Breakout EDU releases a daily Lock of the Day which is a single lock challenge. Sometimes they put a call out to crowd source, from the community, lock ideas. Their most recent was before Valentine’s Day and my lock submission…
Sharing Inspiration…
In a previous district, when my responsibility was to assist teachers with integrating iPads, I would share out a “Free Friday ‘App’etizer”, or in other words, an app of the week with the why/how it could be used in the…
Breakout EDU, Challenges, Education, Google, HyperDoc, Nearpod, Professional Development, Projects/Activities
Mystery Unit Culminating Celebration…
I was approached by one of my fourth grader teachers. She was looking for an activity for her students to celebrate the end of their Mystery Unit in ELA. The students learned vocabulary like: mystery, crime, culprit, evidence, etc. They started to write…
Updating My School’s Breakout EDU Sign-out…
Back in 2017, while in another school district, I was asked to help create a digital way to sign-out a Breakout EDU kit(s). I wrote about that and unfortunately, when I left that district to come to my current district,…
Add-ons, Badging, Challenges, Coding, Education, Forms, Google, Google Apps Script, Projects/Activities, Star Wars
Washington’s Code Day 2022
In my district, we have a school which is just fifth grade. Each year, during Computer Science Education Week, they celebrate an entire day devoted to coding called Code Day. I was asked to be a guest speaker since I’m…
Helping My Admin Breakout!
One day my principal asked me for some help. She was part of a district wide administrators’ book study (The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell). Her group was responsible for leading a review of chapter 4,…