Digital Learning Day :: Awesome Ideas!

Digital Learning Day :: Awesome Ideas!  Open this site and explore. 

Digital Learning Day is February 1.   

What exactly is Digital Learning Day?
It is an organized effort to encourage teachers to use digital technology in their classrooms on Wednesday, February 1.  I hope you have clicked on the link above.  It has some excellent ideas to use in a classroom.  

1.  Your blog assignment for this week is for you to choose a digital tool you could use in your site school classroom.  You will hyperlink the link or embed on to your blog.  Explain how you would use this tool in your classroom.  Explore the web tool and be prepared to show how to use it in class next week. Include if there is a free version and details of how to sign up for use.

2.  Describe any digital activities any of your teachers used in your classes on Wednesday, February 1.  Be specific.  What type of digital tool they used and how it was used.

If you are so inclined, here is a video contest you can enter.  The video is only 45 seconds.  Check it out!  If you decide to enter the video contest, embed it to your blog.

This blog will be due on Monday,  February 6.  Be prepared to demonstrate how to use the digital tool on February 10 and 17.  If there are too many duplications, I will assign a new tool for you to try.
Remember the rubric.  The name of your blog for this week will be "Digital Learning Day"

PS:  I have linked some good websites and blogs as well as some other useful digital tools (in the upper right corner) for you to use for activities in your classrooms.  Please look at them.

Cheers to a New Semester!

One down and one to go!

If you are a Senior, you have 18 weeks of school left.  

If you are a Junior, you have one year and 18 weeks of school left.

Some of you are well positioned for success after High School.  Some of you haven't thought about it yet.  Junior or Senior, you should be making plans.  As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."  Don't let things just happen to you, make things happen that you want to happen.  

This week, you will choose three things that you can do to change your second semester.   The title of your Blog this week is - Make It Happen in 2012!

You must list the three things you want to change, how you will make this happen and what you hope the outcome will be as a result of your efforts. 

Number them 

1. 

2. 

3. 

Example:  

1.  I want to make better grades during the second semester.  In order to accomplish better grades I will need to study more, Facebook less and focus my efforts on things that matter.  By focusing my time on what matters and meeting deadlines, my grades should improve.  If I improve my grades, I will have an easier time getting into college and will have a more enjoyable second semester.

This blog post is Due on Monday, January 23.  Always follow the blog rubric.  

It's Ketchup Week!

For some of you, not having a blog for this next week will be no big deal because you are caught up and it will give you a well deserved break and more time to study for your finals.  Some of you are seriously behind on your blogging.  The only two blogs I will still grade are the "Grinch" and "Ideal Classroom" blog.  There are five blogs this six weeks.  I will be dropping the lowest blog grade to calculate your blog test grade.  If you want me to grade the two remaining blogs, they must be posted by the end of class Monday, Jan. 9.  If your blogs aren't posted by that time, I will record a zero and include it in the test grade.

We will be blogging the second semester as well.  Don't forget to include two multimedia links each week. This is a free 5 points if you do this.  Show some attention to detail in your work.  There are still eighteen weeks of school left, don't waste your time and get behind.  If you are wondering why your grades are like they are, refer to the blog rubric.  Misspelled words are always a problem, lateness, rambling, shallow perception of the subject, poor writing conventions, there, their, they're... "i" could go on and on.

In the immortal words of Elvis Presley, TCB.  Take Care of Business!

Happy New Year!

Read the article below and on your blog, create a post about how your ideal classroom should be structured.  Include reasons that are educationally sound.  The title of your blog should be "The Ideal Classroom".  It is due on Monday Jan. 9, 2012.  

Lewisville ISD trades rows of desks for sofas - Your Houston News: News: DALLAS — There’s something missing from Angela Hamm’s
third-grade classroom.