Wow! What a busy year, so busy I haven't had time to add to the blog. Creating a school newspaper from scratch is not easy, I found out, but managed to teach myself InDesign and publish fall, winter and spring issues. I administered a Innovative Teaching Grant from Junior League this past year, and I may be adding some video or photos about that. I also taught Kimball's STEM Summer Camp which was held the first two weeks following the end of school. For the summer camp, I taught students Web 2.0 Tools which may be useful (and fun) to use for school, including Glogster, Blabberize, Study Blue, Evernote, and Museum Box, as well as some speed reading strategies, and reading part of a book my principal intern got at the Reading Conference in San Francisco last April. The STEM camp teachers were also part of a committee which will present at staff development this August on the book the district has chosen for study, "Teaching With Poverty in Mind," so each teacher was assigned a chapter to create PowerPoint slides on the key points. I think I created 16 slides.
I'm hoping to practice more on the Web 2.0 Tools which were presented at the TCEA conferences the two years I got to go (2011 and 2007) as well as the 21st Century Teacher Conferences for the past two years.
I'm also sorry to report there hasn't been a second librarian at Kimball since Linda York retired in October 2009. We had subs the rest of that school year, but administration did not fill the position with a librarian.This past year has been very busy without Linda's help. It was also a blow to hear of her passing this April. I've missed her kindness and support.
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