On Duty with Dodge

It was nice to have my friend Dodge visit during my ISTE docent duty this morning. He's just delivered a lecture via Skype to another country for the first time. I've been trying to set up a Skype with him and my third graders about animals since he is a college level bio professor in RL but I don't think the third grade teachers I work with share my vision for using 21st Century tools like this. Maybe I can get second grade to use his expertise!

Everything's Coming up Tulips

What a treat Monday night when Alfredo led a building class on spring flower making! There were about ten or twelve people there, three of more of whom I'd never met. We got our folder of materials and directions and could work independently or follow Al's directions.

When it was done I goofed around donning various animal avatars that seemed to go with the flowers.