Jim's USF Tech Cert Blog

Module 2: Audio Recording for Fluency and Self-Analysis Audio Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XI4f-aCqBH3XCPjwCRwrsj0TgCcq9nOK/view?usp=sharing Great Barrier Reef Grief For this assignment I decided to read an article from one of my favorite magazines, Coral Magazine.  I often times use the magazine in class for articles about the plight of our coral reefs around the world.  Every Thursday students have an opportunity to earn extra credit by summarizing a current science article in an activity I call “Science in the News”.  I often bring an article as well as I think it is important for students to be exposed to “real” science happening in their world.  Here is my review for my reading of this amazing article. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t excited to critique my own reading as like most I have never liked my voice recording.  Currently on my 4th day of the Flu, I really didn’t know what to expect.  I was surprised to like the tone of my...

Hello class, My name is Jim Nielsen and I teach Biology and Anatomy at Waubonsie Valley High School. Teaching was a 3rd career change for me as I worked previously as a zookeeper at Brookfield Zoo, and did medical research at University of Chicago for 5 years as well.  I am currently in my 12th year of teaching and truly get excited to come to work everyday and spend time talking about the study of Life with young adults.  The two courses I teach are extremely diverse in learning levels as I teach freshman co-taught biology and Senior Anatomy.  It really creates a fun challenge to create material that works for all learning levels.  Because of this challenge, and our districts move to 1:1 instruction next year, I decided to enroll in the Educational Technology courses at St. Francis.  This is my 3rd course at St. Francis, and my favorite aspect so far is that I am actually able to utilize many of the lessons in class. When students leave my classroom...