I have learned so much through the many different PANS, and other opportunities I have received through the ALL, Next Gen Leader meetings, iCurio. My goal is to enlighten my fellow colleagues throughout our district of all the innovative things that I have learned thus far. I want to deeply thank everyone for this opportunity.

My students absolutely love using iCurio! They actually beg to stay in at recess to play on it. They love looking for educational games and love that they can save the sites. My 4th grade is actually working on research and they love the fact that they don’t have to write the URL to a page. Now they can hit save, and it will be right there.

For my capstone I was thinking about two different things however, Jennifer pointed out that they are somewhat linked. When I think about my school, I feel the school morale, school spirit, environment (whatever you want to call it), is very low. Sure we all speak and smile, but hidden beneath, are teachers basically coming to work to get paid.…Read More

For the past two weeks my students have been studying ecosystems and biomes. They have been researching the biome of their choice for the past week. Then yesterday, through the Mondopad and Skype, we connected with three seventh grade students at our local Middle School to learn how to make presentation boards by using Discoveryeducation.com. Here…Read More