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April 29, 2008 01:47 PM
Please mark your calendars for the 2008-09 cadre meetings
September 22-23, 2008 (M 11-7 -T 8-2), Billings Hilton Garden
December 1-2, 2008 (M 11-7 -T 8-2), Helena Best Western
February 15, 2009 (Su) February 15-17, 2009 (Optional: ITSC)
April 27-28, 2009 (M 11-7 -T 8-2), Bozeman Hilton Garden
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Let's Blog Montana
Morning Montana Educators!
Check out the MCCE blog. If you haven't taken the time to visit it, come
see!
http://www.mcceonline.org/blog/
Comment on the input, resources, or create your own post (MCCE members).
TILT teachers, please comment if you would like to explain your blog or
direct these teachers to your favorite blog sites!!
MCCE members, please feel free to visit the TILT main blog (address given in the MCCE blog) and comment on any of the postings. I think you will find some valuable information here.
This tool (the blog) is only valuable if we use it.
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Blogging on Blogging
If you are a bit nervous about posting to a blog, join MCCE and experiment posting on the MCCE blog, I have provided a few tutorials on Wordpress, the blogging application we are using:
Writing a Post (video tutorial)
Start Up Guide (easy to follow and good if you are interested in starting your own blog)
Full Collection of video guides on Wordpress, all pretty good
Educational Blogs:
Here is a small listing of the educational blogs I try to keep up with. I think everyone can find some good information from these:
TechChicks: Teachers sharing the technology they explore
TEDTalks: Wow! The brightest minds are here.
A History Teacher: a benefit for all teachers though
So, here is your chance to try out the new MCCE blog�post a comment on these links, run through some tutorials and then�(gasp) try your own post! When I first introduced my staff development team teachers (TILT) to blogging, no one was participating. After much prodding, I found out that my teachers were afraid of looking stupid, spelling words wrong, or not having anything valuable to say. After a little coaching, some �safe environment� practice, I now have at least 8 teachers with their own blogs, and the Montana Link Share Project, which started out in the �safe environment� as a practice project�but turned into something valuable.
Visit our blogs:
* Dan Erikson: Poly Drive Elementary
* Marjorie Zeedyk: Riverside Middle School
* Doug Van Zee: West High
* Sara Olsgaard: McKinley Elementary
* Shannon Beld: Skyview High School
* Liz Madden: Will James Middle School
* Susan Veit: Castle Rock Middle School
* Montana Link Share Project
* Main TILT Blog
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Denise and Mandy hard at work
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Great Pix
We have posted good pix. Make sure the text is visible!
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Bloom's Taxonomy
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Applying Bloom's to Technology Integration
Sorry, I missed the instructions about creating a billboard...oh well...
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Morning Reflection
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As I stated earlier, the biggest impact for me was that all of us know that project-based learning is what we need to get to to get students to move to the higher level learning.
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Pier One Thinks
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Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
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What I learned yesterday...
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April 28, 2008 10:06 PM
Big Huge Lab Survey Results
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Cool Tools
Web 2.0 Tools shared at NCCE 2008
Diane also said look at Vuvox Media Creation
New collaborative browser Flock
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Closing Activity
We decided to create a billboard that combined our love of Montana, doing the GPS activity, and re-learning about Bloom's levels of thinking.
Dean, Darren, Wendy, Cathy
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GPS Geocache
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Closure activity
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GPS in Billings
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Closing Survey
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Closure activity
1. Baggage claim to a pot of gold/fool's gold
2. Participants will write their one golden tool and one golden teaching strategy they have taken from the training. Golden tool what you found of value and will use in your classroom. On the other side they will write their one fool's gold tool and one fool's gold teaching strategy. Fool's gold is one tool and strategy that might be good, but they cannot see how it applies to their teaching at this point.
