Session 11

Syntheses: the publisher program would seem to have the best application for my senior English students- it is adult to them and would allow them with the right instruction to put together some very neat projects for the books we read.

Since we just finished Cuckoo's Nest i am thinking of an assessment in which their are two products. One would be a patient news publication, the other a staff news publication. it could serve as both a review or cheat sheet for the written test while at the same time pointing the concept of perspectives.

Tons of possible apps here for the students in my classes w/PowerP. Would love to see a proper PowerP presentation as an (oh boy) exemplar. I have sat through dozens and cannot remember ever seeing one where I didn't want to stick a knitting needle through my temporal lobe.

3/29 - VII

Okay. For me, he MSWord note taking deal would seem to be the way to go for the high school for note taking on texts pulled from the web. The concept could then be transferred to photoco-pied pages from hard texts. We will see.

As for the site directories, though they can focus kids, I still find nesting etc. more useful.

5

big time

Use of search and narrowing has major ramifications for the high school kids and I just know they are frustrated and for the most part do not know he finer points of finding stuff.

Wiki has potential for the big kids- but must be monitored easily to make it worthwhile (which I think it can be) because when it is out there it is out there for the world to see.

4

marvel is so vast as to be intimidating, exciting, discouraging, and so potentially useful from school to work to everyday stuff.

one of the things i always become concerned about with all this stuff is a sense of balance and that we not only teach students the possibilities of the tech stuff but the pit falls as well. this is not entirely a big6 issye i know.

but it is scary.

Session 3

woobwicks made easier on middle school site or directly @rubistar has potential
micro word table creating very helpful-had got it done but always fumbled around
wub da backward planning. good stuff today.

today's fun submission:

Staff meeting today
Scads of sweet, sugary, grunts.
Six-thirty. I crash.

session dos

My brain hurts. I have been inundated recently w/ essential questions and enduring understandings, MLR and common assessments, staff meetings with W. Daggett.

This may work. We will see. The infotech site for spsd I like the mmost and neeed to explore.
Damnnnn tooo mucchhh cafffeiinnne anfd choooocooolattte.

Haiku from a recent staff meeting on MLR:

I sit pondering.
MLR bleeds me slowly,
Like dead pond leeches.