Predators and Preys Virginia Standards of Learning: 3.5 The student will investigate and understand relationships among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key concepts include a) predator and prey. I would use this PowerPoint as a review for my students. The information is short and sweet, and I think the students will enjoy watching the video and [...]
First Grade Once students have mastered the 5 rational counting skills (stable ordering, one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, order irrelevance and abstraction) they are ready to move on to counting on, counting back and skip counting. Developing strategies to master counting lays the foundation for addition, subtraction and multiplication later. First grade students are expected to learn to [...]
The books, web games, and hands-on activities are for a second grade fractions unit. BOOKS Murphy, Stuart. (1996) Give Me Half! New York: Harper Collins. Illustrated by G. Brian Karas · This book is a fun way to explore the easiest fraction while lightly touching on not so easy things to do: sharing with siblings! I [...]
For clarity’s sake, here are the major products due in your finished portfolio. Newsletter/Syllabus Lesson plan focused on presentation Lesson plan focused on video or audio Lesson plan (choose your own technology) When you’re ready to have your portfolio looked at leave the URL as a comment on this post and I’ll check it out. The last possible moment [...]
Graphic Organizers are great for all grades. It is helpful in the organization of concepts that are learned in every subject. Some popular graphic organizers I have seen are the KWL and Story Webs. I like KWL charts because they can be used from kindergarten through adult learning. Story Webs are great for the younger [...]
I think that using an interesting piece of photography or series of photographs could spark the interest of the students. I think a great time to use media is in creative writing. The photograph or photographs could be used as a writing prompt. This would help those students that cannot get started on creative story but [...]
I found this video of a remix of Barrack Obama and some of his famous political speeches. I was thinking about in older grades such as middle or high school, teaching how one word or thing a person says can be distorted and altered to make it sound negative or positive. I want my students [...]
I had used Google Reader in the past. It helped me read as many websites at one time in one place. It created a convenient way to get the latest news and also follow blogs. 5 Professional Sites: 1) . Chalk talk: A Kindergarten Blog - I like this blog because it shares other blogs and ideas [...]
I have created a lesson plan about Phonemes for the first grade classroom. This lesson focuses on rhyming and counting syllables. This lesson involves audio by incorporating a reading of Horton Hears a Who . Audio Lesson Plan Here is the Horton audio clip that the students will listen to: Horton Final Cut [...]
For clarity’s sake, here are the major products due in your finished portfolio.
Newsletter/Syllabus
Lesson plan focused on presentation
Lesson plan focused on video or audio
Lesson plan (choose your own technology)
When you’re ready to have your portfolio looked at leave the URL as a comment on this post and I’ll check it out. The last possible moment for submission is July 19th at noon. I’d recommend earlier especially if you’d like a chance to fix anything.
As always, I’m on the Internet should you have questions even after you’ve left the program. If you do neat things, send a link my way. I’d love to see them.
Just letting everyone know things are going well. We’re currently working on a name but he is boy. 9lbs 7oz and 21 inches, although I find it odd how people talk about baby stats but I guess when you’re freshly born that’s about all you’ve got.
The hospital has wifi so I expect to get some work done tomorrow.
Your entire focus for this class should be on getting your portfolio and embedded artifacts to a high quality level. I hope that you will come to the next class (that’s next Tuesday) with many questions.
Next Time
The following is in lieu of class on 7/8. Remember it takes the place of a 3 hour class and we are supposed to give 2-3 hours of homework per hour of class. I think this is far lighter than that load. Pick One
Embed a VoiceThread in your blog with recorded audio describing how you might use it in class.
Find an ongoing conversation in School 2.0. Try to take part in it (this is more than just one comment- participate in the conversation, look for something recent). Link to your comments from your blog and explain your experience.
Find a IWB lesson that leverages the interactive nature of the board in a way you find educationally powerful. Link to the lesson and describe the portions you find to be educationally relevant.
Get a twitter account. Follow some people that have something to do with education. Monitor the stream for a while. Participate if you want. Report back on your experience.
Write a summary comparing your experience within two of the environments above.
Some questions to consider-
What advantages/disadvantages does it have for you? What would it be like for your students? Are their niches it would fill? What makes it work for others?
You should probably have some lessons roughed out and published. This long weekend would be a good time to submit lessons for feedback. We’ll be transitioning to the online portfolio aspect of the class soon and it’ll be easier for you if you have content up to manipulate.
21st century pitch Lesson examination – Partner up. Pick one. Break down how it supports 21st century thinking and how it does/does not use technology effectively.
Create and post a visualization that would help you explain something SOL driven to your students. This could be something you make or an example of something you’d have your students make.
Task Blog Post: Pick a side in the 21st century skills debate and defend your choice. Reference other people through hyperlinks. Comment on your classmates’ posts. Actively seek out conversation.
Blog Post: Audio or video file posted with rationale. Two options. 1 – Remix audio/video source (s) to use educationally or 2 -make your own from scratch.
Use the sources above to find what you consider to be an excellent example of technology integration.
Share that example with your table.
Come to a consensus about the best example.
Post a link to that example in the comments.
Troubleshooting
Lesson plans
Next Time
Continue working on your lesson plan and presentation.
Look for comments on both your lesson (if posted) and your syllabus/newsletter.
Post about one interesting real-world piece of media you could use in your class and how you’d use it. For example, this idea or something like this. Try to find something you really believe would interest your future students, something that would grab their attention but that also plays directly into what you want to teach.
First Grade Once students have mastered the 5 rational counting skills (stable ordering, one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, order irrelevance and abstraction) they are ready to move on to counting on, counting back and skip counting. Developing strategies to master counting lays the foundation for addition, subtraction and multiplication later. First grade students are expected to learn to [...]
The books, web games, and hands-on activities are for a second grade fractions unit. BOOKS 
I think that using an interesting piece of photography or series of photographs could spark the interest of the students. I think a great time to use media is in creative writing. The photograph or photographs could be used as a writing prompt. This would help those students that cannot get started on creative story but [...]
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