Ripper's Chatter

D. Ripollone is a STAR member of the Discovery Educator Network

Ripper's Chatter

Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0 Tool'

Discovery Spring VirtCon Live

April 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Discovery, STEM, Teacher Ideas, Teacher Workshop, Web 2.0 Tool

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

High School Alternative Energy Project

January 29th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Environment, Project, Web 2.0 Tool

Background: Recently we finished part of the Castle Electricity Unit. After completing section 5 of the module we decided to give the students a project. This project included summer material I received from a workshop at the UNC botanical gardens. See blog entry UNC Exploring the Future of Electricity. To include some environmental and stewardship [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Mid Break

December 10th, 2011 · No Comments · School Events, Web 2.0 Tool

Break is coming fast and the holidays are upon us. We are finishing the semester next week. One of the highlights of the quarter was the Physics project we did. It was the Lead Physics Teacher’s  (Angie Mechler)  idea. Using the Photo Contest rules from American Physics Teachers website, students followed the directions and presented [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Check out my first Glogster pa…

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · School Events, Web 2.0 Tool

Check out my first Glogster page about Earth Science http://soc.li/W93NCEQ

[Read more →]

Tags: