What a great week it has been in room 301! My students just continue to amaze me. Their hard work and perseverance are starting to pay off. This week we concentrated on our "Mix Book" project. Mix Book is an amazing web 2.0 tool that allows our students to create beautiful, interactive books. I have chosen two samples to share with you. If you would like to see the Mix Book that your child made, ask them to show you on their Edmodo account.
Have a great spring break! When we return we will be looking into the educational ways we can use Google Earth. Google offers Google Earth as a FREE download. I would suggest you download this amazing program so your child can show off their skills.
It's Friday afternoon and I am sitting in my quiet classroom. All of my students have gone home for the weekend and I finally have a chance to catch my breath. Honestly, I am sitting with tears in my eyes. I have the most amazing students. Please let me explain: Today's blog questions is very near and dear to my heart; school bullying. I started the day by showing this video and two others similar to it.
I then asked my students to blog about their experiences with bullying. Many times we forget how young and innocent our students are. I hope you enjoy reading and commenting on these blogs. Please feel free to comment on as many as you would like. ( Please email if you need to know what period your child is in: pharesr@edgewood.k12.oh.us)
Let me get you caught up on what the class has been up to. We have been discussing 21st Century learning skills and collaboration. For this assignment I had the students choose a partner to work with while making a Prezi or a Google Presentation. The only rule I had was the COULD NOT TALK! I forced them to communicate all on line through a "type with me" document and by making them partners on the presentation. They worked on two computers, both working at the same time, and came out with one presentation. FUN!
Here is an example; make sure you look at the last page, it is priceless.
As you can see, we have been busy in room 301. We are starting to work on ourMix Books and the finished projects will knock your socks off!
I am totally excited about this weeks project. I am turning the tables on my students. They are going to be the teachers and I will be the student. Their assignment is to find something they are studying in another class and go above and beyond what they have learned. They are then going to make a PowerPoint or a Prezi to teach me. This project is going to exercise their research skills, their writing skills, and their presentation skills.
Another exciting aspect of this project is that most of the students are working on this with a partner. I set up one document and they silently collaborate online. We will be sharing our presentations next week.
Today's blog post was as follows:
Imagine you wake up one morning and discover you are the Principal of Edgewood Middle School. What is the first thing you would change and why?
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.
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.
