RCET Conference in Springfield, Missouri

Yesterday was day 1 of the two day RCET Conference.

I love going to this conference because I get so inspired. I come out of the breakout sessions with a fire to hurry up and apply what I know in my classroom. 

On the first day I attended three breakout sessions. Session one was a little disappointing because it was more like a sales pitch about surveys and assessments then it was about helping bring technology into my classroom.

My second breakout session was awesome. The speaker was a teacher from Fordland (which is a small town school like mine so I felt like she could relate). I was really shocked to hear her say that the superintendent at her school has made technology their number one priority and they are moving to a 1:1 school. But wait....our school now has a $3 million dollar football stadium for our 28 player football team....insert sarcastic tone.

Her breakout session was on her favorite apps, websites, and Google tools. Let me just say that my head was about to explode with ideas when I left her session.

My first idea that I think will be easy to impliment is having students create a website on Weebly for their American Revolution project instead of creating power point presentations and hard cover books. And as I am typing this an idea popped in my head to have them display this during the Spring Literature Fair....can you feel the excitement coming thru the computer? OMG....I cannot get started fast enough.

My third and last breakout session was a math session and let me go on record as saying that I HATE teaching math. Math was always my worst subject in school so I feel like I struggle to make it interesting....insert TECHNOLOGY!!!! 

One take away that I had yesterday was CODING!

Talk about getting someone excited about life....coding for kids!

I rushed out and bought two Ozobots and a Sphero so that I could take them back to my classroom and get my kids excited about math and science.

http://ozobot.com

I am still new to this so I am still trying to figure everything out but I do know that when I brought it home last night that my boys (ages 17 and 13) played with them and laughed and kept saying how cool these were.

The website has lesson plans already made up so you can get yourself and your students started right away!

ch 1-2, 2016 ~ Missouri State University