Archive for November 4th, 2006

How do you know if students are learning anyway?

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Nate posed this question. I think this is where the formal and summative evaluations factor in. We are twelve weeks into school now and my students have made great gains. They have advanced from not recognizing the difference between numbers and letters, the colors, and patterns to counting, recognizing letters in random order, knowing colors […]

Evaluated by my principal

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

This is my year to be formally evaluated by my principal. He makes it very clear that he must see the use of technology in the lesson he observes. In Lee Ann’s blog about Using Tools Effectively she touched on teachers using technology and they needed to know how to use and why it would […]

Newsgators Editors Choice

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

There seems to be a neat blog about an electric car (but my computer won’t open the site). I’m very interested in this topic. I believe that the US has all the means to have a transportation system in this country without the use of foreign oil. Why do we as a nation want to […]

Computer illness

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

I’m about to go nuts. My computer needs a serious overhaul. I’m having all kinds of problems, getting knocked off the web and getting a “Sorry for the inconvienence”, not being able to open websites and a host of other dificulties. I get so frustrated that I can’t stand to even turn the computer on. […]