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Category Archives: Comm Arts
Performance Assessment via Google Maps
As we approach the end of the first semester, and middle school students begin looking towards a new trimester, performance assessments are on the minds of many. How can we know what students really understand? If your content has any … Continue reading
Posted in Comm Arts, Google Earth, Google Maps, M & C Languages, Math, Social Studies
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Promoting Detail in Student Work with aMap
For anyone who asks students to think their way through an process step-by-step, getting students to explain how details support their summary can be a challenge. If you’re interested to check out a more visual way to organize and force … Continue reading
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Promoting Peer Assessment – Using Blogs in Communication Arts
When Erica Rogers and Dan Barnes, communication arts teachers at Parkway West High, were redesigning a cumulative activity for their English III students, they were looking to create an activity where students would be writing and revising work throughout the … Continue reading
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Building an Audience with Weebly.com
There are many great online writing tools out there — we featured one just last week — but there are times when all we really need is a place to put work. A display area. A website. A couple recent … Continue reading
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Collaborative Writing with Google Docs
Last month, Teresa America and Annie Wayland, social studies teachers at West High, tried something a bit different with their digital story project. They have been frustrated by the typical downfalls of a digital group project: lack of accountability, off-task … Continue reading
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Bringing Works of Art into the Classroom
At the beginning of February, Google launched a new tool called the Google Art Project. Using their mapping interface, they have created a space where anyone can navigate virtually though museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery … Continue reading
Teach with Youtube – in more ways than one!
Youtube is much more than simply a video resource, thanks to a bit of behind-the-scenes coding. By publishing something called an “application programming interface”, or API, Google (YouTube’s parent company), has allowed other websites to “mash up” YouTube content with … Continue reading
Posted in Comm Arts, ESOL, General, M & C Languages, Social Studies, Uncategorized, YouTube
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Making Student Presentations Better
‘Tis the season for student presentations. Tired of the bullet points? Irritated with students reading straight from their slides? Try a different approach. One simple rule: No Text. We have all seen them. Slides filled with bullet points, paragraphs, small … Continue reading
Google Earth 5.0 Beta Released
If you are a user of Google Earth or have thought about using it in your classroom, it might be time to download the newest version released just a few days ago. Google has added some tremendous features to Earth … Continue reading
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Google Maps Project
In Renee Boyd’s, History of St. Louis class, students are participating in a global project in entitled, “Greetings from…” Postcard Geography. The main goal of this project is to share famous landmarks, locations, or unique aspects of your home state … Continue reading
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