Samantha Henegar

Wow! What a ride! Taking a look back over the last few weeks, and everything I have made clarified several things to me; about me. We...

Another challenging....challenge. This week the mission was to drive a motor with sensors. I had lots of ideas, and this project morphed...

Week 5 Challenge...Maker's Choice. My students will hear me say a thousand times, "You decide how you want this to turn out. Make that...

Our mission for this week was to create a circuit and code to operate a button that should generate a random number, then display this...

This week's adventure was challenging, fun, and certainly stretched me. The goal was to use an Arduino board, some LED lights, random...

In his 1995 book, "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ", Daniel Goleman used the term "Amygdala Hijack" to describe...

Let me say this first: I haven't had any experience with computer language, but I do have a couple of things going for me. First, I have...

I have the memory of a goldfish. I think I once read somewhere that goldfish only have memories for about 5 seconds, then everything is...

I've been using "hyperdocs" for several years in my class, but I wasn't aware of the name for these things. Now I know, and it is going...

I've only used YouTube once or twice....a day. It is where I go when I don't know how to do something. Most recently I learned how to...

A quick trip through #twitterland in search of the it's many uses in the classroom.

Secondary Mathematics and the Digital Generation Samantha Henegar Faculty Advisor: Dr. Judith Quander University of Houston- Downtown...

This is me, Samantha Henegar. Born in Houston, TX, mother of two, married to my high school sweetheart, math teacher, future librarian....

For this technology play I will be discussing three "creativity tools" that could be utilized in the classroom. Creativity tools give the...

Eportfolios are similar to physical portfolios because both are a collection of work that has been created to demonstrate a person's...

Blogs, due to their abundance of affordances, can be successfully used to support pedagogy in the classroom and library. My current goal...