GHS Tech Ed

Videos done

ghsteched — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:34:43 +0000

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

ghsteched — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:13:24 +0000

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

ghsteched — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:49:57 +0000

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

ghsteched — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:14:32 +0000

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…

ghsteched — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:54:18 +0000

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!

ghsteched — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:02:34 +0000

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

ghsteched — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:32:29 +0000

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

ghsteched — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:32:20 +0000

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.astronautix.com/

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

ghsteched — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:07:42 +0000

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

ghsteched — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:14:38 +0000

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?