Merit Week 12

My students love the new Mac computers. They finish their work quickly so they have a chance to use one of them to do their blogs.

I loved going to Cue Fall in Napa. I enjoyed the Opening and Closing Key Note Speakers as well as Iron Cue. The first session I attended was: Get Your eduGlog On!

Katie WarrenMulti, TL, IN, IT A202 Administration Building

I want to start doing Glogs in my classroom. Hopefully soon.

The second session I attended was:

Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Arnie Abrams 2007

I feel this is a great device to get my students writing. They can do a story about themselves using pictures. It would be great to have digital cameras for the students to use. I will teach them how to write down where the obtained their pictures from the web if they use those.

The next session I attended was:

Intervention by Google

Kyle Brumbaugh, 2137

Elizabeth Calhoon Here I learned about Google Reader and Google Books. I set up some for my class already. I learned more about the power of Google docs.

The Next Session I attended was:

I Have the Software, I Have the Skills… Now What?!

Dave Kootman 2061

Over all this was not my favorite workshop. Dave has not been in a classroom for two years. He only had elementary experience. He had 1/2 of his class use the computers at a time and then had them trade places so everyone had a chance to use the computers. This does not fit into a 45 min middle school class setting.

My final session I attended was:

Free, and Easy: Great Free &

Open Source Resources

Brian Bridgesand

Check out CRLN. There are so many free apps out there. It was amazing.

So Saturday was a great day for learning. On Sunday I wrote my plan for Merit. Monday my students worked on their blogs. I decided to pair strong students with the weaker ones to help them out. It seemed to work really well. I hope to do some more of that next week. My students are having trouble using excel so I think I will try to teach everyone to use Google docs next week to finish their math spread sheet on Thanksgiving Dinner.

I am looing forward to March SV Cue. I wish I could meet with the other Cambrian attenders of Cue and share information. When would we have the time?