Lowell Students Use a Webquest to Explore Environmental Challenges
Posted by Juli on November 17, 2009 in 1, Internet Research, PowerPoint, Social Studies
Students in Dustin Wood’s classroom used a webquest to explore current environmental problems facing Earth. Students worked in teams to develop presentations about a particular topic (e.g., extinction, landfills, air pollution…). In the scenario for this activity, each student team is vying for $1 million in funding from the fictional Help Our World (HOW) Foundation. As members of the HOW Foundation, all students will vote for the team that makes the best case for its environmental issue.
Seattle Schools Network on Ning
Posted by Harvey on November 13, 2009 in Blogging, Web 2.0
Ning is a social networking site that allows anyone to create an online network for almost any purpose. The Instructional Technology group has created a Seattle Schools social network on Ning to allow educators an online space to connect and share with others. (more…)
Seattle Schools Librarians using Edublogs to promote their work
Posted by Harvey on November 9, 2009 in Libraries
On Tuesday November 3, 2009 a group of Seattle Schools librarians met at McClure Middle school to share ideas and work on setting up blogs for their building libraries. Eric Caldwell, Library Services Manager, purchased a campus pack of the popular blogging tool Edublogs based on Wordpress platform in order to provide all district librarians with a web presence. (more…)
Adams Elementary staff create classroom kits of digital cameras for student use
Posted by Harvey on October 30, 2009 in Teacher Voices
On Wednesday October 28th 2009, staff at Adams Elementary used early release time to familiarize themselves with PTA-funded classroom kits of digital cameras. Staff participated in a hands-on activity led by Instructional Technologist Meredith Blache to learn how to use the kits with their students in support of teaching and learning. (more…)
Banned social networks can mean missed opportunities for student (and adult) learning
Posted by Harvey on September 23, 2009 in Web 2.0
Student social networks are banned in most schools as disruptive distractions or potentially unsafe and unmoderated spaces that can put students at risk. However, students themselves use technology tools like cell phones and social networks as integral parts of their world, a world that includes school and classroom learning. Students are online and using social networks, and preventing student access at school does little to address the real need to help students to safeguard their well-being. Like any other health or safety issue, the real solution to protecting students lies in education. (more…)
Blogging Poetry
Posted by Janice on June 9, 2009 in Blogging, Language Arts, Teacher Voices
Kristi Dahlstrom, Language Arts/Journalism teacher at Ingraham high school created a collaborative poetry project with one of her Language Arts 9 classes. Students have been writing and refining their poetry over the last few weeks in preparation for publishing to the class blog.
Besides learning to write poetry, students learned to write specific praise and constructive criticism for commenting on each other’s work. They practiced this element of the project on poems posted to the blog by Kristi and her student teacher. Kristi observed, “Students are now posting their own work and commenting with maturity and grace! Success!”
You can see their project by going to http://www.msdahlstrom.edublogs.org
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Ocean Reports
Posted by LeAnn on June 3, 2009 in Language Arts, PowerPoint, Science
The 2nd graders in Kayleen Diaz’s class at Lafayette study ocean animals. The classroom is transformed into an amazing underwater world! We worked together to come up with a technology project that they could do while writing their reports. The students created bubble maps, researched their animal and organized the information into an outline. From that written outline they chose at least 3 facts from the different categories to include in their PowerPoint. They were ecstatic to present their reports to their classmates and were trying their hardest to come up with questions that would stump their audience. This was the first time many of them had created a PowerPoint. You can view projects from Sarah, Henry C. and Simon here. For more information about the process read on.
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