As you probably know, I’m helping Sue Porter, TWICE’s Read Around the Planet Coordinator, with some the RAP work. We’re trying to finish up the leftovers. The World Language event this year had 66 requests and 53 of them ended up in the leftover pile (i.e. no perfect matches). We’re making progress on dealing with [...]
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What lengths will you go to in order to make an international connection work? This morning I woke up to a snow day. After checking to see which of my schools are closed (all of them in Berrien County), I checked my email. There waiting in my inbox was an email from India regarding a [...]
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Roxanne Glaser and I aren’t the only ones modifying the Jazzing Up Your Curriculum workshop format for a during-the-school-year format. Andrea Israeli and Ashton Graham are doing weekend sessions. Check out Andrea’s description of the first session so far. It’s cool to see this workshop format morph into smaller workshops with the same effect. Thanks [...]
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Today Chikaming Elementary connected to the International Wolf Center for their program Wolf Tales. After a tour of the wolf center (6 remote cameras to see them live), the session focuses in on several books about wolves. For example, students identify what things the wolf does in the story that makes us feel he is [...]
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I just finished recording my general ASK training from this evening. This covers the ASK programs available to our teachers, how to prepare for an ASK program, the ASK video done by Macomb ISD, and includes practice actually participating in an ASK program. Here’s the streaming link. Handouts referenced are: List of Berrien RESA ASK [...]
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Ok, I just finished the coolest training with Roxanne Glaser, ESC 12 in Waco, TX. Roxanne and I participated in the 123 VC Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with VC workshop last summer. We both have K-2 buildings wondering what the best use of videoconferencing is for their grade levels. So we adapted the Jazz format [...]
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Yesterday evening we had the training for the ASK Ultimate Gift Videoconference coming up in March. This is “ASK Deluxe” with the ASK process plus blogging. You can read about past ASK Ultimate Gift programs and view the December 14 session. The training has been archived on the Polycom RSS (on loan to BCISD from [...]
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Today a Galien Alternative High School history class is talking to Pearl Harbor survivors at the Arizona Memorial Museum Association. Students listen to the stories of World War II Veterans who were at Pearl Harbor, and then they take some time to ask questions. The stories of the veterans were interspersed with historical photos and [...]
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TWICE ASK Sesssions Join us for an ASK author interview. It is the best bargain in town. No here else will your children have a chance to speak personally with the uthor of the book they just read and all for only $70.00 or $35.00 for TWICE members. Go to http://www.twice.cc/ASK/index.htm for registration and to [...]
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If you’re not reading Scott Merrick’s blog, you should check out this video clip he posted of their session with NASA on the solar system. Thanks Scott for putting this online to give us a taste of NASA programs! (The picture is from Scott’s blog too.)
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