![]() How do I respond to that? I feel that the template is a great way for the digital notebook to look like a real notebook and also a great way for students to organize their files, rather than just a file on their drive. Bishop, why do you want me to make the files on my drive and then place them again in the template – seems redundant.” I then ask them to place those files in the corresponding section of the template. I am asking students to make 4 files – Class Stuff, Lab Stuff, Homework Stuff, and Design Challenges. My supervisor posed a scenario that I had difficulty answering: I made a template for my students in both iSTEM and regular science and felt ready in use them in September. ![]() I am so thankful for you supplying the Google Sites template for the digital notebook and I did spend a good amount of time modifying it to fit my classroom needs. So my learning curve with new ideas is long and slow. My comfort level with technology is maybe a 5 out of 10. Let me start off by saying that I am older (59) and have been teaching for 9 years. I cannot thank you enough for your expertise, suggestions, and links to help in this area.īut, I had a meeting with the district supervisor for Curriculum and Instruction yesterday to get a lesson on general use of Google docs in the classroom. I have also decided to go that route not only for iSTEM, but for my regular sections of science as well. I have learned so much from all of your information, successes, and setbacks and will tell you with all sincerity, that I WILL be going paperless starting September 9. I was attracted to your wonderful blog because I, too, wanted to investigate the possibilities of going paperless in my new iSTEM classroom. Needless to say, my plate is full.įirst off, I have been following your blog since last September when I was asked (told!) that I would be the lead for the new district initiative into STEM education. The iSTEM can be thought of as the usual 8th grade science course but on steroids – with all of the normal topics but including engineering design challenges and all that goes along with the proposed NGSS guidelines in the future. My name is Jeff Bishop and I teach 8th grade Physical Science, 8th grade Robotics, as well as a new iSTEM course for 8th grade starting in September.
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