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Tracy Watanabe

Learning Maths with 4KM and 4KJ | 4KM and 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School - 0 views

  • Learning Maths with 4KM and 4KJ Posted by Mrs Kathleen Morris on Friday, September 21st 2012      We were recently inspired by the work of our blogging buddies in B4. These students from New Zealand made some maths videos with their teacher, Mrs McKenzie. When 4KM and 4KJ saw the videos they decided they’d like to make their own. All of the students chose a topic that we had covered this term in our maths classes. We came up with some tips for making a maths video that teaches the audience something. Some of our tips were: I
  • We came up with some tips for making a maths video that teaches the audience something. Some of our tips were: Introduce yourself Talk about the learning focus Define new words Give an example Solve your problem step-by-step End with a tip/farewell message Speak clearly and loudly Use kid-friendly language Do things slowly
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  • Short Division
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  • Prime and Composite Numbers
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    Great example of student-centered learning for math
Tracy Watanabe

Using an iPod Touch in the Primary Classroom | Integrating Technology in the Primary Cl... - 1 views

  • Using an iPod Touch in the Primary Classroom Posted by Mrs Kathleen Morris on Monday, August 8th 2011      2011 is the fourth year I’ve been using an iPod Touch in my classroom. My students enjoy using these hand held devices and they can be used to enhance student learning in many different areas. In this post I will describe how we set up our iPod Touches and how we use them. Funding In 2008, I was successful in applying for a DEECD Emerging Technologies Trial Grant. We purchase 8 iPod Touches and some professional development time. Since then, our school has budgeted to purchase a small number of iPod Touches. We generally buy our iPod Touches from BigW and get the lowest memory model. More than half of the classes at our large primary school now have an iPod Touch in their room (we also have a small number of iPads that we’re beginning to trial). Equipment A headphone splitter was purchased for each iPod Touch which allow the device to be used by a group of five students at one time.
  • A headphone splitter was purchased for each iPod Touch which allow the device to be used by a group of five students at one time.
  • While our headphone splitter works well to share one iPod between 5 students when they are listening to stories, podcast or videos, activities that involve apps are better in a 1:1 or 1:2 situation. We have found one way to get around this. If a group of students were playing an app, they might take it in turns to have a go with the app while also engaged in another related activity. For example, students could be taking it in turns to play the app Wurdle, while other students play the Boggle board game.
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  • Sample Apps
  • This is Tania’s website with links to some great literacy and numeracy resources for the junior primary classroom.
  • http://www.iear.org/
  • http://www.apple.com/education/apps/ipodtouch-iphone.html
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  • Students listen to various stories.
  • How-to videos from the Howcast site have been stored on the iPod and students have followed the instructions to complete a task (eg. making origami). Tip: don’t let students on the Howcast site unsupervised.
  • Students have listened to songs and sequenced cards containing the lyrics to the song
  • Students listen to a recording of instructions which they must comprehend to draw something or complete a simple task.
  • Students have watched short videos
  • Student created videos and podcasts
  • Other Ideas Tom Barrett and his readers have put together this slideshow with other ideas about using the iPod Touch in the classroom.
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    ipod touch info -- might also be relevant for ipads too
Tracy Watanabe

Activity 7: Fair use, copyright, and introduction to using images | Teacher Challenge - 0 views

  • Introduction to copyright, fair use and using images in blog posts You can’t just use any image you like in a blog post. Why?  Because unless stated otherwise, the law automatically grants full “copyright” over any creative work a person makes.
  • I’m sure you’re probably thinking it is okay because as educators, we have a few more flexible rules, called “Fair Use”, to play by.  Fair use, in some cases, if an image, text, video, etc. is being used for educational purposes, means you may have more flexible copyright rules. The trouble is, most of the laws and rules that cover fair use and education were written well before the invention of the web.  They don’t apply to use of copyright material on the Internet.  Using copyright material leaves you open to copyright infringement. So what does this mean? You need to: Learn what images you are and aren’t allowed to use, and why. Learn how to attribute images you are allowed to use. Educate your students that you can’t just use any images off the Internet in their blog posts, show them how to source and attribute images they are allowed to use. Understanding digital copyright is an essential skill we need to understand and teach our students.  This post focuses on use of images.
Tracy Watanabe

