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!
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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/watch?v=0D4ZBMZ1eCA


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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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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

#Hesstongnomes

Middle School Art students created gnomes and are sending them around the world!  The gnomes have a QR Code on the back which tells the user to take a picture of the gnome with something in their area and post it on Twitter using #Hesstongnomes.  Here is a gnome in Chicago!  Follow them on Twitter!
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PowerUpWhatWorks




Rhonda Werth shared this great resource to Elementary teachers, it is full of Common Core resources as well as technology integration ideas!

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Miss Wiebe and Mrs. Ortman's Challenged Based Learning Class



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Thursday, November 14, 2013

OpenEd Common Core Resources

OpenEd is a free resource for teachers with websites, games, videos, and interactives ALL Common Core aligned. You can search by subject, topic, grade level, or specific standard!  Open Ed is also on Twitter and Facebook.  You can create an account to make a playlist of your favorites!

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Mr. Lafferty's Pages Research Project & Tellagami

From the desk of Mr. Lafferty: 
"Here is Cody's feature article and the link to his related Tellagami. He chose a voice with a southern accent because he said rattlesnakes and southern accents seem to go together =). The students were asked to research a topic of interest and then create a feature article using the Newsletter template in Pages.  After the completion of their articles they were allowed to create a Tellagami.  They created a person that would share facts and/or summarize information related to their article. Some students used the backgrounds that were available and some imported backgrounds that related closely to their topic. We haven't shared the completed tellagamis with the class yet, but the kids are excited to do so and it will be a great way for each student to have the opportunity to let their peers know what topic they researched and some interesting facts that they discovered.  This has been a great experience for the kids. They have been very motivated and excited about all the parts of the project, from the research portion that Rachel Yoder guided them through to the creation of a tellagami."
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Mrs. Simpson's Class is on Edmodo!

Mrs. Simpson's class is on Edmodo!  
They have replied to comments, uploaded homework, taken a test, and taken a poll!  
The kids love Edmodo and it makes the teacher's life a lot easier!  The MS and HS are using Edmodo for their book studies, it is a great collaboration tool for teachers! 




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Miss Reed's PowToons!

PowToon.com is a fun way to make videos.  There is so much you can do with your movie, just create a free account and create away!  You can add cool text effects, animations, pictures, music, voice, etc. and videos can easily be uploaded to YouTube. Kids will LOVE THIS!!  I created a very simple one in about 10 minutes...My 1st PowToon Video.  Here is an example of how another teacher used it in class: Click here for Teacher Example.  
Miss Reed used it in correlation with her Harlem Renaissance project. The kids loved it and it was really easy for them to use.  Description of project:


Powtoon Harlem Renaissance Informational Project
For this project you will be researching the Harlem Renaissance to learn background information about the Literature, Art or Music of the 1920’s in Harlem, NY.
**You will create a BRIEF research project using Powtoon
REQUIREMENTS
1) 1 min. Powtoon
2) Must include your Individual
3) Background information of your individual
a. Date of birth/ Death
b. Major (Popular) Songs, poems or art work-- Examples
4) Brief Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance
a. Dates of Era, Cities,
b. What happened?
c. How did the Harlem Renaissance affect our lives
(Ex: Musicians, Poets, Artists of our time/our lives)
5) 3 Citations (websites)
POSSIBLE INDIVIDUALS TO RESEARCH
ARTISTS  WRITERS/POETS MUSICIANS DANCERS
Aaron Douglas
Wallace Thurman
Billie Holiday
Josephine Baker
Lois Mailou Jones
Langston Hughes
Chick Webb
Billy Robinson
Jacob Lawrence
Zora Neale Hurston
Louis Armstrong




Watch her student PowToons below!

HOUR 1


YOUR NAME        HARLEM RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUAL
Isaac Decker
Billie Holiday
Ian Weaver
Aaron Douglas
Katie Roth
Aaron Douglas
Mary Short
Chick Webb
Torie  (aka Jules) Toews
Zora Neale Hurston
Kasi Duran
Chick Webb
Gabby Morales
Zora Neale Hurston
Josephine Baker
Alex Guardiola
Louis Armstrong
Kylie Martin
Josephine Baker
Lauren Thompson
Louis Armstrong


Jada Miniger

Grant Brenneman

Lydia Dages

Carson Dawes
HOUR 2
Addi Schroeder
Augustus Savage
Laura van Bergeijk
Lois Mailou Jones
Liz Lumbreras
Billie Holiday
Hunter Heddin
Aaron Douglas


Jayd Powers
Billy Robinson
Brendan Boles
Josephine Baker
Brett Graevs
Billy Robinson
Morgan Simpson
Billy Robinson
Hanna Yoder
Billy Robinson
Jacob Martinez
Lois  Mailou Jones
Josh Roth
Chick Webb
Thomas O’Flynn
Louis Armstrong
Rebecca Ring
Louis Armstrong
Annel Chavez- Rodriguez
Josephine Baker


Kalee Henderson
Josephine Baker
Dylan Dilks
Louis Armstrong
Luke Arrasmith
Chick Webb
Jessica Waggoner
Lois Mailou Jones
HOUR 3
Zach Carter
Jacob Lawrence


Aaron Issacs
Louis Armstrong
Hannah Becker
Jacob Lawrence
LuLu Williams
Chick Webb
Caleb Bazil
Louis Armstrong
Olivia Hernandez
Louis Armstrong
Cameron Cox
Louis Armstrong
Hannah Sweeley
Billie Holiday
Ashley Hubbard
Louis Armstrong
Kade Crittendan
Louis Armstrong
Mikayla Valdez
Billie Holiday
Tahlia Frary
Josephine Baker


Tyler Mason

Louis Armstrong
Riley Schilling
Josephine Baker


Grady Toews
Billy Robinson


Alex Koehn
Chick Webb



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