Blogging with FMS:
Check blogs!
Presenters:
Ivy Bartlett
Teya Henthon
Ryan O’Loughlin
Yolanda Rice
Emily Rowand
Sydney Veach
Joseph Wilt
Joshua Wolfe
Kristin Yoho
Ashley Kish
Portfolios are due Tuesday December 15 at the end of class!!!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday December 3: Blogging with FMS, Presentations & Portfolios
Blogging with FMS:
Check to see if FMS bloggers have made any revisions or comments.
Presenters:
Laura Sudlow
Sarah Halbert
Justine Brown
Eric Sandstrom
Tricia Parker
Janet Shillingburg
Dawn Efaw
Amy Phillips
Stacey Patterson
Sheri Gallagher
Renita Golson
Portfolio Example
Portfolios are due Tuesday December 15 at the end of class!!!!
Check to see if FMS bloggers have made any revisions or comments.
Presenters:
Laura Sudlow
Sarah Halbert
Justine Brown
Eric Sandstrom
Tricia Parker
Janet Shillingburg
Dawn Efaw
Amy Phillips
Stacey Patterson
Sheri Gallagher
Renita Golson
Portfolio Example
Portfolios are due Tuesday December 15 at the end of class!!!!
Tuesday December 1: Blogging with FMS, Presentation & Portfolios
Presenters:
Carolanne Caflisch
Calla Rieger
Kayla D Way
Amanda Jones
Kristin Duncan
Blogging with FMS:
Fairview Middle School students have posted new blogs. The titles of their blogs are listed below. Please respond to the blog that your name is listed under.
Tips for responding to blogs:
1. Let the blogger know you connect with their main ideas.
2. Ask a question that will help the blogger clarify meaning or expand their ideas.
3. Model a conversational style and tone.
4. Make only one spelling correction. Provide the blogger with a tip on how to remember the "rule".
5. Do not point out every misspelling. Use the misspelled word correctly in your response to the blogger.
I Think Our Middle School Needs
Carolanne Caflisch
Sheri Gallagher
What Fairview Middle School Needs
Calla Rieger
Ashley Kish
Making School Better
Kayla D Way
Better Stuff for F.M.S.
Amanda Jones
Ivy Bartlett
Wants for 5th Grade
Kristin Duncan
Renita Golson
What I want in FMS.
Laura Sudlow
Kristin Yoho
What we need at FMS
Sarah Halbert
Teya Henthon
What
Justine Brown
Joseph Wilt
What Our School Needs
Eric Sandstrom
Joshua Wolfe
What We Need
Tricia Parker
Ryan O’Loughlin
What we should have at Fairview Middle School
Janet Shillingburg
What we need at FMS 11/18
Dawn Efaw
Yolanda Rice
What the school needs
Amy Phillips
Emily Rowand
What we need at FMS 11/20
Stacey Patterson
Sydney Veach
Portfolio Example
Portfolios are due Tuesday December 15 at the end of class!!!
Carolanne Caflisch
Calla Rieger
Kayla D Way
Amanda Jones
Kristin Duncan
Blogging with FMS:
Fairview Middle School students have posted new blogs. The titles of their blogs are listed below. Please respond to the blog that your name is listed under.
Tips for responding to blogs:
1. Let the blogger know you connect with their main ideas.
2. Ask a question that will help the blogger clarify meaning or expand their ideas.
3. Model a conversational style and tone.
4. Make only one spelling correction. Provide the blogger with a tip on how to remember the "rule".
5. Do not point out every misspelling. Use the misspelled word correctly in your response to the blogger.
I Think Our Middle School Needs
Carolanne Caflisch
Sheri Gallagher
What Fairview Middle School Needs
Calla Rieger
Ashley Kish
Making School Better
Kayla D Way
Better Stuff for F.M.S.
Amanda Jones
Ivy Bartlett
Wants for 5th Grade
Kristin Duncan
Renita Golson
What I want in FMS.
Laura Sudlow
Kristin Yoho
What we need at FMS
Sarah Halbert
Teya Henthon
What
Justine Brown
Joseph Wilt
What Our School Needs
Eric Sandstrom
Joshua Wolfe
What We Need
Tricia Parker
Ryan O’Loughlin
What we should have at Fairview Middle School
Janet Shillingburg
What we need at FMS 11/18
Dawn Efaw
Yolanda Rice
What the school needs
Amy Phillips
Emily Rowand
What we need at FMS 11/20
Stacey Patterson
Sydney Veach
Portfolio Example
Portfolios are due Tuesday December 15 at the end of class!!!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday November 19: Portfolio Final Project
Your final project will be an electronic portfolio created with Google Sites. The purpose of this portfolio is to showcase how you think the activities and projects you completed in this course helped you meet the ISTE NETS for Teachers
To construct your portfolio please use the following guidelines:
1.Create a home page that contains an image and a quote that reflects your beliefs about using technology in the classroom. Click here to see an example.
