Chris Lehmann: The Great American Teach-In: Listening to Students.
Chris Lehmann: The Great American Teach-In: Listening to Students.
We're celebrating the 100th day of school at my new school next
Monday. I put together a list of resources for our staff and I thought
I'd share them here as well.
Work life has been unexpectedly busy and I hope to get around to
publishing the Friday 5 more frequently!
Lucy Gray
subscribe to the Friday 5 at: http://groups.google.com/group/friday5/
Education World: Celebrate the 100th Day in 100 Ways
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson149.shtml
One Hundredth Day of School Activities, Crafts and Printouts from Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning has been one of my favorite early childhood sites for many years. They also have some great world languages resources.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/hundred.shtml
ReadWriteThink: February 15, 2008: Celebrate the 100th Day of School!
ReadWriteThink has a calendar linked to various lessons and web-based activities for kids.
http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=631
Celebrate the 100th Day of School! See What Life Was Like 100 Years
Ago! PowerPoint SlideshowThis slideshow includes pictures of commonly known people and
objects contrasted between 1908 and 2008 which might foster a great conversation about how things have changed in the course of a century.
http://murdock10.typepad.com/greenwald/2008/01/celebrate-the-1.html
100th Day of School Homepage
One stop shopping for all things related to this unofficial school holiday!
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/100th/
Starfall's 100th Day of School
Starfall is a classic site for many interactive reading activities for young children.
http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/hundredthday/play.htm?f
Countersquare
This is an interesting web-based tool that could be used for 100 day activities.
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/countersquare.html
Counting on and back in ones and tens
Another tool to demonstrate counting which could be especially useful for lessons involving interactive white boards or projectors.
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/teachingresources/mathematics/nns_itps/count_on_and_back/num_itp_counting_on_back_1_1.swf
SMART - 100 Square - for use with SMARTboards
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/Browse+Notebook/United+States/Elementary/K-3/Math/100+Square.htm
CanTeach: Songs & Poems - 100th Day of School
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems80.html
100th Day of School Printables from ABC Teach
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/math/100th_day_of_school/
Hi All -
Larry
Ferlazzo has put together tremendous
resources for teachers and students.
He
teaches Social Studies and English to English Language Learners and
native-English speakers at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento,
CA. He was named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2007 International Reading
Association Presidential Award For Reading and Technology. He has a
website with over 7,000 categorized links accessible to English Language
Learners and younger native English speakers at
http://www.bayworld.net
Lucy Gray
[email protected]
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Hi All -
Just a quick list of some recent math related finds.
Have a great weekend,
Lucy Gray
[email protected]
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1. Rainforest Maths
http://www.rainforestmaths.com/
I thought this site was better than typical drill types; nice sets of visuals accompany math problems organized by grade level. The same web author publishes a math dictionary and a writing help site. You can find these links at the bottom of the Rainforest Maths home page.
2. Intermath
http://intermath.coe.uga.edu/
This is a project from the state of Georgia that seeks to improve the content knowledge of middle school math teachers. I was struck by the links within lessons to "constructionaries", small web demonstrations of various mathematical principles. The lessons seem to refer in general to many interactive sites including Interactivate, a site dedicated to math and science interactive tools. This page, in particular, has some great tools.
3. That Quiz
http://www.thatquiz.com/
Create customized online math quizzes for students and track their progress at this web site.
4. Countdown
http://countdown.luc.edu/NCTM_cat/NumberOperation/WholeNumbers/index.html
This is a video library of math TV shows produced at Loyola University in Chicago. I used to watch this show with my students two schools ago, and I think it's great that the materials are now archived online.
5. Math.com's Homework Help Everyday Math
http://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/EverydayMath.html
Everyday Math is a popular math program currently used in my previous and current schools.
6. Everyday Math Resources - Center School District
http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/everydaymath.htm
Find more resources here for using the Everyday Math series.
Don't forget that you can subscribe to the Friday 5 at: http://groups.google.com/group/friday5
I am part of a group of teachers working on a project that we plan on submitting to the Apple Learning Interchange. Specifically, this project focuses on the idea of reinventing field trips as we traditionally know them. We'd like to show teachers how to plan effectively for mobile learning experiences, what great excursions look like, and help them kick field trips up a notch by taking advantage of collaborative opportunities, digital tools, and web-based resources.
Interested educators are welcome to join our project. There are a couple of ways you and/or your colleagues can help:
1) Add bookmarks to our resource collection in del.icio.us by tagging any great links with the tag: Fieldtrips2.0.
2) Let us link to your educational blogs, blog posts, and Google Earth files that deal with your own field trip experiences. We also would love links to geocaching projects. We will post your name and school along with any links you send.
