The Second Year of the Mitten Tree 3D Printing Project

Welcome Back 

Welcome Back 

Thank you for all you are doing for our students. We appreciate you. Thank you Giovanna for creating this appreciation banner for our staff!! Have a great week everyone. Thanks again. 

Every year in February nominees are selected by principals (supervisors) from schools around PA. The Keystones Technology Innovators (KTI) is a state-wide program that celebrates model teachers throughout Pennsylvania. These teachers bring new ideas, best practices and innovative ways of innovating with technology to capture the imaginations of students in classrooms.

Until next year...

This was shared with me by Sherry Zubeck. Really wraps up what has occurred so far in 2020 and what is yet to come. If you can find 4 minutes to watch this video – I promise you will find it time well spent. You are great. We need you here at IU13. You can do "virtually" anything. We believe in you! We are here for you! 😊 Lori, Giovanna, Hillary, and Melinda (the ECSES-IT Team!)

Today (August 20th) some staff member start back in the classroom. For some, they do not start until after Labor Day. Regardless where you fit in that time frame...WELCOME BACK. Let's make this the best year for our students yet!!! I am very excited for the new year because I have a lot of new ideas, tools, and resources to share in our classrooms. Please call upon me for help and either myself or Melinda Oatman or Hillary Holler will assist you. My first monthly contest give-away is here. Check out the right hand side of this blog for more information. Voting will occur on September 13th and winner announce on the 14th. Good luck!!!

Hello everyone, I hope everyone had a fantastic summer. Can't believe it flew by already but here were are, ready to embark in a new school year. I know I am excited as there are lots of new things occurring. Staying the same bores me so change is always good, but we know it can be crazy at times. Hillary Holler and Melinda Oatman are both with me again this year- YEAH - we are ready to help you with ITT, IEPWriter, Instructional Tech Tools, PowerSchool, and perhaps lots of other stuff. I received two grants over the summer. We now have our own Google Expeditions Glasses set for the ECSES Department. I ran a session this summer that went great and even if you did not attend and are interested in having me come out to run a class lesson sign up on our Google Sign-Up Form. Finally, I want to make this first Blog short- but Hillary and I are after-school tech help sessions each month. They will go from 3-5pm. Come for all of it, come for just some, you get credit for the time you attended. These are informal and here to help you with questions on IEPWriter, ITT, tech tools, using your laptop, etc. If we can't answer your question we will find out who can and connect you to them. We are running one in Lebanon and one in Lancaster each month. Attached is the list of dates. Hope to see you then. Look out for the first contest of the school year. I am giving away an OSMO Genius Kit. This is valued at about $100.00. The company gave one to me this year as a bonus to give away! I will post the blog contest next week and you have until September 10th to email your essay. Good luck!!!

Hillary, Melinda and I are getting ready for the new school year to have all the instructional tools ready for your use. We noticed today that Discovery Education (DE) is saying it has expired. Please know, the IS department is working on this issue to have it up and running very soon. This program will continue to be available for all students and staff for the 18-19 school year using your active directory logins. All staff and students will also have Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr available. These programs will also use your active directory logins. Starting the month of October I will be starting back up with the technology give-a-way contest. Stay tuned for that in September to hear what I will be giving away. Enjoy your summer, stay cool (it is 98 today!!) See you in August.