Today I am attending the Jefferson/Overseas Schools Technology Institute (JOSTI) in Fairfax Virginia. As featured keynote speakers, four students presented some of the work they have been doing. It was Sappho who really impressed me. She was poised and steadfast in her presence when presenting to some 100+ educators from around the world. She titled [...]
Jeff Utecht put up an url about a library in Delft Holland on Twitter. Being of Dutch background, I couldn’t resist having a look.
The mission statement of Holland’s ‘Library Concept Center’ says they want “to become and remain the most advanced library in the world. Using creativity, technical innovation, and advancing scientific understanding, DOK endeavors [...]
It is interesting what kids will respond to. We have just introduced iBear to our class. Last week I was dreaming with my student Litsa about how to make writing fun. As our conversation rolled on, we came to a new motivator for our class … iBear. [We named our class i5c2 a year ago.] [...]
Each year the Upper Primary school produces an Art and Literary magazine. It’s new this year. well kind-of new. We’ve gone electronic. In so doing, we now call it the eZine. This is actually the fourth edition of Upper Primary’s Art and Literary Magazine.
In moving to the digital format, we have created some controversy [...]
Did you know that?
The runway at the Kennedy Space Center is 15,000 ft long and 300 feet wide!
The Shuttle lands at 217 miles per hour – that’s 8 miles per second!
The Shuttle orbits the Earth in 1.5 hours
It takes 45 minutes for the Shuttle to land once entering the atmosphere
For every pound of weight sent [...]
Last year I had the privilege to be part of an international team of educators to visit the Kennedy Space Center. I was selected to be members of the NASA/UCF Aeronautics Space Institute. Being given VIP passes,
we were able to visit the launch and landing sites as well as visit numerous buildings where few are [...]
