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I really LIKE Donor’s Choose. I’ve finished somewhere over 15 projects now.
Hints: Keep your projects small, I’ve found I get projects under $200 funded quicker and easier. But maybe I’m just not patient enough for the big ones.
I’ve had two projects fail, one for a video camera and one for a laptop.
This week they are matching donations with a code of BLOOM.
My donor’s choose page is at http://www.donorschoose.com/kweaver
Easiest to install networking device EVER.
No wires, no fuss, works right out of the box.
We have a fairly large house, and since we moved back in, we have had trouble with WiFi Coverage in the house. One of my spring break projects is to fix that. Did some research, found references to this device. We’ll see how things go through the week, but I put it in the opposite corner of the house and so far we seem to have better coverage.
To start with, we are in an urban school district with a large free and reduced lunch population.
When I have taught math, very few students have done homework, so I quickly learned to adjust my teaching to take that in account. Each student had a different reason for not doing their work, many of them busy working.
I just heard from a student who came from a district where that was being done. She had to download and print out the notes, and then use an internet connection to watch the teacher go over the notes. They would work on problems in class.
Two huge problems with this concept:
Most of our students don’t have printers (I know this, as they often as to use the ones in my classroom, No, you can’t).
A larger segment of the population doesn’t have access to technology at home.
I do something similar though, and I often record (using Camtasia), instructions, especially if I think that the project we are doing isn’t easy to do from written instructions.
Then the students can assess the recording during class. They could access it at home, but I’m not sure that would be helpful.
So I have seen shows on Hoarders, both the material kind and the animal hoarder kind, but I haven’t seen any help for Digital Hoarders.
I am one.
The worst part is that it isn’t very well organized. I was looking for the applications for a grant that I reviewed last year, and did find them, all in one PDF file, but that’s okay. I’ve got what I need.
I’ve got something on the school computer that aren’t anywhere else, some things on the cloud, and some things on three servers, all of which I can access through the internet.
Can you imagine what it would look like if the files were actually physical files? Or worse yet, dogs.
This rarely happens, but I found something that I REALLY like about the new DISD Guest account at our school. You can’t see the printers! Totally a win, as I get tired of random documents printed on my printers. My favorite was another teacher’s resume and cover letter.
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There are some really good ideas here that I would like to implement.
As a teacher, students in my class were encouraged to use their cell phones as a tool to enhance the learning environment.
There are some really good ideas here that I would like to implement.
Just got updated, and I’m liking that I can blog from it.
Haven’t found a real use, but then you never know…..
My presentation was on our robotics team. I tried to make it very general, as I had a varied audience. I had people who were doing the next higher level of Robotics, and had people doing the lower levels. I had elementary students and middle school students. I had parents.
I had a short Power Point on the Robotics program and brochures for both my computer science program and on the Robotics team.
I also showed a movie of the competition.
We were able to drive the robot the first two presentations and then RobotC stopped working. I think I’ll probably have to download and install it again.
I asked the audience questions as we went and explained the problems of the competition. I was talking about negative numbers to a group when we were able to drive the program since you use negative numbers to make the robot back up.
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There were lots of other presenters, and unfortunately with the format didn’t get to see them. Met a few after, Zynga in particular, and they seemed happy with the situation.
It rocked!
We had a good representation of colleges and universities, industry and the local high school teachers.
We had over 300 DISD students attend, we ran out of sign-in sheets and door prize tickets. The families that attended were very diverse, and we reached the younger crowd and lots of girls.
