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Mark McDonough

The 15 Best iPad Apps For The World Language Classroom - Edudemic - 0 views

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    not earth-shattering(ly?) new, but a good reminder list of apps for the foreign language classroom.
Cathlin LaRocco

http://www.colorincolorado.org/pdfs/guides/Engaging-ELL-Families.pdf - 1 views

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    A pdf about ways to work with ELL students and families.
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    This site has many ideas for reaching out to families yet it is clearly aimed at districts with large populations of ELLs. One important thing that applies to school messages to any family of ELLs: encourage parents to continue speaking and reading to their children in their native language.
Joe Colombo

Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Games - 1 views

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    Fun and free online multi-player educational math games and language arts games for students and teachers! Most work with one click meaning they are ideal for interactive white boards. Can be used with small groups or individuals.
Mark McDonough

Rewards of teaching young children to blog - 0 views

  • When I first started blogging, I thought the posts would be the primary focus of the blog. I quickly realized that the comment section was where the blog came to life.
  • Many parents work but would love to volunteer in some way. Last year, I asked parents to become “virtual volunteers” for our blogs. A virtual volunteer is a person who supports the blog by commenting back to students. This type of interaction helps strengthen the home-school connection and makes the comment sections more engaging.
  • With classroom time at a premium, I look for meaningful ways to integrate curriculum; the blog has been the perfect venue. When my class read “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry for language arts, the students followed up their reading by researching a rain forest animal that was mentioned in the story. Each student composed a comment for the blog from the point of view of that animal.
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  • During our biography unit, I had each student select a famous person to study. Students submitted a creative comment pretending they were that person. George Washington got a comment from Queen Elizabeth I, Mozart and Tchaikovsky were chatting; the blog comments truly brought these historic people to life!
  • Of all the riches that blogging has brought to my class, the relationships we’ve built with other classrooms around the world have been the most rewarding.
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    good, quick overview of how a 3rd grade teacher uses blogging. includes specific examples.
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
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