Photo by Tyler Lastovich Have you ever gotten so engrossed in a project or activity that it was hard to tear yourself away or you became oblivious to outside distractions? Perhaps you have entered “flow!” Richard Byrne tackled this fascinating subject related to character building in digital citizenship. This day…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Have you ever thought about incorporating freehand drawing elements into your lessons and presentations as a teacher? Digital sketching is a fun and useful tool to create simple illustrations or annotations into text. You can even teach your students to use these…
Thank you for joining me for Week 2 of Tech for Teachers! Have you ever gotten a notification that your iCloud storage is full because of all the pictures in your camera roll? Think of the average tween and teen today that owns a phone. The sheer number of pictures…
Welcome to my Tech for Teachers Weekly Blog first official post! I have chosen to subscribe to the following two blogs per our assignment: AskaTechTeacher.com by Jacqui Murray  …
Welcome to my Tech for Teachers Weekly Blog! My name is Jeanette and I will be taking you on a tour of some of the latest and greatest tech tools and resources you can use in the classroom right away. For my regular daytrippermom readers, this will be a divergence…
I have spent a good amount of time wandering around Center City Philadelphia over the years and I’ve discovered you don’t need to do much planning to take a trip there. It can be enough to just show up and walk around on a beautiful day. Maybe you…
If you live in Southeastern PA, then you absolutely have no excuse to not take at least one trip to the heart of historic Philadelphia to see the cradle of our nation’s independence. Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell are just two of the most famous icons you will…
As I sat and watched the Eagles Victory Parade (celebrating the recent Super Bowl win) on TV, I thought there’s no better time to write a blog post about Philadelphia…it also shows you how long I took to write this post. It’s no secret by now…
Sometimes the best outings are unexpected, you stop somewhere on an errand and your kids can’t stop talking about it and want to go back! Over the years I’ve racked up a number of places that I will now go out of my way to take my children…
Recently my husband and I went on a money date to review our year financially. Being the accountant that he is, he inputs all our expenses into Quickbooks by categories so we are able to run a chart showing our yearly entertainment expenses. Last year we made a decision to…
