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Tracy Watanabe

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 20 Jul 11
     
    The following quote is from Teaching Generation Now techtoolsforteachers@gmail.com -- Sign up for their newsletter (and view archives) for more tips on how to use Scrublr (and many other tech tools) "Scrumblr is a free online tool that allows you to create a virtual whiteboard. This whiteboard can be accessed from multiple computers and used as a collaborative space for education. We like scrumblr because: ● it is free and extremely easy to use. ● no sign up is needed to create and collaborate on a scrumblr board ● only people with the URL link that you create can access the scrumblr. ● it has no ads. ● it provides the opportunity for students to be active in their learning, reflect, clarify, stay focussed and learn from one another. ● it lets participants be anonymous. ● it allows for students from all over the world to work together. ● it allows you to customise the name and setup of the scrumblr ● it has many uses across all age groups and subject areas. ● it allows for students who don't normally speak up in class to be involved in conversations about their learning"
Tracy Watanabe

AAAS - AAAS News Release - "SCIENCE Honors Electron Bugscope Project with SPORE Award" - 0 views

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bugscope biology microscope science interactive

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 06 Sep 11
     
    K-12 FREE Opportunity: If your students investigate bugs, use a microscope, need an authentic purpose for research, I'd like to suggest partnering with Bugscope. You get to collaborate with expert scientists to explore bugs (i.e. looking at a bug's tongue). You would do this all via the internet. It looks amazing! Below is a response from them, with an attachment.  A news-release summarizes a history of Bugscope (http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0729sp_spore.shtml). Bugscope allows teachers everywhere to provide students with the opportunity to become microscopists themselves-the kids propose experiments, explore insect specimens at high-magnification, and discuss what they see with our scientists-all from a regular web browser over a standard broadband internet connection. You sign up, ask your students to find some bugs, and mail them to us. We accept your application, schedule your session, and prepare the bugs for insertion into the electron microscope. When your session time arrives, we put the bug(s) into the microscope and set it up for your classroom. Then you and your students login over the web and control the microscope. We'll be there via chat to guide you and answer the kids' questions. If you would like to see the response from one class who have done this, read Mrs. Krebs' blog post: http://krebs.edublogs.org/2011/09/04/bugscope-session/  If you need any help with this, just let me know. If you end up taking them up on this FREE collaboration, please let me know when/where so I can drop by. This looks fascinating! Kind regards,Tracy
Tracy Watanabe

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PBL projects reading global collaboration blog book literature skype

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • This blog is set to connect classrooms across the world as they read a book simultaneously in their classrooms. Throughout the book, the blog will help the classrooms with projects, discussions and possible skype discussions to open up classroom walls. My classroom is inviting any 4th, 5th or 6th grade classroom that might be interested in collaborating on this project.
  • Shauna Hamman on 04 Aug 11
     
    Collaborative readaloud project.
Shauna Hamman

Journey North Mystery Class: How to Participate - 1 views

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  • Shauna Hamman on 27 Jan 12
     
    Mystery Class starts January 30! This is a fun 11-week project that engages students science, technology and global collaboration.
Tracy Watanabe

Free Technology for Teachers: Boom Writer - Collaborative Publishing for Kids - 0 views

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writing authentic_purpose

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Boom Writer is a service designed to encourage kids to do their best writing and share it with each other to create a small book. Boom Writer provides a "starter chapter" for a story and students continue the story by writing additional chapters.
Tracy Watanabe

Global Project- Teddy Bears Around the World in its 4th Year | Langwitches Blog - 2 views

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langwitches teddy_bear project global elementary collaboration blog writing geography community

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • For the forth year, Teddy Bears from around the world are contributing images about their travels, traditions and customs to this blog.
  • The idea is to collaboratively create a space with stories from different locations around the world. Students practice creative writing skills as they contribute stories from the bear’s perspective about their lives, surroundings and customs. I would like to expand having classes connect and interact with the stories of their teddies via more commenting. About the Project:
  • There is no need to send a Teddy Bear to another school or teacher. All you need to do in order to participate is to register via the Contact Form, integrate writing and documenting (via images, videos or audio) the adventures of your own class’ teddy bear.
Tracy Watanabe

