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Libby Turpin

Making Online Discussion Boards Work for Skills-Based Courses - Faculty Focus | Faculty... - 10 views

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  • Mary Keane on 10 Apr 11
     
    This article explores ways to enhance online communication between students.
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  • Megan Smith on 09 May 11
     
    How to make a disucussion board effective. Divide a large group into smaller study sections. Make certain to post application questions, not fact-based or calculation questions. Apply the questions to the students' life/future.
  • Jon Tyler on 09 May 11
     
    The author describes using discussion boards for his accounting course.
  • amy sunke on 16 May 11
     
    This article highlights some key points about how to successfully integrate online discussions into core subject content. He does this by pairing down the discussion groups much like we are doing in the Web 2.0 course right now ,"When I did discussions with the class as a whole, the students grumbled about having to read repetitive messages. They were much more willing to participate in the study group if there were relatively few messages". He is also looking for an inital post and a follow up post written with correct grammar and spelling.
  • Holly Fiechtner on 24 May 11
     
    In this article, Rob Kelly discusses how he uses online discussion boards to enhance the learning in his classroom. Students end up helping one another, and the conversations go beyond accounting so that students really see the applicability of the subject matter to their future lives. Students who really excel in accounting help students who struggle, and the split classroom discussion helps to make it manageable for all students.
  • Mary Leon-Sweeney on 25 May 11
     
    This article talks about how to make online discussions work for skills-based courses. Using Professor Roger Gee's practice and approach as an example, the author offers examples to guide students in expressing themselves creatively and persuasively, which engages and motivates them. The class is divided into study groups for the discussions. Each discussion begins with a posting by Professor Gee, the discussions are to begin after students have read the material, viewed the PowerPoint, and taken a quiz. Professor Gee encourages students to work within the study groups to help each other.
  • Caryn Elefante on 11 Aug 11
     
    This article shows how to let online discussions allow for higher order thinking skills to flourish in a skills-based classroom.
  • Kim Metz on 18 Feb 12
     
    "Making Online Discussion Boards Work for Skills-Based Courses" is an article written by Rob Kelly and posted in a higher education newsletter. The author describes ways on how online discussions can enhance learning in skills-based online courses. He suggests rather than having students resolve math problems for example, steer students to coming up with an opinion supported by facts they have learned. Students should have the opportunity to have read the lesson, PowerPoints and other related resources before a discussion takes place. The discussions should also give students the opportunity to share opinions and how the material may affect their personal life. Like our class, the author suggest each student to post a reply to the instructor's question and reply to at least one other student's reply. The posting should have good spelling and grammar as if they were in the business world. Another way to enhance learning is to have students work collaboratively and help each other out. The suggestions offered by the author are similar to what we have received in this course. Although the article is written for higher education, I would assume, but I have to also wonder if this is valuable information at the secondary level too?
  • Steven Young on 13 May 12
     
    This is a first-rate article on how to run an online discussion for a class on a technical subject. The article elucidates the techniques used by an accounting professor at San Diego Messa College. Issues addressed include whether to focus on calculations or opinions, the size of discussion groups, at what point in the lesson plan students should post, and what role the teacher should play in introducing a topic. Professor Gee advocates that posts focus on opinions rather than facts or calculations, since the latter provides an opportunity to spread error. He also discusses dividing a class of 35 into two groups, having students post after they have reviewed a substantial part of the lesson, and the teacher introducing discussion topics and modeling the first comment.
  • Jeanne Lauer on 14 May 12
     
    As a teacher of a 2 year high school accounting program, I enjoyed reading this article about Professor Roger Gee's use of online discussion boards. I introduce my students to several elements of personal finance as it relates to a service business owner's personal finances and wondered how I could engage my students to delve a bit deeper into their own thoughts on their personal finances now and in the future. I will be using Gee's suggestion as it helps students use some critical thinking to plan for their future. Some of the items mentioned actually are part of the "flipped classroom" concept; students already having read the lesson, watched the PowerPoints, and taken the test. Then comes the discussion using the learned skills. I appreciate this information for a skill-based course be it high school or community college. As we articulate with our neighboring community college, and attempt to make our students college-ready, this concept fits the bill.
  • Libby Turpin on 16 May 12
     
    Rob Kelly discusses how to he used online discussion boards in a skills based course. This concept could be followed for any type of study group. Given students learn best when they not only teach the information but share and collaborate with others, this idea enhances the learning process.
  • Holly Ruiz on 22 May 12
     
