Deb Norton Tech

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! May luck be on your side and may you find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Here are a few links and loves that have come my way this week. A student recommended the Throne of Glass series to me. It is  Young Adult Fiction and I'm planning to read the first book in the series over the Spring Break. Last week's Engineering Derby in Green Bay was a huge success! It was such a creative, innovative and collaborative day! Lately, I can't seem to live without this encyclopedia, this extension for finding colors, this site for saving links and this extension for saving tabs as I create presentations for upcoming conferences and workshops. I love technology when it helps me to create and be organized. --------------------------------------------------------- Curricular Connection Google Applied Digital Skills ! In a few weeks, I will be using the Google Applied Digital Skills Curri...

Greetings fellow educators. How was your week? Here are a few links and loves I’ve been enjoying lately. With the help of my co-workers, YouTubers and several Facebook groups and Instagram posts , , I feel as though I finally have a general understanding of how to design and create with the Cricut Design Space platform and the Cricut machine in our Innovation Lab. Next week I am planning lessons for students in a media class, centered around the Design Thinking Model , to create a product with the Cricut machine. In yet another classroom, I am planning lessons for students using the popular Applied Digital Skills platform. These are video based lessons that integrate the Google for Education Suite (docs, slides, mail, maps, sites etc.) to have students work collaboratively to accomplish real life projects and skills. The one I am going to use is called Plan an Event . Do you enjoy being creative? Lately I’ve been really drawn to trying creative challenges. I’ve ...