Monster Exchange Project, English Writing Project - 1 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 14 Oct 11
     
    I'd love to see this turned into a mini PBL by adding a thought provoking Essential Question -- and have them focus on creativity, collaboration, literacy, fluency, and writing. Any ideas for an essential question?
Tracy Watanabe

2012 KidVote Mock Election - Every Vote Really Does Count! - 0 views

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vote voting election project pbl kidvote 21st century learning

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 10 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Welcome to #KidVote Mock Election for the upcoming US Presidential Election in November 2012.
  • DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: Friday, October 19, 2012. This will allow my students have time to prepare everything they need to track the data, and more importantly, get it shared on Election Day!
  • Thank you all for taking this event to the next level for our students. A mock election is fun, but a mock election shared with the whole country? THAT’s what 21st century learning is all about: collaboration and authentic experiences!
Tracy Watanabe

10 Steps to Managing Cooperative, Project-Based Learning Groups | 1 to 1 Schools - 0 views

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PBL Janet Moeller-Abercrombie one-to-one nick_sauers bookclub collaboration

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 22 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Even with these tools, scaf­fold­ing is nec­es­sary.
  • 1. Con­tent Comes First Be clear about how stu­dent projects will be eval­u­ated
  • 2: Choose and Defend A Par­tic­u­lar Pre­sen­ta­tion For­mat Once stu­dents know what they want to com­mu­ni­cate, they can begin dis­cussing the clear­est means for com­mu­ni­cat­ing their ideas.
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  • 3. Stu­dents “Divide and Con­quer” the Work­load
  • Divi­sion of labor should be explicit
  • Crit­i­cal ques­tions are: What needs to be writ­ten? Can that be divided into chunks? What needs to be pur­chased? Who wants to go where? When? What needs to be researched/read? Can that be divided? Can the project be divided into sec­tions so that each stu­dent is respon­si­ble for one of those sec­tions? Posters can be divided into sec­tions — Who will be respon­si­ble for which sec­tions? Pre­sen­ta­tions are divided into slides — Who will be respon­si­ble for which slides? iMovie sec­tions can be pro­duced on sep­a­rate com­put­ers and assem­bled in the end — Who will be respon­si­ble for which sec­tion? Prezis work like Pre­sen­ta­tions - Who will be respon­si­ble for each part?
  • 4. Stu­dents Plan a Time­line Time man­age­ment is one of those crit­i­cal skills that is miss­ing from the writ­ten cur­ricu­lum. The key is back­ward planning.
  • 5. Group mem­bers work as Indi­vid­u­als After stu­dents have decided on con­tent, defended a for­mat for pre­sen­ta­tion, and “divided-to-conquer” the work, they can be mean­ing­fully engaged in their own mini-projects. Each work ses­sions should have a work goal. M
  • 6. Indi­vid­u­als Com­ment on Part­ners’ Pieces Dur­ing the revi­sion and assem­bly stages, some trouble-shooting may be necessary.
  • 7. Groups Reflect on Their Work Finally, the group needs to come together and com­ment on the “fit” of all the parts.
  • 8. Allow Groups to see other Groups’ Work Some stu­dents are risk-averse. They want to work on project for­mats they know. But when they see oth­ers’ work, they have a frame­work they can use when con­sid­er­ing for­mats for other projects.
  • 9. Use Projects to Inform Report Card Com­ments Those who chose to make Prezis don’t know this, but I jot­ted down a quick report card com­ment about self-motivated learn­ing.
  • 10. Cel­e­brate! Stu­dents should cel­e­brate work well done.
Tracy Watanabe

