As we move forward with technology in our schools I found this graphic regarding The Digital Classroom. It focuses on textbooks vs eBooks, rental eBooks, a comparison of the iPad vs the KindleFire, reinventing the textbook, and how classrooms are changing.
The Digital Classroom - http://www.onlineuniversities.com/digital-classroom
This is the last post for this school year. Postings on the Media Info Bits Blog will resume in August. Enjoy the summer!
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
District Wide Information
How Tech will Transform the Traditional Classroom -
http://mashable.com/2012/03/22/tech-traditional-education/?utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29#
As teachers across the district submitted grant applications last Friday to make a paradigm shift in teaching in their classrooms, subject areas or across grade levels with the hopes of new technology, the article title and link above addresses several area where technology will transform the traditional classroom.
Fortunately, here in the Marshall Public School District, we have a supportive school board, superintendent, administrative team, and many teachers ready to move forward with the idea of transformation in student learning. This article is well presented, and provides new ideas as we move forward with technology in our schools and classrooms.
http://mashable.com/2012/03/22/tech-traditional-education/?utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29#
As teachers across the district submitted grant applications last Friday to make a paradigm shift in teaching in their classrooms, subject areas or across grade levels with the hopes of new technology, the article title and link above addresses several area where technology will transform the traditional classroom.
Fortunately, here in the Marshall Public School District, we have a supportive school board, superintendent, administrative team, and many teachers ready to move forward with the idea of transformation in student learning. This article is well presented, and provides new ideas as we move forward with technology in our schools and classrooms.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
District Wide Information
FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm
FREE has more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources from federal agencies. It was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President (President Clinton).
This site has animations, primary documents, photos, and videos. Animations includes 30 resources such as A Tour of the Cell, Seeing Math Interactives, and Invention at Play to name a few. There are a 134 Primary Documents. Among these documents is Using Primary Sources in the Classroom to offer suggestions as to how use photos, documents, and other artifacts to bring history alive in your classroom. Finally there are 80 photographic resources and 41 video resources available. The FREE resources can be access by subject. Check out this fabulously valuable resource!
http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm
FREE has more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources from federal agencies. It was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President (President Clinton).
This site has animations, primary documents, photos, and videos. Animations includes 30 resources such as A Tour of the Cell, Seeing Math Interactives, and Invention at Play to name a few. There are a 134 Primary Documents. Among these documents is Using Primary Sources in the Classroom to offer suggestions as to how use photos, documents, and other artifacts to bring history alive in your classroom. Finally there are 80 photographic resources and 41 video resources available. The FREE resources can be access by subject. Check out this fabulously valuable resource!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
District Wide Information
History of Earth Day - http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement
Today, April 22nd is Earth Day. It is the 42nd Anniversary for this environmental movement. The linked article speaks of the history of Earth Day. Both the Earth Day Network http://www.earthday.org/ and the United States Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/earthday/ has many fantastic and educational resources to include in your teaching. Check out Six Words for the Planet on the EPA website. This is a way for students to creatively think about and express Earth Day, protecting our planet, or any environmental topic of essence in six words.
Pottermore - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/04/k-12/pottermore-opens-to-all/
Have you heard J.K. Rowling's website Pottermore is here! Pottermore is a free site where users can enter Hogwarts where you get sorted into one of the four houses and have a wand choose you! It is an online experience from J.K. Rowling based on the Harry Potter books.
Today, April 22nd is Earth Day. It is the 42nd Anniversary for this environmental movement. The linked article speaks of the history of Earth Day. Both the Earth Day Network http://www.earthday.org/ and the United States Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/earthday/ has many fantastic and educational resources to include in your teaching. Check out Six Words for the Planet on the EPA website. This is a way for students to creatively think about and express Earth Day, protecting our planet, or any environmental topic of essence in six words.
Pottermore - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/04/k-12/pottermore-opens-to-all/
Have you heard J.K. Rowling's website Pottermore is here! Pottermore is a free site where users can enter Hogwarts where you get sorted into one of the four houses and have a wand choose you! It is an online experience from J.K. Rowling based on the Harry Potter books.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
District Wide Information
Encourage, Promote, and Persuade Summer Reading
The last few weeks I have been teaching students in grades K-8 about Award Winning books. I love to book talk books just enough to entice student interest in this year's Award Winning books. Below is a list of award winning books to encourage your students to read this summer.
