Epic Classroom Blogging with Elementary Students. Today Rayna Freedman @rlfreedm has a student classroom blog that will completely blow you away! Rayna is full-scale using blogging to teach writing. These fifth graders are writing and sharing fifteen or more blog posts a week and it shows. In today’s show, Rayna teaches us how she does it. Wow! Impressive! Listen Now Listen on iTunes [/callout]Enter today’s contest. Subscribe to the show: In today’s show, we’ll discuss: Topics students chooseHer blogging work flowRayna’s favorite tools (all free!) I hope you enjoy this episode with Rayna!
Selected Links from this Episode Cool Cat Teacher store – use code “remarkable” for a discount right now Download Transcript Full Bio Rayna Freedman Rayna Freedman @rlfreedm has been teaching for 17 years at the Jordan/Jackson Elementary school and has been blogging with students in the 4th and 5th grade. Scroll down to see pictures of Rayna’s classroom. Enter Today’s Contest Rayna’s classroom is a comfortable place to read and learn. Sign up. I'm here to help. CPD - Champion Teachers. National Geographic Education - National Geographic Education.
This website would like to remind you: Your browser (Firefox 17) is out of date. Update your browser for more security, comfort and the best experience on this site. Educators! Take our survey for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Xpeditions is now archived in National Geographic Education's new website—natgeoed.org If you liked Xpeditions, you'll love the new media-rich natgeoed.org. Www.natgeoed.org Please note: to search for Xpeditions content, check the “include archive” filter. National Geographic Education Twitter Facebook Google+ Email Quiz Connection! Most Popular Latest Videos Giant Traveling Maps Get great resources for introducing geography and map-reading skills to students in Grades K-8. 10 Teacher-Tested Tools for Flipping Your Classroom - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Davis - blended learning, digital learning, education technology, flipclass, flipped class, flipped classroom, Online Learning, Teaching, the flipped classroom | Getting.
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve spent some time addressing my earlier commitments to flipping at least some portion of my Language Arts classes. (You can learn about my ongoing saga at “4 Ways Flipping Forces Fundamental Change” and at “Why I Haven’t Flipped…Yet”). Reading FlipYour Classroom by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams provided practical advice and a justification for flipping, Learning about the Stanford studies that suggest better results from flipping your flipping (that is, doing hands-on work in the classroom first, reinforced by flipped lessons at night) But, ultimately, what I needed to do was to dive in and try out some tools with my kids and my curriculum in mind. The unexpected result: I’ve had to acknowledge something I hadn’t really thought about — I am a video-phobe.
C’mon, Everyone, Let’s Flip Essentially, a “blended” teaching model is born. Must We All Become “Talking Heads”? Testing the Tools Here’s what I found out. iPad/iPhone Applications Only Jing (free) PBS LearningMedia. English language learning and teaching. Erasmus+ homepage. Irish eCards from Irish Corner - Sharing Ireland with the World. EdWeb.net - Cookies Required. Peggy George. Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom. Working with Project Classes. This is an entry for everyone currently working at an ELT summer school somewhere in the world! It’s not always easy and there’s a lot of hard work – hopefully this post will help out a bit! I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy my summer school experiences immensely over the years and one of the things I’ve enjoyed doing most has been the project classes.
This post takes a look at what’s important to remember before the project class kicks off and gives some ideas for different projects and how to stage them. There are a number of advantages to doing project work with learners – projects can be (if done right): For me, any project needs to follow five main stages: OUTLINE – PLANNING – GATHERING – CREATION – OUTCOME.
OUTLINE: obviously in a summer school context where the projects might involve more than one class, the decision as to what type of project or what topic area to be investigated might be taken out of the learners’ hands. CREATION: Where it all comes together. Like this: Discovery Education | DEN Streamathon. MOOCs are Changing the Way the World is Educated - Webologist. In the last few years I have seen, and participated in, some excellent online courses that are run by some of the world’s top universities. My introduction to free online education was when FutureLearn sent me an email to introduce some of their first courses. Today I heard about Coursera, another provider of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), in a BBC article. MOOCs are becoming the hot new thing. They are, as the name suggests, open to everybody, free to access and use and all materials and teaching is provided online.
