Come and check out my awesome blog; just click the link below and enjoy!
Words of Wisdom...

Want to see a sweet video about the great sport of slamball??? Well then all you have to do is click the link below!
South Dakota Slamball

Click the link below to see my voki and to learn how to prevent forest fires!
Smokey the Forest Fire Preventing Bear

Below is a link to an Animoto video I made about my high school track days. Enjoy!
Track Thru the Years

Psalm 100 has always been one of my favorite psalms. Growing up, my family would learn different verses and passages in the Bible, and this passage was one we learned when I was still a pretty young boy. When I hear someone say Psalm 100 I just think about giving praise to the Lord!

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I have loved playing basketball ever since I was a young boy. My dad would take my three brothers and I to the gym and teach us how to dribble a basketball and would teach us to shoot a basketball with correct form. I love the competition that goes along with playing basketball. I played basketball all four years of high school and played my freshman year here at Grace University. Basketball taught me many important life lessons; someday I want to be a coach and want to have the privilege to couch young men to play the great game of basketball. I made this Wordle by asking about 15 people the first word they thought of when I said the word "basketball".
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Here is the podcast I made with Mark Spare and Rachel Schnell; please enjoy our rendition of Genesis 1:1-26.



Here are some great teaching websites and also a few great websites for enhancing your Christian maturity:

GotQuestions.org is an excellent site for someone with questions about Christian living today. We live in a time and culture much different from the culture and time of the Bible; this site gives excellent answers to questions that are not specifically answered in the Bible and also gives biblical answers to questions about the Bible and basic teachings of Christianity. The site is biblically sound and has stated that its purpose is to glorify Jesus Christ. I have found this site to be a very useful tool to utilize if you have questions about Christianity. Click the link below to browse this awesome website.
GotQuestions.org

Have you ever received an assignment from a teacher who told you to do the bibliography and citing in APA or MLA format? I have written many papers in these two formats, and the best and easiest way to cite and do a bibliography is to go to easybib.com! This website allows you to site a book or an article by simply putting in the title of the book or by just typing in the ISBN number. You can also cite websites or newspapers with just a few clicks of the mouse. Click the link below to make doing bibliographies a breeze.
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Poll Everywhere is an awesome site that a teacher could use in a classroom. This site allows anyone to create a poll; the way people access the poll is by texting in their answers. The creator of the poll just has to give out the number to text the answers to. This is all free too! This would be really fun to use in a review for a test or something like that. Click on the link below and make your first poll!
Poll Everywhere


Do you enjoy solving puzzles? Have you ever wanted to make a challenging puzzle for someone else? Well now you can! Puzzlemaker from Discovery Education allows you to make your own puzzles; you can make a cross-word puzzle or a math puzzle and can print them out. If you are a teacher this would be a great tool for you- it is all free! Click below to start making your puzzle today.
Puzzlemaker


Have you ever been thinking of a verse and wondered what the reference was? I know sometimes I can think of a phrase in the verse but cannot come up with the reference. BibleGateway is a great resource when you need to look up a verse or if you are having trouble remembering where to find a certain verse. This website allows you to search for a phrase or words that are in the Bible, and it will pull up the verses that match your search criteria. This website has been great for helping me to find verses quickly; I have used this website for some of the papers I have had to write at Grace University. The below link will take you to this great website!
BibleGateway

The Christian Science Monitor is an amazing site that brings you "thoughtful, global coverage" of international news. This site is committed to being very honest and truthful in its evaluation and deliverance of worldwide news. They are committed to being fair and want the news they cover to be meaningful to the individual reading their stories. Here is a link to their site!
Christian Science Monitor

All of us in this Instructional Technology class have the aspiration to someday be a teacher; as a Christian teacher, we must be grounded in God's Word. Teacher Devotions is a site that has weekly devotions for teachers. There are stories that go along with the devotions, and articles are also available on this website. This website is a great resource for teachers! Click the link below to get to the site.
Teacher Devotions

Have you ever wanted to make a video that looks great and is amazing? Or maybe you are wanting your kids to make a video for a project and do not want to have to go over how to use a certain video maker. Well Animoto is where you need to go! Animoto allows you to upload pictures to their site, and then Animoto will take these pictures and make an awesome video. You can also put music in into the site so the pictures have music with them. Here is the link to this awesome video-making site.
Animoto

Power Point can definitely seem repetitive and boring at times; it is pretty basic and is not very visually appealing. Well Prezi is here to solve this problem! Prezi is similar to Power Point in that it is another way to visually present data, but Prezi brings lots more creativity and pizaz to the table. I really enjoy watching and listening to a Prezi presentation. Prezi's hold my attention better, and therefore they help me to learn more because I am more involved. Click the link below to see this awesome site.
Prezi