Shoot for the Moon!

I am putting this on my blog because I want to remember this when I have my own class.  One of my favorite phrases is "I love you to the moon and back".  I want my students to know to challenge themselves. It's ok to make mistakes, it's even ok to fail. What is important is to remember that life is all about learning. Picking ourselves up and dusting ourselves off. Trying again. Celebrating our wins and encouraging each other when we need help. My class will be a safe place where thinking outside the box is encouraged, regardless the outcome.    

Creative Commons

This was a pretty cool assignment. I didn't realize that you could license your work.  I like how you can share with others or if you don't want to, you can specify that.  Also, others can't use your work and benefit from it.

 
throughourlookingglass by Donielle Baxter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Padlet-Favorite Children's Book

This assignment was using Padlet. Super easy and fun to use. The teacher can post a question and all the students can share. I like how easy it is to add a picture.  You could use this in a classroom as an assessment tool also. You could have each child post what they learned in a lesson or from a book. You could use it to hold a class meeting such as having the students post what they think would be important class rules or if there is an issue they could all give ideas to address it.


Ed-Tech standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g. multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.



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Created with Padlet

YouTube assignment

YouTube is a great resource for teachers and students! You can find find a video about any subject that you are teaching. It is also helpful to students doing a powerpoint or emaze. They can just embed a video to go along with their subject. This first video I would use for a unit on the solar system.

Standard 4-Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning throughout the curriculum.  

 

This is a great video to teach younger students about rhyming words. Kids love silly songs and they help them to remember.





Seriously, who doesn't love Bill Nye the science guy? He makes learning science so much more interesting and fun!




And yet another classic, School House Rock!  They have math videos for Kindergarten up to 8th grade.



The History Channel has some great little videos on history.




conjunction junction
I'm Just a Bill
Comma Song
Bill Nye Outer Space
Magic School Bus Takes A Dive
The Magic School Bus Gets Planted
Kid President Martin Luther King
Kids History The First Thanksgiving
The Elements Song
Nursery Rhymes
Similes and Metaphors
Water Cycle Song
Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?
Elementary Art Videos Colors
McGruf Anti Bullying

eMaze-Our Earth

This assignment had us doing a presentation using eMaze.  I actually liked this program a lot better than PowerPoint or Google Slides.  The special effects in eMaze are super amazing and so easy to do. I spent less than an hour  on my presentation. It was also very easy to embed a video. I think I would use this in my class for a Science unit. The students would have so much fun trying out different templates and sharing them with the class.

Ed-Tech standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g. multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

Our Earth

Popplet-Newberry

I am amazed at all the resources available to students and teachers alike that encourage engaged learning! Popplet was one of my very favorites. It is super easy to do and you can also add pictures. I loved how you could change the colors and font. This would be fun to use in a class to teach students about doing an outline. They could use it for a book report outline or even a biography on a person. You don't think that you have much on a subject until you start using Popplet and branching out and the next thing you know you have a lot of information which students can then use to write an awesome report.

Ed-Tech standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g. multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

Popplet Newberry

Plant Cycle Brochure

This assignment had us creating a brochure. I decided to do mine on the plant cycle. This is easy to do if you can find a template that works. I like how the template allows you to do it like a book or as a tri-fold. You don't have to worry about placing your text correctly because the template has it set up for you.  This would be fun to do for a unit on Utah. Each student could come up with a brochure on a specific county and have them try to convince the class to want to visit their county.  This  makes it fun and engaging instead of just another report that they have to write.

Ed-Tech standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g. multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.


plant cycle

Moms and Muffins Flyer

    For this assignment we were asked to create a flyer. I decided to do one on something my son's school recently did, a Moms and Muffins event. They also had one for dads that they called Dads and Donuts.  This is a really great way to get kids to read. They can bring their parent's in before school and read with them to get their reading minutes in.
     I really like using flyers because they are a quick way to get out information. They are easy to do and are very colorful and eye catching. They can be printed or emailed out to parents and they are much more likely to stick in a parents head them a simple email from a teacher. I intend to use flyers a lot in my classroom to keep parents and students informed of events.

  Ed-Tech standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g. multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

flyer