Anant Agarwal, a computer architecture researcher at MIT, started his discussion about Moocs with: “I would like the re-imagine education”. Until now, education had hardly changed in the last 500 years. He believes that the Moocs we see today are only just the beginning of a radical change in global education (although in fairness, every TED talk predicts a radical new future). Futurelearn Global education The most striking feature of these courses was their global reach. The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators. Resources. Blogs | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC. English teaching resources | A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching. The importance of blogging in ELT | ELT inspired. My mentor to start blogging: the amazing Vicky Loras! When I started blogging a few months ago, I was just thinking about sharing my thoughts and teaching experiences.
I didn’t expect to develop such a community, a friendship with other teachers from around the world.And , sometimes, I think I learn and take so much and give back so little…My motto is: SHARING IS CARING! Many colleagues, ask me all the time about what a blog actually is or how it helps teachers …Well, a blog (short for weblog) is a frequently updated website that often resembles an online journal. It’s so easy to create and update a blog – it requires only basic access to the Internet, and a minimum of technical know-how. Why I blog? Blogging helps me to remember.So many times this year I said ” How did I do that?” I blog because I enjoy sharing ideas!
By blogging, I have developed a community, a friendship with other teachers from around the world… The inspiring educator Kieran Donaghy, is one of them! Blogging is FUN! The Teacher Trainer Journal :: links for teacher trainers. » links Although there are many sites of interest to EFL teachers, including many that are trying to sell books and courses, after several hours of trawling I have come up with relatively few sites specifically designed to help us, teacher trainers/educators/mentors in our work.
If you know of other useful sites, do please send them in to me. We need them! Www.pilgrims.co.uk This was our initial host or sponsor. The company who thought up the idea of having a special magazine just for modern language teacher trainers. www.tttjournal.co.uk This is the site you are now on. Www.iatefl.org IATEFL our first professional organisation has two special interest groups of interest to trainers and with their own sites, conferences and newsletters. TTEdSig This is the site of the special interest group (SIG) for teacher trainers/educators of the Europe-based professional organisation IATEFL.
Www.britishcouncil.org/eltecsI would recommend joining ELTeCS, the English Language teaching contacts scheme. Blogging for Educators - Are you Ready to Start Blogging? Focus Personalised Coaching Centre Patiala. Free Technology for Teachers.
Project-Based Learning. Connected Educators - Bookpage. PBL Rubrics. RubiStar Home. Rubrics and Rubric Makers. As we all know grading is the most necessary procedures of our career. It might just be me, but grading is the bane of my existence. Do you feel the same way? Grading large works, especially towards the end of the school year, feels like it is an endless and mindless process. I remember a few years back when I helped grade over 4,000 essays from a neighboring school district. The only thing I can relate the feeling of completing that grading session was giving birth to my daughter. When you grade large works of any kind it is very difficult for even the most competent people to remain 100% objective. Not only do rubrics lead to better equality in assessment, but it gives you standard that will help you understand exactly what you are looking for in the quality of work.
Rubrics are essential to grading student assignments effectively. Rubrics make grading quicker, clearer, and more objective. Rubrics By Category General | Language Arts | Math | Process | Science | Social Studies. Rubric Tutorial. Creating a rubric is easy once you have taken to time to evaluate the dimesions/tasks which make up the students performance, and the criterion you will use to evaluate it. That being said, let’s begin with the steps to create a rubric.* The steps to create a rubric are listed in sequential order, however they can be performed in any order as long as the rubric contains the following: -Performance Objective -List of dimensions to be evaluated -Levels of gradation of quality -Criterion and points for each level of quality We have divided the task of creating a grading rubric into 6 steps: 1.
Step 1: Record/write the performance objective. Performance objectives should consist of 3 elements: -- Student Performance -- Conditions -- Criteria The Student performance is the observable behavior that a student will do to demonstrate that the lesson is learned. Below is an example of a performance statement without the criteria. Step 2: Identify the dimensions/tasks comprising the performance. Resources for Assessment in Project-Based Learning.
Project-based learning (PBL) demands excellent assessment practices to ensure that all learners are supported in the learning process. With good assessment practices, PBL can create a culture of excellence for all students and ensure deeper learning for all. We’ve compiled some of the best resources from Edutopia and the web to support your use of assessment in PBL, including information about strategies, advice on how to address the demands of standardized tests, and summaries of the research. PBL Assessment Foundations 10 Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning (Edutopia, 2011) This comprehensive guide from Edutopia goes over many best practices for assessment, including authentic products, good feedback, formative assessment, and digital tools.
Back to Top PBL and Formative Assessment Practices PBL Pilot: Formative Assessment in PBL (Edutopia, 2015) In another blog post from Matt Weyers, find great tips on using formative assessment within the PBL process to drive student learning.