Monday, December 23, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
"Tech the Halls"!
My "ugly" Christmas sweater for our middle school competition
(I might add it won 1st prize)...
picture me wearing it:
headphones with lights, iPods, flashdrives, cd's, a mouse, a dongle...
all safety pinned to my sweater,
an iPad "necklace" around my neck displaying "Tech the Halls"
with "Deck the Halls" playing :)
my 9 year old, Kaleb said "Mom, are you really wearing that to school?",
my 6 year old, Blake said "Cool! Can you make me one of those!"
Ms. Roth's Marketing Project
Ms. Roth's Marketing students completed a project display, of course I was partial to this one of the iPhone 5C! Did you know it is only $99 and plastic? Great device! The students were required to include detailed information including product history,etc. Alec used a unique way of displaying it creating his own iPhone!
Thursday, December 19, 2013
8th Grade Career Unit
Mrs. Krehbiel, Mr. Woodward, and Mr. Rewerts just finished the 8th grade career unit. Many students chose to use technology for their presentations about the career they chose to research. Students also made charts and graphs using Excel in Math class in this cross-curricular unit.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Miss Reed's ThingLink
ThingLink...
You are going to want to see this!
You and your students will love ThingLink!
ThingLink allows you to create incredible, interactive images.
Your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!
Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories.
Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends.
Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.
ThingLink is also available as an App for mobile devices.
Here's the best part, but act fast!.....
From now until the end of December, they are giving educators
FREE premium accounts
(usually cost $250), here is what you need to do:
Go sign up for a ThingLink account if you don't have one, or if you do follow to the next step:
1. Email education@thinglink.com.
2. Write ThingLink EDU Campaign in the subject line.
3. Place #premium in the content space.
See an educators favorite ThingLinks here: http://edutech4teachers.edublogs.org/2013/12/03/free-thinglink-account/. Thank you Mrs. Yoder for sharing the free premium account information!
Miss Reed used ThingLink this week to have her students summarize "A Christmas Carol" for their final. She said the students really liked it, found it easy to use and were able to transfer their knowledge from use of other programs to use this new tool. See her students' work here:
Finished ThingLinks
EX: Miss Reed http://www.thinglink.com/scene/469522641175183361
Zach Bollinger
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Grant Brenneman
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Lydia Dages
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Carson Dawes
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Isaac Decker
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Courage DeMoss
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Kasi Duran
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Xavier Garcia
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Alex Guardiola
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Dawson Fry
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Jonathan Fulghum
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Travis Kennemur
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Kylie Martin
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Corbin McNeill
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Venessa Meier
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Jada Mininger
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Gabby Morales
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Katie Roth
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Mary Short
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Grace Thompson
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Lauren Thompson
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Tori Toews
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Ian Weaver
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Luke Arrasmith
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Paul Baatrup
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Brendan Boles
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Annel Chavez Rodriguez
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Dylan Dilks
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Sean Duerksen
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Brett Graevs
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Hunter Heddin
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Kalee Henderson
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Liz Lumbreras
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Jacob Martinez
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Erin Peters
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Jayd Powers
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Rebecca Ring
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Josh Roth
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Addi Schroeder
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Morgan Simpson
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Aliyah Tighe
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Laura VanBergeijk
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Jessica Waggoner
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Andrew Wright
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Hanna Yoder
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Mrs. Yoder's Google Search Tips
Mrs. Yoder's presented "Google Search Tips" to the HS Interactive Media class, something we can all improve at! She explained the different search criteria you can use that will allow you to be the most efficient when searching. The students had fun trying to quickly find specific topics, documents, and answers on Google.
Mr. Johnston Rube Goldberg Machine iMovies
Mr. Johnston's HS Science classes produce Rube Goldberg Machine iMovies. The assignment was to make 6 simple machines to perform a very simple task in a very complex fashion. The students had fun creating the videos and it was a great way to document they knew how to build and understood a Rube Goldberg Machine. Great job Mr. Johnston! This video is pretty neat...watch at:http://youtu.be/vlBMuVBs0Kg
Ms. Roth-Scratch Animation
Scratch animation is a program available on all of our MacBooks in the district, just go to your spotlight and search for "Scratch" or look in your applications folder. Students can create stories, games, and animations. Using the Scratch website http://scratch.mit.edu/ projects can be uploaded and viewed around the world.
Ms. Roth and I team taught this unit last week to her freshman Interactive Media students. I think we would both agree we learned as much from the students as they did from us. The students loved the program and created some pretty amazing projects in a short amount of time. Animation is a huge industry right now and has many opportunities for careers. All ages of kids love this program, so if you are needing a new, fun, interactive tool, don't be afraid to try it out, I can help!
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Hesston Teacher Blogs
Several of our teachers have their own classroom blogs. I thought it would be easy if I provided a place where all of the links were in once location! Classroom blogs are a fun way for parents to see what is happening in your class! I will continue to add to the list as it grows for our district!
Mr. Graber HS Social Studies: http://homeworkswather.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Ortman 5th Grade http://5thgradetechfun.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Harder 4th Grade http://www.mrsharder.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Schroeder HS FACS http://justhefacsone.blogspot.com/
Miss Reed 7th Grade Language Arts http://7thgradeliving.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Lafferty 3rd Grade http://mrs3l.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Boese 3rd Grade Instagram
Search mrsboese3 and request permission to follow
Search mrsboese3 and request permission to follow
Friday, November 22, 2013
Google Updates and Movenote
As most of you have noticed, Google has done some recent updates. Your drive is now found under the 9 square menu in the upper right. One of the best features they added is the ability to load Gmail attachments right to your drive instead of having to download them first! Movenote has also teamed up with Google Drive. What is Movenote? It is an easy way to make and share movie presentations/tutorials with your students! Click here to find out more!
Miss Dryton's High School Election
The high school is running an election in Miss Dryton's class. They had "Dryton Bucks" to spend on such things as campaign advertising. The students are campaigning for 4 teachers....here are some of the movies they created to advertise their nominee! You need to watch them! There are some really good ones! I especially like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
Presentation Tools
8th grade is gearing up for their career unit and our planning to give the students several choices this year for presentation tools. Mr. Rewerts found this good website of 5 tools to make a killer presentation: http://mashable.com/2013/08/19/presentation-apps/. Metta is another good movie presentation tool. Check it out here.
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