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Hey! Here is the follow up to Friday's post with the "as promised" links to Cam's stuff. I found that the "link"
would actually be files so I decided to post a "how to get to Cam's stuff tutorial" (of course). So, if you will indulge me, I will post pics to guide you through the "how to get" there. If you are already familiar with the process, ignore me.
Just follow the clicks:
Click the start button at lower left
Click Computer
Click Groups
Click Teacher Shared
Hey all.
Greetings from another fabulous day at Discovery. This is a Follow-Up Friday post where Cam and Raul delivered some great information regarding vocabulary. We had a number of friends in for today's presentation and guys, "Your check is in the mail." We have a few pics of our participants as well as some artifacts. Coming soon will be a link to connect you to the fabulous handouts provided by Cam. They are on the Teacher Shared link but I will provide the link here in a day or two for your pleasure.
There is a stack of handouts that were shared in this morning's session available in the workroom.
Coming Soon! A link to connect you to the handouts presented this morning.
Hello Everyone,
We collected and reviewed your surveys and reflections and have started to put together an agenda for the next few Thinking Thursdays. To start off with we are going to examine different ways to review vocabulary since that was a concern that popped up often on the reflections. The amazing team of Cam Brundage and Raoul Donati will take us through a couple of the strategies they use to review vocabulary. We will be meeting in Cam's room (Room 202) this Thursday morning (October 18) at 8:15. We'd love to have you drop by if you are available.
Thanks,
Your Literacy Leaders
P.S. Coming Soon: Shelia Toth and a Cornucopia of Ways to Reduce Stress!
Wow!!! What a great day! I just got back
taking the 8th grade Honors students over to Horizon to share their stories.
They did an amazing job with the 2nd graders.
In class, we are studying
converse, inverse, conditional and contrapositive statements. We read If You
Give A Mouse A Cookie. It is filled with these type of statements. The
students crested their own story from a rubric and then we shared the stories
with the 2nd graders. It was a HUGE success!
This bookmark (text coding) strategy has been brought to our attention. This would be a strategy you would copy, cut, and give to students to use as a guide for text coding difficult text. Maybe you would use it on easier text as a scaffolding activity, as well.
Thanks Erin, for sharing.
Your Literacy Team
Hey everyone,
James Howard was kind enough to send out a sample of his Google Form that he created to document activities related to Domain 3: Leadership. I saw a few samples such as his on the Edmodo forums and thought a quick tutorial was in order. Also, realize that you may simply copy a form someone else created and change the names to protect the Innocent. There is somewhat of a learning curve in using Google Forms but if you move around in it enough, you will get the hang of it. I have made this tutorial in effort to reduce that curve.
You may just say "Who needs a Google Form when I can just make up a spreadsheet and record my data?" If that is you and you would rather do that, that's fine. By using a Google Form you can complete the form anywhere you have Internet access and from any machine. It transfers automatically to a spread sheet. You can save that spreadsheet to a PDF and upload it directly into the Standard for Success teacher website. Also, another benefit of using Google Forms is that it gives you experience with Google Docs and this is a great tool for student surveys, tests, and any data collection you would like to do. If you use it for a quiz or test, it may be set to grade all multiple choice or one word responses for you. If you have free response questions, you will see student response on the spreadsheet. I could go on and on as the potential is huge.
Anyway, below is the tutorial on how to set yours up. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, James, Kathy, or anyone who is using it. We would be happy to fill in any missing pieces.
Your Literacy Team
Google Drive
Google Form for Domain 3: Leadership - Tutorial Video
OK. Follow-Up Friday is here. I posted this Wednesday but now I'm amending it. The turn out was a bit down this morning as there were competing meetings. Thank you to those that could attend and remember, there is no pressure to do so. This time slot and topic is designed with you in mind. Kathy has made an open invitation for any who want more assistance or has any questions concerning Blogger or any other blog tool for that matter. Our next Thinking Thursday will be two weeks from today as we are going to an every other week time slot due to the otherwise insane schedule we are all trying to keep up. I have put together a few short screen casts and have included them below. I built them with ScreenCast-O-Matic and hosted them on MentorMob. There is a how to for MentorMob, as well.
Click on the MentorMob link below to view the video clips. The good news is that each of the tutorial Blogspot videos are under 4 minutes and the MentorMob tutorial is around 9:00.
Now it's just you and the machine: mano-a-mano (or woman-a-womano).
You've realized after talking with Kathy that this blog thing isn't as scary as you had feared.
The bell is sounding and round two is ready to begin.
This Thursday in room 108 at 8:15, Kathy will lead you back into the ring for round two of your head-to-head meeting with the blog. She helped you set your blog up last Thursday, and this week she will talk to you about different design possibilities and ways to effectively utilize it to your advantage and the student advantage.
So come join your literacy leaders (and the 16 other people who came to hear Kathy speak) as your Feature Teacher, Kathy Burnette, shows you how to jab, cross and upper cut your way to blogging success.