EdTech Workshop: Using iPads to Create eBooks With 2nd Grade - 0 views

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    I love this post about her learning how to create eBooks with 2nd graders with the iPad. If you go to the blog where they are publishing it, you'll find lots of ideas for iPads in elementary education.
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    I love this post about her learning how to create eBooks with 2nd graders with the iPad. If you go to the blog where they are publishing it, you'll find lots of ideas for iPads in elementary education.
Tracy Watanabe

Teaching is Elementary: Place Value Games in Math - 0 views

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    There are some place value games on this post and in the comments (I attached a few links to one of my own games). Enjoy!
Tracy Watanabe

Mr. Salsich's Class - Poetry Madness 2013 - The Final Four! - 0 views

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    What a great idea for fluency with poetry -- students narrate it in an app like Educreations, place it in a blog post, then have people vote. Love it!
Tracy Watanabe

debrennersmith: Writing and Reading Lessons - 0 views

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    Great blog to follow for Kinder-2nd teachers esp for ELA "Teach the writer, not the writing. Teach the reader, not the reading. We have conversations with our students about their reading and writing to teach the child." "Deb is a literacy consultant and an author. She post writing lessons and reading lessons frequently."
Tracy Watanabe

Mr. Salsich's Class - Grinding Cornmeal - 0 views

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    If your curriculum includes Native American culture, this would be a relevant post to get students discussing prior knowledge, and writing their thoughts down as comments (or have them dictate what to write and do a whole group comment by modeling for them how to collect their ideas and form a comment/friendly letter).
Tracy Watanabe

Free Technology for Teachers: Most Popular Posts of the Year - #2, 11 Mathematics Resou... - 0 views

  • Brain Nook is a virtual world in which students can practice their mathematics and English skills
  • Learn Your Tables is a neat little site for students to use to learn and develop multiplication skills.
  • Ten Marks, an online mathematics tutoring service, offers a free program for teachers.
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  • Yummy Math is a website designed for the purpose of sharing mathematics problems and scenarios based on things happening in the world today.
  • Web2.0calc is a free online scientific calculator.
  • Math Open Reference is a free online reference for geometry teachers and students.
  • Math Maps are Google Maps on which Tom and others have created placemarks which when clicked reveal mathematics questions for students to answer based on the maps.
  • Math Live is a neat mathematics website developed by Learn Alberta
  • Conceptua Math is a provider of interactive visual mathematics lessons
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    Lots of great resources here.
Tracy Watanabe

Keeping Students Engaged in a 1:1 Project-Based Classroom [guest post] | 1 to 1 Schools - 1 views

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    Great management tips for PBL with (or without) tech.
Tracy Watanabe

Making Educational Blogging Work for You | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom - 0 views

  • I used to think blogging was an add-on. I didn’t realise that it can be seamlessly integrated into the classroom literacy program. I used to feel guilty about taking time away from my reading and writing curriculum. It was a light bulb moment for me when I realised that blogging is literacy; and an authentic and important style of literacy too. Now a day without blogging as part of my literacy block would be hard to imagine.
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    Fabulous post by Kathleen Morris (now 4th grade teacher, but previously 2nd grade teacher) about educational blogging.
Tracy Watanabe

Integrating Blogging into the Curriculum | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom - 1 views

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    Fabulous post on blogging in the classroom and what it looks like as part of the daily routine. Fabulous authentic purpose tor learning literacy in the 21st century classroom.
Tracy Watanabe

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

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    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

Mr. C's Class Blog: Our Community Blog Links - 0 views

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    Here's a list of individual student bloggers, grades 6-8. Their posts are about digital citizenship & science. I'm sure they would love students to comment on their blogs.
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    If you are into science, and grades 3-6th, this is a place to allow your students to comment to other students. Always review safety and netiquette first, then model making some class comments before having them work on comments as partners.
Tawnya Woronec

Cybraryman Internet Catalogue - 1 views

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    Chat with people who are passionate about education.  Keep in mind the pre-set times are just to discuss a single topic. Lively discussions appear at all sorts of times during the day.  People use the hashtag to share links or their latest blog post.
Gina Fraher

Tiny URL - 0 views

shared by Gina Fraher on 30 Jun 11 - Cached
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    create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires-converts long urls into short ones.
Tracy Watanabe

Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog: Hip Hip Array! - 1 views

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    Great math tutorial post & video on rows vs columns in arrays found in the real world.
Tracy Watanabe

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

  • 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

Fishing For Compliments | Fraher's Class and Friends - 0 views

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    Are you your students learning about figurative language? Have them comment on this post about figurative language. --- You can do this as a whole group, or as centers.
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