Category: Content Area Focus
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Content Tech: 5th Grade ELA
The 2007 5th Grade listening section had a very cute story about a photographer who encountered a rare lioness: Lion Story After 2 readings, the following questions were asked: Lion Questions Two of the questions have reasonably tricky distractors, and the question asking for supporting details from the story could be a stumper if not […]
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Content Tech: 8th Grade Social Studies
In what I plan to be a new regular feature, Content Tech, we’ll look at examples in various content areas of what students are to know, and how tech may (or may not) help. For the first stop in this endeavor, we take a look at Social Studies. Here is a set of questions from […]
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Data
Data can be awesome – as long as it is meaningful. The Dilbert comic below came out recently, and it hit home with me only because we are right now trying to determine if the data we collect for Fitnessgram is telling us what we want it to.
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Video Poems
We just finished a video poem project with Mrs. Calandra’s classes. The idea came from a Creative Educator article I have on my digital storytelling page. The twist we added was to have the students put imagery to their own original poetry. I have to say I was very excited by the level of work […]
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Oh, and the Other Thing Today…
So today was one of those “sneaker days” as I call them. Running from project to project and room to room. These days are awesome… Mrs. Leone’s 8th grade spanish class finished the first digital storytelling project for the year today. Students had to be filmed in an interview situation with a partner. The content […]
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While We’re on the Topic of Science
Following up immediately on the previous post, and speaking of great science teachers… Another lesson today was with Mr. Trombley and Mrs. Krieger (current gifted programming teacher and former science teacher). The three of us and another teacher are working together on our Professional Study Plans. We are in year 3 , which means we […]
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An Answer to the “Copy and Paste” World
Just finished a lesson today with our excellent science teacher, Mrs. Merlino. She is starting a unit on photosynthesis, and we introduced the students to the notecard tool within NoodleBib. The notecard tool allows the students to copy and paste direct quotations from a source, and then provides scaffolding for them to put what they […]
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The Second Full Week – Just as Full
So here it is a week since the last post, and the second full week is done. Were we ever on summer break? I can’t remember it at all now… Open house was Wednesday night, and I’m very pleased with how our feature video went. We have changed the format of open house a little […]
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Visual Thesaurus
I just completed the final set of extra work hours for my school – they are still a ridiculous paperwork nightmare for everyone, but they continue to provide focused time for study and reflection. I spent today with the work of Robert Marzano, specifically on his research into building adacademic backround knowlege and academic vocabulary. […]
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Learning Toolbox
Everyone has a toolbox in the garage/basement/kitchen/wherever. It contains key tools to perform necessary tasks around the house. The digital learning toolbox is the equivalent in the realm of schools. What tools do we have access to right now that will perform the necessary tasks to “build” learning? WITS (classroom communication) NoodleTools (citation creation/management and […]