Monday, March 15, 2010

Work Log #2-March 23rd

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  1. RuthMarch 20, 2010 at 1:30 PM

    Work Log #2
    I spent some time looking through Jay’s blog site and some other sites off of teacher web pages, for smartboard activities.
    http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/elem_puzzles.html
    http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/index.asp
    http://www.spellingcity.com/lakewood3/
    http://pbskids.org/go/

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  2. Sue BMarch 20, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    Hi Ruth,
    Did you put those sites on your delicious site? I'd like to connect some of our staff who have smart boards to your links.
    I'm continuing to work on adding info to my delicious account and want to look at a few places from our web tools list, i.e. Flickr, Rubistar and I'm going to try to set up Google Reader account. I'm not sure what to do for my final project, but I'm thinking that once I have a few more things in my delicious acct.,I may approach my supervisor and suggest it as a way to network with our Head Start Staff. Even if everyone doesn't want to get on board with creating their own accounts, I think it will be a great way for teachers to access useful information from me about inclusion and behavior issues in a quick, efficient manner.

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  3. M. RileyMarch 22, 2010 at 4:50 PM

    Does anyone know how to use Google Docs? You can upload documents and send them to others to proofread etc. It looks kind of interesting and students could use this for proofreading... I tried to upload a document but was unsuccessful for some reason.

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  4. Jay Monson, M. Ed., Concordia University, St. PaulMarch 22, 2010 at 8:40 PM

    Hey CI555 Crew,

    Thanks for all you've shared so far.

    Michelle: I have used Google Docs a little and absolutely love the concept. You can add people to become users of documents, share writings and even watch while a document is being changed in real time (although I haven't seen this in action.). My old school district (Mankato Public Schools) is going entirely Google Docs for next year.

    Keep the conversations going.

    -Jay

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  5. AnonymousMarch 22, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    After last week’s class I spent some time looking for usable physical science simulations (sites I had not used before) and got quite frustrated. I probably sampled 12-15 different sites and found only 1 that could reasonably be used with my students. Some of the sites were not simulations at all, but just on-line lessons. Some were unable to run on my computer (I’m not sure why because none of the ones that would not run prompted me to download a new piece of software.) Some were not free (except for a one month trial, but I refuse to sign up for these trials without first sampling the product – a true catch-22.) The one site that I found that has some utility for me is the following, and even this site has so much material that it is a little overwhelming. My students would use just a tiny fraction of the material available, except to play. http://users.hal-pc.org/~clement/Simulations/Physlets/TST/TST_Motion_Simulations.html

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  6. LPeltoMarch 23, 2010 at 11:12 AM

    I explored some math practice options for my students this week. I found a web site called prongo that had several games which are very interactive but cause the students to do math computation to make it through the game. One game i used with my class was Batters up Baseball. They had a choice of multiplication or addition. They also had the choice of single, double, or challenge problems. It was a fun way to practice facts. The teacher could choose how challenging the problems should be by only allowing the students to select singles or doubles, etc. My students enjoyed and they learned had time to practice facts and learn at the same time.

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  7. M. RileyMarch 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM

    Jay - can you possibly squeeze in 5-10mns on how to use the google docs sometime in the future (not this week:)
    Thanks!

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