Simulating the "Real World"

How many of your schools have a portfolio process? Something where the students compile their work throughout the year and present pieces which demonstrate growth in certain areas? I bet those of you that do, also have student-led conferences when the students share their work from their portfolio with their parents. Now are those portfolios,…

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Setting Course for the Horizon

My eighth grade students just spent two class lessons working as a Sounding Board for the The Horizon Project – another fantastic collaboration with Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis, Vienna International School, Presbyterian Ladies College and Shanghai American School (check out our finished work on our class wiki). This particular group of students has been through…

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YackCasting: Yet another use for YackPack

Thanks to Clay’s constant innovation and creative thinking, we discovered another excellent use for YackPack today. Clay wanted to be able to record live conversations using YackPack (to get around the user limit restrictions when recording with Skype). So, today we tested out recording a live conversation with YP and then publishing the conversation. Basically…

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Our Daily Routine

My classroom in changing… Every day when my students come to class they have a to-do list on the white board. The list used to say things like: Continue your iMovie project Import all images and video clips Add titles to group your images/video Add effects Now, my list says something like this: Continue your…

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IT Integration Planning: The Mandate

After reading my post on the role of the facilitator, Mark asked me to share our official technology integration mandate here. It’s also posted on our wiki, but in the interest of convenience, here it is again: By the end of grade 8, all middle school students are expected to achieve mastery on the Information…

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