Wow! My wife Sharon and I made it to #iTunes’ NEW & NOTWORTHY K-12 podcasts! Join us at Teaching Bites Podcast, the unprofessional development resource where we share bite sized tips, ideas and news to take your teaching to the next level! – Here is the direct link to our podcast: https://itun.es/i6Bp9Vn woohoo! You can also …
We had our conputer lab transform into a new shared makerspace studio. Above is a video my colleague recorded. It shows our first group of students, our kindergarten boys, playing and learning about the Cubelet robots. As we were still waiting for our new furniture, we were able to get beach pillows for our students …
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Today, our students met NASA astronaut/scientist and a US Navy Seal, Captain Christopher Cassidy! So inspiring! he connected his use of science, robotics and coding in his very distinguished career. Check his official NASA bio. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/cassidy-cj.html
I found a great video to share with my 5th graders on online safety. I like to find different resources of digital citizenship and I do use a lot of Common Sense Media stuff, but its nice to vary it a little bit to get a wider perspective. Here is www.watchwellcast.com/ video on online safety. …
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The past three months, I’ve been using the sketchnotes method of taking notes. As you can see, it smartly involoves hand drawn pictures/icons with written text. This helps my brain with the listening, processing and visualizing the concepts being shared in live situations and audiobooks. Here, you will notice a lot of notes from professional …
Today, we will explore what this quote means: “With great power, comes great responsibility.” We will then create your own digital superhero and comic strip and see what your hero can do to help people to stay safe, be responsible and be respectful online. With great power, comes great responsibility – Created with Haiku Deck, …
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Students, Below you will find the directions on how to log in to Scratch and see the objectives for today.
Here are the challenges that I integrated from Scratch’s tutorials for my 3rd grade. The objective is to have my students learn the basic skills of coding towards their Birds animation project in November, just in time to share at Parent-Teacher conferences.
Dear Students, Our alumnus, D. R., made this tutorial for our 7th graders last year. Please watch the 1st video below:
