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Mark McDonough

Family Diversity Projects :: Technical Specifications for Our Exhibits - 0 views

  • Physical description Each exhibit comes with approximately 20 photographs. They are all museum quality framed with plexiglas covering, wires on back to hang. Size of each photograph framed is 16 inches by 20 inches and they weigh approximately 2 pounds. They can be hung on walls or portable room dividers, or placed on tables with bookstands (or table easels) or on floor easels. You can use all of them in one place, divide them into separate showings, or whatever works for your space needs. We can talk to you specifically about your individual situation. Each exhibit has different configurations of text, but generally each photograph has one or two pieces of long interview text 11 inches by l7 inches (vertical). They are thickly laminated and have string on the back to hang them on walls under or alongside their matching photograph. They can also be placed flat on a table if you use tabletop easels for the photographs, or hung off of floor easels. Many exhibits have additional "quotes" that are 11 inches (wide) by 8 inches (hung horizontally) and are written in larger fonts. These can be used in addition to the longer text, for people who might not read the full text, or in place of the longer text depending on the venue and situation (i.e. a conference). For schools, you might not need to use the quotes. It is up to each venue to decide how to use the text. In Our Family exhibit also has a K-2 text, which is also 11 x 8 inches and has a simple description of the family structure in age-appropriate language. Nothing To Hide just has 2-3 quotes per family, rather than a long text. For complete texts, the accompanying books have the longer interviews available. How to display the exhibits It's actually quite simple and doesn't take long to do. With all our photo-text rental exhibits, the photos and text are ready to hang with wires on the back. If you have wallspace, you just hang the photos and text as you would any art show, using nails or pushpins. Ideally, if you have a gallery space, you would have at least 60 linear feet, but this isn't a requirement at all. You could double hang the photographs. Some groups divide up the 20 photographs and put them in different areas of a building as well. If you use tables, you will need small table easels to hold the photographs and you can put the text right on the tables. Floor easels can also work, and we've even seen music stands used. Some folks rent or borrow room dividers/portable bulletin boards and hang the exhibit on both the back and front of them. (They must have wood backs, not corkboard, as the photos weigh about 2 pounds and you need the nail to go in solidly). We are happy to talk to you about your individual situation and make suggestions, as we've seen it all!
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      even more specs
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    More specs on materials needed for project
sdexter67

Leveled Book List - 1 views

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    This is from Acton Public. A good reference for parents. These lists have been developed for two reasons: for parents who have requested help in finding books at their child's reading level. for teachers who have requested a leveled book list or have asked for help in their effort to build a leveled library in their classrooms. I have tried to keep the lists to books that may be available at the local library or at a book store.
Mark McDonough

Family Diversity Projects :: Frequently Asked Questions About Our Rental Exhibits - 0 views

  • the photos and text are ready to hang with wires on the back. If you have wallspace, you just hang the photos and text as you would any art show, using nails or pushpins. Photographs are framed with plexiglas covers and measure 16' x 20" (some vertical, some horizontal). Each exhibit consists of approximately 20 photographs. Then there are laminated text panels (thick lamination like a credit card) which measure ll" wide x 17" long. In addition there are quotes that are 11" wide and 8" long (hung horizontally) which you may want to use, too (but may not depending on space and situation). We can tell you exactly what to expect with your exhibit as each one is slightly different but the sizes are the same. Ideally, you would have at least 60 linear feet, but this isn't a requirement. You could double hang the photographs. Some groups divide up the 20 photographs and put them in different areas of a building as well. If you use tables, you will need small table easels to hold the photographs and you can put the text right on the tables. Floor easels can also work, and we've even seen music stands used. Some folks rent or borrow room dividers/portable bulletin boards and hang the exhibit on both the back and front of them. (They must have wood backs, not corkboard, as the photos weigh about 2 pounds and you need the nail to go in solidly). We are happy to talk to you about your individual situation and make suggestions, as we've seen it all!
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      They've done our work for us! They describe all the material we need!
  • we often encourage groups to sponsor panel discussions, or a speaker, when the photo-text rental exhibit is at a particular location, or to use a diversity education trainer to prepare a group or school staff for an upcoming exhibition period.
Mark McDonough

Have You Tried The Aurasma App? ~ Mrs. Wideen's Blog - 0 views

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    free app. allows you to add 'augmented reality' content. short video example of how this elementary teacher used it. 
Ellen Metzger

Scale of the Universe 2 - 1 views

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    Amazing interactive tool to explore relative sizes of things from smaller than microscopic to the entire universe. Created by Cary Huang, a 14-year-old ninth grader from Moraga, California, with technical help from his twin brother Michael. You may have to wait a bit while it loads. Be sure to scroll both to the left and right. You can turn off the music by clicking the note icon.
Mark McDonough

Great Tech Tools - 1 views

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    great list of apps for teaching and learning. other pages on same site have other great lists of educational apps.
Patricia McGonagle

Three Ring | An App for Teachers to Create Educational Portfolios of Student Work with ... - 7 views

