How to Watch the Internet in Real-Time
I find fascinating articles and information on Twitter, this article caught my eye this summer. I thought it was fascinating enough to share with you. It is amazing how we do not realize, statistically speaking, how rapidly the internet grows each second as accounts are set-up, email is sent, advertisements make money, and much more. This link How to Watch the Internet in Real-Time starts at zero when you click on it and from there the internet statistics change at an amazing rate.
Claudette Colvin, Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
As teachers consider plans for teaching about Civil Rights, Black History Month, or other related standards, the award winning (Newbery Honor, Robert F. Sibert Honor, YALSA Award for Excellence in Non-fiction finalist, National Book Award Winner, and Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Honor) story Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose is an outstanding story that illustrates how students can make a difference. Claudette Colvin, is still alive at 75 years old. I read the following article The Story of Claudette Colvin: Students as Historians this summer and felt this story is one I wanted to post on my blog and teachers might consider incorporating in their teaching. Check out the linked sites as well as the book available (at West Side and the Middle School) in the district.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Sunday, September 7, 2014
District Wide Information
This week I am sharing two articles I think you might want to check out!
321 Free Tools for Teachers
Teachers love the word "free," and the linked article 321 Free Tools for Teachers offers many web 2.0 tools that you may want to check out. This is organized by topic including free tools to create infographics, which follows up from last week's post about visual information. Two other topics I want to highlight help in terms of copyright compliance: Sites to download Royalty Free and Creative Commons Music for teachers, and free Stock Photos sites for teachers. Check some of these sites out! Share the with students too.
6 Ways Teachers Kill the Joy of Reading
I am guilty of some of these practices as a classroom teacher. I continue to have a great interest in helping students develop a "life-long love of reading," as many teachers do. I also follow leaders of reading on Twitter and repeatedly hear how we as teachers work to encourage students to love reading, but we also counteract this by our practices as indicated in this article. Donalyn Miller, author of The Book Whisperer and Reading In The Wild, shares many best practices to encourage and develop students in our classrooms as "real" readers.
321 Free Tools for Teachers
Teachers love the word "free," and the linked article 321 Free Tools for Teachers offers many web 2.0 tools that you may want to check out. This is organized by topic including free tools to create infographics, which follows up from last week's post about visual information. Two other topics I want to highlight help in terms of copyright compliance: Sites to download Royalty Free and Creative Commons Music for teachers, and free Stock Photos sites for teachers. Check some of these sites out! Share the with students too.
6 Ways Teachers Kill the Joy of Reading
I am guilty of some of these practices as a classroom teacher. I continue to have a great interest in helping students develop a "life-long love of reading," as many teachers do. I also follow leaders of reading on Twitter and repeatedly hear how we as teachers work to encourage students to love reading, but we also counteract this by our practices as indicated in this article. Donalyn Miller, author of The Book Whisperer and Reading In The Wild, shares many best practices to encourage and develop students in our classrooms as "real" readers.
Monday, September 1, 2014
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Learning Visually
With tools available today, teachers and students can create visuals to help convey information. The article How Visuals Help Us Learn provides information as to how we learn better with visuals in addition to some do's and don'ts when using visuals. This article refers to another article A Periodic Table to Help You Choose the Best Type of Visualization where A Periodic Table of Visualization allows you to mouse-over each type of visualization to help you find the best kind for the material you are presenting. Another type of visualization that has become very popular and is an alternate way for students to present what they are learning in you class is infographics. CoolCatTeacher, Vicki Davis, posted Infographic Tools for Kids. This offers many great infographic websites as well as comic creators. The infographic creators highlighted in this article are great for both teachers and students. Make your teaching more visual with these tools.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
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A Student's School Community
As we begin this school year, it is important for our school community to remember that teachers aren't the only important people in student lives. As the TED talk Jarrett Krosoczka: Why Lunch Ladies are Heroes explains that lunch ladies are heroes for students, but so are custodians and all other staff in our school community. Some students connect with teachers but others do not. We do not always realize how a smile, a simple "hello" or some other connection can make the day of a student. We all make a difference, and this isn't something we learn in college or grad school. Let's make a difference for our students this year!
As we begin this school year, it is important for our school community to remember that teachers aren't the only important people in student lives. As the TED talk Jarrett Krosoczka: Why Lunch Ladies are Heroes explains that lunch ladies are heroes for students, but so are custodians and all other staff in our school community. Some students connect with teachers but others do not. We do not always realize how a smile, a simple "hello" or some other connection can make the day of a student. We all make a difference, and this isn't something we learn in college or grad school. Let's make a difference for our students this year!
