Archive for February, 2009

Becomming a Better Student Blogger

Friday, February 27th, 2009

What is a blog? What should it look like? What should it be about? Who are bloggers?
These are some of the questions we are in the process of trying to answer.
Part of the process of becoming a better student blogger is to read other blogs. Read them critically.

How old are the bloggers?
What do you like [...]

I have a Dream

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

First graders have paired up with first graders from the American School of Madrid, Spain. Each student in both schools recorded their  “I have a Dream” essay.  The students were assigned a “buddy” from the other class. They listened to the dream their buddy described in the audio comment, then illustrated it.
http://voicethread.com/share/314807/

Six schools in six countries in one hour

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Six schools in six countries in one hour? Is it possible?
Over 100 participants in 23 countries have shown desire to connect with other schools and left their contact information.
Time zones issues seem to be the biggest hurdle in connecting our students with schools from the Eastern Hemisphere during school hours.
I invited the students in my [...]

What do We Know about Lincoln-Washington?

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Pre-Kindergarten and first grade students have been studying President Washington and Lincoln.
Pre-Kindergarten watched two short video clips from Discovery Education about the two famous Americans in TechConnect and then found graphic representations of what they had learned.
It was fun to drag, drop, draw and re-size clipart on the Smartboard.

First Grade also learned about these two [...]

Research Online

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

During your years at SJEDS, you will be asked to create many reports or research facts for other assignments.
By simply going to google to search your questions or specific keywords, you might receive millions of search results. There are too many links to read through all of them and hard to narrow them down to [...]