Wednesday, March 3, 2010
How to Teach Commenting
This site is geared toward third graders but has some great ideas on how to teach students to comment effectively on blogs.
Diigo bookmark
Diigo bookmark
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Questioning Strategies
- To promote higher level thinking in your classroom remember to work on questioning strategies.
- Unit Essential Questions should be posted in your classroom to guide student thinking and learning.
- Essential Questions don’t have an easy yes or no or textbook answer.
- Essential Questions require thought and research in order for them to be answered.
- Questioning strategies should be implemented in your daily lessons.
- Remember to allow 3-5 seconds wait time before calling on someone to answer.
- Questioning allows students to inquiry, thus learn.
- Push your students to question at the analysis, synthesis, and evaluative stages.
Google Tips
Ever wonder what the I’m Feeling Lucky button is in Google? If you click this button, basically Google will skip the search results page and go directly to the first ranked page for that search phrase. For example: if you type white house in the search box and click on I’m Feeling Lucky, Google will take you directly to www.whitehouse.gov.
To make it to the top of the page rank, Google positions websites according to link popularity and text matching. So if a site has excellent content, a lot of people have linked to it, and it matches your search terms, then Google will deliver it to you in the top 10. This gives it the “high” page rank.
To make it to the top of the page rank, Google positions websites according to link popularity and text matching. So if a site has excellent content, a lot of people have linked to it, and it matches your search terms, then Google will deliver it to you in the top 10. This gives it the “high” page rank.
Glogster.EDU
For the past several months, I have been experimenting with Glogster for Education.
http://edu.glogster.com/
So far, I have found this to be a valuable resource for the students who have already mastered PowerPoint and are now looking for a new creative way to express themselves or share research information. This site allows them to do just that.
So what is Glogster edu and how is it different? Glogster edu offers a teacher controlled or monitored environment for students to host and create an online interactive poster that can be shared publicly or privately. This site enables students to add text, web links, photos, graphics, audio, and even video.
It offers students a way to release their creativity through manipulating multi-media content into a online presentation.
By signing up for an educational account you will be able to add up to 100 students per account, edit/add/delete those accounts as needed, converse with your students via an internal email, and share comments about each other’s glogs. The glogs you and your students create can be posted publicly or privately and even embedded into a wiki, blog or website.
Once you have registered, you will receive an email with all the important account information for each student. The email will contain a random generated username and password for each student. It will also contain a URL for each student to use when logging in for the first time. Once logged in you or your student can change their screen name as well as their site assigned password, but their login/username will stay same.
Now, you are ready to have your students begin the exciting world of glogging. Below I have listed some ways you can use glogs in your classroom:
Getting to know you Book reviews Timelines Persuasion posters Public service announcements Visual literacy Student-created poems with graphical representation Student website Debates
For additional resources check out my wiki at: https://etreats.pbworks.com/
http://edu.glogster.com/
So far, I have found this to be a valuable resource for the students who have already mastered PowerPoint and are now looking for a new creative way to express themselves or share research information. This site allows them to do just that.
So what is Glogster edu and how is it different? Glogster edu offers a teacher controlled or monitored environment for students to host and create an online interactive poster that can be shared publicly or privately. This site enables students to add text, web links, photos, graphics, audio, and even video.
It offers students a way to release their creativity through manipulating multi-media content into a online presentation.
By signing up for an educational account you will be able to add up to 100 students per account, edit/add/delete those accounts as needed, converse with your students via an internal email, and share comments about each other’s glogs. The glogs you and your students create can be posted publicly or privately and even embedded into a wiki, blog or website.
Once you have registered, you will receive an email with all the important account information for each student. The email will contain a random generated username and password for each student. It will also contain a URL for each student to use when logging in for the first time. Once logged in you or your student can change their screen name as well as their site assigned password, but their login/username will stay same.
Now, you are ready to have your students begin the exciting world of glogging. Below I have listed some ways you can use glogs in your classroom:
Getting to know you Book reviews Timelines Persuasion posters Public service announcements Visual literacy Student-created poems with graphical representation Student website Debates
For additional resources check out my wiki at: https://etreats.pbworks.com/
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Tagul
I have been experimenting with a tool very similar to Wordle, but find it to be much better. It is called Tagul.
Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page, blog or wiki. This service was created by Alex from Russia who has a passon for technology. Currently the site is in beta form and like alot of services, this one may end up costing a fee in the future. From what I have read, he will charge businesses but is trying to keep it free for nonprofit. But for now, while it is free, take advantage of it.
How is Tagul different from other cloud tags? This service lets you customize your cloud to meet your individual needs. That's what is so cool about it. Tagul will allow you change the font and color of individual words. It will also let you create various shapes as well as rotate the the words if you like. The the neatest feature of all, is that each word in your tag cloud can be linked to a website. For example: by default all words in the cloud you create are linked to Google's search page about that particular topic. So, if blogging is one of your words in your tag cloud, then when you clicked on blogging, it would take you to Google's search engine results page yielding additional links for you to learn about blogging. If you don't want to use the default, you can customize it to whatever page you desire, like your delicious bookmarks. If you really wanted to get creative, create a website with all the links to the desired sites you want your students to use for research and link your tagul to it. Give it a try, I think you will be just as impressed with this tool as I am.
Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page, blog or wiki. This service was created by Alex from Russia who has a passon for technology. Currently the site is in beta form and like alot of services, this one may end up costing a fee in the future. From what I have read, he will charge businesses but is trying to keep it free for nonprofit. But for now, while it is free, take advantage of it.
How is Tagul different from other cloud tags? This service lets you customize your cloud to meet your individual needs. That's what is so cool about it. Tagul will allow you change the font and color of individual words. It will also let you create various shapes as well as rotate the the words if you like. The the neatest feature of all, is that each word in your tag cloud can be linked to a website. For example: by default all words in the cloud you create are linked to Google's search page about that particular topic. So, if blogging is one of your words in your tag cloud, then when you clicked on blogging, it would take you to Google's search engine results page yielding additional links for you to learn about blogging. If you don't want to use the default, you can customize it to whatever page you desire, like your delicious bookmarks. If you really wanted to get creative, create a website with all the links to the desired sites you want your students to use for research and link your tagul to it. Give it a try, I think you will be just as impressed with this tool as I am.
Writing Prompts for A Christmas Carol
I was reading about writing prompts the other day on TeachHUB website. The first lesson I discovered was for Disney's A Christmas Carol. This lesson started out by having your students watch the movie trailer, then offered various curriculum ideas for grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-12.
Here are some of their suggestions.
For K-2: Pretend your school has a ghost. What is his or her name? What does he/she look like? Draw the ghost and write his/her name under it.
For 3-5: First, put three columns on your paper and label them "past," "present" and "future." Then, write 5 action verbs that you "do" during the holidays. In each column, write the verb in proper tense (past, present or future).
For 6-12: Disney wants to release a sequel to A Christmas Carol. Describe three new ghosts they could create for Scrooge's next story. (9-12) Write a one-page pitch to persuade Disney to use your plot for the sequel.
Thanks to TeachHub for great curriculum ideas
Here are some of their suggestions.
For K-2: Pretend your school has a ghost. What is his or her name? What does he/she look like? Draw the ghost and write his/her name under it.
For 3-5: First, put three columns on your paper and label them "past," "present" and "future." Then, write 5 action verbs that you "do" during the holidays. In each column, write the verb in proper tense (past, present or future).
For 6-12: Disney wants to release a sequel to A Christmas Carol. Describe three new ghosts they could create for Scrooge's next story. (9-12) Write a one-page pitch to persuade Disney to use your plot for the sequel.
Thanks to TeachHub for great curriculum ideas
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