I received David Wolber’s App Inventor Book and skimmed over it this weekend. It will be perfect to help me build the 2nd trimester of Introduction to Programming with Web Design. My idea is to have the programmers be the “app inventors” and the web designers create a class “marketplace” for the apps. We’ll see how … Continue reading
Yesterday, I talked with Jamie about iPads and what he learned at ISTE. He told me about Doceri. What is Doceri? (from their website) Doceri is a revolutionary iPad software suite for classrooms, conference rooms, and auditoriums – any place where you give presentations, teach, or collaborate. In a nutshell, Doceri is the ultimate tool … Continue reading
Summer Institute Flyer Day 1 The conference is being led by Heather Sondel, Assistant Principal of Thomas Jefferson. She talked a bit about TJ and STEM in general. She left us with the question of the day – “what is STEM, anyway?”. She then asked us to get in groups with other teachers from our … Continue reading
#edchat Topic: What does a flipped classroom look like? So this evening, I ACTIVELY participated in my first #edchat. It was quite an experience, to say the least! The chat flies by. People are tweeting left and right and it’s impossible to keep up with. But at the same time, it’s a LOT of fun. How … Continue reading
Resources to look through when I have time! The recording of last night’s ScratchEd webinar is now on #ScratchEd. Special thanks to our wonderful presenters! –scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/educ… New additions to “The Best Online Tools For Real-Time Collaboration” http://bit.ly/ddAACh #ictcurric ‘Learning to Scratch’ course for our Maths and ICT immersion day: http://www.nwvle.net/course/view.php?id=492 Excellent Teacher created Tutorial http://bit.ly/f66smz How to use DoInk Animation & … Continue reading
Highlights of what I learned from twitter today from those at ISTE: RT @brasst: Ipad Resources for Educators | @scoopit via @SFecich http://bit.ly/lZwzdt #bced #sd36learn #iste11 free webinars w/ @techmunoz @web20classroom @kylepace & others! –>http://goo.gl/ylW6q Gap Minder: http://www.gapminder.org/ face time at it’s finest! <==infographics ideas @eduz8 RT @teacherjenny6: Best tool for social bookmarking: 1. Diigo 2. Delicious 3. Google bookmarks 4. Facebook 5. iKeepBookmarks RT @dianewoodard: #iste11 Great Google resources http://j.mp/ikLcBh Woah- lots of cool … Continue reading
Summer Institute Flyer Day 1 The conference is being led by Heather Sondel, Assistant Principal of Thomas Jefferson. She talked a bit about TJ and STEM in general. She left us with the question of the day – “what is STEM, anyway?”. She then asked us to get in groups with other teachers from our … Continue reading
I played around with App Inventor in my programming class last year, but just as a trial. David Wolber made everything that I did possible! I would highly recommend checking out his site. I have purchased his book off of Amazon and can’t wait to get started with it. My plans with using App Inventor … Continue reading
The first step will be establishing some summer goals. I have many, but I think the list is doable. Prepare AP Computer Science Course to run as a Blended Course Begin creating and putting all AP Computer Science course material in a LMS Research and prepare virtual conferencing tools Develop new and exciting Introduction to … Continue reading
This blog will be a way for me to keep track of all the exciting things I learn this summer. It is meant to be a very informal way to track what I am thinking about on a regular basis and hopefully serve as a medium through which to share out with others and receive … Continue reading
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