCamp is, there’s a great video on the EdCampCV website that explains it. EdCamp is not your […]
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