How to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • There are three considerations when addressing Internet safety with these students. First, the transfer of handling strangers in "real life" to those in virtual environments is not automatic. It needs to be taught. Second, while most "Stranger Danger" programs teach that strangers are scary, mean and want to hurt or abduct children, this contradicts the way collaboration occurs between strangers online. Not all strangers are dangerous. Lastly, in "real life," students can walk or run away from a potential threat. In an online environment, the danger is inside a student's home and hard to escape without the necessary skills for handling tough situations. This is a lesson that I have done with my kindergarten and first grade students to introduce the idea that strangers exist on the Internet and to discuss how we should interact with them.
Tracy Watanabe

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 22 Aug 13
     
    "Project Goals: Students will engage in discussions with other students in the project about their country, school, hobbies, favorite activities, etc. Students will learn to respect and appreciate the opinions, cultures and customs of others. Students will be able to see the differences and similarities between themselves and others around the world. Duration: Round 1: Starting Sept/Oct 2013 Round 2: Starting February/March 2014 Targeted Grade Levels/Age Groups: Ages 7 and up. Classes will be grouped with others in a similar age range. I will do my best to connect classrooms in different areas but it all depends who signs up."
Tawnya Woronec

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  • Tawnya Woronec on 31 May 11
     
    Register your class for FREE!  Students can contribute to one project. Boom Writer provides a "starter chapter: for a story and students continue the story by writing additional chapters. Teachers can oversee each student's writing, comment, and edit. When all students have written their contributions the class reads the submissions and votes. The names of the writers aren't revealed until after the voting.
Tracy Watanabe

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 14 May 11 - No Cached
  • First, there is Laura's understanding of how kids learn technology. Before they start this project, she exposes them to Google Docs and lets them explore the program. It didn't take long for the kids to of course find the chat feature in Google Docs. For some teachers, this would have been a reason to stop using Google Docs, for others like Laura, it was a teaching opportunity and a chance to use it for learning. A quick call to the carpet, the class talked about the chat. Why did Google put it there? How would you use it? What would you say? And off they go again exploring the program.
  • It didn't take long for the kids to of course find the chat feature in Google Docs. For some teachers, this would have been a reason to stop using Google Docs, for others like Laura, it was a teaching opportunity and a chance to use it for learning. A quick call to the carpet, the class talked about the chat. Why did Google put it there? How would you use it? What would you say? And off they go again exploring the program.
  • Google Doc Templates for "Student Newspaper."
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  • Yes, they were all in the same room but what a great way to start teaching "chat etiquette" in an environment that could be monitored by a teacher.
  • Next it was time to find pictures. A lesson on Creative Commons and using compfight and the kids were off to find pictures for their articles. Another lesson on citation/attribution 
  • She combines them into one PDF and uploads them to Youblisher to create their online Newspaper
  • Amber Moore on 16 May 11
     
    Perfect timing Tracy! My class is creating magazines this week with their own personal covers, but the inside articles will be created by all. I think the template will be perfect.
Tracy Watanabe

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  • Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. There are two sessions each year, September - January and January - May. To join iEARN Learning Circles, you must first be a member of iEARN and complete an iEARN Learning Circle placement form two weeks before the beginning of the session. Once you complete the placement form you will be placed in a Circle for the next session.
Tracy Watanabe

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space moon earth_science collaboration global project

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • The Moon Over Us is where students learn more about the moon as it travels across the sky. In the project, students and teachers from around the world share information about the moon and discuss this information through the iCollaboratory web site.
Tracy Watanabe

Storybird: A Collaborative Storytelling Tool : Tech Tutorials - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 07 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 07 Sep 11
     
    Great new video tutorials written for beginners for tech integration tools. Mr. Avery has superb taste in tech integration. Every week will be a new tutorial.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 07 Sep 11
     
    Great new video tutorials written for beginners for tech integration tools. Mr. Avery has superb taste in tech integration. Every week, there will be a new tutorial. I wanted to share this with you.
Tracy Watanabe

Why and How to Participate in Teddy Bears Around The World Project? | Langwit... - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 20 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The project blog and hub can be be found at http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/teddybearsaroundtheworld/ I have created a How-to-Guide in order to articulate how and why to join such a project, to make participation easier and to facilitate the process of passing on the information.
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