Nathan’s Blog FOED 6320-500

I am excited to blog again.  This week I am going to talk about what is going on in my class.  Last week, we looked through a bunch of different websites to help with out classes and I found a lot of really good resources, but not nearly as much as this week.  This week, we look at apps more and they ended up being very insightful.  I love science a lot but often times there are not very many resources when it comes to building our lesson plans.  Often, the lessons have to come straight from us because there is not much of a focus on science in education nowadays.  Some of these apps have really helped though.  I’m gonna add a few that I found that really surprised me in a good way: 1.  Complete Biology 2. Pocket Physics Formula 3.  Pocket Of these three, Pocket is probably my favorite one that I have found so far.  I am going to use that to have my students save some articles that we look over in my classroom.  They will hopefully ...

Being a teacher can be very complicated and very difficult at times and often you need assistance from many different sources.  This is why I have decided to start a blog.  That and my professor wants me to.  I am excited to get into this either way as I believe posting publically like this will assist in getting more ideas and thoughts from others.  I can only hope that this will diversify my knowledge on education as well as connect me to others with the same passion I have.  But first, the class work.  Let’s do that now and I will post more at a later date about other things. What are your personal technology goals? My school is a one-to-one school for iPads so we are very fortuitous in the blessings that we have been given by our state and district.  My personal goal for technology would be to not let it become a crutch for me in my teaching.  I want to still have my main focus on teaching and coming up with my own lesson plans and ,as a ...