Turning The Corner
I'm told I'm a pretty upbeat person. I usually note the challenge in something and take it on, or deal with it as positively as I can. One of the self imposed challenges I've taken on gladly the last few years has been to embrace a new 21st century pedagogy that is...
“Articulate Specific Programs You Are For”
Justin Hamilton, the US Department of Education's Press Secretary sent out the following tweet: Mr. Hamilton had just endured a bashing on Twitter, some appropriate points, and a few very over the top. I have to admit as a teacher I hoped maybe he would get an idea of...
My Comment on the Education Nation Blog
I left a comment on the "Education Nation Blog" post written by John Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Just thought I'd post it here tonight as well: Supt. Deasy - Nice job tonight, don't agree with you on everything, but appreciate...
Sooo … What Happened?
My 5th grade class sent up a high altitude balloon ... well actually, Dr. Eric Wang from the University of Nevada, Reno, Mechanical Engineering Department and the NevadaSat program sent up a high altitude balloon from our playground with 2 payloads my class designed....
What Do You Think Will Happen?
If you are a teacher here is a simple science / blogging project your students (or just you) can participate in. If you are NOT a teacher, participate yourself (it's simple) or have your own children participate. We are sending up a high altitude balloon 100,000 feet....
#Nasatweetup
What if you come for a shuttle launch and the shuttle doesn't launch? A waste of time? Hardly. My trip made people where I'm from more aware of the what school could become. Our local paper did a short article, and although I was supposed to Skype in an interview (the...
Link To High Hopes 2 Project
If you ended up here to leave your "High Hope" for the world to go up over 100,000 feet on a high altitude balloon. CLICK HERE. To see video of last year's launch CLICK HERE. (note this video is yet to be narrated, but is still way cool to watch)
On My Way – NASA Tweetup/sts-134-launch
I'm writing quickly from the airport in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm soon to catch the second in a trilogy of flights that will end in Orlando, Florida, at 6:00am Thursday morning (how much sleep will I get???), and from there I will rush out to Cape Canaveral to be one...
High Hopes Balloon Project 2
Next Wednesday, May 4, 2011, my students will be part of a 3 balloon launch from 2 elementary schools. The photo above was taken from about 107,000 feet a year ago during our last launch. Like last year, along with various science data we are collecting, we are...
My Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Adventure UPDATE
Not that I didn't know what I was getting into. I mean everyone, um ... most people, uh ... many of us know that any kind of space mission is at the mercy of the weather, technical issues, and more - and any or all of these can change the schedule. So being on the...