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    This looks like a really cool app to explore. You can pull up a student's work for parent-teacher conferences, assessment, or use as exemplars. How it works: With your smartphone or ipad, you can take a photo and tag it before you upload it and organize.
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    Downloaded - I'll be giving it a try - I have used a notebook creating app for a similar purpose, but this seems to be designed for what I have been forcing the other app to do. I wish you could add voice recordings as I like to do running records, and fluency analysis after I take a picture of a page a student is reading.
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    Take a picture with our app, and it's online in seconds Three Ring is a website that allows you to securely upload photos of student work. With Three Ring, you can sort by class, student, or custom tag to easily find the artifact you're looking for.
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    joe- it looks you CAN add your own audio recording to each piece of student work. i could not find, however, any reference to an ability to upload files. so it looks like the only way to add student work it to take a picture of it.
Mark McDonough

Interactive Whiteboard Games | PBS KIDS - 0 views

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    PBS Kids. Games for use on iboards. Since they're from PBS, most of the games have a tie-in to PBS programs.
Mark McDonough

100 iPad Apps Perfect For Middle School | Edudemic - 0 views

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    we have many of these apps already installed on the lincoln school ipads, but there are many new ones listed here, too.
Cathlin LaRocco

http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com - 2 views

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    GoogleLitTrips, a website that creates google "trips" for books where the characters travel or experience different places. Create your own to help students understand the geography of an area
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    This is so COOL!!! I need to pick your brain about this one. Is it limited to just the books they have on the site?
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    scot, you can use google earth to make a "lit trip" for any book - or you can use (and edit) ones that people have uploaded to the site. "lit trips" are google earth "tours". i've proposed that gr 4 use a "tour" when they do their hot air balloon project.
Cathlin LaRocco

SMART Exchange - USA - Search lessons by keyword - 1 views

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    smart board lessons, this link goes specifically to a weather key search
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    For all those interested in these....although they are designed to be used with their smart notebook software....active inspire, which is now on all of our school laptops will launch these files.
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    We have ActivInspire?? I love Promethean! I don't seem to have AI on mine though..
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    Trica it a bit hidden on mine - Open your applications - find the promethean folder - then click on the activesowftware inspire folder - in that folder the program is called "inspire" click to open. Then accept the license and click for personal use. Then you should be all set - or a least that is where it was on mine ;)
Mark McDonough

teachers's Channel - YouTube - 1 views

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    how to create a teacher channel in YT. could be for a flipped classroom (using videos you make yourself) or videos that others have made that you want to share with your students.
Matt Reed

36 Core Teacher Apps For Inquiry Learning With iPads - 0 views

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    Great ideas for apps, many of which we have and use.
Mark McDonough

Google Docs Add-on Review: Link Chooser by EdTechnocation.com - YouTube - 1 views

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    Use this add-on to quickly add links to other Google Drive files without having to leave their document.
Mark McDonough

Technology / BrainPOP - 1 views

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    Information for BrainPOP subscription at Lincoln School. Comment section at bottom of page for teachers to share their comments on using BrainPOP with their students.
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    have any lincoln school teachers used the school's subscription to brainpop yet? if so, could you leave a comment about what you used, how you used it, outcomes, etc.?
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    I've used it as a whole class preview- review in science so far. Videos about the weather.
Mark McDonough

SideVibe - 1 views

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    "a simple way to place useful, formative classroom lessons over any web page."
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    looks very useful. similar to ability to annotate a web page so only you/your students can see, but this browser plug-in looks much more versatile.
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    I have begun to replace some of my trackstars with these. I'll be testing it out soon. I'll let folks know how it goes. It certainly solves common problem.
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    p.s. great find Mark!
Joe Colombo

National Geographic Explorer Magazine - 3 views

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    For $258 we could get 21 issues of National Geographic Explorer for the ipad (for each of our 20 ipads in the smith cart) - with 7 K-1 issues, 7 2-3 issues and 7 4-6 issues (also can be used for higher readers in 2-3). Much more cost effective then ordering paper copies, and a great way to make digital literature available in all K-5 classrooms. App is very interactive and connections to grade level science content occur often. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/pioneer/
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    I like that idea. I was looking into magazines for 1st grade but like that this is interactive. Would it have to be split from team budgets?
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    Looks good, kids would really love it. I would be willing to help pay the costs with some of my budget. Could use the content to address the ELA common core science standards.
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    I love the way NG differentiates for reading levels!
Mark McDonough

Social Bookmarking in Education with Diigo - 1 views

  • if you install the Diigo toolbar, or toolbar button, you have the ability to highlight text and pictures in a variety of colors, or add sticky notes to a bookmarked page. With this feature you can annotate web pages with thoughts, ideas or additional information. All these notes are saved for the next time you access the saved bookmark, and anyone else you share the bookmark with, (students or teachers), will also see your annotations. It is a great way to focus attention on a large article.
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      I've used the highlighting tool with 3rd graders. I highlighted the area that contained the information I wanted them to find.
  • Your Diigo bookmarks can be public, or private, and there are numerous options for sharing with individuals, groups
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  • With Diigo Educator accounts, the privacy settings, by default, limit communication to that of classmates and teachers only. Lastly, students in the same class are automatically set up as a group, so all saved bookmarks can instantly be shared with peers
  • The real bonus of using social bookmarking with your class is the ease that you can work on project based learning tasks.
  • Bookmarks can be organized within group to cover several different projects, and the chance to archive for next year's class is a great time saver for teachers.
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      This is how educators can begin or help grow their Personal Learning Network (PLN).
Mark McDonough

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have - 0 views

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    great lists of link for integration web2.0 tools in classroom
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    their #2: Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners
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