Video Fridays: Storytelling Through Photography
These videos popped up in my feed and I immediately thought that they would be awesome to use to introduce photography or the power of photography to my middle school student next semester. The mind is...
View Article2021-2022 School Year Prep – Week 4: Disassembly & Storage Continues
Short week, this week I was planning on only spending Monday & Tuesday working on the VEX robots and organizing the piles of parts. I literally spent the whole time just taking apart the abandoned...
View Article2021-2022 School Year Prep – Week 5: Only Two More Weeks to Prep For The Next...
Staff is required to be back in less than two weeks (August 4th), with students reporting in the following Monday (August 9th) and I still have no definitive number of robot kits I have to work with...
View Article2021-2022 School Year Prep – Weeks 6 & 7 – Well, That Went Fast
I’m reminded of the first day of my first full year teaching, in the Fall of 1995. I’d spent a couple weeks trying to set up my classroom and that Monday morning I’d gotten to school early. But by the...
View Article2021-2022 School Year Week 1 through 3: Firehose, Fisticuffs & WTF
From Week 1: Wow. Talk about trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose. There are just too many moving parts for the first week to not feel like an intentional train-wreck. Really. I originally...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: Princess Shaw’s Story
The following was part of a class assignment/discussion that I gave my middle school mentorship class: Several years ago I learned about this Israeli Musician/Videographer called Kutiman, who took...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: American Veteran – The Crossing (PBS Series)
On Wednesday, before the Veterans’ Day holiday I gave the following unit to my media and mentorship students: DAILY WARM-UP: [In honor of Veterans’ Day]: Do you have anyone in your family who has...
View ArticleNot Having Time to Write, Play, Grow
I was hoping at the beginning of the current semester to find the time to regularly collect my thoughts, enjoy my LEGOs, play my guitars, organize my photos, and make these blog posts. Yeah, that...
View ArticleA Few More Fridays, Two Years Later, What Lessons Have I Learned
I am not going to pretend to understand what’s going on in Florida with their public school decision process, but I can tell you, as one fully engaged at the the ground floor level of this educational...
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