Project Based Learning - Race to the Presidency Project

 Project Based Learning - Race to the Presidency Project 
The teaching site https://sites.google.com/nrsd.net/2022-race-to-presidency/home 

 

Our entire district got involved as you can see by my tweet! I work with some amazing
educators and I am encouraging this presentation to be presented at MassCUE next fall!

Goals setting 2022 / Tech lab K-5 & Choiceboards

Returning to school and helping students with goals! I am kicking off the new year with covering K-5 Technology integration classes!

Lessons and activities for goal setting for new year! 

• Are your students ready for 2022? Set SMART goals to help them achieve. hubs.li/H0_3clN0 #lessonplan #SEL Vision boards 
• K-5 Exploration - Snowman activity and bingo goals 
• Wakelet K-3 https://wke.lt/w/s/r29hXA
• Resources Twitter slidesmania  
• Jamboard Get this free Jamboard template\ new year's resolution! https://mrspark.org/free 
• Visual thinking and Worksheets 
• Computer lab lessons and pacing - great ideas from Brittany Washburn and pacing options  
• More goal setting choices 

January 2022 FSS K-5 Resources https://bit.ly/FSSK-5tech2022  K-5 & choice board website https://sites.google.com/nrsd.net/msraboinstechnology/k-2-student-websites 

Canva for Education

Canva is now offering Canva for Education available free of charge for all Teachers and Middle School/High School Students.

Introduction lesson:
FSS - Used with 8th Grade Social Studies to record projects - Declaration of Independence Project
LBMS - Goals for 2022 

I used Canva for Education in my Fall FSU course and the University provided training materials

Slides  and Canva 

 

More coming 

see post here by Richard Byrne https://practicaledtech.com/2021/10/18/7-ideas-for-collaborative-video-projects-and-a-new-video-editor/

December - Hour of Code

 It's December and Hour of Code - December 6th - 12th 2021

Go to https://hourofcode.com/us/learn
 Here is a presentation  and choice board  will share with teachers 

 

 Choice board
 

 What will you try?

Teaching and Reflecting with Portfolios

 I have been teaching and reflecting with students on the use of portfolios for learning for several years.

Below is a video explaining how I am working with multiple grade levels to create, update and share student work.

I previously created a presentation https://bit.ly/fssportfoliopresentation that II have used with staff and student to explain the process and the purpose.  

   

*Video update 10/21 with steps / screencastify
* Adding content for parent conferences here

Example FFS Student Portfolio and About Grade 6 and LBMS

As teachers we are asked to work on SMART Goals setting Professional and Students Goals. There are lots of resources from DESE and resources. They can then use the Portfolios allow for new teaching strategies with the intentional integration of technology and a variety of options for students to showcase and reflect on their learning. Other ideas would be for the students to create SMART goals that connect to their learning and record their portfolio to reflect on their learning.  

I am hoping to add a little structure so teachers can coordinate artifact planning here  https://bit.ly/portfolioartifactplanning   in order to plan for student led conferences and share with other schools in the district.  Here is a link https://sites.google.com/nrsd.net/proudmoments that continues with the RLA Proud Moments from 2020-2021

Visual Thinking  options https://sites.google.com/site/biggestuserseason2/untitled

October Newsletter with Wakelet

As we kick off the month of October 2021, I thought it would be helpful to share a newsletter with some back to school tips around Technology and Curriculum. I decided to create the Newsletter in Wakelet here is the link https://wke.lt/w/s/pjjuwY  and I can also gets a QR code, embed or tweet.

Here are some Wakelet tips and tutorials
- Create a Collection Video - help center

Return to school PD topics (SEL and Google Arts and Culture updates)

PD NRSD 2021-2022 

Kicking off the new year with District Professional Development options:

Acceleration Roadmap: Pathway to an Equitable Recovery
https://www.doe.mass.edu/covid19/on-desktop/roadmap/educator-edition.pdf

Digital Citizenship 
SEL Middle School Activities to Promote SEL in Digital Life 

Other Topics this month .... 

Google Arts&Culture - Twitter @googlearts

Google Expeditions gone .. Now what?

New Teacher Guide on Using Google Arts and Culture -  here

Find Google Expeditions on the website. - Go to https://artsandculture.google.com/ 

1. Start at the Google Arts and Culture homepage.
2. Pick Themes in the the three menu line upper left or here https://artsandculture.google.com/project 
3. Then Learn with Google Arts and Culture 
4. Click “View” under “Take all the field trips.” https://artsandculture.google.com/project/expeditions 

There is a guide on how to take a field trip

Explore 

- Science and Technology

- Art 

- Geography

- Natural History

 

How to Take a Field Trip - link 

There are Google Arts and Culture Badges *13 here 

The 13 badges of Google Arts & Culture

1.1) Art Inspector

1.2) Adventurer

1.3) Art Collector

1.4) Know it all

1.5) Museum Explorer

1.6) Connections Explorer

1.7) Bookworm

1.8) Image Enthusiast

1.9) Curator

1.10) Culture Seeker

1.11) Chromecast

1.12) Color Explorer

1.13) Time Explorer

2) Check out your badges

* New Teacher Guide here

More - Blog Post by Tom Mullaney - Finding Expeditions in Google Arts and Culture