3) Participate in a group audio and/or video. We want to record a conversation, preferably using iChat AV, between multiple educators on how to make a field trip work, particularly when using Apple stuff and other digital equipment.
Send any of us an email indicating strands of interest if you'd like to participate. Additional details will then follow.
Thanks in advance,
Lucy Gray - University of Chicago Charter School
Judy Beaver - Punahou School
Andrew Gardner - The School at Columbia
Julene Reed - St. George's Independent Schools
Mike Searson - Kean University
Friday 5 : TeacherTube
Hi All-
TeacherTube is a new service for educators to upload
and view educational content. Here are several videos worth watching!
Have a great weekend,
Lucy Gray
[email protected]
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1) Did You Know
http://tinyurl.com/3dqmdl
2) Pay Attention
http://tinyurl.com/3y38xj
3) Why Let Our Students Blog?
http://tinyurl.com/ynlvt3
4) Riddle iMovie Step 1
http://tinyurl.com/326nkc
5) Homage to Magritte
http://tinyurl.com/374unv
6) Inspiration Software with Math Instruction
http://tinyurl.com/32oyaq
7) Constitution Day 2006
http://tinyurl.com/2rwo49
8) Poetry and Multimedia
http://tinyurl.com/32vbyz
9) Dinoland
http://tinyurl.com/33cug2
10) Digital Students @ Analog Schools
http://tinyurl.com/32rmmm
11) When I Become A Teacher - This is my all-time favorite. I couldn't find it on TeacherTube, but here it is on YouTube.
http://tinyurl.com/3dtdmz
I'm so excited about a spur of the moment project I started today in my sixth grade computer science class. We just finished group reports in our millennial/computer terms wiki, and our next topic to cover is graphing. For the past two quarters, I've done a rather dry assignment involving temperatures of cities around the world in Google Docs and Spreadsheets. I decided I wanted to explore an Ogle Earth blog posting forwarded by Chris Walsh to the GCT community, and I began by trying out the Google LookUp formula within Google Spreadsheets. Essentially, you enter certain search terms into this formula, data is found by Google, and entered into the specified cell. See this blog posting in the official Google blog for more information and check out the hunt itself. I need to add more complete directions and polish it a bit, but I may post about this over at the Infinite Thinking Machine when the project is finished. So far, my students' reactions have been really positive... they had no idea about the calculator features in Google Search and many said that this alone would help them with their homework. Another thing to note is a suggestion from my colleague, Marty. She thought it would be great to use autofill with this Lookup formula, to say, find statistics for a set of pro baseball players. Unfortunately, autofill doesn't seem to be a feature with Google Spreadsheets yet!
Link: Planet Earth - Explore Your Planet Earth - as seen on the Discovery Channel .
The Nature Conservancy has some useful material to accompany the aforementioned Planet Earth series.
Hi All -
This info is crossposted at the Infinite Thinking Machine blog. Thanks to Laurie Bartels who gave me a good portion of the technology and brain based learning links. If you'd like to contribute to this list, email me and I'll add you as a contributor to the Google Doc version of this list. You'll be able to find any additions if you bookmark this link.
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
[email protected]
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Summer Professional Development Opportunities
THE BRAIN AND LEARNING
Learning and the Brain (takes place every November and April)
http://www.edupr.com/
April 28-30, Cambridge, MA
CAST conference - Universal Design for Learning (applicable to both
technology and the brain)
http://www.cast.org/pd/institute/index.html
July 23-26, near Boston, MA
The Brain, Learning & Applications Summer Institute (same as below)
http://www.carrawaycenter.com/brainlearninginstitute/
August 2-3, Nashville, TN
The Brain, Learning & Applications Summer Institute
http://www.nysais.org/page.cfm?p=4&verbose=228&month=3&start=01/01/07
August 21-22, Avon, CT
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
http://www.drawright.com/
multiple dates and types of drawing, painting and sketching sessions so
check the site
Schools Attuned - http://www.allkindsofminds.org
See this press release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan00/minds012000.htm
CURRICULUM
Authentic Education Summer Institutes
http://www.authenticeducation.org/si2007/
ASCD Summer Conference on Differentiated Instruction
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.094e328178c0162abfb3ffdb62108a0c/
June 30 - July 2 Salt Lake City, Utah
HUMANITIES/SOCIAL STUDIES
The Library of Congress | The Learning Page | Self-Serve Workshops
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/workshop/ssindex.html
Professional Development Listings at the National Council for the Social Studies web site
http://www.ncss.org/profdev/
National Gallery of Art - Teacher Institute 2007
http://www.nga.gov/education/teacinst.shtm
National Geographic School Publishing and Literacy Achievement Research Center's Literacy Institute
http://www.literacyinstitute.org/
MATH
Texas Instruments Professional Development
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/sectionHome/pd.html
Key Curriculum Press Workshops
http://www.keypress.com/x2142.xml
Math Forum - Math Education Conferences
http://mathforum.org/mathed/mathed.confs.html
MISC.
