Because I said SO

What happens when you want to promote a student-made video for a contest, you get a notice that your account has been disabled. It has been frustrating, but I figure there is a reason from a higher power.
So what happened, you ask?
My students made a video for the NCCE conference (Northwest Council of Computer Educators) […]

My school is hosting a technology night for 4th, 5th, 6th grade students, parents, and any other community members. I have such wonderful colleagues and we are brainstorming ideas and topics to share. So far we have sketched an outline of what we plan to do for the night. We will be having it on […]

This morning was wonderful. A beautiful sunrise over the cool, crisp Northern Rockies. Deer wandering in the field across the street. My favorite coffee was brewing and I was eating delicious honey-nut oatmeal. I was excited for the day ahead. Ready to teach a lesson on compounds and mixtures and actually excited about it. Little […]

Last year I did a project (named after my Golden Retriever Dozer) where Dozer Jr. spent a day at each student’s house. The students filmed his experiences, as well as, wrote a diary excerpt. We posted our final work on the following site: http://sites.epals.com/bakkenblog/
The students had to learn the following to complete the project.

How to […]

“The Teaching Gap” by Dr. James Hiebert
This book discusses why Americans are far behind other countries. It also examines
the Japanese Lesson Study format.
It is a must read!

This is Gary Bauman, Ginny Poole, Dr. James Hiebert (author of “The Teaching Gap”),
and myself at the Math Colloquium at MSU-Bozeman.
For more information go to http://opi.mt.gov/