3. Participants will join groups and share their golden idea and their fool's gold idea.
Denise - Desiree - Diane - Mandy
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3.2.1 Activity
1. I revisited the Blooms Taxonomy and how it relates to me as an educator, and how I can teach my students to think at a higher level. 2. Great Baggage Claim activity to engage my staff in my staff development training. 3. Great idea on how to create a virtual cache.
2. Two things I plan to share. I love the virtual cache idea and the Baggage Claim activity to actively to involve my staff in the staff development trainings.
3. I plan to engage my students in a higher level of questioning more often.
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3-2-1 activity
Three things learned:
1. Bloom's taxonomy the new way using technology
2. Reminder of the Nets and using them
3. Practice with GPS and geocaching, it would be easy to do with students without putting a lot of my own time into it
Two things I will share with colleagues:
1. In my next training I am going to do the activity with Bloom's Taxonomy putting words under the 6 levels
2. Baggage claim - what a great way to start the year with students or with teachers, we will have 3 new staff members, so it would be fun to do during a PIR day
One thing I will implement:
I plan to use Bloom's taxonomy with my students so they can start looking at their own learning.
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3-2-1 Activity
3 Things I learned
1. Rigor and Relevance is a new concept that I found incredibly interesting1
2. BigHugeLabs was a great site that I will continue to use!
3. NETS three and four
2 pieces of information I will share
1. I will share bighugelabs with my students and staff in my district. I think this is a great tool that allows for creativity and innovation.
2. I will share the "baggage" activity in my trainings. I thought this was a great way to get people acquainted and into thinking mode.
1 change I will put into practice!
I will be using many of the moodle strategies modeled by Darrin! I felt that many of these have the possibility to promote creativity. I will also share with teachers some of these tools and how they integrate with the Moodle.
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Three things I learned!
I think today has been great. I am not well versed in Moodle, and it was interesting to see another application with it, leading a workshop with Moodle as the information portal. As always, the professional development strategies are always useful. I also really liked the Big Huge Labs tools to work with pictures. What a great and fun tool! These will both be shared with colleagues.
The change that I will try to implement in my teaching as a result of this meeting is to try to target those upper levels in Blooms taxonomy. I want to be a D quadrant teacher!
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3-2-1-
3 learning pieces: 1-Rigor/Relevancy 2-bighugelabs.com 3-switch of categories at the top of new bloom's taxonomy
2 pieces of info to share: 1- www.bighugelabs.com 2-revised Bloom's
1 change: 1-use of Moodle to deliver course content
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3-2-1
Three things I've learned today are:
1. Revised Bloom's/Relevance and Rigor
2. Baggage Claim professional Development strategy
3. Big Huge Labs for use with Nets 3 and 4
Two things I want to share with colleagues are:
1. How to create virtual geocaches aligned to the nets
2. Rigor and Relevance
One thing I will implement in my job is the use of Rigor and Relevance as a strategy to help teachers differentiate instruction.
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3-2-1 Activity
Three things I learned:
How to make a geo-cache.
Bloom's Taxonomy.
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
Two things I will share with my colleagues:
How to engage learners.
Show them the posters we made on the OETC website.
One thing I will put into practice:
I will try to influence my teachers to analyze how they are teaching, and to think about other ways to engage their students.
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3 - 2 -1
I learned about the new Blooms Taxonomy, Big Huge Labs, and NETS 3 and 4. I'll share the new Blooms Taxonomy and Big Huge Labs. Instead of doing a more difficult assignment, I'm going to change it and have the students use Bg Huge Labs. They will have fun and take more ownership.
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3-2-1
3 things I've learned
more about Moodle
combining Bloom's and Rigor and Revelancy
more about Nets 3 and 4
2 things I will share with colleagues
Baggage Claim
Blooms' with Rigor and Revelancy
1 thing I will implement/change because of today's learning
choosing a 'theme' for a GPS activity
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321 Activity
I learned
--that Bloom's taxonomy has morphed
--that Rigor & Revelence identifies student strategies and learning levels
--that I more time and practice at these skills
I plan to share
--the sorting and classifying activity with Bloom's taxonomy
--the geocaching idea to correlate with various subject areas
I plan to change
--the style of learning I do with my students, as I realize I tend to rely on the lower end of the taxonomy for the majority of my teaching.
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3-2-1 Activity
Three things I learned
-Revisions to Bloom's Taxonomy
-Baggage Intro Exercise
-A room's temperature can vary drastically from moment to moment
Two things I will share with colleagues
-the Bloom's Taxonomy Key Word exercise
-the Five Minute University video
One change I will make is to try harder to help the teaching staff to see the possibilities for higher-level thinking opportunities for the students using technology as a tool.
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Billings GPS
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3-2-1
Wow, what did I learn? Lots. I love the Big Huge Labs site. 3 highlights from today are setting up a GEO-cache, the posters on Big Huge Labs, and the trading cards on that same site. I've been wanting to but have, up until today, not taken the steps to do so. I'm going to share Big Huge Labs (actually, I've already e-mailed two of my colleagues the second of the three projects I created there). I'm also going to share the geo-cache by creating one of my own on the school grounds for my after-school students to complete next week and for the elementary teachers to use with their students who are learning about GPS handhelds right now. A change I'm willing to make is to have students use the Big Huge Labs site for some of the projects I've been making them do with poster board and colored pencils. I realize this is much faster, but the effects are more impressive with Big Huge Labs. I'm psyched again! Thanks so much for sharing. :-)
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Desiree's 3, 2, 1
3 things I have learned:
- Big Huge Labs
- Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
- Baggage Claim and other strategy tools
2 things I will share with my TILT teachers:
- Baggage Claim Activity
- Yes-And
1 thing I will implement or change about my job:
I will incorporate the great strategies we use!
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3-2-1
3 things I learned
�the specific changes in the revised Bloom's and how they might apply to learning situations. The addition of the Rigor/Relevance piece helped tie it together.
�ice-breaker activity: Baggage Claim
�Bloom's digital taxonomy (we could have used that in our Tech. Standards work last week)
2 things I'll share
�Big Huge Labs
�the Bloom verbs sorting activity
1 thing I will implement
�teaching my students about the Bloom hierarchy (really I will!)
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NETS Jigsaw
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21st Century Skills
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Creativity and Innovation
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Motivational Poster
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21st Century Learners
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Trading Card
Here I would have students find a picture that reflects who they are, then add their life goals to the card. This helps students focus on their goals in a fun and sharable way!
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Billings Community Walk
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April 15, 2008 02:53 PM
Spring Handouts
- To make the Bagclaim handout here is the front and back.
- GPS Activity and Worksheet
- Spring Staff Development Strategies
- Chapter 21: Sizzle & Substance: Presenting with the Brain in Mind by Eric P. Jensen
- Project Rubric and post your project
- Final Evaluation
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April 13, 2008 12:10 PM
Videos to Think
Videos to stimulate discussion and thought about how we can influence the education of our children. Many of which we have seen in the cadre.
Pay Attention (Darren Draper)
Teacher Movie (Marco Torres)
Vision of Students Today (B.J. Nesbitt)
Do Schools Kill Creativity? (Sir Ken Robinson)
Did You Know 2.0 (Karl Fisch)
A Vision of Students Today (Michael Wesch)
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April 8, 2008 12:17 PM
Cadre Menu
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Monday April 28th
Lunch: Dinner: |
Tuesday, April 29th
Breakfast:
Applewood Smoked Bacon and Maple Sausage Links, Scrambled Eggs, Home Fried Potatoes w/ Roasted Peppers and Onions, Fresh Baked Assorted Muffins, Cinnamon Rolls, Assorted Breakfast Breads, Orange Juice, Coffee, Tea
Lunch:
Buffet Selection of Breads, Fresh Sliced Meats, Cheeses, Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Fruit, Chips Served w/ Condiment and Dip, Coffee, Tea and Assorted Sodas�.Dessert
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