February 25, 2011

Students in room 301 had another amazing week. Honestly, I have the best students and I am so proud of all of them. We started the week by putting the finishing touches on our "All About Me" Power Points. The work my students did while creating these were outstanding and I got to know each one of them just a bit more. I neglected to have them post them to their Edmodo accounts so you could see them, however, I will have them posted by next week.

This week we started discussing problems we see in our school and solutions that uses technology. We started using "Type with Me" , which is an online document where we can all collaborate at the same time. We then took those ideas and each student designed a two- slide presentation. I have posted few of the ideas to give you an example.

Today we also updated our blogs. If you would like to be a part of this project and blog with your student all you need to do is to log in and post a comment.

Period Two

Period Three

Period Four

Period Five

Period Six

Period Eight

Today was also a really special day for one of my students. Mariah Gilbert was able to skype with her father who is stationed in Kuwait. My students were able to meet Sgt. Gilbert and ask him many questions about life as a Sgt. and living in Kuwait. A BIG THANK YOU TO MRS. and SGT. GILBERT for helping me set up this special time.

February 18, 2011

This week my amazing students dug back into their memory banks to remember some useful techniques they have learned in the past about PowerPoint. We then added a few new skills and came out with a PowerPoint presentation titled "All About Me." We are still putting the very last finishing touches on them and will be sharing them with you next week.

On friday we began our adventures in blogging. I am expecting this project to come alive when my students start to get comments from you. It is a very simple process, at the end of their writing you will see a comment box. All you need to do is type in your comment and “post comment”. You will need to provide your name and an email address. You can leave the Website field blank. The next time they log-in to blog, they will see your comment. It only takes a few minutes. PLEASE TAKE TIME TO GET INVOLVED! I would also encourage you to involve grandparents, aunts and uncles. What a terrific way for those living far away to become a apart of their education.

Here is the question I posed to them this week:

"There are many different superheroes with all types of amazing superpowers. They are portrayed in movies, comic books, and on television as characters far superior to the average human. If you could be a superhero, what super powers would you have and why?"

You can see their blogs here:

Period Two

Period Three

Period Four

Period Five

Period Six

Period Eight

Please Note: We are getting to the place in our studies that we will need headsets. Please provide your son/daughter with an inexpensive pair of ear buds to use. I just checked at Walmart and they have a pair for .99 cents.

Blogs

In the three very short days of school this week we set up our individual blogs. A blog is a type of a website that will be maintained by my students with regular entries posted on every Friday. These blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments. I URGE YOU TO READ AND LEAVE A COMMENT ON YOUR SON/DAUGHTERS BLOG. I would even go as far as asking you to share the blog with Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, and other relatives.

Today we blogged about our Dream School.

Here was their assignment:

If you could make a school look like whatever you wanted it to, what would it look like?

How would learning happen there?
Keep in mind there is no wrong answer, the right answer is your answer
the sky is the limit dream BIG money is NO PROBLEM.

Follow the link to your son/daughters class period to read their blog.

A note about user name: I take internet safety VERY seriously. This site is an open site and anyone will be able to view it, therefore I asked them to use a nickname. You will need to ask them what their user name is, or you could email me and I will tell you. pharesr@edgewood.k12.oh.us

Here are the links to our blogs:

Period Two: http://kidblog.org/PeriodTwo3/

Period Three: http://kidblog.org/PeriodThree2/
Period Four: http://kidblog.org/PeriodFour4/
Period Five: http://kidblog.org/PeriodFive3/
Period Six: http://kidblog.org/PeriodSix3/

Period Eight: http://kidblog.org/PeriodEighth/