The excitement in the room is palpable. Students are organized into groups and sitting on the edge of their seats. Today Chikaming Elementary, River Valley, is connecting to the Challenger Learning Center in West Virginia for their stellar program, Operation Montserrat. While a bit on the expensive side, the CLC e-missions are the coolest, most [...]
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Well, here I am at work again on a snow day making a videoconference happen! All my schools are closed, including our admin building, and one of my local classes in particular is probably disappointed. I know the teacher is. Today was our day for MysteryQuest International, a special version of MysteryQuest where we have [...]
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Is anyone else besides me running into problems with projects due to email not getting through? Here’s some examples. 1. I’ve been working on a project with a local high school British Literature teacher and a partner school in Wales since October. It’s been derailed because both schools seem to be catching each other’s emails [...]
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This has nothing to do with anything, but I finally found a template on WordPress (Greenery) that allows me to put up my own header with my favorite picture of a limb. So if you’ve been reading my blog in a reader, check out the new look. Yes, I love trees and green!
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Last summer I muttered on a NECC blog about dialing problems and firewall traversal systems. Yes, I think, mutter is the right verb. I find the current state of IP dialing to be a maze at best, a frustration for my schools at worst.But, there is good news! I said in January, with hope, that [...]
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Today we participated in an exciting interview with Dr. Ben Carson, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. Students read his book, Gifted Hands, and prepared questions based on their reading and scientific study. Nine classes from Florida, Michigan, New York, South Dakota and Texas were interactive and many others participated via [...]
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Today we have the first MysteryQuest session of the year, focusing on Western Hemisphere. We have 3 classes from TX, and classes from MI, OH, and MO. MysteryQuests are one of my favorite things to do. Today we have 3 classes who have never done MQ before, and one of them went all out with [...]
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This week I’ve enjoyed reading a few snippets about the videoconference sessions at TCEA thanks to Roxanne Glaser. Some great ideas on 100 days of school, school cheers and Texas history from Angela Conrad’s presentation. And it’s always interesting to hear how one district, in this case Northwest ISD, is running their program including funding, [...]
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Tonight we are participating in another content provider showcase hosted by Macomb ISD. First we connected to the St. Louis Zoo. The program started with a sampling of their “tour” programs. The tour programs show several of the exhibits at the zoo. First we saw a clip of the anteater video, followed by questions and [...]
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After lots of work scheduling and coordination, the first of seven connections with Canada happened today. It’s been my dream for a while to get class to class connections for our Michigan students who study Canada. In these 7 connections we’ll be visiting Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick. The sessions with Peace River are the [...]
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