It turns out I can't blog at school most days. To blog at home is difficult because I like to walk away from the work world most evenings. But, we do what it takes to complete our experiences for MILP.
My school had workshops last Friday. We had a great turnout for our Urban Planet training and we've established a committee of 22 teachers to integrate technology in the classroom. We plan to continue with Urban Planet training and assistance. Smartboard training is on-going each week. Comic Life has been discovered by many teachers and the students seem to enjoy the projects that involve technology.
Two teachers, English and Social Studies, have joined forces to teach research through an exciting project, Ancient Athens Newspaper. They've come to the library for introduction to databases, websites, search engines other than Google, reference and non-fiction books. The students are using the library website for citation forms and "how to's", links to pre-selected websites, databases and new search engines. The students left the library for lunch and returned one half hour later. The tables were a beautiful sight, piles of books, notebooks, notecards and articles.
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