Did you see the giant wall on the expo hall floor that had robots drawing up and down all over it? That was Root robots and I’m kinda excited about what I saw. These robots are scalable for ECE to high school coders. They move, draw, use sensors, are easy charging, and I will beContinue reading Root robots

While roaming the vast expo hall at FETC today I was super excited to find the folks behind Safe and Secure Online. They have a new Digital Citizenship lesson featuring Garfield. They have online and offline versions of the lessons. The cartooons, videos, comic, and materials are engaging for kids and thanks to their partnershipContinue reading DigCit with Garfield

Visiting registration today to pick up my badge and ribbons was super exciting! I’ve never been to FETC on Tuesday so seeing all the work that goes on behind the scenes was eye opening. The amount of people, moving parts, and machinery involved in setting up an expo hall floor of this magnitude is trulyContinue reading FETC Expo hall

It is coming upon one of my favorite times of the year! It is like a holiday for the techy teacher in us all….FETC!!!! FETC is one of the premier conferences for educators. The Future of Educational Technology Conference in Orlando is the GO TO place for educators from around the world, and not justContinue reading FETC time!!!

Because I work at a Judaic Day School, I am always looking for ways to integrate Judaic content into my technology class. This year for hour of code I wanted to integrate Hanukkah. I found some great pre-made Scratch programs that my students could remix. I also created an offline coding with a chanukiah for myContinue reading Coding and Hanukkah

I happened upon these task cards for teachers to help them get started with certain apps. I loved it and thought I would share! https://www.thinglink.com/scene/834457493684879361 These challenges provide step-by-step instructions for the program and help teachers (or anyone) get a feel for the program. Thoughts?

Dr Seuss Literacy Day K The Shape of Me and Other Stuff Shadows/ silhouettes Go Dog Go Create a story with kids names Go __ Go and tell what they did Put Me in the Zoo STEAM: Art and Math counting dots The Alphabet Book ABCs of our school 1 The Ear Book Take a SoundContinue reading Dr Seuss day activities

I am still learning and practicing sketchnoting. You will notice there are more words than pics sometimes, but I am practicing! Here are my notes for Nik Chatzopoulos’ session Cool Ed Tech Programming and Robots. If my notes are confusing tweet @chatzopoulousn for more info!   I also attended a great session on K-5 computerContinue reading My attempts at Sketchnotes

For more info and inspiration follow @mikemeechin on Twitter! Congratulations Mountain View Elementary! Congratulations Laing Park School of Science and Tech from Charleston, SC! Congratulations Enginnering and Science University Magnet School!   So I attempted to sketch note the session.., I highly encourage you to check out Amber McCormick’s sketchnoting class today for great iOSContinue reading STEM Awards and Mike Meechin

For a few years at FETC, Mike Meechin was given small or medium sized rooms and people tried to cram themselves into his 60 in 60 sessions. I know because I was one of those people. Then he got a bigger room, then bigger, and today he is keynoting the morning session. Finally everyone canContinue reading Thursday morning with Mike Meechin and what else I’m excited about today