Glog created for my Literature page on my wiki...

http://www.glogster.com/nacksarah/literature-glog/g-6ldaj49s8pd6glmrui6g2a0

NETS Standard:  1.  Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
a. Promote, support, and model creative 
and innovative thinking and inventiveness

Flip #3
Click on link:  http://ed.ted.com/on/HL7ioHkX

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry trailer for students to view and answer questions prior to reading the novel.

Common Core Standards:

7.SL.5 Speaking & ListeningPresentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.

7.W.9 WritingResearch to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research

Screencast on how to open Mrs. Nack's Wiki:


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByOT5YE9qHhEQTJ4Z2NUUWFteWc/edit

NETS Standard: 2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning 
Experiences and Assessments a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that 
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity

Check out this awesome geography website:

Google World Wonders Project:
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/#utm_source=aw&utm_medium=ha&utm_campaign=wwen


NETS STANDARD 2. Communication and Collaboration:  Students use digital media and environments to 
communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and 
contribute to the learning of others. c. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.

FLIP LESSON #2:
View the lesson on Classifying Quadrilaterals below and answer the questions following the video.  We will complete the last 2 steps Think and Dig Deeper and Finally Steps tomorrow.  Be able to identify the basic quadrilaterals and their properties identified on the video tomorrow in class. 


CC Standard:  7.G.6 

Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.

http://ed.ted.com/on/uWjOojce

Confused about how to incorporate Common Core into your classroom???

Watch video entitled "Kick Me"...great interactive "CC" style of teaching vocabulary!

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/making-vocabulary-lesson-interactive?resume=0

Also watch this video on teaching Fractions in math...showing you how to teach students to demonstrate fractions with picture, number, and words...very cool!

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-fractions

Sarah Nack

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Lesson Plan

http://crucianschoollibraries.wikispaces.com/file/view/Roll+of+Thunder,+Hear+My+Cry.pdf

Common Core:

·         RL.7.1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

·         RL.7.2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

·         RL.7.3. Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

·         RL.7.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

·         RL.7.6. Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.

·         RL.7.9. Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

   Common Core Wordle:)

Check out this site...it's a text with a listing of Common Core State Standards for English language arts  & literacy in history/Social Studies, Science, and technical Subjects for each grade level~!  Interesting.

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf

FLIP LESSON #1:

Let's try flipping a lesson...hmmm...let's see....ELECTION!  What a perfect time for this lesson!  Click on the link below to view the flip lesson and answer the questions!

Common Core Standard 7.SL2 2. Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.


Common Core Standard 7.W.9 

Research to Build and Present Knowledge B. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.  Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims”).

View Flip Lesson

Another NETS standard I looked at under "teachers" was 3-b:


b. Collaborate with students, peers, parents,
and community members using digital tools
and resources to support student success
and innovation

Galena School District uses teacherease as our communication system between families and school.  Grades are posted and are up-to-date.  We also have a digital locker to use for information that parents can view.

After reading the NETS standards for "teachers"...under standard 1 -b:

b. Engage students in exploring real-world issues
and solving authentic problems using digital tools
and resources

I require my students to research and present a current event weekly in my geography class.  The topics discussed are world news, us news, (which ever continent we are covering) news, sports, entertainment, and technology.  Topics are assigned weekly and are different for students weekly.  Students are looking at real world issues and presenting them and then we are also able to have a classroom discussion regarding the topic discussed.

Social Bookmarking sites would certainly be helpful with so many websites to remember.  I am constantly going back to Joe's daily schedule to help me to remember which sites to go to or which articles, etc. 

The third reading discussed, in my mind, a lot of time management issues regarding incorporating technology into the classroom.

The barriers cited for SIS use were:


1.The student information system doesn't solve important classroom problems, cited by 71
percent of teacher respondents as a minor (31 percent) or major (40 percent) barrier;
2. Weak "professional development content" (70 percent);
K-12 Student Data and Learning Management Systems Miss the Mark -- THE Journal Page 1 of 4
http://thejournal.com/Articles/2012/02/06/K12-Student-Data-and-Learning-Management-S... 5/14/2012
3. Lack of shortcuts and repetitive steps to generate reports (70 percent);
4. The implementation is too "one size fits all" (66 percent); and
5. Too few students with Internet access outside of school (64 percent).

We do have some students without internet access outside of school.  As an educator it's important to find the time within the classroom setting to incorporate the technology so all students have access to the knowledge.

In the second reading, the following quote stood out to me:

"Unlike an LMS, a typical CMS doesn’t allow for
interactive features such as discussion boards or online
tests and quizzes, Mitchell explains."

That seems to be the biggest difference between the two.

Learning management system:  this reminds me of our use of teacherease in our building.  Also Curriculum Mapper/Instructional Planner that we use.  Our district is currently struggling with inserting curriculum mapper into teacherease software without us having to retype/re-invent the wheel...AGAIN.