Rubric

What a great site. I have made rubric pages for classroom activities and will definitely use this again. In our elementary classrooms we are required to have small group learning center time at least 3 times a week. Many of the teachers have a library center where students select their own book, read it, and them report back to the teacher or class. This rubric will help guide the expectations at that reading center.

jeopardy game

I chose to make my jeopardy game based on my podcast lesson. Once I figured out how to work with the template it was fun! I know students would enjoy reviewing the lesson with this game! I have used a jeopardy game in class before but not through power point. Using technology adds an element of excitement and interest. Try out the game!

power point presentation

I chose to use a power point presentation that I have presented in trainings several times. My job requires that I train parents to go into the classroom for read-aloud sessions. The power point give several ideas on getting and keeping student's attention while reading. It also gives ideas to make text real to them in their everyday lives.
When I uploaded it to google docs the animation and sounds were all deleted but I don't know how to change that so here it is anyway. My power point presentation.

podcast - lesson

Finally, I think my podcast is complete and functional - thanks to my college son!
When I saved my recording to the .wav the program added a copyright voice that interrupts me every few seconds but I could not figure out a way to make it go away.
My podcast is a social studies lesson for first grade students. Podcast

podcast

I have finished the lesson script and the actual recording of the lesson for my podcast. I focused on a first grade history lesson based on maps. Within the lesson I taught vocabulary words, we compared flat maps and globes, and made student maps of our classroom. We also incorporated a student take home book and some internet activities. It makes me wish I was in a classroom to teach this! I embedded links on my lesson script to the lesson plan and my assessment.

I have read some of the difficulties that others have had trying to publish their podcast so I am nervous! Maybe by reading how others solved their problems I can get this task completed.

lesson 1

My lesson would be an online worksheet to help students learn their vocabulary words. As a class we would look at the new words for the story of the week. I would have discussion time to allow students the opportunity to define the words using kid friendly definitions. We would determine if those definitions were correct then they would type them into their chart. They would then insert a picture to help them visualize the word. I would then have them use the words in sentences. Image lesson.

photo

I took this a couple of weeks ago in Phoenix. I got to go to the International Reading Academy with 7 other colleagues. We had a great time. Hopefully I can get the link to the photo album in working order so you can see more of the trip! Album

edited photo

sharing photo album

I am not having success sharing my album. I have tried to follow the directions from others but it is not working for me. I tried to add the link to my blog page but the album does not link properly. I'm really frustrated!

Per Capita Income

I knew that West Virginia was a poor state, I just didn't realize how little we have in comparison with other states. I don't understand all of the particulars just that title 1 services are based on the number of free and reduced lunch counts. I suppose that means that in D.C. (the highest per capita) they get very little title 1 assistance? I wonder how much the current economic changes will effect these readings. Per Capita Comparison Graph

NAEP scores graph

I used the link to "crappy graphs" to make my comparison chart for NAEP scores. The graph was fairly easy to use. I was sadly surprised to see that West Virginia falls consistently falls below the Nat. Average. I guess we need to focus more on our Math classes!
Naep Scores.