As we return from Winter Break, I’m excited to start a new section of Tech Club and welcome in a fresh new group of 4th graders! At the end of last year’s sessions, I let the old group of Tech Club students make commercials to encourage all the 4th graders to join. In the coming […]
Category: Tech Club
Show Me the Projects: Fall/Winter Tech Club Showcase
We just recently ended our Fall/Winter section of 5th grade Tech Club with our end-of-the-year student Tech Club Showcase. The format was very similar to last year’s showcase (see previous post), but instead of having a photo booth this year, we decided to have an “Elf Yourself” station since it is close to the holidays. […]
I “Mustache” Do You Doodle?: Doodle 4 Google Contest
The students in my afterschool Tech Club participated in this year’s “Doodle 4 Google” contest! This is an annual contest hosted by Google for students in grades K-12. For the contest, students are asked to redesign the Google logo according to this year’s theme, which is “What Makes Me… Me?”. As for prizes and recognition, […]
Back At It: Starting a New Section of Tech Club
So it’s that time once again… it’s time to start back up with my afterschool student technology club! I’ve been wracking my brain all summer long trying to figure out the logistics, like “Am I going to start with a new group of kids or continue with the old group?”, “Will we still meet at […]
Show Off!: Our First Tech Club Showcase
Well it has been a while since my last post, but the past few weeks have been super busy with end-of-the-year activities. However, the end is in sight—Hello Summer!!!! Anyway, last Tuesday, May 5th was our last Tech Club session for the year. It’s quite a bittersweet sensation. Planning and conducting Tech Club sessions in […]
Claymation Movie Mania
So if you have been following along with my blog, then you’ll remember that in my very first post, I blogged about an undergraduate class that I took at Winthrop entitled “Integrating Technology to Support Teaching & Learning”. As I’ve already mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed this class and it’s part of what sparked my desire […]
Check Ur Selfie!!!
I wanted to do a fun introductory activity to kick off our very first session of TECH CLUB, and I wanted to create some type of bulletin board to introduce the new members of the club to the whole school, so I decided to smash these two activities into one assignment. Since Instagram and “selfies” […]
TECH CLUB… On a Tuesday!!!
Around the end of the first semester of this school year, I got a BRILLIANT idea! Some would consider it to be more CRAZY than BRILLIANT because I was creating MORE WORK for myself, but I knew that executing this idea would help me refine my technology skills even more. I decided that I wanted […]