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 [...]
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 [...]
Apr
29
1st Grade Podcasts - Almost Halfway There!
April 29, 2006 | 2 Comments
Who’s brilliant idea was it to try to upload 56 1st graders’ stories as podcasts before the end of school?! Oh yeah…mine… I’ve been trying to wrestle with a combination of Audacity, GarageBand, archive.org and edublogs to make the whole thing work for free (excluding the price of GarageBand and my time…)
To give a [...]
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 [...]
Jan
30
Using Technology to Show the Process, Not Just the Product
January 30, 2006 | Comments Off
This coming Wednesday, Debra Jarjoura and I will be giving a presentation to the MCDS Lower School faculty about how to use technology to document classroom activities and to create simple student portfolios. Debra, a preschool teacher at The Phillips Brooks School and a true Reggio Emilia aficionado, would definitely not describe herself as a [...]
