Classroom At-Large

I LOVE this video!  How do these skills look different today than they did 10 or more years ago? Watch it and leave a comment so we can discuss what people think!

• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
• Agility and adaptability
• Initiative and entrepreneurialism
• Effective oral and written communication
• Accessing and analyzing information
• Curiosity and imagination

NETWORKED STUDENTS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

This is a site I located this summer that the students seem to enjoy. http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html

It is essential for our students to understand graphs and charts in non-fiction text. We want them to analyze data. One way we can help students learn to read graphs is by having them create graphs. Here is a great resource for teachers who have students create graphs for class assignments. If you access here you will see a very user-friendly graphing site. Students choose a design from bar graph, line graph, area, or pie chart. They then enter their data, add labels, preview their graph, and print or save their creation. Carol’s classes used it to create a graph on the birds viewed at Bake Oven Knob. Megan’s classes used it to show data from a biology lab. It is realistic for students to create a graph in a 40 minute period.

Please contact me at lfuinihetten@stsd.org if you need help getting started.

Lynn Fuini-Hetten
Salisbury Middle School
Allentown, PA 18103

This is my second year with the Smartboard but my first year with Mac notebooks in the room.  I have 8 notebooks for my class.  It’s been an exciting and busy year so far.  The children can’t wait to work with the tools before them. The technology is truly redefining my classroom.  Instead of reading the a social studies textbook, they glean current information via websites that show primary resources of ancient civilizations.  In math,  they are not just learning their facts but, going to sites to help them apply their skills or practice the new content by way of an interactive math site.   My classes are learning what it means to work on teams. Instead of working independently to build their knowledge, they work together collaborating their ideas and synthesizing their knowledge in order to create presentations to share their learning.  They are discovering that when they come to school, their classroom is not just in the building any longer. They are realizing their classroom is the world.  I’m hoping this blog can be utilized as a springboard for investigation and developing my talents as well as assisting others within the realm of smart notebook and mac technology.

My students are currently working on a project in which they show the six major land biomes covered in our curriculum.

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biomes-sample-project

Here it is.

1.  Is there a way I can send an email to all of my study island kids at the same time?

1.  Study Island does not save a test until later as it used to.  So students who are in the middle

of a test must start over the next time they are on the site.  Am I missing something?

2.  How do I get dock icons back that I accidentally lost?

3. How do I permanently set my preferred toolbars in Word?

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