1. Click on your desktop (the top bar now says: Finder)
2. Click on “Go”
3. Scroll down to “Connect to sever . . .”
4. If no words show up in your box, type in the following:
osx-jun.bend.k12.or.us
5. Click on “Connect”
6. Double click on “Class Folders”

If you are trying to pick up something from a fellow teacher (like myself), scroll down to “Outbox” and double-click on it. Then drag the file onto your desktop.

DO NOT OPEN the file while it is sitting on the server.

If you are trying to put something in your folder for your students, place it in the “Outbox” or “Pickup Box” (whichever Cory named it for you).

Laurie

Interactive Acrostic Poem Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=45

Interactive Diamante Poem Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=53

Shape Poems: http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=44

Poetry Webquest: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~korourke/webquest.html
(This looks good, but I haven’t checked the links yet.)

Other Web Resources: http://42explore.com/poetry.htm

Laurie

Laurie

Stumbled across this fun activity at Discovery Educator Network. Here is the write-up from the teacher who created it (Sorry, the author is not attributed so cannot give credit.):

This activity allows students to watch a fun video called “Max and the Chocolate Chicken” that talks about hunting for eggs. After students watch video they will use skills previously learned and click on the link to Excel and go fill in spreadsheet on their jellybeans they got out of the egg they found in my basket and create a graph and change colors of graph to match jellybean color. We have a Technology Report card for our kids.. and this is a project that should cover one our Technology TEKS for 3rd grade. You will need to download the video and put in same folder with the powerpoint activity for it to work.
Enjoy!

Attached is the PowerPoint – as mentioned, you will have to download the movie from United Streaming. in-search-of-eggs-excel-charts-and-graphs.ppt

Laurie

His current teaching situation:
• Social Studies teacher at San Fernando High School, near L.A.
o High teacher and administrator turnover
o Does not graduate 50% of its students

“The means is connecting machines, the ends is connecting people.”

We can learn from Southwest Airlines: “We hire for attitude; we train for skills.”

Three Kinds of Teachers
1. The “Yes, ands…”
2. The “Yes, buts…”
3. The “No ways!”

We have three choices in this new digital world:
1. Quit
2. Complain
3. Innovate

Distance is inversely proportional to Bandwidth: The higher the bandwidth the closer to distance.

Teachers are less in charge of the what and more in charge of the why. Never ask kids questions that they can look up.

If you can be replaced, you should be. “Be distinct or be extinct.” Edna Mole, The Incredibles

Teachers’ Credo: Every week what are we doing that is relevant, meaningful, and applicable?

Adults use the internet. Most teachers have students use computers to access information.
Kids do the internet. They create content. They have the unprecedented ability to receive, share, mix, and broadcast information.

Target audience can be outside of school. It’s important that you bring family and community into school—use them as the audience for projects. Do projects have alas (wings)? Do they have importance beyond the individual and the teacher?

Our kids need “channels” to express their interests and creativity.

Webpage: http://homepage.mac.com/torres21/

You all should try a trial membership, this is an awesome tool. The kids _love_ BrainPop and will watch the free ones over and over!

Check it out: www.brainpop.com

Laurie

Here you go: I made an Inspiration Investigation with United Streaming movies linked into the document. The activity includes information about food chains and food webs; primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, and decomposers.

Here’s the catch, you’ll have to go to my iDisk to get this activity that kids love! ;0)

How-to:

1. Click on your desktop
2. Click on “Go”
3. Scroll to “iDisk” and then over to “Other’s Public Folder”
4. Type in: laurieleewalsh
5. Drag the Inspiration file to your desktop & voila!

Laurie

The other day I found this great project mentioned on the site: Read Write Think. It is a cross-age project where buddies create a PowerPoint. The resources linked on the left-hand side of the page are fabulous too.

This is a lesson that can be modified for different collaborative lessons with technology.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1053