Google Sketch Up Continues at BDJ

Google Sketch Up Continues at BDJ

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had introduced my scholars to Google SketchUp. Weeks later, the students are still refining their 3D models. Since the last post, many of the st ...

Ms. Mason to Junior Webbers: Hard Work Can Lead to Big Payoff for Girls in Web Design

Ms. Mason to Junior Webbers: Hard Work Can Lead to Big Payoff for Girls in Web Design

Recently, my junior webbers had the opportunity to Skype with one of their former teachers, Liz Mason. A few years ago, Liz was a kindergarten teacher with us at Liberty Elementary ...

Lego Inventory Time: Elementary Engineers Need All the Pieces

Lego Inventory Time: Elementary Engineers Need All the Pieces

So, my kids are making a totally awesome iMovie, showing off an epic robot battle filmed this week during our after school club. Unfortunately, it wasn't completely finished by pre ...

3D Design Meets Geography: Students Use Google Sketch Up to Create 3D Models

3D Design Meets Geography: Students Use Google Sketch Up to Create 3D Models

In early March, the students expressed their interest mixing things up in Edtech Link Justice. When I asked the group what they would want to do next, a few mentioned creating stuf ...

The UnField Trip: K Takes a Virtual Field Trip to an Egg Farm

The UnField Trip: K Takes a Virtual Field Trip to an Egg Farm

My students are gearing up to begin our "economics 101" unit where they will begin to think about goods and services and how they reach the consumer. This is quite difficult for th ...

Extending WeDo: Creating stories in both the digital and physical worlds (Part 1)

Extending WeDo: Creating stories in both the digital and physical worlds (Part 1)

It's official- I love what my students have been doing with the Lego WeDo kits. They are racing through the projects at warp speed- building as directed by the software first, and ...

Our First Skype Call: Kindergarten Gets Globally Connected

Our First Skype Call: Kindergarten Gets Globally Connected

An ongoing topic this year in our EdTech Link Sessions is that we are doing our students a disservice in the age of the Internet if we do not getting them globally connected. As us ...

Google Sketch Up Continues at BDJ

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had introduced my scholars to Google SketchUp. Weeks later, the students are still refining their 3D models. Since the last post, many of the students have figured out how to integrate images and graphics into their buildings. One student has embedded an automobile as well more ...

April 28, 2013

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