To celebrate Veterans Day today, we have 4 sessions with panels of our World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Students from MI and TX are interviewing our local veterans. Here are some of the questions students asked today: Where did you sleep when you were in active duty? Have you ever been back to where [...]
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Yesterday and today I’ve been running our first attempt at HistoryQuest8: Revolutionary War. Last year we tried running it in the spring on the whole year’s curriculum and were only able to get enough classes to sign up for one session. This year, in talking to one of my teachers, we decided to try running [...]
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I’ve been watching a lot of multipoint VCs lately, and so I thought I’d write today about what seems to work well. Most of these tips I’ve learned from COSI Columbus with their surgery and expert interviews or from Arnie Comer’s ASK and LAPS programs at Macomb ISD. Make sure all sites are muted in [...]
Filed under: Communication Tips | Tagged: ASK Programs, Facilitating videoconferences, Multipoint videoconferences | 3 Comments »
This week I’m finishing up a session of the Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections online class. One of the participants, a high school media specialist, wrote an excellent plan for supporting VCs in her school. I wanted to highlight a few points: Here at the high school, I can also be available to assist teachers during [...]
Filed under: Implementation, Professional Dev. | Tagged: high school VCs | 1 Comment »
