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		<title>Middle School Spanish Class Takes a Virtual Field Trip to Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The student&#8217;s in Ms. Febres&#8217;s 7&#8242;th grade Spanish classes video conferenced with students from a K-12 school located in Mexico City called Nuevo Continente. Ms. Febres coordinated the video conference session with 4 of her classes.  During each video conference session the students exchanged questions. The students from Mexico spoke in English and our students spoke in Spanish. This was a very engaging and rewarding experience for all of the students involved. It provided an authentic experience for students to apply their knowledge of their target language. It also proved to be enlightening as the students learned about their similarities and differences. Ms. Febres is planning to continue with this connection moving forward. We are discussing plans for small group exchanges using or mobile devices. &#160; Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Google Earth.. Not  your typical classroom map!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker/2012/05/03/google-earth-not-your-typical-classroom-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Earth has been available as a free download for computers and mobile devices since 2005. The core feature set is a mapping of the earth using satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D Globe technology. Google earth can be downloaded and installed for free. Click here to download.  Once opened you can start navigating the world.  Users can zoom in on a particular continent, country, state, city, landmark or house! You can fly around a location to view pertinent information foryour lesson. If you are discussing Mount Rushmore, why not fly to it on Google Earth and show it to your students. You can also pan the area as well as put the location of it compared to other locations in perspective for students.   I would like to highlight some of the features available in Google Earth that would be valuable additions to the classroom. Street Views When you zoom into a city or landmark Google provides access to street level views. When in street view you can fly through the streets of a city or walk right up to a famous landmark. Do you want to show your students what the streets of Rome are like? Fly there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Stories for Grades 1-3</title>
		<link>http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker/2012/04/26/news-stories-for-grades-1-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authentic Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past I have written about Tween and Teen Tribune. You can read more about them here. These sites provide news stories for students. Teachers may setup student accounts that allow them to leave comments that are moderated by the teacher. Tween Tribune just released Tween Tribune Junior for grades 1-3.  It includes all of the same features as the other versions! This is a great resource for integrating primary source documents, current events, collaboration and student publishing into your classroom. &#160; Enjoy! Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity Video Conference &#8211; It&#8217;s just good business!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our high school business department had a special guest visit them today.  We hosted a Skype video conference with Barbara Corcoran. Barbara is an extremely successful entrepreneur in the real estate industry. During her impressive career she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group. She parlayed the loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business and sold it in 2001 for $66 million. Barbara is the real estate contributor for NBC’s TODAY Show where she comments weekly on trends in the real estate market.  She’s also a Star on ABC’s reality hit Shark Tank. As a speaker, Barbara brings her front-line experience and infectious energy to every group she addresses.  Motivational, inspirational, and sometimes outrageous, Barbara Corcoran’s tell-it-like-it-is attitude is a refreshing approach to success. Thanks to the efforts of Mrs. DeGraw we were able to provide our students with a 45 minute question and answer session with Ms. Corcoran.  It turned out to be a huge success. Ms. Corcoran provided a thorough and entertaining perspective into entrepreneurship, business development, and the important factors that contribute to a successful business. Our students questioned Ms. Corcoran regarding branding, success rates, expectations, investment decisions, and the general factors that contribute to a successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Poetry Month &#8211; Listen to Poems Read by Poets</title>
		<link>http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker/2012/04/18/national-poetry-month-listen-to-poems-read-by-poets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elementary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April is National Poetry Month. While there are a number of online resources with activities to celebrate and explore poetry I really like the Poets.com Listening Booth .  The listening booth contains audio recordings of poet&#8217;s reading poems. You can search by poet name or poem name.  There are a number of benefits to having students listen to poems read by their actual poet.  This website lists an number of strategies and ideas to share with students when listening to poetry.  You may want to have your students first read the poem themselves and then listen to it read by the actual poet. That should prove to be a beneficial and enlightening exercise for all students. &#160; Poet&#8217;s Listening Booth - http://www.poets.org/audio.php/prmAlpha/ Listening to Poetry &#8211; Ideas for Teachers - http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/teachersTips.do Enjoy &#160; Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Student&#8217;s Illustrate, Record and Publish</title>
		<link>http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker/2012/04/02/students-illustrate-record-and-publish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Content Creation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little Bird Tales is a free site that allows teachers and students to create and publish their own digital tales.  Here is what i like about it. Class Management The has a simple to use teacher interface in which you can setup classes and control access. Teachers manage student accounts.  The teacher assigns usernames and passwords to the students without the requirement of student emails. The teacher controls the privacy and publishing settings &#160; Student Access and Story Creation Students can use the drawing tools to create characters, backgrounds and objects. You can add typed text or record your own narration with the click of a button. Students may import their own pictures. After importing they may use the drawing tools to add to them or annotate them. The site is easy to use and offers a number of options for classroom integration. &#160; The options are limitless with Little Bird Tales. Students may publish a story of all original illustrations and narration or they may develop a presentation about an event, person or curriculum topic. Students may develop bird tales as an enrichment activity. An example would be the assignment to create a tale that describes how to add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Book Reviews Using Google Sites</title>
		<link>http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker/2012/03/30/student-book-reviews-using-google-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our district is a member of Google Apps for Education. We have started to use Google Sites for a number of initiatives. We started to use Sites for teacher websites in some of our schools. We also  used Sites to build instructional resources. Our interactive Pyramid of Intervention and  Collaborative Group Work Resource are two great examples.  Recently two of our grade 2 teachers were looking for an online solution to publish their student&#8217;s book reviews. We decided to use Google Sites as the tool. Each student illustrated a picture of themselves and a picture of the book. I created pages on the site to publish their profile pictures with links to their book reviews (that the students typed in MS word).  The result is a fabulous site that publishes their book reviews. Please take a look at our student&#8217;s work here.  By providing an opportunity to publish their book reviews we established an authentic task that proved to be engaging for the students. They were writing for a global audience and were very connected to the assignment. It was positive experience for everyone! Enjoy! &#160; &#160; Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>How to Bring Celebrities into Your Classroom for Reading Instruction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Storyline (www.storyline.com) is a website published by the Screen Actors Guild. The site features videos of  famous actors and actresses reading children’s books.  There is an index of books to select from. The videos display well on an interactive white board. They can also be used in a listening center. With most stories there are activity guides and extension activities. Storyline may be used during whole group instruction as part of interactive read aloud. It may also be used in centers. Storyline may be used to model inflection, fluency, and to engage students in the process of reading.  They are able to apply the strategies that we teach them while having fun listening.  You can pause, stop and rewind. You can also display captions in order to discuss word use throughout. Storyline is fun and interactive resource that is a great tool for any balanced literacy initiative. There a re a number of uses in an elementary classroom. I would love to hear how you use this with students. Please leave a comment below to share how you use Storlyline Online with your students. Enjoy! &#160; &#160; Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Insert Your Own Flash Content in Smart Notebook Software</title>
		<link>http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker/2012/03/16/insert-your-own-flash-content-in-smart-notebook-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The smart notebook software is a powerful and feature rich addition to any classroom. The gallery is loaded with images, backgrounds, interactive content and flash-based lesson activities. Did you know that you can add most flash activities from the web directly into a smart notebook page? Here is how it works. First, using Google Chrome, conduct a search for the topic you are looking to explore with students and add that to the search bar. Add the phrase  &#8220;filetype:swf&#8221; at the end of the search. This will limit the search to flash based activities that fit that search criteria. Example: Search for   fractions filetype:swf The search will return a list of sites with flash based activities for working with fractions. Select one of the sites and open it. After you have the site  open click on the wrench on the top right side of the Chrome toolbar. In that menu select &#8220;save page as&#8221;. Save the file as a  &#8220;Flash Movie&#8221;. Open up smart notebook and navigate to a page in the file that you want to insert the flash activity. On the top toolbar click on INSERT &#8211; FLASH FILE&#8230; and browse to the flash file you saved. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create Your Own  STEM Textbook for Free!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker/2012/03/01/create-your-own-stem-textbook-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CK-12 foundation has introduced a new resource called the flexbook. CK-12 provides free access to textbooks for science, technology engineering, math and SAT review. They are now offering the ability to design your own &#8220;flexbook&#8221;. You can read more about this initiative here.  The web interface allows the user to select chapters from a text and then add them to your personalized flexbook. The editor allows the user to edit content in the chapter, insert text, insert images and insert videos. There are a series of easy to follow video tutorials that demonstrate how to add your own content.   Besides utilizing or editing existing chapters you can author your own chapter. The editor is very intuitive and offers a breadth of functionality. Once you have finished curating the resources in your book you have options for sharing. Share or Print as a PDF Share as an online electronic book Share as an HTML website. Some of the books can be downloaded directly to the IPAD, Kindle, Nook Color, or Android Tablet. You can share the book with your students by adding a link to it on your website or Moodle course.  There are a number of relevant books [...]]]></description>
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