Patti’s Tech Coach Café

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Listen to Alison:

1) give you a math problem
2) talk about Junie B. Jones and the Yucky, Blucky Fruitcake.

If you have solved her math problem, post a comment with your answer!

We live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where our land is very flat.  We have to travel quite a distance to see a mountain!  Soon you will read a story called, “Volcanoes” by Seymour Simon.  What would you likw to learn about volcanoes?  Take a look at this website where there are many questions and links to the answers.  Find a question that looks interesting to you.  Then share the answer with all of us on the blog:

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/group12_new.html

Thanks!

Mrs. Weeg

Resources such as Wikipedia and Wikibooks offer information, edited by anyone, on many topics and books.  The benefits include a vast amount of information written by those who are passionate about it.  Others can edit the information and make corrections when needed.  A challenge presented by wikis, as with all information found on the Web, is the importance of evaluating the information for its truth as well as its bias.  It is important to look in more than one place for information and compare the results.

I enjoyed visiting several classroom blogs to see how students and teachers are using blogs efffectively.  Some teachers are using their blogs to involve not only their students but to give parents a chance to see what is taking place in the classroom.  I particularly enjoyed this 4K Class blog:

http://marykreul.teacherhosting.com/blog/archives/cat_curriculum_clues.php

The students are posting well written entries that show they have organized their ideas and planned their writing.  I like the pictures from the classroom that line the right side of the blog.

Take a look at this great poetry blog by students in Room 208:

http://bobsprankle.com/writingblog/?cat=4

Enjoy!

Patti

Welllll…. I tried.  We are planning our third annual August Tech Day at Delmar and I wrote a post asking teachers to tell me what they would like to do on that day.  We probably have about 65-70 teachers and only 21 posted a comment between Monday and Thursday afternoon.  I think many are unsure about blogs and are a little wary of trying to write a comment in one.  I’m sure that in time they will become more confident.  I’m not giving up.  Delmar’s faculty is very eager to learn new technologies.   Look at this great bunch!

I started my blog last year and have neglected it terribly.  I’m going to try and be more faithful to it this time.  I’m wondering if teachers will join me in discussing technology topics…  I’d like my blog to be a place where we can share ideas, concerns and innovative ways to use technology, especially blogs, in the classroom.

It’s time to plan our third annual Tech Day at Delmar.  August will  be here before we know it and we need to make plans now.  What topics would you like to learn more about?  Please post a comment and let us know.  Thanks!  ~Patti

Ok, guys… here’s my first podcast about our trip to Florida.Download Title FETC 2008

I decided to try something different for our book study.  I made audio files and started a new blog tonight.  Of course all of the postings are in reverse order so you might want to start at the end.  Hmmm…   Take a minute to explore this blog.  We’ll talk briefly about Chapter 8 and post some comments to the question I asked in the very first post (at the bottom of this page).  Then, time permitting, we can make some audio files and post them here.