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May 27 2010
PVRS Poetry Web Search due 6/4/10
Highlight and copy the following poetry Web Search into Word. When you have completed the search, file it in your e-portfolio and send me an email that you have completed it.
Poetry Web Search due 6/4/10
- Go to http://www.google.com
- Search for poets (use any method you choose)
- Choose a site, copy the full site address (URL) here: _____________________________
- Choose a poet, and answer the following questions:
1) What is your poet’s full name? __________________________________________________
2) What is your poet’s date of birth? ________________________________________________
3) Where was your poet born?_____________________________________________________
4) What is one other interesting fact about your poet? __________________________________
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5) What is the title of one of your poet’s poems? ______________________________________
6) What was your favorite line of the poem? Copy it here:
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7) Explain why it was your favorite line here:
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- Go back to the Google homepage (second time)
- Search for a poet born in the SAME COUNTRY as your poet
- Choose a site, copy the full site address (URL) here: _____________________________
- Choose a poet, and answer the following questions:
1) What is your second poet’s full name? ____________________________________________
2) What is your second poet’s date of birth? __________________________________________
3) Where was your second poet born?_______________________________________________
4) What is one other interesting fact about your second poet? ____________________________
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5) What is the title of one of your second poet’s poems? ________________________________
6) What was your favorite line of the poem? Copy it here:
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7) Explain why it was your favorite line here:
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- Go back to the Google homepage (third time)
- Search for a poet born in the SAME YEAR OR DECADE as your poet
- Choose a site, copy the full site address (URL) here: _____________________________
- Choose a poet, and answer the following questions:
1) What is your third poet’s full name? ______________________________________________
2) What is your third poet’s date of birth? ____________________________________________
3) Where was your third poet born?________________________________________________
4) What is one other interesting fact about your third poet? ______________________________
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5) What is the title of one of your third poet’s poems? __________________________________
6) What was your favorite line of the poem? Copy it here:
______________________________________________________________________________
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7) Explain why it was your favorite line here:
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- Go back to the Google homepage (last time!)
- Search for an image of one of your three poets
- Choose an image, copy the full site address (URL) here: __________________________
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Prepare a presentation about your poet. You may use an online site like Glogster, Voicethread or Aviary. You may use software that we have on our computers like Publisher, Word, or PowerPoint. You may make a physical poster, as well.
Record on the line below how you are going to create your presentation:
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Be prepared to present to the class on June 11, 2010.
Nov 12 2009
Brand New Web 2.0 Tool List
David Kapuler spends a good deal of his time discovering folks on the Web who are talented and generous. One of the recent additions to his interviewees is Naomi Harm. This her list of tools. It is far-reaching, and easy to the eye. I would advise you to take a look:
Jan 25 2009
Lifelong Learners…when, where, and how? Part 1
The only buildings built for ‘public’ activities that are more underused than schools are churches. In most communities many of these buildings could be open seven days a week if the ‘owners’ would take off the blinders of how these places have been traditionally used and let their vision expand.
It drove me up a tree to hear administrators say that we may have to cut back to a four day school week when the price of fuel was skyrocketing. In the face of that pain, throughout most of the communities in our country, the response should have been that we need to work our way to having our schools open seven days a week, not closing them an extra day. And, if needs be, convert some of our space to emergency shelters for folks who cannot keep their homes heated and buy and cook their food.
It did my heart good to see the worship services in our cafeteria when one of our local churches was damaged in a flood.
I am in school often on the weekends and here during the week often after most of my colleagues and students have left for the day. The feeling is the identical to the feeling I had in the churches I served in when I was a parish clergyman. I felt then and feel now as though we are squandering a tremendous resource: that we are not being good stewards of what we have been given to manage.
Our school now has Saturday Academy, Distance Learning, and expanded ‘school day’ through the funding that comes through the 21st Century Grant. This is just the beginning. We should ultimately be doing so much more.
This is the beginning of our discussion of being lifelong learners.
Dec 21 2008
2008 Edublog Awards
The winners of the 2008 Eddies are….
7. Best librarian / library blog
8. Best educational tech support blog
9. Best elearning / corporate education blog
10. Best educational use of audio
11. Best educational use of video / visual
13. Best educational use of a social networking service
14. Best educational use of a virtual world
Discovery Education Second Life
15. Best class blog
Nov 23 2008
Online Learning #5
On the face of it, there are two more issues that need to be set in place to complete the foundation of this discussion:
1. Online learning for professional development;
2. The applicablility of online learning for the community-at-large.
After these issues are reflected upon, we can begin to build our ‘school for lifelong learners’.