    I'm the only Accounting teacher and have been teaching for 2 years at the high school level. I feel this article does a great job not just on how discussion boards can help and guide deeper levels of thinking among Accounting students, but provides the opportunity to take baby steps including technology in the classroom and push critical thinking. I can appreciate this article greatly because I believe we all learn through experience and as Gee mentions, some of the students have worked in the field and may be able to offer their peers another insight.
Linda Stanley

4 Free Web Tools for Student Portfolios - 3 views

www.edutopia.org/...student-portfolios-dave-guymon

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  • Linda Stanley on 09 Jun 14
     
    This article attracted my attention due to my affiliation with Graduation Portfolios for our district. I loved the idea of students taking ownership of their Portfolio in terms of linking it to an electronic format they could *present* at the end of the school year. One of the apps listed ("Three Ring") sounded really interesting, and I hope to model it with next year's Seniors.
  • Cheryl Zaino on 13 Jun 14
     
    This article was great. Our high school students should be creating career portfolios and some of the programs like Evernote and Three Ring seem to be great ways of collecting and organizing career information. Employers are now looking at what students have accomplished over a paper resume. Some employers want to see you digital resume' with examples of a student's work. These two programs seem to be a great way to help students be prepared for the new way employers might require for job interviews. One other website is a great resource for Student Portfolios and that is MassCis. Not only does it have the ability to upload exemplars, but it has lessons teachers can use that are aligned with the standards to help students explore their career interests. Imagine, career information, career inventories, goal setting activities, resume writing, college and financial information, teachers' lesson plans and student portfolios all on the same website. Each student can create a portfolio and have it from the middle school through high school. Check it out: www.masscis.intocareers.com
Florina Merturi

Project-Based Learning: Success Start to Finish - 7 views

www.edutopia.org/-best-practices-new-tech-video

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  • Mervin Eyler on 27 May 12
     
    This is a link to a video of a high school that uses only Project-Based learning PBL, a teaching/learning style where students create projects to demonstrate their learning of the objectives set out by the teacher. It goes through the process of how to set up PBL projects as teachers. It's a decent introduction to the process: something to pique one's interest. At the end there are links to other videos with more information about PBL.
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  • Jeanne Lauer on 30 May 12
     
    I really enjoyed this PBL video. The teachers in the video explained the process, allowed the students to do the research on the topics and decide what the best form of their final presentation would be for each group. The students appeared to be actively engaged during their class time. I was impressed by their dress for the final presentations. The principal mentioned that they do speeches 60-65 times each year so by their graduation the students are very versed in public speaking; most impressive. I would like to see our school do more PBL.
  • Holly Ruiz on 30 May 12
     
    Project-based learning has come to the forefront of education as it is being used to assess what the students know and how they can use the knowledge in the "real world" to problem solve. The approach by the school to implement PBL into their curriculum goes directly back to state standards. I thought the video was well informed and I was impressed with the 60-65 times the students speak in front of others (public speaking).
  • Florina Merturi on 01 Jun 12
     
    Go inside Manor New Technology High School, part of the New Tech Network of schools, where an unwavering commitment to an effective schoolwide PBL model keeps both students and teachers motivated and achieving their best. More to this story.
Thomas Fischer

StoryTube: A great Idea - 2 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...ading_with_storytubes.html.csp

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  • Sherry Arsenault on 28 May 12
     
    This article introduces a contest which promotes reading and media skills that began in 2008. It is sponsored by major publishers such as Simon and Schuster and Scholastic and 5 regional libraries, The contest is for students in grades 1-6. The students need to create a storytube on a book they have read. It is important to point out that teachers are not replacing a written report or are using this to enhance the report. I reviewed some of the winners and it is so great to see kids excited about what they read and using technology so easily. With students creating video media at such an early age and being so comfortable doing it only leads me to believe that when these students reach high school the work that they will create will be fantastic.
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  • denise elya on 30 May 12
     
    What a fun way to talk about and share enthusiasm about books. Another good idea is booktrailers. Many of those can be found on Youtube as well.
  • Griffin Loynes on 01 Jun 12
     
    In this article, the author promotes a new contest for students, which combines reading and YouTube. I find this idea interesting as it connects to the new literacies that are being introduced in education. Jason Ohler discusses these literacies extensively on his webpage. I feel it is important to provide students with the tools to critically engage with all types of texts. In their lives, students are constantly engaging with video. This contest allows students to synthesize this awareness with creating video stories.
  • Florina Merturi on 01 Jun 12
     
