Charles (Butch) Morrow

Final Reflection: What did you learn? I was really glad that I chose to participate in this PD. It was a great chance to see what has been developed since my graduate days at the University of Houston.   It is also interesting to see what has stayed the same – keeping tabs of file size, what types of files can and cannot be used in certain programs, etc. I was able incorporate one the lessons – Participation Tools, into a lesson for my Resource class (Fever,1793). I also developed a running chronicle/visual diary of college visitation trips for my youngest son (he wants to attend The University of Texas). I also used Bitmojis to jazz up some of my classroom pages. My students get a laugh, and it breaks the ice when a new topic or skill is introduced. What’s next?                What is next is really up in the air. My school is one of many with an uncertain future – staff, administration, etc., may be changing. I’m not sure who I will be working with or where, and I wonde

Hi, I have been investigating Thing #7:Presentation Tools. Our 7th and graders will be doing a PBL assignment in the spring. The plan is to have them do research on the occupation they are interested in following high school or for some college. So, I decided to investigate Google Slides since it is already on the students' Chromebook (our district is very touchy about downloading anything). I chose to develop a lesson on Slides using the book FEVER,1793 . The 7th ELA teachers  are teaming with the 7th grade Social Studies to read and explore this book. It is based on the Yellow Fever epidemic that occurred Philadelphia in 1793. The ELA  classes will be reading the book as well as doing several writing assignments such as answering questions, opinion pieces, etc.. The Social Studies will be discussing the background piece of the book - life in the new States following the American Revolution as well as the vocabulary from the book. The lesson I developed can be seen below: