Jan
7
2nd Grade Hansel & Gretel Slideshow
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a super simple way that a 2nd Grade teacher published student work on her class webpage using iPhoto Slideshow:
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Oct
27
It’s Elementary Kids, Working Web 2.0 With Grade 3-4
October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a link to another terrific presentation from the K12 Online Conference, given by John Pearce of Geelong, Victoria, Australia:
http://k12online.wm.edu/its_elementary/player.html
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Oct
26
Using Web 2.0 Tools in a Grade One Classroom
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I was peeking around the super-cool K-12 Online Conference website, and I stumbled upon a fantastic session given by Kathy Cassidy from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. As the title suggests, she describes the ways in which she is incorporating blogs and other tools into her teaching. Here is the link to her conference session, here [...]
Oct
16
Doug & Richard are Amazing Too!
October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
We have two other fantastic Kindergarten teachers at MCDS — Doug and Richard. Both are also veteran teachers here, and as I discussed in the previous post, the whole K team had an incredible trip to Reggio Emilia two years ago that is helping to redefine how they teach kindergarten at Marin Country Day [...]
Oct
1
The Amazing Janet
October 1, 2007 | 2 Comments
One of our Kindergarten teachers, Janet D., was a self-described “technology timid” teacher for many years. She is a veteran Kindergarten teacher, who went with her team to Italy 2 years ago to study the Reggio Emilia method of early childhood education. As a result of that life-altering trip, they are revamping their entire kindergarten [...]
Feb
16
The Duck Blog Won an Award!
February 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It appears that Duck Diaries has been awarded the special Edublog Star Award (Convenors choice) as part of the Annual 2006 Edublog Awards! To check out all of the winners and nominees, go to http://www.incsub.org/awards/
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Nov
7
Using Flickr Export with iPhoto
November 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I just downloaded the demo of this plugin and here are the results — yet another cool way to publish/document student and classroom work!
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Oct
31
Using Technology to Explain “Best Guess” Spelling
October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
One of the things I love most about working with 1st Graders is watching them morph from pre-readers into confident readers and writers. It is always so much fun trying to decipher words when they write stories using “best guess” or invented spelling.
In honor of Halloween, I asked the 1st graders to write & illustrate [...]
May
31
4th Grade Mission iMovies
May 31, 2006 | 1 Comment
My tech department colleague and one of our 4th grade teachers took the “blog as final project publishing tool” model one step further this week. Using the identical setup to the one I used for the audiobooks and the duck blog, these wonderful teachers have created a repository for all of the 4th grade student [...]
May
12
The 1st Graders are a Hit!
May 12, 2006 | 3 Comments
The 3 first grade audiobook blogs are now finished and posted. Hooray! The most exciting thing has been the response from the students’ friends and family. More comments and kudos keep pouring in from around the country. Talk about early writers writing for an authentic audience! I am so proud of this project and I [...]
Apr
19
A Duck with a Blog
April 19, 2006 | Comments Off
Over Spring Break, our Director of Facilities discovered that a neighborhood duck had decided to build her nest right under the Middle School play structure. Being the tech-savvy school that we are, of course, we had to create a blog for our own feathered mom-to-be. I used the comments section of the first post to [...]
Feb
27
Beginning the Curriculum Mapping Journey
February 27, 2006 | 2 Comments
One of the nice things about working at an Independent School is the weeklong “ski week” vacation each February! It always seems to arrive just in the nick of time and I’m ready for our first day back today.
This year I’m fortunate to serve on our school’s Curriculum Task Force, which is charged with the [...]
Feb
9
I’ve jumped into the river!
February 9, 2006 | Comments Off
Today I got one of our second grade classes set up on learnerblogs.org! The teacher plans to pose a weekly question and each of the kids will post their responses. They did a great job for the first time out, and when I just checked my email this evening, 2 of the parents had left [...]
Feb
6
More on Classroom Documentation
February 6, 2006 | 3 Comments
Earlier in the week I wrote about a session I was preparing on the topic of using technology to enhance classroom documentation and portfolios. The session ended up being a big success — mostly due to some brilliant clarifying questions my co-presenter, Debra Jarjoura brought to the table. We also came up with the last-minute [...]
