by Meredith Martin | Jun 17, 2016 | Just for Fun, MakerEd
This year’s Art Show theme was Art Goes To The Movies. As usual, Little Dog came dressed up for the main event. This year, he came as BB-8 from the new Star Wars movie. I had a ton of fun making his costume out of papier mache. He was a HUGE hit, and had his...
by Meredith Martin | Jun 17, 2016 | Collaboration, MakerEd, STEM
I asked several of my students to write up short posts about the Extraordinaires project if they were so inclined, and here is the first one from Michael. All the classes in JMT did the create your own invention to help someone. There was challenges like clothing...
by Meredith Martin | Jun 17, 2016 | Collaboration, MakerEd, STEM
We have finally completed our Design Challenges. I cannot believe how much fun we all had with this project. In my end of the school year survey, the huge majority of students voted the Extraordinaires Design Challenge as their favorite STEM Lab project. I was...
by Meredith Martin | May 20, 2016 | Google Apps, How-To, professional development
Have you seen Google Spaces? This is an awesome new tool from Google that seems to be a hybrid between Google Classroom and Google Groups. It shares Classroom’s great visual interface with Groups’ availability to anyone, even outside of a GAFE domain....
by Meredith Martin | May 20, 2016 | Google Apps, resources
A friend was looking for an editable (NOT edible!) certificate template this morning, so I popped into Google Drive to make one. It turned out pretty well, so I’m sharing it out for anyone who wants it. Click on the image below to create a copy for...