2.Create a new page for each of the first four ISTE NETS-T. You do not need to provide an artifact or reflection for Standard 5.
3.Name one project or artifact that demonstrates how you have met each standard and create a hyperlink to each artifact.
4.Write a reflection on how you think this artifact demonstrates how you have met each standard and how you will adapt this project or activity to meet the learning needs of your future students (200- 300 words).
6. This Rubric will be used to assess your portfolio.
To construct your portfolio please use the following guidelines:
1.Create a home page that contains an image and a quote that reflects your beliefs about using technology in the classroom. Click here to see an example.
2.Create a new page for each of the first four ISTE NETS-T. You do not need to provide an artifact or reflection for Standard 5.
3.Name one project or artifact that demonstrates how you have met each standard and create a hyperlink to each artifact.
4.Write a reflection on how you think this artifact demonstrates how you have met each standard and how you will adapt this project or activity to meet the learning needs of your future students (200- 300 words).
6. This Rubric will be used to assess your portfolio.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tuesday November 17: Effective Presentations
Read Brain Rules for Presenters:
My Learning from Multimedia presentation for your review.
Assignment:
1.Create a five minute presentation about a topic you might teach in your future classroom.
2.Your presentation should generate excitement and interest!!!
3.You may use between 1-2 minutes of video or audio clips.
Here is the Rubric.
This project is due Tuesday December 1 before class.
You will be conducting your presentation in front of your peers on Tuesday December 1or Thursday December 3.
Please reply to this posting with your preference of which day you would like to present.
My Learning from Multimedia presentation for your review.
Assignment:
1.Create a five minute presentation about a topic you might teach in your future classroom.
2.Your presentation should generate excitement and interest!!!
3.You may use between 1-2 minutes of video or audio clips.
Here is the Rubric.
This project is due Tuesday December 1 before class.
You will be conducting your presentation in front of your peers on Tuesday December 1or Thursday December 3.
Please reply to this posting with your preference of which day you would like to present.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Game Design Work Day
Let's troubleshoot SCRATCH!
Read:
What Video Games Have to Teach Us
About Learning and Literacy
What is Gee's fundamental argument?
What do agree or disagree with?
How does it impact what you believe about good teaching?
How can a program like SCRATCH be used in your classroom?
Please post your thoughts as a comment to this blog posting. Please respond to three of your peers postings.
Due Date
Initial posting due Sunday November 15 by midnight.
Respond to your peers by Monday November 16 by midnight.
Read:
What Video Games Have to Teach Us
About Learning and Literacy
What is Gee's fundamental argument?
What do agree or disagree with?
How does it impact what you believe about good teaching?
How can a program like SCRATCH be used in your classroom?
Please post your thoughts as a comment to this blog posting. Please respond to three of your peers postings.
Due Date
Initial posting due Sunday November 15 by midnight.
Respond to your peers by Monday November 16 by midnight.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday November 10: SMART Board Demo
Rachael Fletcher from Farimont Middle School will demonstrate educational uses of the SMART Board and Mimeo.
Thoughts about Blogging Activity by Mary Jo Swiger:
My thoughts on the magazine cover project: allowed my students to have an authentic audience, and regardless of ability, all students were able to express themselves, we also covered several cso's with this project. Thanks!
CSO's used in blogging:
RLA 5.1.02 Use strategies to increase grade appropriate vocabulary
RLA 5.1.07 Use pre-reading strategies to analyze text
RLA 5.1.08 Differentiate and apply comprehension strategies to summarize and judge text critically
RLA 5.1.12 Use denotation to understand meaning
RLA Standard 5.2 Apply writing skills and strategies to communicate effectively
Would you like to try another blogging session between my students and yours? I would like my students to write an article that will argue, defend and justify a "need" or "want" that they feel is missing from Fairview Middle School. For example, "an outdoor classroom"...
Your students would be part of the learning environment by supporting my students reasoning, or explaining some ways to enhance their writing, for example, giving synonyms, descriptive word choices, grammar suggestions, persuasive writing techniques, etc... In other words, critiquing their work in a positive way, to provoke more thought from my students. Hopefully, your students will become aware of student wants and needs in a school environment and also how to analyze writing and provide feedback. I'm going to present this as your students being an "authentic audience" that will respond to their writing.
Assignment:
Provide me with some of your thoughts about the blogging activity. What did you learn about fifth grade students abilities to communicate through digital writing? What surprised you? What are your concerns? How can they be addressed? Did this activity make you more or less likely to use blogging with your future students?
Due Thursday November 12 before class.
