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The Joy of a Writing Group

Almost two weeks into my summer writing group, and I am seeing some differences in my motivation. Through the group, we set weekly writing goals and I am keeping up with them. If you get a chance to be in a writing group, I highly recommend it. Though these are strangers really, it is niceContinue reading “The Joy of a Writing Group”

Late Work and Grading

After my webinar last night (on Sophia.org, awesome resource by the way), I have decided to change my late work policy. I am going to accept work up until the end of the six weeks…no matter how late and in any form. I have to have some kind of deadline, because I have to putContinue reading “Late Work and Grading”

Genius Hour and we are off…

I am going to introduce Genius Hour to my high schoolers on Monday and Tuesday. I really like this presentation (Genius Hour Prezi) and I think I am inspired to make one of my own. But that means learning how to make a prezi…so we will see if I can figure it out in a fewContinue reading “Genius Hour and we are off…”

Critical Writing in the classroom

Today we had a half day of staff development today about Critical Writing in Content Classes. We were given five really great strategies to use in our classroom. And I’m pumped to try them out in my room. I know my kids can write but it is difficult to help them write and communicate effectively.Continue reading “Critical Writing in the classroom”

CAST

Hello, everyone! I am in Galveston for the Conference for the Andvancement of Science Teaching. I am enjoying the view of the Gulf and learning lots! The keynote speaker tonight was Mike Everhart, a paleontologist who served as science advisor to National Geographic for the IMAX movie Sea Monsters. It was very interesting to listenContinue reading “CAST”

Finished with Summer Institute

I am finished with the TRC Summer Institute and although I needed the weekend to catchup on my sleep…WOW! I learned so much! I am very excited to go and implement this knowledge into my classroom. The final day was the Biotechnology Conference at Collin College. It was quite interesting. I was able to listenContinue reading “Finished with Summer Institute”

Super Cool Websites

Today during the Collaborative we looked further into the technology that we started working with early last week. As I mentioned before, we were learning how to use Google Earth 5.0 (GE5) with our eTrex Venture HC GPS units to create the field trip videos. Today we discussed some other ways that Google Earth canContinue reading “Super Cool Websites”