Hold on To Your Chair

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524374299997932092024-12-18T19:28:02.585-08:00Hold on To Your ChairCarrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-35965428263235781282013-09-05T01:00:00.000-07:002013-09-08T21:59:04.319-07:00I Have a Secret

I have a secret. It's a secret I have kept for a very long time.... This is not my first blog. For years I have been blogging under an alias.  I have shared and created and crafted my voice all while being anonymous. For years I have hidden that I was a teacher.  I was constantly fearful that someone might realize I'm an educator and I might get in trouble. For years I was

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10032878576475580976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-73881257620401193762013-08-14T19:16:00.000-07:002013-08-14T19:18:32.251-07:00LETS DO THIS!

I sit snuggled up under the blankets, coffee cup in one hand, one finger peck typing a post with the other.  This is my last day. This is my last day of summer. My summers have changed over the years from the one before kids supplied with endless me time and no schedule to follow to the exhausting ones when my daughters were young to the ones now full of activity, play and jam packed

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10032878576475580976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-58455922907693258862013-05-19T07:05:00.001-07:002013-05-22T09:44:00.682-07:00I Was an #EduWin Guest

Did you see!  Did you see!!!!! Saturday I was honored and well.... over the moon giddy with excitement to be part of the the EdReach #EduWin Weekly.   This weekly podcast is hosted by James Gubbins with show contributors Carlos Fernandez , Michelle Russell and Cheryl Lykowski.  They share #Eduwin's from across Twitter and blogoshere and put a spot

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-76444129855312353342013-05-18T15:06:00.000-07:002013-05-22T09:44:25.589-07:00Mission Possible

Duh duh duh duh... duh duh duh duh... duh duh duh duh.....duhduhduhhhhhhh duhduhduhhhhhh duhduhduhhhhhh duh duh...  Mission Impossible theme song in your head yet?!   hmmmmm.... Well I need ya there with me here is some help Mission Impossible Theme song (not that Tom Cruise Mission Impossible stuff...old school Mission Impossible Peter Graves style) Ready now? Duh duh duh duh...

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-32161297529902209332013-05-04T09:05:00.000-07:002013-05-04T09:05:22.167-07:00Dear Jen

Dear Jen, A year ago I was a passionate special educator who even after fourteen years still found incredible joy in working with students with significant disabilities, recognizing their strengths, tapping into them as learners and empowering them to over come their weakness and be amazing students.  Still, with all this passion and the successes I was having in the classroom, there was a

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-48767310296282738072013-04-26T14:08:00.002-07:002013-04-26T14:08:44.453-07:00Week 5 and 6: Steady As We Go

After weeks and weeks of excitement, new tools and waves and waves of awesomeness, things have finally settled and iPad life has been smooth sailing.   With my students now the captains of their iPads... they easily navigate between apps, using Goodreader to complete assignment notebooks, worksheets, take notes and write paragraphs.  New apps that we (I say we

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-71695113227134306612013-04-16T09:04:00.000-07:002013-04-16T09:04:53.849-07:00Week 4: Light Bulbs

Light bulbs were all the rage last week!   Ah ha moments, glowing eyes of aw and pride, oooo's and ahhs, and glissening wide smiles...with teeth and everything and oh my goodness look at me filled each period!  My students continued to just rock technology and totally and completely rock being an iPad 1:1 classroom last week.  They continue to become more and more

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-21541094077943877852013-04-10T06:33:00.001-07:002013-04-10T06:33:46.570-07:00Our Awesomeness #1

  We have tried out a few different tools to project the iPad during lessons.  Reflector is a phenomenal desktop app that projects your iPad through the projector.  It allows me to not have to be plugged in.  I can walk around the classroom continuously displaying what I am doing on the iPad (downfall is my classroom's wifi is not always able to keep up with it so it has

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-13587046314978220752013-04-07T18:44:00.000-07:002013-04-07T18:44:16.787-07:00Week 3: Juuuust Right

Remember in Goldie Locks and the Three Bears when Goldie Locks (that naughty girl she was, being in someone's house without asking) sat at the table tasting porridge... this one is tooo hot...this one is tooo cold... this one is just right!  That moment...The moment the porridge finally tasted perfectly warm, was exactly what happened this week! This week things came together in awesome

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-69706085704027922572013-03-20T14:51:00.000-07:002013-03-20T14:51:00.223-07:00Discovering Edcanvas

Using technology to engage my students in independent learning is a huge humongously big deal. Independent activities and self guided learning, because of my students learning weaknesses, is extremely challenging and often not possible.  A consistent goal of mine is to provide them with tools that allow them to independently access information of taught materials and tools that allow them to

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-35277178057845562502013-03-17T20:35:00.001-07:002013-03-17T20:40:36.676-07:00Week #2: Perfecting Student Access

The iPads where in full force this week. This week the expectation was that class work, assignment notebooks and homework would be done on the iPads.  With my students, teaching assistants and the iPads ready, (and state testing almost done) we were ready to put  the iPads to work!  Monday- my students were still learning to navigate the Goodreader software. We continued

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-16511880786861544172013-03-11T08:49:00.001-07:002013-03-16T17:14:01.346-07:00Week 1: Unexpected Crazy Perfection

You know those weeks that you walk into your classroom thinking I have everything planned.  You've checked your ToDo list, your calendar, run through the second ToDo list in your head and think done, done and yes!  This week was one of those weeks....or so I thought. This was it. THE WEEK!!! The iPads were going to be handed out. It was finally here. All my prep, hard work,

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-33611158641207156552013-03-04T15:42:00.003-08:002013-03-16T17:14:13.783-07:00Getting Ready...Pre-Week #2

Last week was my last week prior to {insert nail biting paired and gitty excitement geeeee} the big day... The day the students get their iPads. I wasn't the only one excited either!  I heard at least once or twice a day, "When are we getting the iPads (insert blank stare at me... Light bulb going off) Oh yeah next week." Followed by frown and shoulder slump. We are all incredibly

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-38747340322331077112013-02-27T19:33:00.000-08:002013-02-27T19:33:10.439-08:00The Portable Lesson #1

As I prepare for my classroom's journey as a 1:1 iPad classroom I find myself thinking very differently more frequently then usual.  Aside from trying to predict what it will be like to be a 1:1 iPad classroom (that is a whollllleeee other post for another day) I have began to think how I can integrate my own iPad use into my classroom more frequently. How can I model technology use

Carrie Baughcumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008878043622217951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252437429999793209.post-67453720612544068422013-02-22T12:01:00.001-08:002013-03-16T17:14:25.988-07:00Getting Ready....Pre-Week #1

Today it began. I did it. I shared the letter with my students introducing the 1:1 iPad classroom we were becoming.  Excitement filled the classroom. Question after question came from their mouths and it all became real to me. Parent Letter This was really happening. So as eager students go home to share with their parents the news of this fantastic opportunity I plan and prepare

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