by windhorse | Feb 11, 2025 | music
A bucket list item is now checked, and my 20 year old dreamer self could never have foreseen how today’s graying 60s version would check this one off the list. I am now the author of a book. I would have imagined a person who sat in front of a blank page and...
by windhorse | Sep 14, 2019 | Ed Blogs
Just wanted to give a big lovin’ shout out to Pear Deck’s student paced mode! I’m finding it a super efficient pre/post/mid classroom function! Last week for the first time I made what was normally a book section review a Pear Deck assignment. I had...
by windhorse | Apr 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
For the past two weeks I wanted students to work in teams using their books, periodic tables, and computers for research to find information about metals and nonmetals. So, I created metals and nonmetals Pear Decks that didn’t have any drawing slides so that the...
by windhorse | Sep 15, 2018 | 2018 School Year, Ed Blogs
I’ve seen a vast wide range in norming student computer etiquette in classrooms. From being laissez-faire and figuring, “well the school of hard knocks will eventually teach ’em if they are fooling around on their computers”, and looking the...
by windhorse | Sep 15, 2018 | 2018 School Year, Ed Blogs
If you break down the teaching of Science into its most basic form, all the way to binary, I figure it’s “Thinking” & “Explaining”. “Thinking” is usually taught through experimentation and manipulation. So, everybody...