Nov 16 2008
Online Learning #4
Should we enrol our students in schools like Virtual High School (VHS) – http://www.govhs.org ?
I have been both a teacher and student in online learning milieus. I have launched experiences, as teacher, individually online in Moodle (on a 3rd party site) and other ventures, as well. I am today going to focus on VHS.
Virtual High School is well into its second decade of existence. They offer well over 300 courses and have been exceeding over four thousand students per semester for the last two years. I think it is an ideal addition to almost any school, but especially for smaller schools. If you have fifty seats per year it is well within the realm of possibility that your student s will take fifty DIFFERENT courses in the course of a school year-Think of how that broadens horizons.
The school has four membership options, as copied from the VHS site as follows:
- “Fully Participating School – Our most popular option!
Sponsor one VHS course and provide 50 students (per year) the opportunity to experience an online course through VHS. - Student Only School
Provide 20 students (per year) the opportunity to experience an online course through VHS. - Individual Student Tuitions
Try VHS by purchasing one or more seats for a semester to see if VHS is right for your school. - Consortium Memberships
We offer a volume discount option for Educational Service Providers, or for a cluster of schools interested in creating a VHS consortium.”
There are several considerations that should taken into account:
- The cost of training (a one-time expense) and paying a Site Coordinator;
- The cost of a one time of and mailing materials for the course that is being sponsored if the course your sponsoring uses materials that are not online;
- Mailing cost for sending back materials your students have received from other teachers;
- Paying the annual fee to VHS;
- Paying for the training of your teacher and VHS for the sponsoring course development; A semester course for developing an additional section of an existing offering; A whole year to develop a brand new course. The annual expense of paying the teacher needs to be included.
In the best of all possible circumstances, in my opinion, a school or district would have the same person be the Site Coordinator and teacher. VHS would be a regularly scheduled class, with independent study allowed on a case-by-case basis.
The teacher would develop an additional curriculum component or use the services of VHS to extend the class for the full school semester. VHS offers class fifteen consecutive weeks with NO BREAKS, so the students are at loose ends if nothing else follows the completion of that course.
This is the matrix for a small school in Washington state, except that the teacher teaches two online classes that provide the students with a hundred seats in VHS per year in any course in which they may enrol. This is a full-time position – two classes a day for the students in her school, two periods a day for her to teach her online students and one period for her coordinator and admin work.
On the other hand, if the Site Coordinator’s duties and teacher’s responsibility can be a part of the school day by reducing the face-to-face responsibilities, that ongoing cost would be negligible.
Nov 16 2008
Online Learning #3
Should successful completion of an online course be a graduation requirement?
This is a difficult call to make.
I feel it should be a requirement for a high school diploma and for an associate’s and bachelor’s degrees for students in our country. And, just as firmly, I believe that there should be suspensions or modifications allowed to the requirement, as well.
I have taught online for more than five years, completed a master’s online, and have continued to take courses on a pay-as-I-go basis ever since. I have explored adding moodle to my face-to-face courses. I have looked at several other options including commercial options (of which I have taken advantage).
Obviously, my skillset and learning styles make online learning something that is workable, desirable even, for me. We are really in the first few seconds, metaphorically speaking, of the Digital Age. If we can manage to survive the current economic and environmental crises intact, we will continue to rocket into this the Digital Age that has only two other events in history of comparable impact. If we are going to become a community of life-long learners; If we’re going to leave no child behind; We are going to do it by embracing the tools, and the lives we fashion with these tools.
Online learning is one of these tools.
Nov 16 2008
Online Learning #2
Is online learning worthwhile? Why? Why not?
Since teaching is my third career, I’m a rather a newbie at this. The first time I had heard the phrase ‘life-long learner’ in context was six years ago. It sound so bright and exciting and I could understand the lack of enthusiasm on the part of my colleagues who had been teachers for a while.
It wasn’t long until I realized that every district or school mission statement I came across contained that phrase. For my colleagues it had become a cliche. Worse, it was an empty cliche – No one ever explored or discussed what this meant and how it would be facilitated.
One of the paths that can be provided for people to be life-long learners is through online learning: Joining classes on the World Wide Web.
There are several places a prospective online learner can go to read enumerations and discussions of the pros and cons of online learning including:
http://www.edu-center.org/distance-learning-pros-cons.htm
http://www.learn-source.com/schools/pro_con_online.html
http://www.elearners.com/resources/elearning-faq5.asp
If you are out of school-either high school or college-online learning should be an option in continuing your own personal growtth and development.
