You can also find more materials at http://lnstemac.knoxschools.org
Sunday, March 16, 2014
MACUL 2014 Presentation
My presentation slides from Macul 2014 is below….
You can also find more materials at http://lnstemac.knoxschools.org
You can also find more materials at http://lnstemac.knoxschools.org
Sunday, March 2, 2014
ICE, ICE, ICE......
Okay, okay, some of you were alive and well at the time of this wonderful song and appreciate the title. For the rest of you, let's just say it refers to the cold temps in Chicago last week at ICE 2014 (Illinois Computer Educators).
On the recommendation of several colleagues, I headed off to ICE 2014 in St. Charles, IL last week and I must say it was quite the enjoyable experience. It got off to a rocky start, when my all day workshop on STEM was cancelled for a lack of numbers but my travel details were already locked in, so off I went. The conference itself set a record for number of attendees, but the message and focus was clear: CONNECT AND LEARN!!
My 3 musings from ICE:
I met some great people in person after only twittering or face booking or gliding in some cases. A few weeks back, I did the Eduwin Weekly Podcast (linked here: http://edreach.us/podcast/eduwin-weekly-034-much-stem/) with @jmgubbins @michellerussell and @fernandezc4. They are excellent educators with passion and commitment to their craft. I connected with several DEN folks courtesy of @tchilders. I participated in an EdCamp for the first time..... amazing to openly talk and learn from others. Continued an amazing partnership with TechSmith and their great people (Camtasia, Coach's Eye and FUSE).
I did learn some cool things too.... 30 Hands App awesome, Excel workshop refreshed some skills and is changing my approach to data analytics, ePortfolios can never be started too soon (find a medium you are comfortable with and run with it --- your Students will be the winners) and Innovation/Inspiration/Passion require a disruption of your routine --- @gcouros keynote!!
The last musing is more of a challenging question to myself and most likely others: What is the value of constant growing and learning? Can you truly say that you are doing what is best for your students and their futures???
I will close with a similar closing to my FETC post, which ended with a comment on networking; ICE showed me the value of true networking, true connections to colleagues, true learning best practice from others to benefit your students.......
ICE was great, off to MACUL next week!!!!!
On the recommendation of several colleagues, I headed off to ICE 2014 in St. Charles, IL last week and I must say it was quite the enjoyable experience. It got off to a rocky start, when my all day workshop on STEM was cancelled for a lack of numbers but my travel details were already locked in, so off I went. The conference itself set a record for number of attendees, but the message and focus was clear: CONNECT AND LEARN!!
My 3 musings from ICE:
I met some great people in person after only twittering or face booking or gliding in some cases. A few weeks back, I did the Eduwin Weekly Podcast (linked here: http://edreach.us/podcast/eduwin-weekly-034-much-stem/) with @jmgubbins @michellerussell and @fernandezc4. They are excellent educators with passion and commitment to their craft. I connected with several DEN folks courtesy of @tchilders. I participated in an EdCamp for the first time..... amazing to openly talk and learn from others. Continued an amazing partnership with TechSmith and their great people (Camtasia, Coach's Eye and FUSE).
I did learn some cool things too.... 30 Hands App awesome, Excel workshop refreshed some skills and is changing my approach to data analytics, ePortfolios can never be started too soon (find a medium you are comfortable with and run with it --- your Students will be the winners) and Innovation/Inspiration/Passion require a disruption of your routine --- @gcouros keynote!!
The last musing is more of a challenging question to myself and most likely others: What is the value of constant growing and learning? Can you truly say that you are doing what is best for your students and their futures???
I will close with a similar closing to my FETC post, which ended with a comment on networking; ICE showed me the value of true networking, true connections to colleagues, true learning best practice from others to benefit your students.......
ICE was great, off to MACUL next week!!!!!
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