Due 9/10 Compose a letter to your community member explaining the Resilient Cafe project and why you want to interview them.
Due 9/19 Use the RC Community Interview guide on pages 24-26 of your packet to guide your interview. Remember to take notes and/or use your phone/iPod to record the interview.
You are going to research the historical figure you selected from the list on page 22 of your Resilience Cafe packet. From your research you will create a one-page reference sheet about this historical figure, include a picture of the person(s), and the answers to the questions below. Please see page 23 for an example.
Create a new post in your blog and name it Historical Figure Research. Copy and paste your information from Word into the new post and submit for review.
Using the attributes of resilient people, identify the key words for the 17 traits and create a word cloud using Jason Davies Word Cloud Generator.
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Compose a post about who inspires you. Your post should be at least 3 paragraphs must include at least three supporting details that explain why this person inspires you. If your person is a well known, insert an image including the citation information.
When you are finish, submit your post for approval.
Chirbit may be old to you, but it is new to me and is turning out to be a great online audio app. The tutorial video I selected from the YouTube library highlights how this app can be used to add audio options, including for your RSS feed. I am still tinkering with the transcribe option and am determined to figure it out.
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I was replying to a comment on the Narcissus and Microwaves post Angie made in regards to the food pyramid and got to thinking there might be one for technology. I found a cool technology pyramid and thought I would share it with all of the readers.
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This past year, I taught math intervention to 6th and 7th grade students. The biggest challenge for my students was with automaticity or fact fluency. My students struggled with multiplication facts, addition fact families and the concept of subtraction. To augment the daily math skill lessons, students used a variety of sites as they worked on developing their math fluency skills.
Moby Max This affordable site offers a full differentiated and integrated K-8 math and ELA curriculum . The math component not only teaches students new skills but finds and fixes the missing math skills. in addition their is a fact fluency piece. The application has built in motivational components and students earn rewards including: math based game time, badges, and certificates. The class management piece is easy to administer and reports are easy to generate and are data rich.
Free RiceThis site is free. It offers questions in the following subject areas: humanities, English, math, chemistry, foreign languages, geography, human anatomy, and SAT prep. Each correctly answered question results in 10 grains of rice donated to the World Food Programme. No account is necessary to use the site, however, teachers can register a class or people can signup for individual accounts to track progress.
Math MagicianCreated by Mark Cogen for the Oswego School District in New York, this is a fluency building application. Students build both accuracy and speed in basic math facts. Additional games are available on the Oswego District website.
The focus of this site is for teaching and learning multiplication. The site offers drill and practice, quizzes, and tests for students, along with resources for parents and teachers to teach students to multiply. The available games focus on addition, subtraction, and multiplication to enrich student fluency and motivate them.
.comThis site offers math practice for Pre-K through Geometry and Algebra 2, and grades 2-6 Language arts skills. Each grade level has an array of skills based on standards for students to work on, and games to motivate them as a incentive. The free version limits your daily usage, but paid versions are available for families and schools. With a subscription parents and teachers have a wide variety of reports to monitor student progress.
With the exception of Math Magician, these sites offer other subjects. Occasionally we used Khan Academy, students like the videos but weren’t as thrilled with the interactive piece.
Another resource that many students benefited from was the National Library of Manipulatives
This blog is intended to be the portal to which I enter the world of blogging for the classroom. Incorporating technology is not new to me, I have been using various tech tools for in my CTE business and computer applications courses. However, up until now, other that creating web sites for intercessions, I haven’t used blogging as an educational tool.
Recently, I was fortunate enough to spend several days with some fellow computer tech teachers from other districts, discussing how to best use technology as a tool to support academic success. It was apparent that while the majority of educators are embracing technology, it is still widely under-used and misused. Using blogging in the classroom is an opportunity to work with my students to ethically create their digital footprints. It also provides a platform to assist my fellow faculty members in integrating blogs effectively into their classrooms.