Deb Norton Tech

This week has been an exceptional one! I had the honor and pleasure to attend a day at the SLATE Conference. Check out these pictures of the fun we had! My colleague, Val, presented on Robotics and Coding Can you find me in the crowd? I presented on Virtual Reality Of course I was using the Oculus VR in our hotel room! This HS student presenter kept coming to my station to experience the VR app Google Blocks I also facilitated an Engineering Derby in Mauston, WI with 38 amazing 3rd - 8th graders.  So much innovation and energy with these students Snowball sculpture challenge LED circuitry Bloxels How lucky I am to be a part of these incredible experiences. Next week I'm heading to Minneapolis, MN for a technology conference. I'm really looking forward to learning from others and getting my technological geekiness going. ---------------------------------------------------------- Now here are this week's links and loves: ...

This week has been INCREDIBLE!  We are so blessed! On my commute to work, I listened to this and this and this .  (Better PD, Modern Family and Flipping Science) #TryPod To celebrate #InternationalWomen’sDay, I viewed this slideshow of girls from around the world going to school. This site intrigues me.   Move over escape rooms or BreakoutEDU, check out Room Escape Maker ! I’m among some incredible educators for this Saturday’s, free SimpleK12, Google Training Webinars.    Happy Friday and consider this inspiring message that I created with this Chrome extension . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Curricular Connection Google Drawings I have heard this tool referred to as the Swiss army knife of the GSuite!   I recently showed a colleague how to add a Google Drawing to a Google Document by clicking on Insert and then Drawing. Google Drawing provides a blank...