Whew! My life has been a whirlwind! Several wonderful and some not so wonderful things have occurred in the past couple of weeks.
First the good things. I finished my University of Phoenix classes – woohoo! Now, I can get certified to do what I have been doing for the past 3 [...]
I LOVE this time of year! The newness, the freshness, the excitement – I love it. Yes, there is stress with trying to tie all the loose ends together to have the “perfect” classroom ready for the kids. The last minute schedule changes, the lunch schedule that isn’t quite set in stone, [...]
My good friend, Vincent Pienaar, a 6th grade Math teacher at West Lee Middle School, won a very prestigious award. He was awarded the VIF (visiting international faculty) of the year award. This is a well deserved honor. Vincent has gone above and beyond to introduce diverse cutlures to our students.
Vincent has not only taught [...]
I won a student response system! Wow! I’m soooo excited! We only have a couple of these in our county. I will definitely put it to good use!
Until I land from the clouds I’m floating on ~ Danita
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Many congrats go out to my friend, Kim Collazo for winning a NCAECT grant for 12 digital cameras and 2 video cameras for her classroom! I am very excited for her and her students. I can’t wait to see what the kids do with these tools. Kim is a leader in technology [...]
Happy 1st Blog Birthday to Random Ramblings! I can’t believe that one year has flown by so quickly. What’s that old adage? time flies when you’re having fun. It truly does.
I have learned so much this past year and met so many wonderfully delightful people. I’ve met people from the four corners of the globe [...]
Yep, that was me skipping down the hallway on Friday. I had spent a couple of days in Susan Oriet’s 6th grade Language Arts class working on Voicethread. The kids made collages of books they had read and then we recorded their reports onto Voicethread. WOW! What a great experience! I had so much fun! [...]
What a wonderful week I had! It began Monday with my friend Kim and I presenting at the North Carolina Elementary Education Conference. We did our Web Wizards Web 2.0 presentation. How fun it is to have someone you can work with so well. She’s great and really does know her [...]
The far reaching Internet has proven itself to me once again. I’ve had 2 very unexpected emails from people I have never met in person and probably won’t ever see face to face. But, we are communicating and discovering how we can help each other.
The first email I received was from a company [...]
I had a fabulous week! It began Tuesday with a 6th grade math class. I taught 3 classes of Scientific Notation using the SmartBoard, except our SmartBoard was on the flitz. So, I used the SmartBoard notebook to teach. What fun! The kids were great and I enjoyed ‘riding the bicycle’ again. The teacher wanted [...]
Friday, August 31st was Blog Day 2007. This was something new to me since I wasn’t even blogging at this time last year. Bloggers around the world are being encouraged to highlight five newer blogs that might target a different audience than their own. Larry Ferlazzo nominated me as one of his five. WOW! What an [...]
Whew! We survived the first day of school. Actually, it was my first year in 15 years not being in the classroom. It was kinda sad – but I sure didn’t miss all the butterflies! From what I saw, both East Lee and West Lee opened very smoothly. At the end of the day, the [...]
Some people are lucky and some people are LUCKY. My mom has always been in the LUCKY column. Me, I’ve never even managed to be in any category other than, “thanks for coming”. If there’s a way to win something, mom will win. If there’s a way not to win, that’s [...]
Yahoo!! My class at ECU is finished! I have so much to blog about that I haven’t had the time in the past 5 weeks. Stay tuned, the next few days will be a gusher!
Until next time ~ Danita
I am so excited! All the paperwork has been completed and the teachers have all signed their contracts for our workshop this summer. Dr. Len Annetta from NC State University is coming to Lee County to work with our middle school teachers on making educational virtual video games. Have I said [...]
Excellent. I love it when teachers are so hungry for ideas that they are almost foaming at the mouth. Kim and I did a presentation this afternoon on PowerPoint and how you can use it for more than presentations. Great ideas spawned from the discussions amongst the teachers.
We did presentations on how [...]
Today was a good day. It wasn’t one of those everything went well since my feet hit the floor days, but it was a good one.
First off, I was helping a teacher teach her class how to use wikis. Their assignment was to research an Asian country and compose a wiki page of [...]
I am at a loss for words. I have had over 1000 “hits” to my blog since I began blogging in November. I am totally speechless and appreciative that there is someone out there that is interested in what I have to say.
So, from the bottom of my cyber-heart, thank you for showing an interest [...]
No, not the Yahoo search engine, but the real, honest to goodness, come from the belly, yahoo yell. The fire has caught on and while we don’t have a wildfire, yet, the fire has been lit and keeps growing. I did my second wiki workshop and even teachers who “go grudgingly toward technology” [...]
I have forgotten how to work with 6th graders. After teaching 7th and 8th grade for several years, I forgot how you have to go slower and step by step with 6th graders. I worked with a group today using Gaggle as an editing tool. God love ‘em, they tried. [...]
