Teacher Tech. Avra's Tech Magic. Coaching Reflections - Take 2 (What a great week!) I've just had a really good week.
It doesn't hurt that Monday was a teacher work day, Tuesday there was no school, and today was a minimum day because teachers had "Report Card Night" on Wednesday. It's just been really good. Monday I offered 5 optional workshops for teachers on their work day on different tech stuff that I've been asked about. I figured it would be better for me to teach several at once than go around and teach them all individually. I offered workshops on Discovery Education, Google Forms, Doctopus, Socrative, and Diigo. Let me just summarize the exciting meetings I had with my fellows this week. Fellow #1 - We've been working with Socrative and we planned three days of review using different features of the program: teacher-paced, space race, and student-paced. Fellow #2 - This fellow implemented her first Google Form "Quiz" with Flubaroo this week on Unit Circle radians and terminal points.
Google Sites. Mrs. Hester's Classroom : Desmos Piecewise Project. This has been my favorite project for two years now!
I have reserved the computer lab for an entire week each time and let the students show their skills! Is the project overview I give students about a month before we go to the lab. They complete their sketch on graph paper and record their functions with domain constraints. I tell them that once we get to the lab they need all the time they can get to input functions into Desmos and mess with colors. Inevitably they also have to tweak some functions to make it work. They work so hard writing functions of all kinds, not just limited to our Algebra 1 skill base. Here are some awesome student works: Gah...8th graders!!! ComPassion Based Learning. From teacher to geek — on accident. The Duke Tech Divas: October 2014. Google Drive Blog. Mrs. Miracle's Music Room: Amazing App {Plickers} As you all know from my many linky parties, I love Pinterest.
It is such a great medium to share teaching ideas. The other night I was up at 4 a.m. with my daughter Macy when I came across a pin about an app called Plickers; you can read the original post here. After reading the post, I immediately went to the app store to download the app, which you can see by clicking on the picture below. I've been wanting to get student response clickers for several years. If you haven't heard of them, they are like remote controls which students individually hold and enter in answers to questions you ask them. The Plickers app is like student response clickers...but for free.
This is the part that kept me up way after 4 a.m. Yes, it's pretty awesome. After downloading the app in the app store, I went to www.plickers.com. After I entered names for the classes on the website--matching them up with their class number--I printed out the Plicker cards onto cardstock. Learn Lead Grow. LEARN TURN TEACH. The Sandburg Tech Stop. Mrs. leban's art blog: This Week in Art! August 25-29. Our first full week of art is over!
Even though classes were short (we had extended seminar every day), we made a lot of awesome art. This week I have some guest blog posters in the form of student volunteers from 7th and 8th grade who are going to tell you about what we did in art class this week! Thanks for all of your help guys! 6th Grade Art: This was a very busy week! 7th Grade Art: "This week we started everyday by taking 10 minutes to do the drawing challenge. -Andrea G, period 4 These large self-portraits are going to be painted in a monochromatic color scheme. 8th Grade Art: "Monday and Tuesday, we got to plan a big clay project. -David H, period 1 In other art news... Kids, teen, and adult art classes are now available at the Elmhurst Art Museum! Thanks for another great week! Bryan Bits & Bytes. Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners.