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November Continuity 11/14/09 Technology in the Classroom

Stephanie Shepherd led us through a FABULOUS technology workshop on blogging and podcasting and had the teachers set up their own blogs. Yeah!

To check out all the resources Stephanie provided, here's a sharetab of her links as well as some of our own blogs.

http://sharetabs.com/?tahoeshepherds

So why should we use blogs and podcasts/vodcasts in our classrooms?

 

▪Offers another sense modality (aural) for students to express themselves and absorb or manipulate information

▪Increased student motivation

▪Teachers or students can record audio about homework assignments, assignments, feedback, announcements, etc. thus the classroom is extended and enriched

▪Many students already have audio players, so it taps into an existing technology.

▪Blogging is highly effective way to help students to become better writers. Research has long shown that students write more, write in greater detail, and take greater care with spelling, grammar, and punctuation, when they are writing to an authentic audience over the Internet.

▪Anecdotal evidence suggests that students' interest in, and quantity of, writing increases when their work is published online and -- perhaps even more importantly -- when it is subject to reader comments.

 

 

Directions to NHERC

I hope we get to see as many of you as possible at the Nov 14 continuity training at NHERC with Stephanie Shepherd leading. Below is their phone, street address and a link to Google Maps! Please bring a laptop if you have one available! Mahalo!!!!

Telephone:
(808) 775-8890

Fax:
(808) 775-1294

Street:
45-539 Plumeria St., Honokaʻa, HI, 96727
NHERC on Google Maps

Fall Continuity Nov 14, 2009

The Lehua Writing Project Invites You

The November continuity session led by Stephanie Shepherd will be on writing and technology. Feeling overwhelmed? Feeling like your must do list is overtaking your want to do's? Join us, bring your friends, get inspired, get re-energized,and write with abandon.

November 14, 2009: 9-12
NHERC in Honoka'a

Fall Continuity Nov 14, 2009

Writers- teachers - lovers of the Big Island, there are 26 days to submit your pieces to the local gallery Na Leo o Hawaii

http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/88467

Gallery Title: Na Leo o Hawaii - Voices of the Big Island

Gallery Description: This gallery will highlight the voices of the Big Island of Hawaii - from our kupuna (elders) to our keiki (children) - from the fishing village of Milolii to the town of Hawi. This gallery is about living on the Big Island.

If you'd like an easy tutorial to submitting your work, please watch the how-to video below:

How to submit your writing

Our first continuity workshop: vocabulary with Ann Buffington

6 teachers/writers gathered in Honoka'a this morning to reunite, write, eat and learn from Ann Buffington (LWP'08) about what she learned last summer about academic vocabulary literacy.

If you missed it, look for our next one next month.