West Delaware HS PD

Potential and Kinetic Energy

2010-11-12T07:15:00.000-08:00

Go to http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/mass-spring-lab and complete the worksheet found here

2010-10-11T10:56:00.000-07:00

Quiz10112010

Make Your Life Easier with Google Forms

2010-10-10T22:10:00.000-07:00

Google Forms is improving. Our goal today is to look at the form as an analysis tool.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGF5WW5iUDZvMFJkSEVwbkNoS0twTVE6MQ

My process:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ARyfL3_e92ZnZGY4amgzcWdfMzRkYzZjcTRkdw&hl=en

Sketch the form ahead of time. Google Forms doesn't like to move things very well in relationship to the underlying spreadsheet. By sketching ahead, your data on the spreadsheet will make more sense.

Decide on the underlying purpose. Google forms answers multiple choice questions most easily, and allows for easy analysis.

Student-Centered Instruction for IDM

2010-10-10T21:55:00.000-07:00

Instructional Decision-Making, or Response to Intervention, believes that all students can learn.

There are no magic bullets. We have to learn from our students, and we have to learn from one another.

Things that we need to consider

1. Metagcognition

2. State mandates

3. Need to know vs. nice to know

4. More than one right way

5. RTI

Digital Tools for Student Expressions and Retention

2010-10-10T20:48:00.000-07:00

Today will be a workday. There are tools that are constantly changing and evolving out there, but these are the ones we will focus on today.

Your Goal: Find one of these sites that can work for your classroom and play with the tool. Sketch a rough lesson plan (2-3 sentences) to share at the end of the class. You may wish to copy down usernames or passwords and email the entire idea to yourself at the end of the class. Alternatively, post your idea as a comment at the end of this blog segment.

ETC. Sites

This is Sand

ThisisSand is primarily a game (you may need to have it unblocked by your network admin). But it allows students to use sand art in an expressive way. Here are some examples:

Symmetry (math, art)

Modified Sierpinski Gadget/Fractal (math)

Sedimentary Layers (geology applications)

Positive/Negative Space (art)

The Beach

Vocaroo

This is an easy app that allows you to record messages, memos, tape yourself for audio assessments, etc. Students need a webcam to use this.

Visual Webbing

There are a variety of visual webbing tools right now. Here are twoI have found useful.

VISUWORDS

LEXIPEDIA

Student Mixes

GotBrainy lets you combine ideas with text to illustrate a point.

Bubbl.us is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool

FlashCardMachine Allows lots of personal practice and study

Toondoo allows student cartoons to be created on a subject

Professor Garfield Although a bit gimmicky for upper level students, I appreciate this site's Internet Safety tutorials, developed by the State of Virginia

Museum Box Help kids organize ideas on a topic in a visual exhibit

Scratch

Designed by MIT, this program requires a download, but it is well worth it for students who have an interest in storytelling or programming. Take a look at the gallery and see if you can find something ready-made

Sample

Using the 5E learning cycle

2009-10-05T09:48:00.000-07:00

Educational Background

EduTech Wiki

Template ideas

Formative Assessments and Technology

2009-10-05T08:23:00.000-07:00

Twitter or TwtPoll

Blogs

Discovery Education

Poll Everywhere

Jolene's Blog

Marcia's Blog

Formative Assessment

Page Keeley

Using Twitter in the Classroom

2009-10-04T21:51:00.001-07:00

Twitter and Facebook in My Classroom??
What can I use it for:
• Data mining
• Discussion with experts
• Assignments
• History in themaking
• Assignments
• Short quizzes
• Communication
• Hypotheses
Sites:
www.twitter.com
www.twitpic.com
http://twtpoll.com/uqhn62
www.twitterfall.com
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Twitter-in-the-Classroom
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
http://web20primer.wetpaint.com/page/Twitter+in+the+Classroom
http://apaceofchange.edublogs.org/2007/08/08/promoting-twitteracy-in-the-classroom/

Science SAC Meeting, 9/17/2009

2009-09-16T21:30:00.000-07:00

Click here for the shared data form

Technology and 21st Century Skills

2009-08-18T10:30:00.000-07:00

Iowa Core

ISTE/NETS

Google Docs

Blogger

Atomic Learning

PD 360

DE Streaming

Links and Resources for Learning Teams 2009-10

2009-08-18T09:21:00.001-07:00

SURVEY: http://bit.ly/tlBvY

Service-Learning

Spheres of Possibility: Linking Service-Learning and the Visual Arts
Carol S. Jeffers ISBN 1-890160-32-6

The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action (Paperback)
by Cathryn Berger Kaye

2st Century Skillslls

Relevance/Reading/Literacy

TECH in Real Life

Relevance of English, The: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives
Product Image Editor(s): Robert P. Yagelski, Scott A. Leonard
Grades 6–College. ISBN 0-8141-3989-2.

Lesson Plan review among peers

Inquiry and Scientific Explanations: Helping Students Use Evidence and Reasoning
By: Katherine L. McNeill and Joseph Krajcik

Literacy at the Crossroads: Crucial Talk about Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmas
Grades K–12. ISBN 0-435-07210-2.
Author(s): Regie Routman

Making School Meaningful

Math is Language, Too

Building Academic Vocabulary: Teacher's Manual
ROBERT J. MARZANO, DEBRA J. PICKERING ISBN-13:
978-1-4166-0234-7

Questions, Claims, and Evidence: The Important Place of Argument in Children’s Science Writing Author: Brian Hand (elem/middle school)

Handbook for the Art and Science of Teaching
by Robert J. Marzano and John L. Brown

NWEA MAPs analysis (see Jon for a password/login)

21st Century Skills

Iowa Core

http://www.heathyschoolcommunities.org

Route 21

Route 21 #2

Research-Based Teaching

How Students Learn

Curriculum Topic Study