Stanford Summer Programs for Teachers
http://oso.stanford.edu/spt/index.html
For Bay Area teachers only
International Studies Summer Institute 2007
http://www.indiana.edu/~global/teacherprogram.php
NCTE - Literacies for All Summer Institute
http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/wlu
July 12 - 15 Louisville, KY
Responsive Classroom Institutes
http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/prodevelop/weeklonginst.html
Summer Institute for the Gifted
http://www.giftedstudy.com/
Phillips Exeter Academy Summer Programs
http://www.exeter.edu/summer_programs/88.aspx
Chicago Foundation for Education's Fund for Teachers Grant
http://www.chicagofoundationforeducation.org/pages/fund_for_teachers/99.php
The application deadline for this has passed, and it's only for Chicago Public School teachers. Keep it in mind for next year!
SCIENCE
Pasco Professional Development
http://www.pasco.com/training/home.html
Teachers as Investigators
http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/LSTPD/programs/PPPL_TAI.html
The Keystone Center's Bringing Environmental Issues to the Classroom Program
http://www.keystone.org/pel/key_issues.html
Teton Science Schools - Teacher Learning Center Programs
http://www.tetonscience.org/tlc_programs.shtml#outreach
Exploratorium: Teacher Institute
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/classic.html
Earthwatch Institute
http://www.earthwatch.org/site/pp.asp?c=dsJSK6PFJnH&b=393763
TECHNOLOGY
Summercore - "A Unique Five Day Marathon in Hardware, Software and
Humanware"
http://www.teachingcompany.com/
dates and locations vary so check the site
CAIS 11th Annual Summer Technology Conference
http://www.caisct.org/cais/Quickforms/viewform.aspx?PostingID=82
June 18-22, Farmington, CT
Lausanne Collegiate School Laptop Institute
http://www.laptopinstitute.com/
July 15-17, Memphis, TN
Building Learning Communities
http://www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=29
pre-conf: July 16-17; main conf: July 16-17, Boston (Newton, actually), MA
CAST conference - Universal Design for Learning (applicable to both
technology and the brain)
http://www.cast.org/pd/institute/index.html
July 23-26, just north of Boston, MA
Teach the Teachers Collaborative
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/home.html
National Educational Computing Conference
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2007/
June 24-27 Atlanta, Georgia
Logo Summer Institute
http://el.media.mit.edu/Logo-foundation/workshops/summer.html
July 30 - August 3 New York, New York
The Stonington Retreat
http://www.visioneducation.com/stonington.html
July 31 - August 3 New York, New York
Photography Workshops and Digital Lab Workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.santafeworkshops.com/
Link: classroom2dot0 - home . Steve Hargadon, a fellow Infinite Thinking Machine blogger, has started a collaborative document known as a wiki that focuses on using new technologies in the classroom. These web sites and applications are known collectively as Web 2.0 technologies, meaning that they represent the second coming of the Internet. This wave focuses on user generated, collaborative content. Check out this wiki and think about how you can incorporate things like Google Docs and Spreadsheets, social bookmarking services, and video conferencing into your curricula. This site is definitely worth exploring. Steve has also started a social networking site for Classroom 2.0 stuff at Ning and the link is here. His goal seems to be to bring practical ideas for implementing these interactive and powerful technologies into classrooms, so please consider exploring,and possibly contributing to, his forums for making this happen!
Greetings -
This week's list comes to us from the one and only Karen Thompson of Springfield, Illinois, another Apple Distinguished Educator. She is a stellar person, no pun intended!
Next week's list will feature summer professional development opportunities... send along any suggestions that you think should be included!
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
[email protected]
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The spring equinox is March 21, 2007. I started this list of websites with Stellarium. It offers so many delightful explorations for students!
1) Stellarium
A free open source planetarium for your computer.
2) Springfield Public Schools - Stellarium Projects
I’ve listed some of the lessons we’re using with our 6th graders.
Stellarium is great, and this will get you started in some meaningful explorations.
I know it’s going to come up, so as long as we’re talking about the equinox, let’s not forget about standing eggs on their ends. Don’t miss the Bad Astronomy website and the discussion on the eggs and the equinox.
Did you see the recent lunar eclipse? Stellarium makes it very easy to preview these events. If you’re looking at the moon, let’s explore the Birthday Moons!