    This article originally appeared in SLJ’s Extra Helping. Sign up now! By Jennifer Pinkowski -- School Library Journal, 07/09/2008 Funny accents, strange wigs, and spoiler-free plot summaries are the common elements in the winning videos made by contestants in StoryTubes, a new contest for kids that promotes reading-and new media skills-by capitalizing on the popularity of YouTube.
  • Thomas Fischer on 28 Feb 13
     
    This link explains how libraries are using the power and popularity of YouTube to promote learning, literacy, creativity and technology. StoryTube is a great project idea that uses the power of the contest as a wonderful motivator.
Chris Skrzypchak

Teaching Risk-Taking in the College Classroom - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 6 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...aking-in-the-college-classroom

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  • brian williams on 28 Mar 11
     
    Taking a risk means that failure is an option. Many students may see taking a risk as a negative. If we want students to take risks, we must not only create an environment that encourages students to take risks, but makes risk taking seem like the best option.
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  • Susan Carlotto on 23 Apr 11
     
    We have fostered this lack of risk taken when every team wins a trophy at the end of the season.
  • Megan Bilodeau on 27 Apr 11
     
    I wonder why this article didn't discuss the biggest penalty to risk-taking--grades. If we assign a project and tell students how to get an A, why would they take the risk, be creative and possibly fail? When students fail a paper, they should have the ability to re-write, learn fro their mistakes and improve their grade. But time and energy prevents most teachers from doing this.
  • Ann Vilarino on 13 Aug 11
     
    This article talks about how to encourage students to take risks in the classroom. These "risks" can range from just questioning to imagining to trying out something new. This is a very important higher order thinking skill that many students have trouble comprehending and acting on because they would rather stick with what they know (or what they think will get them the highest grade). I think the ideas in the article can be applied to high school classrooms as well as college classrooms.
  • Chris Skrzypchak on 10 Nov 11
     
    A great article about helping students be more creative by incorporating risk-taking activities in the classroom. Create an environment where taking risks are rewarded. Also start with small risk-taking activities and build up into more complex ones.
Chris Skrzypchak

Seventh grader creates social media website for new school | eSchool News - 3 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...l-media-website-for-new-school

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  • Chris Skrzypchak on 15 Nov 11
     
    What a better way to promote collaboration by students than for a student to create his own social networking site for his high school.
  • Jessica LaPanne on 15 Nov 11
     
    I wonder what program he used to create the social media website.
  • Cathy Cheo-Isaacs on 21 Nov 11
     
    webs.com
S Worrell

Helping students develop higher-order thinking skills | United Federation of Teachers - 1 views

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  • Developing these skills requires students to debate, write and master structured argument, the very activities that middle and high school teachers say they must abandon to respond to the demands of minimum-standards, test-driven curriculums. But such demands are smothering education.
  • S Worrell on 29 May 12
     
    Developing these skills requires students to debate, write and master structured argument, the very activities that middle and high school teachers say they must abandon to respond to the demands of minimum-standards, test-driven curriculums. But such demands are smothering education.
gregcjr

Using Entrepreneurship to Transform Student Work - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...student-work-raleigh-werberger

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  • gregcjr on 22 Jun 14
     
    Blogger Raleigh Werberger, a high school history and humanities teacher, describes a PBL unit that flipped a class from 'just good enough' to creating a working business model and seeking funds to launch a startup. The creative approach to teaching students on multiple levels, including how to market a start-up, and how to make sure students have genuine vested interest in success shows a great way for students to be engaged in their own learning. As the article points out, "[Students'] social media use took on more significance and had a more authentic stake for them, as students began communicating with web journals and community organizations to expand their online presence and gain 'endorsements' for their products." This is a great way to bring students together for a project that demonstrates real life lessons.
Ann Vilarino

High School Apps for all by Vicki Windman - 3 views

www.techlearning.com/...40840

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  • Ann Vilarino on 26 Jul 11
     
    This article outlines some helpful apps for high school students with iPads. These apps range from notetaking to SAT prep. These would be really helpful ideas for struggling students.
S Worrell

High School Competitive Events Overview | Technology Student Association - 2 views

www.tsaweb.org/High-School-Competitions

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  • S Worrell on 13 May 12
     
    Technology competition opportunities for students.
  • Florina Merturi on 15 May 12
     
    This site was great. Our students compete in a few contests, but there is no comparison to what is out there for them to explore.
  • Jeanne Lauer on 30 May 12
     
    What I liked about the site and the TSA overall is that it is STEM related. Not specific to content area but general to all technology courses. Had many types of technical competitions. A change from FBLA or Robotics competitions which are specific.
Michele Foley

Election Projects Get Students Critically Engaged - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...lly-engage-students-suzie-boss

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  • Michele Foley on 29 Oct 12
     
    Using an online exchange project called PenPal News Red-Blue,middle-school and high school students across the country are participating in conversations about election-year issues with peers from different parts of the country. Students are asked to use facts- not just personal experience to converse with their peers about election issues.
weirba11

Using Socrative to help students practice writing. - 2 views

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socrative student response system web 2.0 instant feedback education high school elementary education.

