Thursday, August 17, 2017

New Year, New Classroom

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Wow! Where did the summer go?? I feel like with my Grad School classes I barely had a break, now  I have two rooms to get ready, with stud...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Blended Learning

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Today I am going to talk a little about blended learning. I know I have touched on this subject in some of my other blog posts. A good...
Monday, May 1, 2017

What I've Learned from #ITA575

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To sum up my experiences from my Instructional Technologies Application class, I decided to make a video blog post. I used Windows M...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Assessments in the STEAM Classroom

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Assessments, a term that I used to dread, especially when I would hear it as a student. As I have gained more information about assessmen...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

How I Started Running My T.A.B. Classroom

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This week in S.T.E.A.M. I started taking the plunge into a choice-based classroom which helps Teach for Artistic Behaviors (T.A.B.)....
Friday, April 21, 2017

Cool Tool #5: Pixlr

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Today I am going to review one of my favorite free photo editors, Pixlr. I have been using Pixlr on my phone for years. It has been my go-...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Let's Talk About Learning Spaces

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If you haven't realized it yet, I love to try new things in my instruction and have a very unorthodox classroom. With that being sai...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

The TAB Transformation: A Long Work in Progress.

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Transforming my room into a TAB classroom has been a lot of work. I am very grateful that I have had a couple diligent 5th graders who...

Cool Tool #4: Seesaw

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The cool tool I chose this week is Seesaw . I started Seesaw with the thought that it was an eBook creator for elementary students. Wha...
Friday, March 31, 2017

TAB Classroom Progress

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This week all of my free time has been spent on creating posters for my different centers, along with doing research. Here is a picture of t...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Let's Talk About Ebooks

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What do you think when you hear the word "ebook"? Before class last week, I thought of ebooks as an alternate to paper textbo...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Turning My STEAM Classroom into a TAB Classroom: An Online Journey

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Hello and welcome to my TAB classroom journey. The next couple of weeks you will get to experience my classroom's transformation. I will...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

What Do You Know About Copyright and Creative Commons?

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If you use anything from lessons, to books, to worksheets for your classroom, you have probably heard the word "copyright"....

Cool Tool #3: Nearpod

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 This week I am going to review another cool tool. I chose a tool that makes presenting a lesson to students on their own devices, easy....
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Digital Citizenship (Part 1):What's that?

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Growing up in the 90's citizenship was a subject that was taught in school. It still is but has evolved from strictly being the pro...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Cool Tool #2: Venngage

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It's that time to review another cool tool! This time I have gone the infographic route and have used my fifth grade students as reso...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

TPACK Attack!

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Before sitting in class last week, I had no idea what the acronym "TPACK" meant. After learning that it stood for " Technolo...