Session 11

Enjoyed the website with all the links to Big6 ideas. It's always so fun to get new ideas off the internet even though it can be overwhelming.

Fun to learn some new ideas with Publisher!

Sometimes I feel like we are doing some good things in the classroom. I know we need to continue to learn more ideas. Thanks for all the ideas.

Libby

session 10

Connie and Steve,
I appreciated the time to work on our projects. It's great for
Julie and I to get a chance to work. De.licio.us ( sp) was great fun. I need some time to sit at the computer. There is so much out there.
Enjoy vacation!!
Libby

Powerpoints--synthesis

I really like the idea of giving the kids time to make a fun powerpoint. Give them chance to fool around and play with all the bells and whistles before they do their final product.
It was great to have the time to fool around with powerpoint.

Libby

Session 8

Connie and Steve and classmates,
Really liked the time at the beginning to work on our projects. Julie and I got a chance to collaborate about our travel brochures. We were able to discuss and work out some details.
It was great to work together.

Working on our powerpoints was great fun. Even though I continue to make some mistakes it is a great program to use.

Session 7

Really liked trying out the highlighting and notetaking.
Kidsclick had some great websites and I look forward to trying it on the planets.

The bubbl.us looks like it could be very useful for our students.
Libby

Session 7

I like thinking about websites and how it is so easy to make a fake website. I also like the idea of giving students an evaluation form to look at websites.

Definitely giving me something to think about with wikipedia..I really need to use it as a resource to see what is out there.

Session 5

Tonight I really enjoyed working on the wiki. It was definitely much easier than I thought it would be. Searching on the internet and trying nesting and boolean made us think about how to narrow our search.
Looking forward to trying to think of a way to use wiki's with 6th graders. Very impressed with Jay's work!!!

I'm glad I finally know what a wiki is because Timothy was talking about one this week and now I know what he was talking about. I felt I was more successful with Marvel than Minerva but I think I need a little more work with Minerva.
Looking forward to using these more with our students.

Tonight my highlight was the rubric makers. I am very excited to use these again.

I also liked using the tables in word and look forward to using those again. I realize need to start thinking about my project for our Big6 project. I am excited to start working on the Solar System again and get the students involved in a project using Publisher.

2nd Class

As we end our second class, I feel it was harder than I thought to write an essential question. While Julie and I were brainstorming about our essential questions for our solar system project, it really made me think about what we were going to teach and how we were going to get the student's thinking. I really like the idea of continually going back to the essential question during the unit.

It was interesting to hear from Dan again about how he used the Big 6. He has such strong ideas and feels so passionately about this.

Because of this course I know Julie and I will be able to write " good thought provocating questions."

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