Featured 5-29-2014: Writing@CSU

 

Writing@CSU is an open-access website supported by Colorado State University to provide resources to writers and teachers.

 

Writing@CSU provides access to the largest collection of web-based resources for writers and writing teachers. These materials, from more than 300 contributors, support instruction in a wide range of writing processes and genres.

 

The Writing@CSU website and the larger Writing Studio Project are designed to help writers by supplying an interactive, online space that simulates a well-run workshop featuring:

• Timely advice from teachers
• Feedback from other writers
• Helpful examples and demonstrations
• Access to tools that can help you write effectively

The Studio supports writing classes with a course management system that includes most of the tools found in commercial systems, as well as wikis, ePortfolios, blogs, and other tools that support the learning and teaching of writing.

 

 

The blogs, wikis, and ePortfolio tools can be used within courses or on their own. Depending on your preferences, your work can be completely private, shared with selected people, or open to the public.

 

Writing@CSU accounts are free and give you a personal online space where you can compose and save your work.

 

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Featured 5-27-2014: BrainPOP Educators

 

BrainPOP Educators presents tips, tools, and resources to excite and support anyone who educates young people.

 

BrainPOP offers animated educational movies, quizzes, games, activities, and other resources for students in grades 3-12, covering more than 750 topics in the areas of Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Technology, and Arts & Music. The movies are supplemented with resources including a quiz, activities, related games, a timeline, and a selection of high-interest reading.

 

 

On BrainPOP Educators you’ll find resources including lesson plans, calendars of events, and creative suggestions for using BrainPOP in the classroom. It also includes a blog that announces new BrainPOP features, hosts guest bloggers, and follows current events from the world of educational technology. 

 

 

A database, searchable by standard, subject and grade level, correlates BrainPOP topics and games to Common Core math and English standards is available. The database also allows you to correlate BrainPOP movies with curriculum standards from individual states and Canadian provinces.

 

 See an overview of BrainPOP Educators

 

BrainPOP Educators offers a variety of training resources including outlines for giving workshops, handouts, and webinars.

 

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Extra: Shakespeare Uncovered [English]

Shakespeare’s birthday is coming up on April 23. The day before (April 22), you can participate in a free interactive workshop, Shakespeare Uncovered: On Air, Online, & in the Classroom.

The workshop, presented by WNET New York Public Media and hosted by Big Deal Media’s Amazing Resources for Educators community, will take place online from 4 to 5 pm (ET).

The recent PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered, which tells the stories behind the stories of some of Shakespeare’s greatest works, is featured.

The six-part series explores the world and works of William Shakespeare through interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from film and television adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays; and excerpts staged especially for the series.

Shakespeare Uncovered Executive Producer Stephen Segaller will provide an overview of the series, and WNET Outreach Producer Janice Fuld will showcase the classroom resources developed to to accompany the series. The workshop will also include an opportunity to view and discuss videos from the series, an overview of the companion website, and a discussion of strategies for exploring the series and related content with high school students.

Click here to register for the online workshop

Click here to visit the Shakespeare Uncoveredwebsite

Catch of The Day - o.s.Earth's Global Simulation Workshop - 9/6/2011

With roots in the famous World Game*, o.s.Earth's Global Simulation Workshop is an exciting, innovative interactive game that builds critical skills, social bonds, and global awareness.

 

The Global Simulation Workshop is a live-action game in which participants assume the roles of global leaders. The players must use creativity and integrated thinking to succeed in a complex environment. Each participant forms a small part of the entire conceptualization, part of a team, a company, an institution, a nation, the world.

Developed by a team of experienced educators and researchers over the past three decades, o.s.Earth's Global Simulation Workshop has been hosted by more than 2,500 educational institutions, organizations, and corporations around the world.

This modernized version of Fuller's World Game continues to inspire its participants to explore the political, economic, and cultural forces that shape our world. Organizations from middle schools to Fortune 500 corporations have included the game in their educational, training, and enrichment programs.

View the video How Would You Run The World?

*World Game is an alternative to war games proposed by Buckminster Fuller in 1961. The object of the game was to "make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone." (Wikipedia)

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Low Cost Whiteboard and Tablet PC from a Wii Remote

This is really cool! You can use a Wii remote and a DIY infrared pen to turn just about any surface you can project on into a pretty good interactive whiteboard. This video from Johnny Lee (Carnegie Mellon Univ) will show you how. Johnny even shows how to turn any laptop with an LCD screen into a tablet PC.

Making Better Use of Technology in Education

Todd Ritter (Download Squad) suggests five ways to improve technology in education, from the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference Monday in Hershey.

"It's important for our educators to understand and adapt new technologies so that students can benefit from read/write instruction instead of a stale, read-only education."

• Stay informed
• Focus on the process, not the product
• IT professionals who understand education
• Become a user of technology
• Don't fear change

CDW-G "Out of Box" Training

The training session which we had previously been told would be in Altoona at IU 8 is now in Indiana at IU 28. I have registered us for Friday, November 30. Our group will include Kristie, Denise, Amy, Mitch, myself, and Chad. Do to a conflict, we will need to attend the 8:00 - 11:30 AM session.

Only three schools may participate in each session. I have received confirmation of registration for this session.

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Equipment Delivered!!!

This workshop has been moved to IU 28 in Indiana, Nov 30.

Nearly all of our equipment has been delivered including the laptops. The installation team should be here next Tuesday Monday. After that, we'll start rolling stuff out.

Remember, there's going to be a hardware workshop at IU 8 (Altoona, see the map) soon which you are all required to attend.

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