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Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Jason Dietrich - Certified NASA STEM Educator: Hyperlexia, Building STEM Participation, the Virginia Space Flight Academy, and SSAI (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.). This is episode 636 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Jason is a highly motivated, certified NASA STEM educator with more than four years of teaching experience seeking to influence and engage students to participate in STEM career pathways.
Jason has Hyperlexia, which is a form of autism. Even though he struggled with reading comprehension, he never gave up.
He is interested in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM as well as building a solid foundation for STEM literacy. In this technology-based society, he seeks to build computational literacy and develop critical thinkers capable of analyzing and integrating data to formulate solutions to complex real-world problems through the use of innovative and differentiated instructional methods.
He is experienced in training and professional development, global education policy and methods, statistical analysis, curriculum development, and assessment strategies. In addition, he has been mentored by a current Virginia Space Flight Academy (VASFA) STEM Engagement Specialist and has authored a NASA application design to identify hidden barriers to STEM engagement.
Jason is eager to promote and use STEM engagement activities through NASA’s missions to inspire a diverse future STEM workforce.
Our focus today is Jason's role as a certified NASA STEM Educator, dealing with hyperlexia, building STEM participation, the Virginia Space Flight Academy, and SSAI (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.).
Lots to learn.
Great conversation!
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Length - 52:12
Friday Jul 10, 2015
Friday Jul 10, 2015
- If you don't know how to backup files, find a youtube video, instructional web page, ask a friend or pay someone to set up and show you how. It's that important!
- Even if you work in an environment that does backups, make your own! Remember, it is your data, you are responsible for it, and you will be the one crying if everything is lost!
- Test your backups. A backup isn't any good if you can't use it.
- Periodically review your backup policies. You might need/want to tweak them. Update your bookmark backups, etc. You might have old files that can be archived on CD/DVD and deleted from the hard drive.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Vicki is a teacher and an IT Director in a small school system in Camilla, Georgia, but she is connected through her writing, speaking, podcast, and social media content throughout the world!
This is her 13th year teaching.
She writes regularly for the website Edutopia and Vicki can frequently be found as a national keynote speaker presenting on a multitude of topics.
She is a published author and has her own podcast on the BAM Radio Network called Every Classroom Matters
I subscribe to her podcast on iTunes and look forward to every episode.
Her books are Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step At A Time and Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools that are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever
She has an amazing blog, http://www.coolcatteacher.com/, where she expresses her thoughts about many different areas associated with teaching from technology to classroom management and many topics in between. She also connects the readers to many resources for helping with better teaching and school leading.
She also is very active on social media, especially Twitter, where her handle is @coolcatteacher
https://www.pinterest.com/coolcatteacher/
https://www.facebook.com/coolcatteacher
https://www.youtube.com/coolcatteacher
Vicki is engaging and overflowing with incredible ideas for making the classroom experience unforgettable.
After talking with Vicki, I couldn't stop talking to my team members about her inspiring words!
I think that you will get just as energized.
Enjoy!
Length:
40:45
Wednesday Jun 17, 2015
Wednesday Jun 17, 2015
Amanda is an elementary teacher in Houston County, Georgia who was recognized as the 2015 Georgia Teacher of the Year. In 2006 she was Miss Georgia and competed for the title of Miss America.
This last year she spent time in schools model teaching, presenting, co-teaching and talking with various organizations across the state. She also traveled to Washington, DC where she met the President, twice.
She sees herself as a self-made person. She knows how important education is. She likes to explain to kids that she came from a single parent home but that she has not let that interfere with her life journey. She is a first generation college graduate in her family and now she is working on her doctorate. She emphasizes to kids that she wanted something better for herself.
Amanda has a no excuses mentality in the classroom. She expects the kids to work hard and not ask for handouts.
She comments that she didn’t start out wanting to be a teacher, but explains how the desire to teach rose to the top.
Listen closely as she talks about the teacher who hooked her into wanting to be a teacher because she had a classroom that was like an educational theme park!
We talk about what her ideal classroom would look like as well as what her favorite resources are.
She describes herself as being orange not blue and how that impacts her teaching and her interactions with the kids.
She will challenge you to think about how you see and work with the kids.
Catch up with Amanda on Twitter @gatoty2015
Amanda mentioned these resources:
Length: 30:36
Thursday May 28, 2015
Thursday May 28, 2015
Snipping tool is a free utility application that comes with standard installations of Windows 7 and Windows 8. In Windows 7 click: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Snipping Tool.
(With Windows 8, press the Win Key and type Snipping Tool)
What is so great about Snipping Tool? Many people have a need for taking a “snapshot” of any number of things on their computer. Especially if you are creating a “howto” document.
Windows Snipping Tool has the following options:
Free Form snip
Rectangular snip (default)
Window snip
Full-Screen snip
If you are going to use snipping tool a lot, I suggest you pin it to the Windows Taskbar, that way it is always available and a one click execute.
When you get ready to take a screenshot, just click on Snipping Tool. The snipping tool window will pop up and your cursor will become an active selection cursor depending on which mode you are in. You then select or choose the portion of the screen you would like to capture.
Once you have snipped all or a portion of your screen (or Window), the Snipping Tool Window opens. In the snipping tool window, you have a pen, a highlighter and an eraser to use to edit the image. The pen is a free form drawing tool as is the highlighter. These tools, although simple, allow you to circle, underline, highlight & markup the file as you see fit. You do not have a lot of editing features. Snipping Tool is a simple tool, but it is very effective.
After you have edited the file, you have the option of saving it. The file can be saved in three popular graphic file formats:
PNG (Portable Network Graphic)
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format)
JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
Or as a single HTML file (MHT file to be opened in a web browser) (This is not an easily edited format. Used mostly for archive purposes).
After you save the file, it is ready to be used as is any graphic file.
Review:
Snipping Tool is a free, quick and easy tool for Microsoft OS users to create graphic images of anything on their desktop.
It comes as a standard installed utility in Windows 7 and later OSs.
It is found in the Accessories menu under the Start Menu.
It saves “snips” in three popular graphic file formats (& MHT format).
It has a pen and highlighter for basic editing (highlighting).
Target audience: Anyone that creates “howto” documents, technical documents or reference material.
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Length: 10:29