Here at the Middle School students are busy taking the typical end of semester exams in 7th and 8th grade classes. Students use the tried and true methods of index flash cards and study guides. Teachers work hard to get them printed and distributed to the students before the exam. I have overheard teachers talking [...]
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My favorite software this week has to be Apple’s Keynote which has been upgraded in iWork ‘08 to be a powerful multimedia creation tool. A current project I started on with students since I returned from the NCETC conference is to create book talk podcasts using Keynote instead of Garageband to start the process. We [...]
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Jennifer Longee and myself are going to work with Mrs. Parry and Mrs. Doak to have their students create wikis on some Great Depression topics that appear in the book Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Students will work with Mrs. Longee (who constructed the wikis using PBwiki) to research the various topics and [...]
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