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What I Learned From Traveling Internationally With Students

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In June, I spent twelve days traveling across western Europe with a group of students. We started in Barcelona, Spain and slowly made our way north, ending in London, United Kingdom and it was a whirlwind of exhaustion, excitement, stress, blisters. Like any great travel adventure, I gained a new perspective on the world and a better understanding of new culture, but most of all I understood the benefit of traveling with your students. During those twelve days, I got to witness a whole new side to my students. I was used to seeing them in my classroom or in the hallways at school surrounded by their peers, but on the trip I got to see them away from their friends in a new environment, experiencing a foreign culture. Within the first 24 hours, one student had a meltdown because the Coke in Spain did not taste the same as the Coke in the United States; it was mostly the jet lag talking, but it became a running joke and we made him try Coke in every country, just to be sure. There w

Blogging as a Master's Student

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I'm in the final stages of my Master's program at Boise State University and my personal blog has definitely slowed down as a result. Even though this blog has been really quiet, I have been updating my edtech blog for my degree quite regularly. Its seems silly to double post things that I have published on one blog to another so I figured I would just share the link. Each class has had varying levels of blog integration and I've linked them below: Edtech 501: Intro to Edtech Edtech 502: Educational Website Edtech 503: Instructional Design Edtech 504: Theoretical Foundation of Edtech Edtech 505: Evaluation Educational Technologists Edtech 532: Technology Integration   (still being updated) Edtech 533: Youtube in the Classroom Edtech 537: Blogging in the Classroom (that was actually done on this blog!) Edtech 541: Educational Games and Simulations  (still being updated) Edtech 542: Project-Based Learning

Brushing Off the Cobwebs

Hectic.  That has been my school year so far.  No, it hasn't been anything bad. But there is so much to do: New responsibilities at work. Finishing my Master's Degree. Moving. Trying to be more 'present' at home. Teaching. Grading. Lesson Planning. Taking care of my fur-babies. I could go on and on, just like anyone.  Unfortunately, I have been neglecting my online #PLN. Ironically when I published my last post on August 11th, I was incredibly optimistic about my blogging plans for the future and I totally failed at it. So much so, that 'Blogger' didn't even show up in my suggested websites when I got on today. My twitter is pretty much in the same state.  I'm so frustrated at myself.  I know that I am not the only one to to fall off the grid when things get crazy.  So this is me brushing off the cobwebs and making a conscience effort to be more engaged online with my #PLN.  What do you do to tell balance your online and offlin