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.
Putting It All Together
Posted by Janice on May 27, 2009 in Music, PowerPoint, The Arts
If you have received your new teacher computer you have worked with various professional development modules from Instructional Technology. Many of you have asked for an example of how to put all of the learning together in a presentation that uses the presentation station as the primary delivery device for a class project. (more…)
Slashdrive- A student solution
Posted by Harvey on May 26, 2009 in Web 2.0
Whether for expository writing in MS word, or for some other electronic project, many students rely on the use of digital tools to create products for school that demonstrate their learning. With the District commitment to create secure school networks that are free from malicious or inappropriate content, one of the challenges facing Seattle students is ensuring that their learning is as mobile as they are, and can be easily moved between home and school. (more…)
A Middle School Teacher Uses Photostory for the First Time
Posted by Juli on May 12, 2009 in Internet Research, Photo Story 3, Social Studies
Barbara Beers, 8th grade geography teacher at Whitman Middle School, was tired of using Power Point for student projects. (She’s not alone, a fun video – How Not to Use Powerpoint.) With the support of her librarian and Instructional Technology Specialist, she decided to try Photostory for the first time. In this post, you will find an overview of the project phases, links to her project files, and student work samples.
Project Purpose: to create a “sense of place” about a country in North Africa or Southwest Asia. See her project handout for details about student expectations. This project was part of a larger unit that included a UNESCO essay designed to use a research gathering tool which prompted students to gather background information about an assigned country (essay handout).
Key Resources: UNESCO website, eLibrary (great resources for pictures & maps), Photostory3 handout (QRD)
Google Tools in the Classroom
Posted by Gary on May 7, 2009 in Excel, Language Arts, PowerPoint, Science, Web 2.0, Word
Nathan Hale science teachers Matt Hinkley and Karl Englert are always searching for useful technology tools for their classrooms. One of their favorites is Google Tools for Educators. Google Docs is one component of the Google Tools suite (Sites, Calendar, RSS Reader, Picasa Photos, Maps and more). Specifically, Google Docs contains a word processor, presentation, and spreadsheet application. All 3 of these are stand-a-lone applications but also integrate well with Microsoft Office. Also in Google Docs is Forms, an easy-to-use survey tool. In addition, they use Google Calendar. All of these are available with a free Google account.
Here are a few descriptions of how these teachers are using Google Docs in their classrooms…
Wiki for Student Book Reviews
Posted by Janice on April 15, 2009 in Internet Research, Language Arts, Teacher Voices
David Edelman, who teaches English at Ingraham High School, was looking for a project to celebrate and highlight student success in reading and writing. After the WASL is over, students see the end of the school year in sight and need something that engages their attention. David decided to use a wiki for an online culminating project. Each student writes a book review on the best book they have read all year, and publicly publishes the review to the wiki. The wiki becomes a repository for student book reviews year after year. This year’s class will be working on their projects in May, but there are great reviews there from past classes. David says: “Almost all students, in the end, thought it was fun. More importantly, they accomplished something they were proud of.”
When you go to David’s wiki to read these reviews keep these minimum student guidelines in mind. There must be:
- a summary,
- an explanation of why they are recommending this book,
- a description of where this book can be found which includes links,
- information about the author which includes links, and
- one or two images.
If you would like to know David’s thoughts on this project and how he set it up, click on (more…)
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