Blog | Samantha DeBellis

Nearpod Final Thoughts / Summary

Hi all! I am a 6th grade math teacher, in case you didn’t know already. For my final project for Teaching With Technology, I chose to...

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Dec 7, 20204 min read

Nearpod Thoughts Log - 6th Grade Math

11/24 Nearpod There are different ways to create a Nearpod slide deck. You can import an existing powerpoint and then add Nearpod content...

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Dec 7, 20205 min read

Data Visualization (including Cali)

When I presented my final data visualizations last week, I got some really awesome feedback from everyone. One was, how have the highway...

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Nov 9, 20201 min read

Final Data Visualization

This week, I spent a lot of time experimenting with Data Wrapper and how to create a visual using it. I created many different graphs...

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Nov 3, 20203 min read

Data Visuals

Oops!! I forgot to attach my visuals... here they are! This is is the New York State highway miles driven over the years- And here is the...

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Oct 27, 20201 min read

Data Visualization Project

We are in week one of our data visualization project. I struggled quite a bit to figure out what direction I wanted to go with this...

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Oct 26, 20203 min read

Educator Activities Week 2

This week in experiencing with social media’s with other teachers, I decided to make my first contribution. Although not a huge one-...

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Oct 19, 20202 min read

CT learning activities

I severely underestimated how difficult it would be for me to create learning objectives and rationales from all of my learning...

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Oct 19, 20202 min read

CT learning experiences

Alexa was my partner this week as we are working on our CT learning experiences! She teaches science so it was super interesting for me...

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Oct 12, 20202 min read

Educator Communities

For my age, people usually expect me to be more involved in social media sites than I actually am. I really only use Facebook and...

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Oct 12, 20202 min read

Turtle Blocks

I spent some time playing around on Turtle Blocks, and I am at the very beginning stages of doing so since I was having some technical...

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Sep 28, 20202 min read

Math in Our World

I found this article to be extremely interesting given the circumstances that we are currently in. https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-m...

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Sep 22, 20203 min read

Edu Capabilities (Part 2)

Addressing the weaknesses Overall there are a number of things I can do to improve my weaknesses. Ideally I would like to be comfortable...

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Sep 22, 20203 min read

Edu Tech Capabilities

My professional and educational history have largely driven my education technology capabilities. After taking the Assessment here's...

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Sep 14, 20204 min read

First Post!!!

Hi Guys, hope everyone has a great semester. I am excited to get to know all of you a little bit better. Goodluck!!

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Sep 10, 20201 min read