Newbery Award: Dead in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Newbery Honor: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai and
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner: Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Pura Belpre Author Award Winner: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award Winner: Diego Rivera: His World and Ours written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor Books: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred illustrated by Rafael López and Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match /Marisol McDonald no combina illustrated by Sara Palacios
For more ideas go to the American Library Associations book and media awards page at http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia
Books to promote to high school students include the following award winning books.
Printz Award: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Printz Honor: Why We Broke Up written by Daniel Handler; The Returning written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races written by Maggie Stiefvater
Schneider Family Book Award: The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
The last few weeks I have been teaching students in grades K-8 about Award Winning books. I love to book talk books just enough to entice student interest in this year's Award Winning books. Below is a list of award winning books to encourage your students to read this summer.
Newbery Award: Dead in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Newbery Honor: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai and
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner: Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Pura Belpre Author Award Winner: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award Winner: Diego Rivera: His World and Ours written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor Books: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred illustrated by Rafael López and Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match /Marisol McDonald no combina illustrated by Sara Palacios
Caldecott Award: A Ball for Daisy written and illustrated by Chris Raschka
Caldecott Honor: Blackout written and illustrated by John Rocco; Grandpa Green written and illustrated by Lane Smith; and Me … Jane written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnellFor more ideas go to the American Library Associations book and media awards page at http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia
Books to promote to high school students include the following award winning books.
Printz Award: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Printz Honor: Why We Broke Up written by Daniel Handler; The Returning written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races written by Maggie Stiefvater
Schneider Family Book Award: The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
Monday, April 9, 2012
District Wide Information
April is National Poetry Month(NPM) - In between all of the testing in April consider a fantastic month long celebration of poetry NPM was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41 You and your students could make a poem of the day book where each day a different student writes a poem. This among many other ideas as seen in the websites I've included in this posting offer many ideas, lessons and resources.
Check out the lessons and ideas to celebrate National Poetry Month provided by Read Write Think. There are lessons and ideas for teachers K-12.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/april-national-poetry-month-20478.html
Scholastic highlights many well known poets such as Jack Prelutski, Karla Kuskin, Maya Angelou, and Shel Silverstein. This has many ideas and lessons available too.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/poetry/
Check out the lessons and ideas to celebrate National Poetry Month provided by Read Write Think. There are lessons and ideas for teachers K-12.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/april-national-poetry-month-20478.html
Scholastic highlights many well known poets such as Jack Prelutski, Karla Kuskin, Maya Angelou, and Shel Silverstein. This has many ideas and lessons available too.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/poetry/
Sunday, April 1, 2012
District Wide Information
During the High School building level PLC time last Wednesday teachers presented how they were using the following tools in their classroom for formative assessments or for student learning.
Poll Everywhere - http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Poll Everywhere an easy way to poll student learning, opinions, or background knowledge. It is easy to set up and use with computer, iPad or cell phone access.
Go Soap Box - http://gosoapbox.com/ Go Soap Box is similar to Poll Everywhere in that you can poll students. But it also has backchanneling capability where students can ask questions as presentations by you or classmates share information. This is a great way to get students to ask questions. Especially those that may otherwise be too shy to raise their hand.
Socrative - http://socrative.com/ Mitch Maxwell has used Socrative in his science classrooms and has some terrific tips to get started at the following slide presentation.
http://portal.sliderocket.com/BMUZL/Socrative-presentation
Creating You Tube Videos for the Classroom
http://prezi.com/mco1vuefvzmr/creating-educational-videos-for-youtube/ Thank you to Marty Brandl, MHS math teacher, for sharing how he creates YouTube Videos for his classes. He is willing to help anyone with questions.
Poll Everywhere - http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Poll Everywhere an easy way to poll student learning, opinions, or background knowledge. It is easy to set up and use with computer, iPad or cell phone access.
Go Soap Box - http://gosoapbox.com/ Go Soap Box is similar to Poll Everywhere in that you can poll students. But it also has backchanneling capability where students can ask questions as presentations by you or classmates share information. This is a great way to get students to ask questions. Especially those that may otherwise be too shy to raise their hand.
Socrative - http://socrative.com/ Mitch Maxwell has used Socrative in his science classrooms and has some terrific tips to get started at the following slide presentation.
http://portal.sliderocket.com/BMUZL/Socrative-presentation
Creating You Tube Videos for the Classroom
http://prezi.com/mco1vuefvzmr/creating-educational-videos-for-youtube/ Thank you to Marty Brandl, MHS math teacher, for sharing how he creates YouTube Videos for his classes. He is willing to help anyone with questions.
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