Year at a glanceWonder Suppers

• Monday January 27• Monday May 18

Professional Field TripSaturday March 28, 2009

Saturday Nov 22

“If we teach today the same way we taught yesterday we rob our children of tomorrow”

John Dewey

What’s working? … What needs to work better?

What’s the point of PowerPoint?

Technology’s role in Visalia classrooms Excelsior Gradebook Edusoft Eduplace eTextbooks Lexia AR

Excelsior Gradebook Edusoft Eduplace eTextbooks Lexia AR SCTRLE

Wonder Expectations Active Moodle portal as a regular place for students

to access supporting resources and converse about interesting issues.

Thoughtfully put kids in front of gear. Develop a student-centered

tech-rich learning experience.

SCTRLE … essential elements Scenario based that addresses an audience beyond the normal

classroom (real, fictitious, or virtual). Student activities include: research, writing, cooperative work that

addresses an open ended interesting problem. Web portal includes:

Hotlist (pre selected links or custom search engine) Scaffolding documents Rubric, anchor products, check list (optional) forums, hot potato quiz, self reflection, etc.

Product assessment … something students create. Share student work on Feb …

Product assessment ideas … Newspaper opinion Student build webpage/portal Audio report/bulletin Video – documentary, commercial Panel Presentation Debate Interview Demonstration / training

Tools that might be used … Google stuff

pages, docs, forms, earth, custom search engine …

PowerPoint, Photostory, Movie Maker, Gimp Digital camera, Flip Moodle

Hot potato, forum, journal, quiz, choice, wiki

Gaggle United Streaming, World Book, real book …