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Issue 24, Volume
10
February
18, 2010
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Thought for the Week
If you are planning
for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a
decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a
lifetime, educate people.
-- Chinese Proverb |
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Register For Upcoming
Blackboard Classes
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Register Now:
http://www.cpsb.org/techclasses |
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BB309: Web 2.0 Tools
in the Classroom (This course is all online
- no face-to-face meeting)
Dates of Training:
March 2 - March 16, 2010 (2
weeks online)
Location: All Online
Prerequisite: None
Technology Requirements: Internet
Access at Home/Computer Proficient
CLUs: 2
This two week online class will serve as an
introduction to using Web 2.0 tools in the
classroom.
For further information, feel free to contact Kim
Leblanc
(kim.leblanc@cpsb.org.) |
Featured Blackboard Site
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 The
featured Blackboard site was created by Kevin Clark,
a mathematics teacher at DeQuincy High. Mr. Clark
created the site to serve as a resource for all of
his students as well as a communication resource
with parents. Visit
Mr. Clark's site. |
More Winter Olympic Sites
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 The 2010 Winter Olympics,
officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games or
the 21st Winter Olympics, are now being held through
February 28, 2010, in Vancouver.
The Path Of The Athlete
http://www.olympicschool.ca/default.aspx?PageID=1061&LangID=en
Elementary students will learn which flags belong to
which participating country, choose foods for the
athletes, decide which training materials each
different sport should use, compete in a downhill
slalom race, and then take their position at the
winner's podium in this interactive set of Olympic
learning games.
The Ancient Greeks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/
In this BBC website for students, learn about the
everyday Ancient Greek world, find out what it was
like to grow up in Athens or Sparta, learn more
about Greek culture, gods, and heroes, and of
course, do take a look at the Olympic Games.
Global Trek – Greece
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/destinations/greece.htm
Your destination is Greece in this online world
tour, where students will learn about the history of
Greece, take a guided tour through its myths, and
find research starters for the Olympic Games.
Olympic Savings
http://www.olympicschool.ca/upload/docs/coc_ppk_elmntryFL_FINAL2.pdf
How many of your students consider the money
involved in becoming an Olympic athlete? It turns
out that it not only takes a lot of physical
training to compete, it also takes plenty of cash.
This math lesson relates savings to the Olympic
dream, with word problems for students to compare
savings methods.
Design Your Own Event Ticket
http://www.uen.org/k12educator/reach/downloads/37.pdf
The events are underway... How would your students
like to attend the Winter Olympic Games? Which
events would they choose to attend? Have them design
their own event ticket, based upon a selected event,
and addressing the elements of design. |
Biotechnology For Middle
And High
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 Do
you teach genetics, DNA, and gene cloning? Are you
looking for ways to integrate high quality digital
media into your lessons? Check out the new
Biotechnology collection on Teachers' Domain. Funded
by the Amgen Foundation, these unique video and
interactive resources bring to life the emerging
field of biotechnology for middle and high students,
going beyond scientific theory to show the tools and
techniques used to develop new biotechnology
applications and products. The collection
incorporates aspects of chemistry, genetics, and
cell biology, easily mapping on to existing
curriculum standards. The URL:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/biot/ |
Real World Math
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 Google's
free 3D world of satellite imagery is used in active
learning exercises designed to stimulate
higher-level thinking skills at this site. Real
World Math which uses Google Earth in the Math
Curriculum provides lessons, activities, and new
ideas that bring math instruction into this
millennium. Intended for grades 5 and up, this
material offers an Instructional Technology approach
to learning. The URL:
http://realworldmath.org/ |
25 Ways to Use Twitter In
Education
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 Twitter
can feel like a strange new landscape when you first
jump in. It is not always clear what its
professional uses are, or what to post in 140
characters or less. But when you start to think of
Twitter as a micro-blog (and not just a forum for
the personal minutiae of people’s daily lives), you
will find that Twitter can be a valuable tool for
professional development. Here are 25 ways that
teachers can use Twitter to ask for help, get lesson
plan ideas, book and professional resource
recommendations, connect with other professionals,
and even host an online book club. Read the entire
article at http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/professional_development/25_ways_use_twitter |
Community Clips From
Microsoft
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 Microsoft
Office Labs offers an Office 2003/2007 add-in called
Community Clips at
http://officelabs.com/Pages/ConceptTests.aspx.
Use Community Clips to record application tutorials
in which you want the viewer to see what you are
doing on your desktop. The file is saved as a
standard Windows Media Video (*.wmv). Because the
resulting file is in the Windows Media Video format,
it's easily edited in Windows Movie Maker—another
free application supplied with XP, Vista, and the
new Windows 7. |
Rub and Reveal: Making
Text Appear
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 As
teachers, we often need text to be revealed at an
opportune moment in the lesson. Promethean allows
you to hide text until it is time for that
information to be shown to students. To prepare
such a flipchart page, type text that you wish to be
hidden. Using the pen tool at an appropriate pen
width, write over the typed text. During the
lesson, you or a student can use the eraser tool to
remove the pen and reveal the typed text. This
technique is well-suited for discussing vocabulary
terms with students or revealing previously labeled
parts of a diagram. |
| Best
on the Net!! -- Visit this site for
hundreds of websites for teachers! We would love to
hear from you about the best educational sites you
have found on the web. Please submit, via email, the
sites you feel merit inclusion. Send to tech.connect@cpsb.org.
Please include the URL and a short sentence about the
site.
Featured
Sites: (These sites were submitted by teachers in
Calcasieu Parish)
Learn About The Orchestra
http://www.playmusic.org/stage.html
Click on any of the instrument sections of the San
Francisco Symphony to learn more about those musical
instruments, as well as the people who play them.
Who Wants Pizza?
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractions/prac4.html
In this interactive fractions game, students must
add fractions with different denominators, and then
click off the correct number of squares in the
models. Word problems follow the initial activity
for further practice, with an interactive quiz
involved as well.
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