Today's 45-minute session will give you time and a collaborative environment in which to review the resources from last Wednesday's early release and to innovate a lesson using them.
1. Complete the online survey concerning last Wednesday's Early Release Staff Development.
2. Volunteers will size up each of the following resources for the group and share how she/he has since used it in class or plans to use it in class. (Volunteers limit yourselves to a 1-2 minute review.)
ToonDoo Museum Box SAS Technologies Microsoft Applications Intel Applets
3. Use the Innovating pages to the right of this page to explore further the resources you worked with last week and/or introduce yourself to those resources you weren't able to explore last week.
4. Use one (or more?) of these resources to innovate a lesson or a part of a lesson you plan to teach in the very near future (next period? tomorrow? next week?).
5. Post your lesson to the "Lesson" Discussion Postabove. And be sure to use the Access/Process/Communicate format!
See you Wed after next!
The March 23 Tasks
Next Wednesday's early release staff development will focus on 1:1 innovating, specifically on 1:1 innovating of a lesson, a 90-minute class, a unit/project. Prior to that Wednesday, all teachers will be asked to select two sessions from a list of several early release sessions designed to introduce teachers to web-based technologies that can be used to successfully innovate a lesson, a class, or a unit/project. During the first half of the early release, teachers will attend those two 45-minute sessions. During the second half, teachers will work individually in collaborative environments to innovate actual lessons, classes, and/or units/projects. This second session will be tiered in so far as each teacher decides whether to innovate a lesson, a class, or unit/project. This decision will depend on each teacher's individual level of skill and comfort using 1:1 practices.
In order to make that early release work as productive as possible, we will use our first Wired Wednesday to prep for it. Today we ask that you:
1. Reflect on how skilled you are at creating classroom 1:1 tasks that require students to access information, process it into knowledge/skills, and communicate it for mastery. Identify the tier in which you'll work today and next week.
If you're shaky with designing 1:1 Access/Process/Communicate tasks, we recommend you use March 30 to innovate a lesson (an activity within a class period).
If you're fairly comfortable with designing 1:1 Access/Process/Communicate lessons, we recommend you use March 30 to innovate an entire class period (several activities within a class period).
If you're very comfortable with designing 1:1 Access/Process/Communicate lessons, we recommend you innovate a unit or a project (an activity or an assignment done over several class periods).
2. Write a detailed lesson plan for an individual lesson, class, or unit/project you intend to actually teach in the upcoming days or weeks. Write whichever one it is with a traditional classroom in mind. If you need a template, consider the following:
3. Bring this plan for a lesson, a class, or a unit/project to the early release staff development. After our resource sessions conclude, you will work on innovating components of your lesson, your class, or your unit/project using 1:1 resources and the Access/Process/Communicate model.
That's it, as far as prepping for next week's early release, but before you leave this Wired Wednesday session today . . . here's a taste of one way we are "rough-drafting" our ongoing 1:1 staff development here at Northern. Please work through what Mix has given you as it might be a resource for innovating that next lesson you teach!
Innovate a Lesson, by D. Mix
Check out: museum box
User Friendly: YES
Description:About museumbox...If you could put a number of items into a box that described your life, what would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence. So what does museumbox do? museumbox provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents. "Museum Box." Museum Box Homepage. Web. 20 Mar. 2011. http://museumbox.e2bn.org/about/.
How I've used it: I have not used museum box in the classroom ...YET. I have played with the web site and WILL use it next year to do projects in all of my history classes. (I teach Juniors and do not have computers.)
How you might use it: museum box can be used in all subject areas at Northern Vance High School...although math will be tricky.
For Example:
English: take apart stories and create levels to help with critical thinking skills blending words, pictures, and video
Social Studies: take apart a historical event or document and help students to create cause and effect layers
Science: build boxes that show and tell why volcanoes erupt, why the earths plates move, how chemicals form and react to each other, or how fragile the environment is
Health: create boxes that deal with nutrition...proper nutrition and exercise vs. poor nutrition and lack of exercise
And so on...
