An Interactive Scrapbook Review

My students final project will be in interactive review scrapbook. Students will take basic foundational concepts learned throughout the semester and create an interactive review scrapbook.

Most interactive notebooks are completed throughout the year/semester. After reading blog posts and seeing many pictures on Pinterest I decided to have students complete one as a way to review.

Here are a few pictures below:

Join Us for our Webinar ~ Ending with a Bang!

As we approach the end of the school year, we are all trying to find ways to review with our students to prepare them for exams.

To show my appreciation for the wonderful support that I received from all you this school year, I am offering a webinar to share ideas, tips, projects, and strategies for you to use to review with your students.



Ending with a Bang! will provide you with fun activities and strategies that will get students reviewing in a fun engaging way. No more boring packets for reviewing, your students will be motivated with animated movies, word clouds, QR Code scavenger hunts, Speed Dating, and more.

The Ending with a Bang Webinar will be hosted on May 15th at 6:00 pm

 Come join us....

Please register below for our webinar and share it with your colleagues!

 

 

North Carolina Assistant Teacher Association

Just got back from a wonderful day at the North Carolina Assistant Teacher Association (NCATA)! I meant some amazing educators that are doing great things for our students across the state.

90 minutes was not nearly enough time to share all the wonderful digital learning tools they can use with their students.

The workshop showed participants different digital learning tools that help students to learn, create, collaborate, show their understanding.

If you need a copy of the workshop's presentation please send me an email: youngfm30@gmail.com for a copy.

Thanks so much for allowing me to inspire you embrace the change!

If you were a participant of the Do You Have F.i.T.? please take a moment to complete the workshop survey below:

It has been awhile, but I am back! We just finished our Exponential Unit and I had a blast. We did everything from literacy activities to labs. It was fun. Although we were not able to use technology (due to our internet always having issues) the experience was still great.

 

Lesson 1 from F.i.T. on Vimeo.
This is a lesson I recorded of the lab we completed.

I have attached a link to the activities we completed in the unit if you are interested in them! We did a Sleuth, Think-Tac-Toe, Dice Game, Graphic Organizers, and more!
Exponential Unit Activities

Collaboration Tools

One part of Common Core is student collaboration. Students are required to work together in groups and discuss what they are learning and how they are discovering their answers. My quest is integrating technology in an innovative way to take the common out of common core helps me find great digital learning tools. Listed below are a list of tools that I have tried and used in my class. Some not yet, but I think they would work out (if they work at school).

 

1. Write.fm ~ this tool requires no registration or sign-up. Give students URL and begin collaborating.

2. Wallwisher ~ is a fun bulletin board site where students collaborate, discuss, and more. Students can add a URL, take a photo with a webcam, or upload a file. Great examples on site.

3. Sync.in ~ is a collaboration tool that allows your text to be synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. Students can be invited using the "Share this Note". Everything that anyone types is continuously being saved and everyone has different coloring for whatever they type. You can even come back later and use the Time Slider view to see how it progressed.

4. KidBlog ~ is a blog tool where students can publish posts and participate in discussions in a secure class blogging community. The teacher has total control over the student’s post and comments.

 

5. Twiducate ~ is an educational social network…simply put, Twitter for your classroom!

6. Today’s Meet ~ allows you to create your own chat room, another tool similar to Twitter. Create a URL to share for students to use to join the room.

7. Gaggle ~ is a safe teacher-controlled email account site for students.

8. Twiddla ~ allow users to draw, write, and upload documents. Participants can participate via text or audio.

Systems of Equations is Systematically Fun!

I love teaching systems of equations. The lesson and activities are so engaging! This is our short week in school, so students are very excited that Spring Break begins at 12:01 pm on Thursday! With all the Spring Fever in the air, I wanted to make sure my lessons were fun and engaging for them.

                      

 



For this unit, students will create Note Booklets, Glogsters, Word Clouds, Fortune Tellers, and Blogs. They will participate in an Easter Egg Hunt and Scavenger Hunt to help practice solving systems. Visit our store for the complete pack!

Pictures will be posted of our week!

 



NCTIES Outstanding Teacher of the Year

As a educator you wear many hats. Sometimes hats you do not know you are even capable of wearing. My ultimate goal as an educator is to prepare my students for like outside of high school.

 

I love education with all my heart and this love have provided me with the passion to do whatever it takes to motivate and inspire my students to learn.

 

On March 8th at the NCTIES Conference in Raleigh NC, my hard work and dedication was recognized. I was awarded the 2013 Outstanding Teacher of the Year!

 

This award recognizes and honors one teacher who has demonstrated outstanding achievement and leadership in implementing technology to improve education. Award recipients are selected from a pool of nominations submitted to NCTIES from around the state of North Carolina.

This award means so much to me because my educational journey have not been one that must educators have experienced. The success of all the things I have accomplished in this journey is the result of someone telling me no, not right now, we have chosen someone else, or not a response at all.  Everything closed door I faced in this journey made me a better educator. It allowed me to challenge myself and work hard for me and my students.



To me, this award is confirmation that I am where I am suppose me in my life's journey. It is motivation to continue to use technology as a tool to inspire students to learn. More importantly it is inspiration to become the best educator I can be.




If you are interested in technology training at your school, workshop host, or a motivational speaker for new and experienced teachers, please feel free contact me at youngfm30@gmail.com.