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Hometown:
Orem, Utah
School / Work Affiliation
Orem Junior High School / Alpine School District
About Me:
I teach Science at Orem Junior High School in Utah. I teach grades 7-9 at the school. I'm preparing to begin my 23rd year in the profession. I am my school's science department chair (and have been for 9 years) and am also in my second year as the Alpine School District Science Specialist. I am the workshop facilitator and webmaster for Utah's Sci-ber Text project (an online textbook for science use in grades 3-9.)

I am bilingual on both Macintosh and Windows platforms. I am comfortable trouble shooting most programs or computer problems. I have great Internet access at both home and school. (Both are connected with fiber optic.)

I became a Master Teacher when Intel® Education arrived in Utah in 2001. My students enjoy doing projects that I design using what I have learned from the Intel® Teach Program. I have a small twelve computer lab in my classroom for students to use. Typically,my students are in groups of 3 or 4 using these computers.
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http://www.oremjr.alpine.k12.ut.us/depts/science/gwestbroek/
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I enjoy observing Utah's great natural resources. Many of my photos of these areas are used in my classroom for students to use.


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Wordle in the classroom

During my homeroom class today, I had students create "posters" of what they are grateful for. These posters were created in Wordle. I learned this was my students first introduction to this Web2.0 activity. There was great enthusiasm and students consistently were trying to create longer "thankful" lists to see how they turned out. I showed the posters to our 7th Grade Counselor and she was so excited, she brought down a student aid and copies of the posters… Continue

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

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Using games as formative assessments

One area that I feel does not receive enough attention by classroom teachers is the concept of formative assessments. Recently a tweet from @clifmims reminded me how I use games as a form of formative assessments. As I considered the variety of formative assessments I have used, I realized that games were where I saw students enjoying and participating the most. Any points earned in a game are for BRAGGING rights only. Below are variations of games and h… Continue

Posted on November 22, 2008 at 8:48pm —

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Possible School-wide addition of Interactive Boards?

Yesterday afternoon, the Health Teacher in the room next door invited the principle to come with her into my classroom. She had seen me using my Promethean Board and was VERY impressed. The principal enjoyed the short few minutes he observed of the board's usage in the classroom. Then when my students began an activity, I invited him to come and play at the board. He saw the many possibilities for math, language arts, social studies, and of course the science I had been showing. In the last few… Continue

Posted on November 20, 2008 at 8:25pm —

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It’s not what you know, but how or if you share what you know.

21st Century Learning is based on the philosophy of “It’s not what you know, but how or if you share what you know.” As I reviewed the NETS-S provided by ISTE, it seemed that this Learning Target could be applied within each standard. A review of the NETS-T provided the impetus behind my point of… Continue

Posted on November 17, 2008 at 7:20pm —

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Biology Cell Test using Interactive Response Devices

I've been working to develop a test for my Biology students. We have been studying cells so tonight I developed a summative assessment to give my students. I use individual response devices from TurningTechnologies. The software interfaces between PowerPoint and the receiver. Because of this technology, I was able to develop this test including many color pictures (including some taken through the microscope.) This test also includes video clips (because I had the ability and it fit my material.… Continue

Posted on October 22, 2008 at 7:40pm —

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At 7:36pm on October 18, 2008, Mark Cruthers said…
Hi Glen,

since your interested in Web tools I recommend you take a look at WiZiQ's Virtual classroom and authorSTREAM's web based power point presentation platform.
At 9:08pm on August 6, 2008, Kevin said…
Glen,

Hi, this is Kevin. Hope your summer is going well and you had some time to relax.

I've started a new Ning network for Middle School Science Teachers and I thought you might like to join as you are also a m.s. science teacher. I thought it would be really good to have just middle school science teachers share some of their labs, demos, concerns, what works and what doesn't about teaching this level. Hope to see you there.

Thanks, Kevin
 
 

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