Miscellaneous: museum box allows teachers to approve, reject, edit, and delete boxes by students before they can be posted. Northern Vance is already registered for museum box. If you want an account just let me know and all I have to do is register you for our school. After you are registered you can create student accounts...museum box is FREE.
Now go to:museumbox and create one box for a lesson for your class.
The April 6 Tasks
Today's 45-minute session will give you time and a collaborative environment in which to review the resources from last Wednesday's early release and to innovate a lesson using them.1. Complete the online survey concerning last Wednesday's Early Release Staff Development.
2. Volunteers will size up each of the following resources for the group and share how she/he has since used it in class or plans to use it in class. (Volunteers limit yourselves to a 1-2 minute review.)
ToonDoo
Museum Box
SAS Technologies
Microsoft Applications
Intel
Applets
3. Use the Innovating pages to the right of this page to explore further the resources you worked with last week and/or introduce yourself to those resources you weren't able to explore last week.
4. Use one (or more?) of these resources to innovate a lesson or a part of a lesson you plan to teach in the very near future (next period? tomorrow? next week?).
5. Post your lesson to the "Lesson" Discussion Post above. And be sure to use the Access/Process/Communicate format!
See you Wed after next!
The March 23 Tasks
Next Wednesday's early release staff development will focus on 1:1 innovating, specifically on 1:1 innovating of a lesson, a 90-minute class, a unit/project. Prior to that Wednesday, all teachers will be asked to select two sessions from a list of several early release sessions designed to introduce teachers to web-based technologies that can be used to successfully innovate a lesson, a class, or a unit/project. During the first half of the early release, teachers will attend those two 45-minute sessions. During the second half, teachers will work individually in collaborative environments to innovate actual lessons, classes, and/or units/projects. This second session will be tiered in so far as each teacher decides whether to innovate a lesson, a class, or unit/project. This decision will depend on each teacher's individual level of skill and comfort using 1:1 practices.In order to make that early release work as productive as possible, we will use our first Wired Wednesday to prep for it. Today we ask that you:
1. Reflect on how skilled you are at creating classroom 1:1 tasks that require students to access information, process it into knowledge/skills, and communicate it for mastery. Identify the tier in which you'll work today and next week.
2. Write a detailed lesson plan for an individual lesson, class, or unit/project you intend to actually teach in the upcoming days or weeks. Write whichever one it is with a traditional classroom in mind. If you need a template, consider the following:
3. Bring this plan for a lesson, a class, or a unit/project to the early release staff development. After our resource sessions conclude, you will work on innovating components of your lesson, your class, or your unit/project using 1:1 resources and the Access/Process/Communicate model.
That's it, as far as prepping for next week's early release, but before you leave this Wired Wednesday session today . . .
here's a taste of one way we are "rough-drafting" our ongoing 1:1 staff development here at Northern. Please work through what Mix has given you as it might be a resource for innovating that next lesson you teach!
Innovate a Lesson, by D. Mix
Check out: museum boxUser Friendly: YES
Description: About museumbox...If you could put a number of items into a box that described your life, what would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence. So what does museumbox do? museumbox provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents.
"Museum Box." Museum Box Homepage. Web. 20 Mar. 2011. http://museumbox.e2bn.org/about/.
How I've used it: I have not used museum box in the classroom ...YET. I have played with the web site and WILL use it next year to do projects in all of my history classes. (I teach Juniors and do not have computers.)
How you might use it: museum box can be used in all subject areas at Northern Vance High School...although math will be tricky.
For Example:
English: take apart stories and create levels to help with critical thinking skills blending words, pictures, and video
Social Studies: take apart a historical event or document and help students to create cause and effect layers
Science: build boxes that show and tell why volcanoes erupt, why the earths plates move, how chemicals form and react to each other, or how fragile the environment is
Health: create boxes that deal with nutrition...proper nutrition and exercise vs. poor nutrition and lack of exercise
And so on...
Miscellaneous: museum box allows teachers to approve, reject, edit, and delete boxes by students before they can be posted. Northern Vance is already registered for museum box. If you want an account just let me know and all I have to do is register you for our school. After you are registered you can create student accounts...museum box is FREE.
Now go to: museumbox and create one box for a lesson for your class.