Ned’s Keeper

After posting yesterday, I continued to look around on TED Talks and I came across another extremely interesting video about someone trying to save my dear darling Ned and his family. I felt like I was meeting Ned’s other keeper! It was an incredible story of passion and innovation in the spirit of conservation! Better [...]

I just spent a few minutes watching a re-watching the latest TED Talks video. I find the topic incredibly relevant since that is the topic of next years Green 180 project… “Trees.” Kamal Meattle is talking more about the short statured ones ie. plants, that we should grow indoors to create more oxygen. I started [...]

So my beautiful niece, Justice, spent time researching and creating this 3 minute video explaining the phrase “Justice for All.” She is competing in a contest and needs as many people as possible to view her video. Being the teacher, I would also appreciate you leaving any comments of encouragement as well. She is a smart [...]

I just can’t get this Discovery Student Adventures out of my head… Aaaaah! So, I did a search this morning on it to get the dates again and I found the new site. WOW! I felt so honored to see Phillipe Cousteau on the front of it talking. “Hey, I just had dinner with him,” [...]

It’s about that time of year were I start dreaming of next year. I have two big projects I intend to carry out next year, but I just need to do the lesson plans for them. So like all good teachers, I am procrastinating and writing in my blog. It sounded like the right thing [...]

Well it’s coming up quickly and I am scrambling to get all of the last minute details put together. I will be doing the presentation called “Kinders Can do Powerpoints Too!” again, with my friend Kristine. But, I will also be doing a new presentation about our summer camp. I think it has turned out [...]

So, with new territory comes new opportunities to try uncharted territory… and fall flat on your face. With such a challenging group of fifth graders, I decided I would test out a new approach to teaching them. Since I can’t get them to stop talking for long enough to get a word in edge wise, maybe [...]

My 5th graders spent the last couple of weeks working on counting books that they were making for the Kindergarten classes in our school. This last week we finished up the printing and binding of the books and on Friday each of the students got a partner and went and read their book to a [...]

Google Earth is doing some pretty cool stuff these days to help us learn about history! I came across this article about Ancient Rome and how Google Earth is revitalizing the city virtually. I am so excited about the things technology can do for the classroom and I just love to see children making us [...]

I received this in an e-mail this week and opened it because it is from the high school in my old hometown. I think it is a fabulous explanation and think the student did a great job using simple animation to explain something very complex. Great Job!