Thoughts about Blogging Activity by Mary Jo Swiger:
My thoughts on the magazine cover project: allowed my students to have an authentic audience, and regardless of ability, all students were able to express themselves, we also covered several cso's with this project. Thanks!
CSO's used in blogging:
RLA 5.1.02 Use strategies to increase grade appropriate vocabulary
RLA 5.1.07 Use pre-reading strategies to analyze text
RLA 5.1.08 Differentiate and apply comprehension strategies to summarize and judge text critically
RLA 5.1.12 Use denotation to understand meaning
RLA Standard 5.2 Apply writing skills and strategies to communicate effectively
Would you like to try another blogging session between my students and yours? I would like my students to write an article that will argue, defend and justify a "need" or "want" that they feel is missing from Fairview Middle School. For example, "an outdoor classroom"...
Your students would be part of the learning environment by supporting my students reasoning, or explaining some ways to enhance their writing, for example, giving synonyms, descriptive word choices, grammar suggestions, persuasive writing techniques, etc... In other words, critiquing their work in a positive way, to provoke more thought from my students. Hopefully, your students will become aware of student wants and needs in a school environment and also how to analyze writing and provide feedback. I'm going to present this as your students being an "authentic audience" that will respond to their writing.
Assignment:
Provide me with some of your thoughts about the blogging activity. What did you learn about fifth grade students abilities to communicate through digital writing? What surprised you? What are your concerns? How can they be addressed? Did this activity make you more or less likely to use blogging with your future students?
Due Thursday November 12 before class.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thursday November 5: Scratch & Education
1. Scratch projects should be created by students not teachers.
2. Scratch projects should allow students to develop conceptual understanding of content rather than discrete skills outside of their context of use.
3. Scratch projects should be designed so that students can see the effects of their actions in the physical world.
4. Scratch projects should allow students to represent their understanding of content through multiple modalities.
Science
Science
Language Arts
Language Arts
Social Studies
Social Studies
Assignment:
1. Find a content standard that emphasizes conceptual learning.
2. Find a project that has potential to meet the standard.
3. Modify the project in three ways.
4. Make a blog posting with links to the original project and the new one you created and explain the changes you made.
2. Scratch projects should allow students to develop conceptual understanding of content rather than discrete skills outside of their context of use.
3. Scratch projects should be designed so that students can see the effects of their actions in the physical world.
4. Scratch projects should allow students to represent their understanding of content through multiple modalities.
Science
Science
Language Arts
Language Arts
Social Studies
Social Studies
Assignment:
1. Find a content standard that emphasizes conceptual learning.
2. Find a project that has potential to meet the standard.
3. Modify the project in three ways.
4. Make a blog posting with links to the original project and the new one you created and explain the changes you made.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Magazine Cover
The results are in! Fifth graders voted Starfsu5 as The Teacher of The Year!!!!!
To view results and read student comments click here!
To view results and read student comments click here!
Scratch: Game Design & Education
This week we will be exploring the game design software Scratch.Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. As young people create and share projects in Scratch, they develop important design and problem-solving skills, learning how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Scratch can be used in many different settings: schools, museums, community centers, and homes. It is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds, but younger children can work on Scratch projects with their parents or older siblings, and college students use Scratch in some introductory computer science classes.
Watch this video about Scratch.
Let's see an example.
An example of Science project with Scratch.
Download Scratch.
To get an idea of how Scratch works we will do the Scheme of Six Lessons.
Assignment:
Read these two short papers linked on the Scratch for Educators page. To find the papers scroll Interested in Scratch educational ideas and research?. Read Scratch and 21st Century Learning Skills and Learning by Design
Go to featured projects in Galleries project that might have educational potential in your content area. Here are some place to start:
Elementary Educators
Math
Science projects
Social Studies
Language Arts
Art
Make a blog posting with a short description of a project you would like to create and link to it.
Due Date:
Thursday November 5 11:00am.
Scratch can be used in many different settings: schools, museums, community centers, and homes. It is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds, but younger children can work on Scratch projects with their parents or older siblings, and college students use Scratch in some introductory computer science classes.
Watch this video about Scratch.
Let's see an example.
An example of Science project with Scratch.
Download Scratch.
To get an idea of how Scratch works we will do the Scheme of Six Lessons.
Assignment:
Read these two short papers linked on the Scratch for Educators page. To find the papers scroll Interested in Scratch educational ideas and research?. Read Scratch and 21st Century Learning Skills and Learning by Design
Go to featured projects in Galleries project that might have educational potential in your content area. Here are some place to start:
Elementary Educators
Math
Science projects
Social Studies
Language Arts
Art
Make a blog posting with a short description of a project you would like to create and link to it.
Due Date:
Thursday November 5 11:00am.
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