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  • weirba11 on 27 Feb 12
     
    Socrative is an awesome tool used in Education to gain a better understanding of what our students have learned or are learning during a lesson by getting. In this post about socrative we see how it can be used assess writing in the classroom.
Christine Kurucz

5 Social Networks Students Can Use To Find A Job - 1 views

www.edudemic.com/...students-can-use-to-find-a-job

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  • Christine Kurucz on 31 Jul 13
     
    The days of the traditional cover letters and resumes sent through the mail are over. Today, people/students find jobs through social media sites -- Linkedin, FB, even Twitter. As we talk about digital communication, this is a "real world" application in how students need to know these tools as well as how to present themselves in a digital forum. This is the type of situation where all the writing skills and presentation skills taught in high school count, and we need to be sure our students can do this in a virtual environment.
  • Patty Bettinger on 13 Aug 13
     
    This is a useful article! Gone are the hard copy resumes printed on nice, heavy weight paper with matching envelopes. Thanks, Christine.
Joann Archetto

At Westside High, learning 'is no longer a six-hours-a-day event' | Best Practices News... - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...longer-a-six-hours-a-day-event

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  • Joann Archetto on 02 Aug 11
     
    Westside High School has extended learning after the school bell has rung. Teachers and parents encourage creativity and productivity to meet the needs of every student in a 24/7 learning environment. Technology is used to promote educational activities that meet students' unique needs. Communication is supported through podcasts, tweets, ipods, ipads, flip cameras and video technologies. Media literacy is enhanced by tech integration.
Theresa Petrov

The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools - 1 views

www.pewinternet.org/...rs-technology-and-writing.aspx

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  • Theresa Petrov on 07 Aug 13
     
    This short article explains a new Pew study which explored the affects of broader access to the internet and social media and student performance. The article speaks of both the positive and negative affects that they are seeing as per standardized tests and teacher feedback.
  • Mariam Mathew on 11 Aug 13
     
    I found this very interesting as our school goes to a Bring Your Own model and the entire High School becomes a 1:1 laptop zone. Many teachers have asked questions about this and the Pew study is something I plan to share with them.
Stacie Yokhana

New high school is latest to focus on project-based learning | eSchool News - 2 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ocus-on-project-based-learning

hot projectbased critical thinking education

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  • Stacie Yokhana on 02 Aug 12
     
    Project-based learning can increase test scores, however if it is not implemented properly they can drop by half as much. This type of learning helps students reach higher order of thinking as well as critical thinking and cognitive skills through application
Mrs. Bee

A Systems Approach to Conduct an Effective Literature Review in Support of Information ... - 1 views

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  • Mrs. Bee on 09 May 11
     
    A lofty empirical research article intended for doctoral candidates and other researchers but if you can get past the SAT style language the information contained is rather interesting. While my high school students will not be writing formal literary analyses I am interested in them producing high quality papers based on valid research questions/topics and having them think of new ways to view the same literature. Some of the texts we read in class have so many articles and summaries already prepared that it is sometimes hard for students to think of new ways to approach the material and this article offers some interesting thought processes to consider when preparing a literary analysis.
weirba11

Create Educational Interactive Timelines with TimeRime - 2 views

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timeline web 2.0 education high school k-12 technology free tools

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  • weirba11 on 28 Feb 12
     
    Create interactive and informative educational timelines in an extremely easy manner. Students will love being given the option of creating a timeline. Use Timerime for history, art, science, social studies or just about any subject in which they are required to understand the time frame at which events occurred.
gregcjr

Lecturing about lecturing - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ould-ditch-university-lectures

information literacy lecture interaction how to present

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  • gregcjr on 08 Jun 14
     
    I have never been a fan of lecturing during class...for either the high school or college classes I teach. If there is information I need to share, I will always use a Power Point (or something similar) and then make those files available for students to download. But even when presenting information in this manner, I continue to engage students with questions, asking for real life examples, etc. And I limit the time, or break it up with another activity. It seems to work pretty well and the ideas from this article pretty much confirm what I have always felt about the lecture style class.
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