Monday, March 8, 2010
Thing 8-Cloud Computing
Wow. All this time I have been doing lots of cloud computing and never knew there was an official word for all of it! Google docs, Flickr, Picasa, Twitter, etc. I'm introducing the idea of Google docs to our faculty tomorrow morning in the hopes that we can finally get a curriculum map together and put it on a google spreadsheet. I think it is important to let everyone know what is being studied at any particular time in order to coordinate units when possible. I may get booed out of the room but hopefully not. I think the only hassle of it will be that as the administrator of the spreadsheet, I will have to get everyone's g-mail address. Guess we could do that on a Google doc also! Anyway, I'm crossing my fingers that it comes about.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Read Across America - Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
What a great day. The entire school spent 30 minutes reading in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday. You could have heard a pin drop throughout the school. I read How Do I Love Thee by Nancy Moser. It was a real treat.
Dr. Seuss played a part in collaboration with an art class, the library and social studies. The 8th graders are currently studying WWII and the Holocaust. Since it is Read Across America week, I wanted to do a bulletin board depicting Dr. Seuss and his political cartoons and also his books relating to WWII, including The Sneetches, Horton Hears a Who and Yertle the Turtle. I spoke to the 2-D art class about Dr. Seuss and those particular books as well as the political cartoons he drew in 1941-1942. They are going to draw the characters for our bulletin board. It was a fun learning experience and hopefully will be a great display. I will post pictures when we are finished.
What a great day. The entire school spent 30 minutes reading in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday. You could have heard a pin drop throughout the school. I read How Do I Love Thee by Nancy Moser. It was a real treat.
Dr. Seuss played a part in collaboration with an art class, the library and social studies. The 8th graders are currently studying WWII and the Holocaust. Since it is Read Across America week, I wanted to do a bulletin board depicting Dr. Seuss and his political cartoons and also his books relating to WWII, including The Sneetches, Horton Hears a Who and Yertle the Turtle. I spoke to the 2-D art class about Dr. Seuss and those particular books as well as the political cartoons he drew in 1941-1942. They are going to draw the characters for our bulletin board. It was a fun learning experience and hopefully will be a great display. I will post pictures when we are finished.
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