Drop Spot: 2010

Monday, December 27, 2010

The Super Book of Web Tool For Educators

Super book of web tools for educators

View more documents from Lee Kolbert.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Educational Change Challenge

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Linda's Picks For December

Used Literactive this week thought you might like it.

Wow check this out!

(Click on Picture)

From this site try:

60 Second Recap

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

If You Give A Student A Watch…They will Ask You How To Use It

I was watching, Sharing The Moral Imperative and I realized just how awesome this blog is going to be. I love the quote in presentation by David Wiley where so many educators tend to “evoke their inner two year old” and not share. I am so excited that we have found this way to share our great ideas
If You Give A Student a Watch...They Will Ask you How To use It!
The outcomes for Gr. 3 in Alberta say that:
It is expected that students will relate the passage of time to common activities using nonstandard and standard units.
The students will relate the number of seconds to a minute, the number of minutes to an hour and the number of days to a month in a problem-solving context.

We read, A second is a Hiccup by Hazel Hutchins and Kady MacDonald Denton and we talked about all of the things that would take a second like a blink, and the things that tooka minute.
(Joanne the Good-bye Song takes one minute to sing.)
But we had a problem the students were not comfortable telling time on the analog clock that we have in our classroom.
So a student says, “Why is it 5 minutes after if there is a 1 there?”
The answer I have is that you have to know the secrets of the clock.
This is what happened next.
Our desks turned into a clock face.
Each student has a number from the clock on the front of their desk. But some of the numbers have 2 rows because I have 20 students.
Behind the number that you would see on the analog clock there is another piece of paper with their secret agent name and number on it.

1=05

2=10
3=15 ….

Each student dressed up like a secret agent. And we glued their secret agent picture to the number on the back piece of paper.
The second row is worried about what they are called.
They are 7= 007, 8= 008, NO PROBLEM!
We are all excited about being secret time agents and a student says we are the CIA and I ask why?
Another student says that’s easy!

C= Clocks
I = In
A= Action

ABSOLUTELY!! We are the CIA, Clocks in Action.
You know this means that you need CIA ID and badges.
You can make your badges at, Big Huge Labs
Badge Maker http://www.bighugelabs.com/badge.php cut them out put them on their desks or wear them proudly.

(Some discussion about internet safety may be needed; we did not use our full birthdates.)
If you take them with a green background you can cut the background off in Notebook 10 and place your students anywhere they want to go.
When you click on the green it will go pink and you can copy the picture and paste it into whatever setting they desire. I choose the pictures from Flickr in Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
but you can decide where you want them to go. I put them into a Notebook 10 file in our student common file.

ICT outcomes are there like crazy!!
They will be able to manipulate Notebook 10 before you know it. CUT PASTE
P.3 students will communicate through multimedia access images cut and paste.

Now to see if we know what time it is. The 2 students sitting in the middle
have now become Dr. Hour Glass (The hour hand) and Evil Mad Minute
(The minute hand) They get to pick 10 times and the students have to write down the time. If you don’t know the Secret agent name get up and look under their number.
It will tell you their secret agent number.
Yes!!
We all get it.
Of course you know that in gym that day we had to play, What Time is It Dr. Hour Glass?
In Tumble Books http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp
there is a wonderful story IQ It’s Time . There are also some activity sheets that go with the story.

Assessment: Clocks, and Assessment Tools

Handwriting for kids has a wonderful site that allows me to print the formative evaluation that I need. It also has a wonderful interactive worksheet on line that that students can practice on.
As with the famous book, If you give a Mouse a Cookie we can get back to our outcomes of relating the passage of time because they now understand how the analogue clock is read.

Monday, November 15, 2010

O'Canada

Lisa this is for you.
You should be very proud of our Jr. Sr. High Band

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire

Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire
Wow have you guys read, Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire?
If you have not you should have a look at it.

Guess what we teach like this!
I think that we should adopt a slogan of, “We are on fire!”

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Kindergarten AISI Project #1

The first AISI project of the year for Kindergarten is taking place within the realms of The Pumpkin Seed Project 2010. Through this project, that will be implemented between October 25-29 we will use our estimation and math skills. We will also incorporate technology by joining in on a pumpkin fashion show that will be presented on a Voicethread by all classes that are participating in the project. We should have "gussied up" pumpkins from all over the world, the kids will love this. We will be utilizing "real world tasks" within our classroom that will require higher level thinking.

I love the use of this blog to present and share our projects and interesting sites we have found. Use of tools such as this allow us to be more collabortive within our network of K-3 teachers and prevent the isolation we often feel because we have no time to share these ideas on a day to day basis.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

AISI Project

I was really excited today about getting started on our AISI project.

To collaborate and learn about "real world" technology and
resources that will enhance student learning is going to be very
rewarding for us and the students.

Our project in Gr. 3 helped us to develop our geographic thinking
skills for Social Studies while we were collecting, displaying and
analyzing data for math.

We created a bar graph of the temperatures in Tunisia, Peru, India and Ukraine.

First the students visited each of the 4 countries that we are studying at; World Time Server.com. Next they went to Create A Graph and entered their data.The students need to label the title and the axes which are achievement indicators for the Gr. 3 data analysis strand. The graph above is an example of what the student graphs looked like when they were printed. You could extend this activity into learning about how the countries are also at different times in the day as there are clocks on the pages to see what time it is in that country.

Try out Create a Graph it is wonderful!

I am really looking forward to reading your ideas!
Linda