And if you’re looking for more information on the change to daylight savings time, check out this site.
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Karen Thompson started her teaching career as a middle school science teacher with a slide rule in hand. Currently she is an instructional technology facilitator in Springfield, Illinois and serves as a school board member in the consolidated school district of Tri-City in Buffalo, Illinois. Karen is currently using her vision of educational technology to help guide her district’s 1 to 1 laptop program for 800 6th graders.
Friday 5: Writing
Hi All –
Writing has been on my mind this week, and so I spent time digging around for fun, interactive web sites geared towards elementary kids. My favorite find was the Student Materials Index at the always fabulous ReadWriteThink site. There’s something for everyone in this short list, and if you can think of any must visit additions, feel free to email me and I’ll publish your suggestions next week!
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
University of Chicago Lab Schools
[email protected]
1) ReadWriteThink: Student Materials Index
2) WritingFix: Word and Writing Games for Young Writers
-contains several interactive writing prompts
3) Teacher Tap: Magnet Poetry, Stores, & Mad Libs: Writing Fun on the Web
-check out various forms of Mad Libs online
- lots of writing prompts for dictation use can be found here
5) 42 Explore: Writing Pathfinder
- a long list of resources for students of all ages
6) National Writing Project Interactive
- a free online community
This week’s list was inspired by a workshop led by GlobalSchoolNet founders at NECC last summer. While I’ve been aware of this web site for some time, I previously hadn’t taken the time to explore its great resources. I am just now starting to, and in the wake of my recent Google Earth extravaganzas, students in my afterschool program and I have come up with a project to share. Please feel free to join in any time between now and June.
Clearly, one of the benefits of today’s technologies is the ability to connect and learn from others around the world. Hopefully, you’ll find one project or idea from the following list that will inspire you to reach out!
Stayed tuned in the coming weeks as we will have some special mystery guest authors of the Friday 5... I've invited some friends and acquaintances to share a bit of their interests and expertise with us. If you'd like to participate, shoot me an email!
Lucy Gray
[email protected]
1) Education World’s Internet Archives – Site Reviews – Collaborative Projects
2) ED Teacher’s Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
This list contains many links to established and well regarded programs that promote online educational collaboration.
3) A Sampler of International Web Projects from Edutopia
Check out the calendar page for upcoming projects that seems pretty manageable.
5) The International Telementor Program
This sounds like a great way to connect students with a virtual mentor. There is a cost involved of $200 per student.
6) The GLOBE Program
This looks like an amazing science program, and it appears that there needs to be some commitment on the part of participating schools to regarding training.
September 8, 2006
Hello –
Following my trip to the National Educational Computing Conference this summer, I had the amazing opportunity to also travel to Europe as part of a delegation of Apple Distinguished Educators charged with developing a global awareness curriculum. This curriculum will become publically available at no cost in the Apple Learning Interchange (http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/) sometime in early October.
As an unofficial part of this project, I’ve started an online group to discuss and share anything related to global education. People interested in joining this conversation can email me at [email protected] and I will send you an invitation with instructions on how to join.
This week’s list is comprised of web sites related to the aforementioned Apple global awareness project and to some of the cities I visited. ADEs toured Berlin and Prague led by EF Education (http://www.ef.com/ ) and afterwards, I headed to Florence and Paris with two other ADEs. I don’t know why I waited so long to travel extensively in Europe. All I can say is that if you haven’t gone abroad yet in your life, do everything in your power to make it happen. The rewards will be numerous.
Take care,
Lucy Gray
I'm interested in continuing the conversation about global awareness, and I've taken the liberty of starting a .Mac group on this topic. I've never really taken advantage of .Mac groups before, so this provides an opportunity to explore this tool as well.
My goal is to provide an inclusive forum for ADEs, informal external partners, and other interested educators to discuss and share anything related to global education. Many ADEs who attended this year's institute consulted outside resources in preparation for the trip; this forum may be a way to include these groups. I see this .Mac group as a vehicle for sharing resources, collaborating on projects, and for possibly garnering feedback on our various curriculum projects. I am sure there are other ideas that we can come up with regarding how to best utilize this resource.
If you'd like to join this group, please send me an email at [email protected] or [email protected], and I'll send you an invitation with instructions on how to join. Feel free to pass this on to other people that may be interested as well. Participants do not need an active .Mac account to join, only a .Mac ID.
Here's my treatise about how I spent my part of my summer. It's a work in progress, and I will be editing it as I continue to think about my experiences! It's in PDF form and you can download it from my public .Mac folder.
Link: Lesson Accelerator Index - Atomic Learning, Inc..
Atomic Learning has project based tutorials now! These look worth checking out!
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