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Friday, October 30, 2020

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 Welcome to the End of October! As we roooolllll on into November, we should be focusing on our CAN ...  What's that? It's exactly this. Remote Control: Translating from F2F to RT...  So, as we continue to work together during PLC time and collaborate on how to "translate" what we already know how to do from Face to Face Teaching (F2F) to Remote Learning (RL), let's think specifically about a of strategy this week.   Popcorn Share:  Now, in F2F, this is.. Students voluntarily "pop" out of their seats and give an answer or comment. Each student's response is brief. When finished, the speaker sits down, which is the signal for the next person who wishes to pop. If two or more students "pop up," they nonverbally determine who will speak first.    For RL , you could... Introduce the question on a PPT, and put your CC (closed captions) up so students can also read what you are asking.. then give wait time, and set the expectation: Popcorn Tag-

Friday, October 23rd, 2020

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  In The Blog This Week: Don't Forget's: Don't forget to share your self assessment, SLG and PPG in TeachPoint by Friday! Don't forget to share your lesson plans with your building lead (and with me, too)! Don't forget to Wear Orange Friday!  Unity Day! This week, in PLC: This week, we had a lot of fun learning how to use Closed Captioning so that we can support students who are acquiring language..  We learned how to: have voice to text captions appear in your PPT presentations have voice to text in Google Docs- and translate and have Closed Captions in a YouTube video (and how to translate these!) These scaffolds can be reviewed in this tutorial I made using ScreenCastify.. Next week, in PLC, we will be using some time to hit the following topics: K-5 Art and Music will be working together on Power Standards for each grade level 6-8 Art and Music will also be working together looking at our identified Power Standards 9-12 and Band/Orchestra will be checking in on

Week ending October 16th, 2020

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  Master Plan: This week, please check out this video/task plan from Kim Foley at Fonseca!  LINK TO VIDEO KIM MADE! Plugged IN for ELLs:  Here are THREE COOL things you can either Do for ELLs or have them do themselves.. check them out!  I will be running through these in PLC on Wednesday. Link 1- CC in a PPT:  CLICK HERE Link 2- Voice to Text in GDocs:  CLICK HERE Link 3- CC/Translations in YouTube  CLICK HERE All ACCESS Pass: Above  are some aaaaaamazzing, yet simple steps to help all students with acquiring info from your online tutorials/PPTs/etc.. Closed Captions in a Google Slideshow!   Yup, you can simply open one of your PPTS in the Drive, hit "present" and then click on "CC."  When you speak, everything you say is typed in at the bottom of the screen.. BOOM.  So, if you are using ScreenCastify, you would hit record, present the PPT while speaking and now the text will come up! For our ELL and Sped students, who may need that extra reinforcement of the compl

October 9th, 2020- The Wrap Up Before the Long Weekend!

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Welcome to the Long Weekend! First, a few SHOUT OUTS! From Kim Foley at Fonseca- Check out this drawing she built! And check out this drawing that Jayson Newell built! This week in the Blog: Master PLAN: Check out Gael Berberick's Plan - she uses Quaver consistently with students, and now that we have our SSO linked up with CLEVER/QUAVER, we are so excited!  Topic(s): Greeting and Opening Routines: Riddle Ree, Sign Words in Rhythm, Welcome to Music Spoken Chant/Song, Music Is Cool Spoken Chant/Song, Review Sign language words: “Look, listen, yes, no, on, off, good and bad.” Add - music, stop, wait, one moment K-5: Name That Hummed Tune: Patriotic Songs - “My Country ‘tis of Thee” and “This Land is Your Land,” “You’re a Grand Old Flag” Daily Objective(s): Intro - Greeting (Spoken/Chanted): “Welcome to music everyone, welcome to music, let’s have fun!” Intro - Riddle, Riddle, Riddle Ree with rhythm Intro - I Can Statements - “I can learn by myself and with others. I can learn.” Intr

Welcome to October!

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  Welcome to October ! This week in the Blog: Master PLAN:  Check out Ms. Dodge's innovative way of working with her students to establish the MASTER PLAN ...  She used Blogger (in your Google Suite) as her platform.  The lessons include objectives in student friendly language, vocabulary, essential questions, procedure and a closing.  Students use this site to communicate with Ms. Dodge, and her planning is all right there- one stop shopping!  Check it out!   Dodge'sBlog Plugged IN: This week, we looked at the Art of Ed's article online related to keeping students engaged through Flipping the Classroom:  LINK TO ARTICLE Think about this as you plan for next week- will you be creating a mini-lesson tutorial video that you can re-use for C/D cohorts , that you can load into your Google Classrooms, Google Sites or whatever platform you are using?  Work smarter, not harder!  Once this clip is done, you can use it anytime you need to- for teaching, reteaching, sub plans, etc.