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So I left ISTE 2013 today.  Man what an exciting, invigorating, exhausting, and somewhat life changing experience I had these past 5 days at ISTE.  Before I jump into my…

So yesterday was my first experience ever with ISTE (the international technology conference).  Now granted ISTE didn’t start yesterday for “normal” people, but yesterday was when they held ISTE Unplugged,…

Well I am SO excited to announce a new endeavor I am undertaking with two of my friends; Stacey Huffine (@TechNinjaStacey) and Chris Kesler (@iamkesler).  It’s a new podcast series…

So school is officially over!!  Man it has been an incredible year.  There have been so many positive things that happened this year for me and my class.  I can’t…

Another eventful week!! Most of the week was spent on completing our Roller Coaster project.  This project had no real reason except to be fun at the end of the…

The last two weeks have been a blast. First of all we’ve been working on our latest project; Bridge building!  I wanted a fun project that still involved some math…

Wow, what a whirlwind weekend.  This weekend Waller hosted it’s first ever EdCampWaller!  We had over 200 educators from all over Texas!!  Several of whom drove over 7 hours to…

Ok so I know I didn’t blog last week! My bad!  What we did last week was that my fifth graders were given third grade TEKS (our state standards) by…

Man what a great week! So on Monday I wanted to do something different.  Our After School program has had archery equipment for a while, and I am the certified…

So this week was finally the time.  The time for our state standardized test (or STAAR). So Monday we had a last minute review where I mainly just talked with…

First off I have to say I work with some pretty incredible people.  So I heard about the whole EdCamp idea last year when I attended EdCampDallas.  I fell in…

So, yes I know, the title to this post is very negative.  But it’s very true.  STAAR (or the state-exam for Texas) is crazy.  Now, honestly I’m all for testing…