Comments on: Readings and more http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Mon, 05 May 2008 19:46:50 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Diane http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Diane Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:03:21 +0000 http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/#comment-32 Thanks for the great links. The Tech Savy Educator talked about the spellingcity.com website which sounds great! I want to explore it further. It may be a great site to include as part of the weekly spelling assignments. The classroom audio podcasting was interesting too. I shared an article from the Westford Eagle with Mike on a school in town that created podcasts for the national parks as an assignment. The teachers sent the podcasts to the national parks and they now use them on their webite. The school's next project is creating podcasts for the fifty states. The school got $10,000 from Best Buy and bought new ipod equipment. I told Mike we need to look for grants. There is definitely money out there; we just need to find it! Thanks for the great links. The Tech Savy Educator talked about the spellingcity.com website which sounds great! I want to explore it further. It may be a great site to include as part of the weekly spelling assignments. The classroom audio podcasting was interesting too. I shared an article from the Westford Eagle with Mike on a school in town that created podcasts for the national parks as an assignment. The teachers sent the podcasts to the national parks and they now use them on their webite. The school’s next project is creating podcasts for the fifty states. The school got $10,000 from Best Buy and bought new ipod equipment. I told Mike we need to look for grants. There is definitely money out there; we just need to find it!

]]> By: Mary Marotta http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Mary Marotta Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:35:29 +0000 http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/#comment-31 Mike - The vacation blog http://www.mikesnextadventure.com/ is great! Thanks for sharing! Mike – The vacation blog http://www.mikesnextadventure.com/ is great! Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: mmceach http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/comment-page-1/#comment-30 mmceach Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:28:27 +0000 http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/#comment-30 Thanks for posting the rss information. Very interesting. Note: Mike's vacation blog - San Francisco this week <a href="http://www.mikesnextadventure.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mikesnextadventure.com/</a> Thanks for posting the rss information. Very interesting.

Note: Mike’s vacation blog – San Francisco this week http://www.mikesnextadventure.com/

]]> By: Linda Herbison http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Linda Herbison Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:53:32 +0000 http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/#comment-29 Will Richardson's blog has a great discussion on helping our students "google well". I googled several of my freshmen, and found our class wiki among the top "hits". One of the comments mentioned teaching "how google works", with topics like SEO, analytics, and semantic application. I want to look more into this so I can teach it better -- I don't know a lot about this, yet. Will Richardson’s blog has a great discussion on helping our students “google well”. I googled several of my freshmen, and found our class wiki among the top “hits”. One of the comments mentioned teaching “how google works”, with topics like SEO, analytics, and semantic application. I want to look more into this so I can teach it better — I don’t know a lot about this, yet.

]]> By: Linda Herbison http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Linda Herbison Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:27:47 +0000 http://mmarotta.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/readings-and-more-2/#comment-28 Wow - the Darren Kuropatwa blog had some great ideas for math classes! I like the idea of creating an eportfolio for a student to be able to demonstrate what they've learned -- that would be a great way to review for a final exam. I was interested in the level of math that the 8th grade teachers from Manitoba were demonstrating -- most of our 8th graders are learning algebra, but these kids were adding fractions (Massachusetts kids learn that well before 8th grade). I wonder if you could really do math at the pace we do it in Massachusetts and also teach the kids wikis, blogs, etc.? It was fun to hear a student say "I was excited to get to math class every day" -- that's what we need in math education. I also liked the concept that we need to get kids talking about math and using it in every day language. High school math becomes valuable to kids when they can apply it in real life, and it sounds like the blogs really encourage this. Great stuff! Wow – the Darren Kuropatwa blog had some great ideas for math classes! I like the idea of creating an eportfolio for a student to be able to demonstrate what they’ve learned — that would be a great way to review for a final exam. I was interested in the level of math that the 8th grade teachers from Manitoba were demonstrating — most of our 8th graders are learning algebra, but these kids were adding fractions (Massachusetts kids learn that well before 8th grade). I wonder if you could really do math at the pace we do it in Massachusetts and also teach the kids wikis, blogs, etc.?

It was fun to hear a student say “I was excited to get to math class every day” — that’s what we need in math education. I also liked the concept that we need to get kids talking about math and using it in every day language. High school math becomes valuable to kids when they can apply it in real life, and it sounds like the blogs really encourage this.

Great stuff!

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