CMS 1:1

View this presentation. It is a good overview of using Glogs. It will give you some ideas of how to use it with our MacBooks.

Now that we will have computers in all the students hands soon, we need to make sure we understand that "True empowerment comes when students take the skills they have learned in classrooms and apply them to ends of their own creation." Using the MacBook just to deliver what you would let them see in a textbook is not the most effective use of this technology. We must go beyond making the students complete "digital" worksheets and PowerPoint. It's a start, but students must become producers of digital content not just consumers.

Students must design a tutorial that describes a math lesson or a skill using the application Comic Life. The project must be the curriculm we have been learning this year (which is aligned with California State Standards). Students will then print their project and present it to the class.

When laptops are used well, they become digital assistants for students, providing distributed resources for research, writing, editing, analyzing, presenting, synthesizing, publishing, and creating -  empowering students with nearly everything needed for learning. 

In this lesson, students analyze and create rectangular patterns of squares. First they identify three stages of a pattern by coloring squares in a Microsoft Office Excel grid and quantify the information in a table. Next, they analyze the rates of growth in the three stages of the pattern, graph the formula or the points for each stage, and make predictions based on their findings. Finally, they create their own three-stage rectangular design, quantify the information, find the formulas, and share their pattern with other students.

Using graphs to investigate candy color distribution lesson plan.

In this lesson, students learn the benefits of using different kinds of graphs to communicate information, answer questions, and solve problems as they investigate color distribution in bags of M&M's. Working with actual bags of candy, students sort and classify contents, learn to use formulas in a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet, summarize their findings on a worksheet, convert the numbers into charts, and make predictions about color distribution in other bags of candy

Super site for reading, writing, and critical thinking skills

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After studying erosion, students will create a multimedia product that demonstrates their understanding and skills in science and information and communication technologies.

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This is an example of how a student used the software on a MacBook to create a report using music and video. This is a good one to share with students.

math and science pathways online social network for teachers.

This blog is an attempt to document the practical implementation of the 1:1 laptop program at Sinarmas World Academy. The program is currently in its second year. Included in this blog will be all uses of technology beyond laptops and other handy tools used in education.

When I was a kid my parents got this six-LP set of science-themed folk songs for my sister and me. They were produced in the late 1950s / early 1960s by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer. Zaret's main claim to fame is writing the lyrics to the classic "Unchained >Melody" for the 1955 movie "Unchained", later recorded by the Righteous Brothers and more recently used in "Ghost". Three of the albums (the best three in my opinion) were performed by Tom Glazer, semi-famous 1940s folk musician and somewhat of a lyricist himself (he wrote "On Top of Spaghetti").

The Singing Science lyrics were very Atomic Age, while the tunes were generally riffs on popular or genre music of the time. We played them incessantly.

In February 1998 I found the LPs in my parents' basement. I cleaned them up, played them one last time on an old turntable, and burned them onto a set of three CD-R discs. In December 1999 I read the songs back off the CDs and encoded them into MP3, so now you can hear them on the web. They are available at either 32 Kbps (about half a megabyte each) or 160 Kbps (about two megabytes each). The higher-quality MP3 versions were encoded by Ron Hipschman.

Wordle is an application that creates Word clouds from text. The more times the word is used is how large the text will be. You can print them or take a screen capture of them for use on blogs or wikis. To embed you must save to Gallery first and then the code will appear. Here is an example of text copied from a recent newspaper article. This could be used as an activity for writing a report.

I know- we do not have ink, but this is something you can assign for students to do at home using photos or slides converted to images for learning projects.

Do you have students in your classroom that struggle with reading? Maybe these free online books could interest them. Lots of topics, and great photos. I liked the one about Bats.

These tips are research-based and with a little imagination, we could use them on the student Macbooks. Keeping a Student Wiki page as their "Vocabulary Notebook" might be a good strategy. Using Pages, Keynote, iMovie, and other software help the learner to construct meaning from experiences.

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