#ASTE17

https://www.aste.org/aste-2017-conference/

I am so excited to be presenting at the ASTE conference this year. For years, I have made it my professional development goal to present and get to learn from other educators. The last two years, I presented at the AEYC-SEA (Early Childhood Conference), so this leap into a larger forum of Technology is big!

I am really excited about my topic- Your Digital Footprint: Teaching Digital Citizenship Online & Off-line. I feel especially in this age where social media is huge, you really need to start teaching & acting like someone is always watching!

I am also so excited to learn from Alice Keeler & George Couros. I'd love to be like them someday. This year, my goal is to write my book.
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My students received Time for Kids where there was an article about a boy who attended school as a "robot" because he had surgery and couldn't leave. They thought it was such an interesting concept and when I told them that I would be missing school a couple days to go to the conference, they thought it would be cool if I could appear via skype to teach them.

Every semester, we do an awards ceremony here. The students all get awards for most improved scores, being helpful or kind, but the most coveted is the PERFECT ATTENDANCE award. I had 2 students who missed 1 day of school last semester because they had to fly to Dr. Appointments in Fairbanks and 2 who were sick (throwing up for one day.) and they thought it would be so cool if they could get perfect attendance by appearing in class that way.