Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on May 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve spent the last two days working with 36 fifth grade students at Inyokern Elementary School. We’ve been trying to plan a time all year when we could do a robotics activity. They came to our “I Can Go To College” day a few weeks ago and the timing was right to set something up [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on May 23, 2007 | No Comments »
“Robots are COOL!”
~Inyokern 5th grader
Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on May 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Today we took the legos to Inyokern School, to Emilee’s 5th grade class. We’ve been talking about this for months, and now that the school year is almost over, we finally had the opportunity. Robert, Danny, and Joe came to help out. We got there as lunch recess was ending and the kids were all [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Teaching and Learning, robotics on May 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Tonight was the last night of robo class. As always, mixed feelings. Glad the semester is over, for a lot of reasons, but I will really miss that class. How many students leave a class proud to be alumni? Wanting shirts professing they are “Robo-Vets”? This whole class did! The energy, the enthusiasm, the motivation, [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on May 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Expanding Your Horizons conference with 700 girls attending; three one-hour presentations to about 60 girls total. I had a lot of help from friends in the valley. What a cool experience! To read more about it, download this PDF.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2007 | No Comments »
The awards banquet today was set up in the student center with tables, podium, etc. They moved the couches and other misc furniture outside on the patio in a corner to make more room. So Josh and I are sitting there in the middle of the presentations, room full of people including the Kern Community [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning on May 8, 2007 | No Comments »
It is important to show up and let your voice be heard. I don’t speak often here, but when I do I feel like my voice is heard and makes a difference. Today I had the opportunity to stand up for an employee who is very deserving of an honor, and had I not spoken [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning on May 8, 2007 | No Comments »
from my 3rd year evaluation committee report:
“Debby’s student comments have been wonderful. Her students are actively engaged and excited about learning. She is connecting with students that may not otherwise engage.
Debby’s online classes are very organized and she uses lots of outside resources and links to provide learning for her students. Debby may want to [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning on May 7, 2007 | No Comments »
noisy
messy
chaotic
fun
hands-on
social
exciting
like this:
Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on May 7, 2007 | No Comments »
How do you spell T-O-A-S-T? Showing about 200 5th graders that you get to play with LEGOs when you go to college! They came in three waves, and we had about 20 minutes per group to show and tell. A couple of my students showed up early to help set up the golf ball [...]
