If you’re available to participate in an online interactive webcast on Thursday, August 23rd, at 5:00 PM PST. Please join us. All districts are welcome. I will be cohosting along with two LAUSD teachers, Henry Anker of the world famous Anker tests and Jose Rodriguez, web 2.0 superstar. All of us are experienced with working …
Category: Digital Storytelling
Digital Video in the classroom
Schools 2.0
This is in response to being tagged by Alice Mercer. Alice Mercer has done some interesting work integrating technology into the Open Court program, putting class discussions and unit openers online in the form of podcasts… For the uninitiated, Web 2.0 is a concept floating around the ed tech world. Web 2.0 refers to the …
Heritage Poetry Writing Idea
submitted by Francie Kugelman This is a popular poem template which I found http://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm”>online: The WHERE I’M FROM Template I am from _______ (specific ordinary item), from _______ (product name) and _______. I am from the _______ (home description… adjective, adjective, sensory detail). I am from the _______ (plant, flower, natural item), the _______ (plant, …
Comic Life and Open Court: Simple Technology, Higher Level Thinking, 21st Century Skills
see Comic Life examples used with Open Court Reading see general curricular uses of Comic Life At the second session of Closing the Digital Divide, Integrating Technology in the Open Court Curriculum which I taught at the Los Angeles County Office of Education, we continued our work with Digital Video and Clay Animation. …
At Long Last, Gumby
Well, almost… I’ve finally uploaded some of the films created by teachers in my class on Integrating Technology in the Open Court curriculum at the Los Angeles County Office of Education. They are filed under the appropriate units. In particular, check out: First grade, Keep Trying Second grade, Fossils and Look Again Second Grade Kindness …
Great OCR Tech Workshop at LACOE
I finished teaching the first session of “Closing the Digital Divide: Integrating Technology in the Open Court Reading Program” at the Los Angeles County Office of Education along with Carolyn Daly of Tech4Learning this week. This was a hands-on workshop to address how to integrate technology into OCR in ways which support curricular goals, promote …
New Films to go With Open Court Reading Themes
Lots of new movies this week! My own class films, “Camouflage Jones, Private Investigator” and “We See Animals Hiding” are now online at VideointheClassroom.com These are related to the 2nd grade “Look Again Unit.” Special thanks to Stephanie Penniman for her third grade film, “Kids Did It In Business” and Gisele Lee for her second …