KATEMCDONNELL

For my Professional Development class, I had to develop a PD plan, and that allowed me to look more deeply into the new AP Computer...

Took a few more notes today. Really enjoying this conference again. Definitely recommend it! Feedback for wrong answers in on-line...

This day started pretty well but ended with my phone getting broken, so it was not my best day. I did have some good sessions, though....

I have always really enjoyed going to the CSTA Annual Conference, and I have learned a lot from everyone. Yesterday's keynote was really...

This summer, we had to present possible qualitative research designs that could potentially lead to our dissertations in the fall. To no...

My state and district are looking into developing math pathways since it has become more than clear that the traditional math pathway...

This semester, I took a class in Quantitative Research methods. I have spent some time thinking about how I might apply these to my...

In my online school, I am part of the Art Department. As a result, we are part of the annual art show. The music students submit...

The 2024 FRC season is upon us, and competition is just a few weeks away. While other teams are doing their first competitions, we are...

In 2016, the Aurora History Museum had a local Women in STEM exhibit, and they chose to include me. Here is a picture of my entry. I was...

For my Qualitative Research class, we had to write a Mini-Qualitative Study. As always, I centered this on automated feedback for my...

While taking DIME2, I decided to redo my Virtual Classroom app from the spring for the final. The class really took all the things that I...

As a teacher, you get used to students leaving. They move on to a brand new adventure, often somewhere very far from where they came...

This was my final project proposal for my research design course. I have become very interested in the idea of self-efficacy in computer...

In 2017, I conducted extensive CS Education Research for my CS Pedagogy Capstone class in the Masters Certificate Program at the College...

As my final project for Foundations of Programming in Spring 2023, I wrote a Virtual Classroom web application using a Spring Boot Java...

One of the saddest moments of my professional life was in August 2019, when I discovered that I had deleted (and therefore lost) eight...

This past weekend, I was lucky enough to attend ASCD for free, thanks to CSTA! It was great to just hop on the light rail and end up at a...

I spend much time from Jan-Mar working with my students to design and build a robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition. It’s hard, it’s...

Unlike most teachers, I come at teaching with the mindset of an engineer and/or a programmer (depending on the day – and the problem!)....