If I had all the time in the world, I would make all these dreams for next year happen. As it is, I’ll probably have to pick & choose. But here’s my dream list right now. Literature Circle Matching Two of my local teachers borrowed ASK kits for The Breadwinner this year and did a [...]
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Imagine solving math problems to find out a clue you need to solve a geography puzzle! In today’s MysteryQuest USA, students from Mark Twain Elementary, Fraser, Michigan, gave some of their clues in the form of math problems. Add the numbers at the top to get the population of the city. Complete this division problem [...]
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Here’s a post I’ve had simmering for a while. Back in March we had several Read Around the Planet connections with classes in the United Kingdom. Most of them connected through JVCS, or JANET Videoconference Services. JVCS bridges a ton of videoconferences a month (over 7000 in March 2007! – got this link from a [...]
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Did you notice this on the CILC website? The Keystone Conference is back as the CILC Symposium, November 14 & 15, 2007. Not too many details yet, but at least we can mark our calendars!
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Another MysteryQuest USA session today. Check out this visual for this clue. “A park in our state is is the Long Key State Park.” This creative clue was by Brown Elementary, St. Joseph, Michcigan. See the “long key”!! Sylvester Elementary, Berrien Springs, Michigan, presented their clues in the form of a Deal or No Deal [...]
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Here’s an interesting thought. One of my local high school teachers won a free field trip from me at a workshop in February. Just recently her media specialist asked me if the money can be saved for next year. She commented that teachers love videoconferences when they can show up and participate, but if the [...]
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Today’s MysteryQuest USA lessons were about clear posters. Posters continue to be one of the hardest things to do well in a videoconference. Classroom D, Farrell-Emmett Elementary, in Yale, Michigan, had some great posters today. Notice especially the first poster. There are five C’s to write down. The part that the students would need to [...]
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Today we had the first two of nine sessions of MysteryQuest USA in the next couple weeks. The first one this morning was really rough with just about everything that could go wrong with the technology actually going wrong. But the students weathered through it and had a great time presenting and guessing. Here are [...]
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Finish your year with a bang! Take our upcoming online class, Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections. It’s four weeks long, online via Moodle, a dynamic learning community, and we have international participants this time around! One videoconference assignment has you meet with another person in the class. This is the 10th session of this popular class. [...]
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Another chance to contribute to the research about videoconferencing! If you didn’t get this yet in your email, do it now!! (Posted here with permission from Linda.) Greetings Distance Educators. I am so happy to say hello to all of my distance education friends and colleagues. If I have not met you personally, Im thrilled [...]
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