Category Archives: Thoughts

5th Graders Skype with Laura Schroff

Mrs. Ah Hee is an amazing fifth grade teacher at our school.  My entire blog could be post after post describing the wonderful things that she is doing every day with her students. Today was a very special day!  The … Continue reading

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Second Grade Bloggers!!

The second graders in Mrs. Oyama’s class are bloggers.  They have been learning how to use the wordpress app on their iPads to write blog posts.  They are very excited about being bloggers and sharing their work with the world! … Continue reading

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Our Teachers are Jumping in with their iPads!!

It has only been a little more than a month since we rolled out and our teachers are already doing so many amazing things!  This blog post would go on for days if I talked about all the ways technology … Continue reading

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Yay! I Get to Teach Students Today!!

Today you are going to explore some of my MOST FAVORITE websites!!  Are you excited?  I am!!  Read books, play games, explore, and learn with the sites below.  If you have time you may leave me a comment telling me … Continue reading

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First Grade Teachers Jump Right in with iPad 1:1

Karen Littrell and Kaleo Kaleohano are amazing first grade teachers at our kula! One of the projects that they have designed that integrates technology involves the study of each of the districts of our island.  One of the core goals … Continue reading

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ISTE 2013 – The Best One Yet!

In June I traveled with a group of my amazing co-workers to the ISTE Conference in San Antonio Texas.  It was inspiring, fun, and exhausting!  (San Antonio is HOT!  But, at least now I can say I’ve been to Texas.) … Continue reading

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I Wonder #16…Our World

When you watch this video I want you to think about two things: What do you see? How does it make you feel? What does it make you wonder?

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I Wonder #13….Tap Dancing!

This week I am going to begin teaching tap dance! Ever since I was a kid I have loved tap dancing. It is one of my passions. This is a video of one of my favorite tap dancers. While you … Continue reading

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My Hopes and Dreams

My hope for the second half of the year is that our technology classroom will be a caring place where students will do their best work. What is your hope for the rest of the school year?

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Using Twitter during Geography Week

During Geography week we will be using Twitter to share the neat things we are doing and learning. Here is our twitter info: Student/Teacher tweet username is @kshstudents and the password is bananas. For our geography week tweets we will … Continue reading

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