Well Saturday (April 20th) was the VirtCon with Discovery. We hosted a F2F event our Cardinal Gibbons HS, we had a small crowd. But, great collaboration and sharing of resources occurred. We started the day with a great talk by Suzie Boss “Connecting Classroom and Community with PBL”. Her talk included ideas from other teachers [...]
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Discovery Spring VirtCon Live
April 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Discovery, STEM, Teacher Ideas, Teacher Workshop, Web 2.0 Tool
Discovery Spring VirtCon
March 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Discovery, STEM, Teacher Workshop, Web 2.0 Tool
Well the word is a go for the Spring VirtCon. Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, NC, will be hosting a F2F event. We have already started getting our plans together. You can sign up for the event at Gibbons by completing the online registration and checking the box for Gibbons. We have a form [...]
NC Catholic Conference…. Greensboro
October 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Discovery, Honeywell, NASA, NASA explorers school, Space Camp, STEM, Web 2.0 Tool
After talking Angie Melcher into doing the conference with me I came to realize there was a lot of information we needed to get together. Well we did and what a team we made. I think we were well received and had tons of information for those that attended. We started off by introducing the [...]
A month later… and never busier!
September 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Discovery, Labs, NASA, NASA explorers school, STEM
Its like the title states, a month later and I’m totally busy. Wouldn’t have it any other way though. Ton’s of fun these last couple of weeks. They actually make me appreciate my job even more. Teaching has become a love….no a passion lately. The summer has just infused so much energy in my lessons. [...]
Discovery Builder Tools, How do you use them?
August 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Assessments, Discovery
As a new year begins so do the questions. Some of my colleagues at school are using the Discovery site for the first time. Of course most of them know what assessments are but some have asked me; What are “Discovery Assessments”? When I first heard about “Discovery Assessments”, I was bit puzzled. Assessment meant [...]
In-Person Event Raleigh
April 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Discovery
Jannita Demian, Discovery Education, is wrapping up her presentation. She is doing a wonderful job. All the attendees are taking “major” notes. We have collaborated all day with each other and continue to do so for the last session. The highlight of Jannita’s discussion was the Bloom Taxonomy Pyramid with the hotlinks. Everyone here thought [...]
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In-Person Event, Raleigh
April 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Discovery
Continuing to watch the VirtCon. Presentations so far have been enjoyed by everyone here. In the seond presentation was presented by Tim Childers on Project-Based Learing. Great ideas were presented to implement a project based lesson. The next presentation was by Lance Rougeux, great photo definitely took a lot of time creating the soup! Currently [...]
Saturday-In Person Event Raleigh
April 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Discovery
Preparing for the in-person event that will take place at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, NC for the Virtual Conference on Saturday April 30th. Spaces are beginning to fill up and we will have a great time collaborating with each other. If you are interested and live in the Raleigh area, you can register [...]
Workshop on Discovery Website
January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Discovery
Our school is finally setting up the Discovery site for teachers. I have been working with the administration to get our teachers involved with the site. I hosted a brief informational meeting on what the Discovery site has to offer teachers. The response has been very positive. Hopefully the word will get out among the [...]
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Long Time
November 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Discovery
It’s been a awhile since my last entry. So I’m trying to catch up with some news. Recently I did the Porosity and Permeability lab using a setup from Ward’s. One of the problems I found with this lab that the amount of water left in the tube after a class used the set up [...]
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