Sunday, August 17, 2014
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Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year!
This year begins with many positive changes in Marshall Public Schools. With that I would like everyone to welcome Nancy Thooft (formerly 8th grade science teacher), media specialist, to our Media Centers.
Nancy and I are starting the school year with device deployment Monday and Tuesday at Park Side, and with the help of Shelly Moe and Joan Winter, we will be working to organize the media centers at both Park Side and West Side. Both were moved over the summer and there is much work to be done before being able to open either one. Media lesson and story time schedules at PS and WS will not be available for sign-up until later this week. Thank you for your patience.
We worked on setting up new student computer accounts for the HS and MA-TEC this weekend. We will continue to work on new student computer accounts for the MS, WS and PS this week. PS and WS teachers should send us a class list as has been done in years past.
This year begins with many positive changes in Marshall Public Schools. With that I would like everyone to welcome Nancy Thooft (formerly 8th grade science teacher), media specialist, to our Media Centers.
Nancy and I are starting the school year with device deployment Monday and Tuesday at Park Side, and with the help of Shelly Moe and Joan Winter, we will be working to organize the media centers at both Park Side and West Side. Both were moved over the summer and there is much work to be done before being able to open either one. Media lesson and story time schedules at PS and WS will not be available for sign-up until later this week. Thank you for your patience.
We worked on setting up new student computer accounts for the HS and MA-TEC this weekend. We will continue to work on new student computer accounts for the MS, WS and PS this week. PS and WS teachers should send us a class list as has been done in years past.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
District Wide Information
The Enjoyment of Reading and Reading Achievement
I close this year of blog posts with more regarding reading and reading achievement. Kylene Beers blog post article titled What the Research Says About the Enjoyment of Reading and Reading Achievement supports the Summer Reading Check-out Program the media centers are trying this week for students across the district. If you have any questions about this, feel free to contact me. I will be looking at feedback and data from the reading logs that will be sent home when students check out books. In this article Kylene has the following books as "must reads" for teaching professionals:
Book Love by Penny Kittle
Making the Match by Teri Lesesne
Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller (we have copies of this in our media centers)
You Gotta Be the Book by Jeff Wilhelm
Enjoy the summer! We have an exciting school year in 2014-2015 with the first year of the 1:1 Digital Learning Plan coming to fruition.
I close this year of blog posts with more regarding reading and reading achievement. Kylene Beers blog post article titled What the Research Says About the Enjoyment of Reading and Reading Achievement supports the Summer Reading Check-out Program the media centers are trying this week for students across the district. If you have any questions about this, feel free to contact me. I will be looking at feedback and data from the reading logs that will be sent home when students check out books. In this article Kylene has the following books as "must reads" for teaching professionals:
Book Love by Penny Kittle
Making the Match by Teri Lesesne
Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller (we have copies of this in our media centers)
You Gotta Be the Book by Jeff Wilhelm
Enjoy the summer! We have an exciting school year in 2014-2015 with the first year of the 1:1 Digital Learning Plan coming to fruition.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
District Wide Information
Social Etiquette Online
Twitter has become an outstanding professional resource for me. In following several tech education leaders, I found the following article last Thursday: A Great Social Etiquette Lesson From Jimmy Fallon. Be sure to watch the video. Consider sharing this as a talking point regarding the ease taken in posting rude and inappropriate things to people online, but when given the opportunity to say the same face-to-face people are socially appropriate. Below are the ISTE for students standards to support how we need to include these in our teaching daily.
5. Digital citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal
issues related to technology and practice legal and
ethical behavior.
a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and
responsible use of information and technology
b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using
technology that supports collaboration,
learning, and productivity
c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for
lifelong learning
d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
Standards•S © 2007 International Society for Technology in Education
Twitter has become an outstanding professional resource for me. In following several tech education leaders, I found the following article last Thursday: A Great Social Etiquette Lesson From Jimmy Fallon. Be sure to watch the video. Consider sharing this as a talking point regarding the ease taken in posting rude and inappropriate things to people online, but when given the opportunity to say the same face-to-face people are socially appropriate. Below are the ISTE for students standards to support how we need to include these in our teaching daily.
5. Digital citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal
issues related to technology and practice legal and
ethical behavior.
a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and
responsible use of information and technology
b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using
technology that supports collaboration,
learning, and productivity
c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for
lifelong learning
d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
Standards•S © 2007 International Society for Technology in Education
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