Webquest

I submitted mine and i hope i did it right. I did a regular powerpoint then did hyperlinks to each group activity following the examples on our school site. I will let you know when i get my grade if it was right. I did have to get help from a student for one part that i could not figure out.

I posted a new post on my blog check it out

Webquesting

There are some wonderful webquest examples out there.  Different format than our assignment though.  Hope I can also send with working links and sounds this time!  Some of you out there are tech savvy enough to shoot us a few suggestions.
thanks ahead of time!!
Val

Webquest HELP!!!

Is anyone else having some trouble on the webquest assignment? I have done a power point with hyperlinks in it, but struggling to figure out how to apply that to a webquest that is more than one page without having to pay $20 extra dollars? Can anyone provide some insight? Thanks for your help!
Lori Rollins

Bloom?

I read a blog that someone posted related to using Bloom's Taxonomy and but now I can't find it. If you posted that please repost it and let me know about it.

Updated classroom blogsite

I am currently updating my classroom blogsite and would like any comments, feedback, etc to make it more user friendly:  http://valerieskelton.blogspot.com/

Here's my new blog page

http://cynthiadyeinformationblog.blogspot.com/

This is my new blog page I've set up. WOW! never had my own blog page before..check it out

Class Blog

I started a class blog for my 8th Grade Social Studies class. Check it out at www.sswest.blogspot.com

hello check out my page www.reginadavenport.blogspot.com

Class blog

I started a class blog for my 7th grade science class.  The url is http://www.valerieskelton.blogspot.com/.  I am going to post current events in our content area for students to read and respond to.  Look forward to seeing what amazing things you all have done to get some ideas!!

Technology

I am excited about all the new pages I have accessed through our network at Delicious.com.  Thanks!

Check out my web blog! I have some tips on there that might be useful! Www.lorirollinseducation.blogspot.com. Add some comments!

Technology for Educators: EDUC 573

I agree EDUC 573 has been a great learning experience. :)
A.Gambrel

EDUC 573

I am finding EDUC 573 a very valuable class. I started out extremely fearful because I do not have a strong technology background. I am finding the reading to be really basic but that is exactly what I need. I'm sure that some of you are a little bored if this is something that you grew up with or use on a daily basis. I am taking baby steps into the 21st century but maybe I can learn some new trick to use in the classroom.

Chasity: Webpage & Blog

I created a blog for the class pet on the class webpage (I designed the webpage). Here is the link to view the blog and website: http://www.mysciencerocks.org/chewys-blog.html

KET News Quiz

If you teach social studies and are looking for a good video on current events, News Quiz on www.ket.org is great! I use it with my students each week. It is about a 15 minute program that has a quiz embedded in it. My students love it!

Brain Pop and United Streaming

Brain Pop is a great resource to utilize in the classroom. United Streaming is also another valuable resource to use. United Streaming has lesson plans, student work files, and tests or quizzes. This site also has listening guides for the video clips.

Brain pop

I hope that most of you have seen or used Brain Pop. If not, it is a very useful 5 minute short video tool to teach mini lessons on every subject! www.brainpop.com Go to the site and check it out! It is geared for elementary and middle school, but has great explanations. Just something to pass along.

Technology for Educators: Inquiry-Based Learning: How does it differ from th...

Technology for Educators: Inquiry-Based Learning: How does it differ from th...: The inquiry-based approach is my preferred method of instruction in the classroom. Kids seem to get more from a lesson if they "do the work...

I agree that inquiry based learning is very valuable. I also incorporate performance based assessment as a portion of unit tests to "grow those dendrites" students need for long term storage of content.

Podcasts

I am still unable to "post a comment" in the comment section, so I am responding to Lori Rollin's post--
Won't it be fantastic when funding for education reaches the level that allows us to teach via podcast then know that the students have access to the technology necessary?  Imagine the level of mastery a student could reach if the majority of our instruction time was spent one on one instead of introducing new material.

It amazes me some days in the classroom with the depth of knowledge that students have in technology. They are able to explore and learn new ways to solve problems especially in my math class.  I am able to teach them how to use the calculator to solve problems to make problem solving quicker and more efficient.  They teach me new things also with their computer knowledge and finding shortcuts to make work easier.

Teaching via podcasts

I read an amazing website about two educators Jonathon Bergmann and Aaron Sams who are teaching via podcasts to their classrooms. They are recording the lessons, sending the children home at night to watch and learn the lesson. Then they are coming into the classroom and doing their homework or labs while the teacher is there to help them. The students have a tab on the page saying that it really works for them. They must have 85% mastery of the lesson before they can move on. If they do not reach that, then they must start over on the lesson. The parents also have a tab and were noted as skeptical at first, but really loving it now. Seems like it is really a technology oriented idea, but would be a ton of extra work probably. It would be nice to have the students doing their homework in class so they could ask questions. But what about those without internet coverage? That would be a challenge. Innovative idea I have to say, would be nice for a maternity leave, or extended absence to. Especially in this day and age with the evaluations and the way we are held accountable for students scores, this might be a golden ticket! Something to check out and think about! go to www.mast.unco.edu/programs/vodcasting/index.php or search for those two teachers names. It will come up!

Supporting the teaching of reading

I am a first grade teacher and I feel like I spend my entire day teaching reading! In my district, primary students 1.5 hours in a 'core' reading class (using SFA materials), then an additional hour in a supplemental reading class (using SRA materials). We used to use the DRA to determine reading level, but now we soley rely on a students MAP scores to determine their reading level. Here is my problem with this: before my students took the MAP test this fall I spent the days before explaining the test to them, encouraging them to do their best, and showed them a tutorial online of what the test would look like, how to listen to the question again, and clicking on only one answer. But I find that my students do not give their full attention to the test and it is reflected in low test scores. These scores are used to determine the level reading class they will be placed in, and it is ususally a class that is too low for their reading ability, and they become bored.

Samantha

I agree with others, I don't know how I could do everything without my smart board. My bulb blew this week and I had to go 2 days without it and my lessons didn't feel as though they were as meaningful as having those wonderful visuals. I went back and had a review day so I could show my students more things about what we had learned this week!

Inquiry Based learning article

Regina Davenport: Wow!! What an interesting article. I am old school but i am also a CTE teacher and a lot of my classroom activities is focused on inquiry based learning. We explore various diseases and i really think students need to understand the why? and How? I still think they need basic knowledge to be able to understand when something is wrong with a patient and then use their skills to rule out various issues. I think the ideal classroom would use a balance approach between traditional based learning and inquiry based learning. It has given me an idea of how to incorporate more of inquiry based learning by given patients symptoms and having students come up with a diagnosis and an explanation of how they narrowed down their diagnosis and use my classroom like an episode of "House".

Inquiry-Based Learning

I think inquiry-based learning is a good way to involve students in the learning process. I teach history, and most students want to know why things happened. There are times when they ask questions that I am not really sure what the answer is. To kind of spark their interest, I offer bonus points to those who find the answer for me. I teach eighth grade, and they are really hard to get interested in anything. By this age, group work doesn't seem to work that great, at least in social studies. In some groups, one or two do the work and the others just get the answers from them. I would like to find ways to do more inquiry-based learning with my students.