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Becoming a Teacher

"Change a moment to change your day.
Change a day and you change a life.
Change a life and you change the world."
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View Book [on amazon]:

How to organize
your classroom


View Book [on amazon]:

Teaching stragegies
on student participation


On-Line Education Resources


McGinn's Middle School Math Class

Geometry:
Transformations
Transversals

Math Kinder thru H.S.

Math is Fun

Multiplication Flashcards

Business, Money, and Math Games

Math and business activities for young entrepreneurs

Math and Business Resource for Kids

McGinn's Grade 6 Science Class

Enchanted Learning

Study Jams

WatchKnowLearn_Org

NASA STEM for students

Kinetic and Potential Energy Guide















McGinn's Computer Skills Class

McGinn's Elementary Learning Games

Computer Skills: Mouse and Keyboarding Games

Learning to Type: A Resource Guide; Author: Chris Russell
















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March 2025 - email

Hello, I'm following up on our suggestion to add a valuable article to your webpage.


Innovative Female Engineers in History


Sohana and our students are eager to know your thoughts. Your consideration would be greatly appreciated.
[Also, remove the dead link submitted via email Oct. 2021]
Thank you in advance. Warm regards,
Amy Dean, Teacher and advisor
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Jan. 2024 - email


Business, Money, and Math Games:
Learning While Having Fun

I wanted to express my gratitude... I instruct a math club for elementary students and we had a blast exploring your page.... missing from your material. This particular page provides math games, activities and worksheets... On behalf of Lacey, I'd like to ask if you could include it to the 'math practice' section of your page ... grow your material and make it accessible to students and a wider audience. :) My students really got a kick out of the page and thought others would too!...
Skye Olley [s.olley@fullerslibrary.com ]
August 2022 - email

Hi there... On a personal note... as a teacher in a low income school many of my students struggled with learning disabilities that impacted their education. My experience taught me that students with special needs are capable of learning the same learning objectives as their peers, they just need additional resources or a different teaching approach.


STEM resources for kids with special needs

I am still passionate about equitable education and learning opportunities for children, specifically in the STEM fields of study, and that's how I came across your work.

Best, Alexandra Chappell
April 2022 - email

My student, Ashley, and student volunteers assisting me to work on our 'Computer Skills' collections ... requested I reach out as a thank you and pass this along ...


Computer Skills:
Mouse and Keyboarding Games


Your page helped us a bunch...
Mr. Rizzo, Library Media Specialist in Maine
Oct. 2021 - email

Water Cycle, Cloud Formations and Rainbows

My daughter Abby's weather project ... create a weather map and then read it in front of the class like a meteorologist.
Abby also wanted to pay it forward by passing along... she found in her research...
Thanks so much and all the best,
A. Cisneros
Oct. 2020 - email

Your Keyboarding page ... was perfect in helping me find typing / keyboarding practice sites! ... Thank you so much for your efforts in putting this page together... After Natalie started playing a few of the games / lessons, she started to get really excited about practicing and took it upon herself (with her Dad) to find a page with a bunch of cool typing practice games!


Learning to Type: A Resource Guide; Author: Chris Russell

It really is the little things that make such a big difference! ..... Be well, Susan.
Jan . 2020 - email

...I would love to make a contribution that could help others struggling! ... Can you add this keyboarding reference guide to your list as well? ... Thought you might be interested. :)


Kids' Computer Basics: Keyboarding


... My school's STEM club would be pretty impressed to see it up too. We meet every Friday after school and I would love to show them!
Ms. J. Rosales
Aug. 2019 - email


Math and business activities for young entrepreneurs

I just wanted to shoot you a quick email to say thanks. I'm a youth mentor, and one of my mentees (Mark) was in summer school for math this summer......
Your page was a great help to him so we wanted to let you know how much he appreciated it. As a thank you, Mark suggested that I pass along another [link] guide that helped him a lot....
Amy Carr [amy.carr@brightcountymentors.org]
Feb. 2019 - email


Math and Business Resource for Kids

My son, Chase, has been falling a little behind in math. His teacher has assigned him some extra credit to get some practice and bring his grades up a bit. Anyway, we just wanted to say thank you for your helpful math references on your page. ... Chase wanted to share with you this math guide that he found on someone's math blog.... He'd also love if you could share it on your page....
Chase's Mom
Dec. 2018 - email


Kinetic and Potential Energy Guide

Here is a link with resources ... Feel free to reach back out to me with any questions that you may have.... Clayton Hudson, Communications Manager
6860 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 228
Plano, TX 75024....
email: Clayton@admin.saveonenergy.com
www.saveonenergy.com




McGinn's 2005 Technology Classroom

[images source: Wikipedia.org]

Students typed HTML code to build web pages and searched the Internet for hyperlinks.


1989 invention: (HTML) and (URL) created by Tim Berners-Lee

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Students snapped digital photos on a Sony Mavica
and uploaded their floppy disks onto the PC as images on their web pages.

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Students were limited to a 3-minute movie project due to memory limitations on the computer.

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Growing up
with technology

[image source: Commons Wikipedia.org]

My first cellphone !

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My first copy machine,
wet "purple ink" sheets
run through a mimeograph.

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Students' movie project,
transfered from a digital
camcorder to computer to VHS, anology tape. VHS cassette.

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Janet has 25+ years classroom experience.

ARIZONA PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

Toltec Elementary School Dist.
Tucson Unified School Dist.
Sunnyside Unified School Dist
Window Rock School Dist.

SUBSTITUTE TEACHING:

Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas and Arizona

Janet believes education is a gift you give yourself.

M.A. Univ. of Arizona (Tucson)
B.S. Slippery Rock Univ. (PA)


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2018, Janet marched with Tucson teachers in the "Red 4 Ed" rally to raise awareness for needs of Arizona classrooms.

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