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...

Hello friends and colleagues.   I hope you had a fabulous week! Here are a few Links and Loves for you to check out: Wakelet looks promising for saving content to use later, or to build a portfolio. It could also be useful to gather research articles and resources. Here is a collection I made on Wakelet for gif creation tools. Here is a collection that someone else made on Space Exploration. There is also an extension that you can use to quickly bookmark links. Here are your March Tech Backgrounds - Think Spring! Are you looking for student project ideas? Here is a list of 16 of them! This weekend I will be facilitating an Engineering Derby at Bayview Middle School in Green Bay. I can't wait to explore, learn, create and try out new ideas and projects with inspiring educators! --------------------------------------------------- Classroom Connection Have you tried Adobe Spark yet? With Adobe Spark you can create a graphic, a web pag...

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: ...