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WOW! We had our first meet and greet of our PLN for educators in my county. It was fabulous! We had 14 strong educators there that truly love technology and want to use it more in their classroom. The ideas were flying. And the sharing was unbelievable. These [...]
I presented a Google Applications workshop on Thursday afternoon. While I was sure that no one would come, in came 4 very diverse learners. Granted, I would have liked to have had a roomful, I will take 4 eager learners over a roomful of relucant learners anytime.
We got right into learning [...]
Session 7
Session 7Matrix Reloaded – GeometryIan Nelson – Asheville High School- Students create a frame-by-frame animation of a geometric figure on a TI graphing calculator- Individuals – pairs – small groups
Session 6
Session 6Roller Coasters and Energy ConservationJeff Milbourne – NC School of Science and Math- Kids design roller coaster for CaroWinds- Scaffolding activitieso 1 what makes an enjoyable roller coaster? Used blog to post ideas and drawingso 2 energy skate park Think about new physics that is involved in roller coasters Can’t show motion on [...]
Session 5
Session 5Emerging PBL Part CMatt Sears- 21st century Student Outcomes and Support Systemso http://www.21stcenturyskills.orgo Life and career skillso Learning and innovation Skillso Information, Media, and Technology Skillso Core Subjects and 21st century Themes What might you find in your classroom Communication – present ideas o Presentation skillso Collaborationo Writing & vocabularyo Sharing• Problem-solving/logic/reasoning [...]
Session 4
Emerging PBL Part BLee FlemingSchool Development Coach with New Technology Foundation- General Questions – Need to know for our group:o Midway project crash Greater front end planning versus end grading in regular classroomso EOCo Pacing guideo Big picture too big or too smallo Content and processo Engagement in content Student ownership Competition Interest surveys• [...]
Session 3Fredrica NashThe Weather Report- Entry Doc: Job advertisement for a team fresh out of meteorology school- Posted Entry Document around the school so that students were reading the document before the project began – looked like a job application form- Scaffolding activitieso Choose cities around the worldo Daily collection over 2 weekso Prediction [...]
Session 2Paul Fomalont – The Putney School- Mathematics of Tank Battles- No mandated curriculum- No standardized testing- Pre-Calculus project- Tank Battle Game is free, advanced addition $25
More (and better – Kim was able to blog live during the sessions, I had to use Word and then import) notes here
Session 1Kelley Yonce- Science- East Wake School of Integrated Technology- Advocate of New Technology Foundation- 5 steps for designing a PBL classroom -The Buck Institute www.bie.org Project Based Learning [...]
No Future Left Behind
Learning to Change: Changing to Learn
NC TIES is over for another year. It always seems to go soooo quickly.
This year I had an even exceptionally good time because I got to meet so many of my Skype NC Ed Tech Chat group “friends”. I say friends in quotes, because I have never met any of these friends in [...]
Very cute cartoon. Thanks John McPherson for making us smile!
Until next time ~ Danita
Moodling in the 21st Century Classroom
It’s a Jungle out there: Free Tools you can actually use
There’s More tahn YouTube – NCTIES
SMART Notebook 10 Collaborative LEarning
Project WISE – wiki integration in science education
Tools for your Web 2.0 Tool Box
Let’s Go Shopping – NC TIES Session 2
Teaching Strategies that Work – Session 1 NC TIES
NC TIES
I know I posted this on my old blog, but I just love this app ;o) So, I am posting it on my new blog. If you’re a Twitterer, you might want to check out your own Twitter Mosaic.
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Until next time ~ Danita
Presented Google applications today to my teachers. I don’t know if it was the fact that we were off yesterday for a snow day or that they were bored out of their minds, but all the grades were pretty quiet. For the sake of my ego, I’m going with they were tired [...]
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