June 4, 2010 SUMMER CAMP

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Tuesday, August 17th

• Session 1 - Google Docs
  
• Session 2 - PhotoStory 3 & freeplaymusic.com ; Introduction to Prezi.com
  

Wednesday, August 18th ***all day workshop

• Session 1 - Wikispaces 1
  
• Session 2 - Wikispaces 2 for the Classroom
  

Thursday, August 19th

• Session 1 - Promethean: Things Teachers Need to Know
  
• Session 2 - Promethean: Using the Desktop Tools; Time for Promethean Planet Downloads
  

April 20, 2010

FlipChart Fundamentals - the basics and prerequisite for further Promethean Training.

March 29th

Check out Mrs. Neary and Mr. Chernewski's Election Headquarters

Check out Mrs. Neary's Election Headquarters wiki. This project on Political Issues grouped students into political parties with each party member having roles and task to perform. This project used the wikispace for a project based learning activity.
This project had the 3most important ingredients to a project bsed lesson: Rigor, Relevance, and Substantive Conversation(great discussions among the teacher and class, among students within their political parties, major concepts and social studies standards brought forth by teacher,Mrs. Neary, inclusion teacher, John chernewski, and co-teacher and CFF coach, Stan Shumski.

Civics and Government

5.2.12.A: Evaluate an individual's civil rights, responsibilities and obligations in various contemporary governments

5.2.12.B: Examine the causes of conflicts in society and evaluate techniques to address those conflicts.

5.2.12.C: Evaluate political leadership and public service in a republican form of government.

5.2.12.D: Evaluate and demonstrate what makes competent and responsible citizens.

5.3.12.D: Evaluate the roles of political parties, interest groups, and mass media in politics and public policy

5.3.12.E: Evaluate the fairness and effectiveness of the United States electoral processes, including the electoral college.

5.1.12.C: Evaluate the application of the principles and ideals in contemporary civic life.

· Liberty / Freedom

· Democracy

· Justice

· Equality

This project had elements of many web 2.0 tools:

Wikspaces - embedding text, videos, and pictures
Photostory 3 for making Political Ads.
Microsoft publisher for creating brochures, newspaper clippings, Then converting the MP doc into a picture using pdf converter and saving as a picture to be embedded into the wiki page.
Voki - Avitars on main page voice recordings
Podcast with directions on main page using podbean.com
Google Docs Spreadsheet for comparing issues. Click on the Party Analysis wikPage
Google Docs forms for making up the election Ballot
CFF Digital Cameras for pictures to be used in the Political Ad Videos
Downloading background Music from free online sites for the Political Ads.
Research - Most important - Using the internet skills to research the political party they were given whether they were for that party or not to develop a campaign Website.
Student Centered - This was a student centered lesson with teacher, inclusion teacher, and tech coach acting as co-researchers, co-producers, co-planners, and tech facilitators.

March 26 Maiden Voyage of the SS Skook

Full screen Version of the Videos can be seen at

mrshumski.wikispaces.com (Scroll down to the bottom of the page.)

Mr. Scheib's Plastic Class (Long Version ) -- Mr. Scheib's Plastic Class (Short Version)

Dancing with Mrs. Rogers Gym Class---------Do You Know? How I Learn at NS

Google Doc test

Chapter 5 Notes testing the blog KB count

PLC TECHNOLOGY TIPS

PLC Tech Ideas - Discussions and tips that came out of our Professional Learning Community on Technology.


HOW TO PLACE A WORD DOCUMENT ON YOUR HOMEWORK HELPLINE BLOG in order to post a doc you need to get your document a url or web address. We do this with Google Documents.

1. Upload Word Document or PPT. (ppt. must be saved as 97-2003 version) to Google Documents. You can upload docx. or 2007 version docs but not pptx. Go to Google.com>click the more link > and click on documents.
2. At Google Documents, click on the UPLOAD button. Next, hit the select file button and browse or find your file and hit open button.
3. Word Documents (Spelling lists, Vocabulary, Study Guides upload quickly)
4. Look for the Back to Google Docs Button and click it.
5. Click on your document name and it will open up.
6. Now you can copy the url at the top of the ribbon and do a right click/copy.

Go to your Blog and hit the new post link.

1. Type the name you wish to call your document
2. Highlight it
3. Click the hyperlink icon and
4. Paste the url into the hyperlink box and hit the OK button.
5. Your document is now linked to your post.

The Holidays are coming and the big guy with the red suit needs to know his geography. Do You?

Here are some good resources for having fun with locating places:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
Map puzzles of U.S. and the World
Free Poverty

There are really cool and colorful map games at this site:
Map Games

If you think you are really good at locating places, try this site.
Test Your Geography Knowledge