Videos done
Posted onNovember 4, 2009
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Well, we finished our little video experiment today. Gonna watch ‘em tomorrow. They’re pretty good considering how difficult and time-consuming they are to make at school. Too many filters and blocks…oh well, LOL.
Screen printing
Posted onOctober 20, 2009
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Our unit on Communications is going good…students always like screen printing their shirts. Next up is moviemaker. Students have to create a 30-sec. “infomercial” about a topic of their choice.
classroom wiki
Posted onOctober 11, 2009
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here’s our classroom wiki: I think I’m gonna use this a couple of times this year. Have students create a page for it.
ghsteched.wikispaces.com
Unit 2
Posted onOctober 11, 2009
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Finished our rocketry unit on Friday. Right on schedule. I think the students really enjoyed the NOVA documentary, “To The Moon.” It’s amazing how much they don’t know about the moon landings. Not their fault, no one has ever taught it to them.
Open House and stuff…
Posted onSeptember 22, 2009
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Had the annual parent open house tonight. Good turnout. Nice to see.
2nd launch completed today. 1 to go. Pretty satisfied with how the students are doing. Good launches today, especially in 2nd hr.
Took quite a few videos. Gonna try to put something together for announcements. Blevins had some kids out 6th hr, so they may throw something together too. This year I want to do a short video for each project to show on announcements. Too many kids @ GHS don’t know what fun we have 
Welcome back!
Posted onSeptember 5, 2009
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Welcome to the 09-10 school year. I’m looking forward to a fun year learning about and using technology. Here’s a link to our course outline:
http://ghsteched.edublogs.org/files/2009/09/09-techcourse-outline.pdf
Gettin’ to work
Posted onJuly 7, 2009
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Lot’s to do in the next couple of months. Writing assignments, which are now mandatory, have got to be organized and readied. It’s time to order supplies, now that the new fiscal year is started. Got our new “facebook” site up and running for Web Design, it will be interesting to see how that develops. Might be fun….
Exp Tech – Rocketry
Posted onApril 26, 2009
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Here’s some links to our rocketry unit.
http://extension.osu.edu/rockets//index.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/h2oriphyl.htm
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Rockets/history_of_rockets.html
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mir/mishaps.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronauts_by_name
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/rocket/BottleRocket/index.htm
http://www.et.byu.edu/~wheeler/benchtop/
Busting Bridges
Posted onApril 24, 2009
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We wrapped up our “Engineering Structures” unit this week in World of Tech. Students did quite well. Most bridges were 400-600% efficient. They also handed in their “computer” bridges as well. I’ll be posting some pics over the next few days.
Over in Exploring Tech, we finished our unit on Advanced Transportation. Time to grade some powerpoints!
Exp Tech II:Pre-Engineering students are goin great guns on the Sumobots project. Some of them look quite good!
World of Technology
Posted onApril 22, 2009
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Currently, we are finishing up the Engineering Structures unit. Many truss bridges will be destroyed this week.
Then we begin our final unit “Technology in Your World.” Lots of video game info, + some other stuff like cellphones, gps, and who knows what else?
