Creating Character Blogs
Overview
In this lesson, which is also appropriate for middle school classrooms, students view examples of appealing blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character
Overview
In this lesson, which is also appropriate for middle school classrooms, students view examples of appealing blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character
For those of you looking for an example of a school district's Facebook policies, guidelines, rules, etc., I submit for your consideration the 'Mansfield ISD Facebook Fan Page Rules of Engagement.'
Hear is the real issue. An old educational model with new tools is a bad fit
gave away 30 new laptops to another school in 2005 after a class that was trying them out switched to new teachers who simply did not do as much with the technology
A parent shouldn't have to make such choices and schools should do what is necessary to properly prepare kids, if this means learning constantly and taking chances to properly prepare learners then so be it.
"Supreme Decision," the first of several planned web-based games, went online in August as part of a project called Our Courts. In it, students can play a Supreme Court law clerk helping a justice with a tie-breaking vote over a First Amendment case. Backed by the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and Georgetown University, the Our Courts project is designed to teach middle school students about the Constitution and the courts
The Word List Generator Project has created a database of 2084 words that elementary school teachers can use to help students practice and build sounding out and word-form recognition skills
Picture if you will these 9th graders blogs and Google Spreadsheet four years from now when they are seniors. Think about how much information they will have, colleges will have, and teachers will have about how much they are reading, what their interests might be, etc. Powerful stuff!
Many people will think I’m crazy but a key factor for me was also the ability to send reviews and information to Facebook.
NBC News Archives on Demand (K-12 and Higher Ed) unleashes the power of the NBC News archives and makes thousands of video clips available to teachers, students, schools, colleges and universities