Student Collaboration Tools Optional PL

Videonot.es & Today's Meet

Videonot.es (Google App, add to your Hallco Google Drive)

The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos!

You can "share" notes with students or students can peer share. 

Click Here For Teacher and Student Directions to Add the Videonot.es App

Today's Meet - Student Chat Tool

Click Here for Teacher Directions (Must be signed into your Hallco Google Drive)
TodaysMeet gives you an isolated room where your students can only converse with you and other students in your class.  No need to learn any new tools like hash tags to keep everything together. A great "back channel" real time conversation.

Parent Connections Meeting - Inquiry & Innovation - Tuesday, January 28th @ 11:00 AM

Blendspace with Mrs. Farr's 5th Period Today!

Assignment: Progressive Era Blendspace (see Mrs. Farr's handout for full directions)

www.blendspace.com 

When you sign up for Blendspace, make sure you choose "Sign up with a Google Account" and use your student ID @hallco.org as your Google email and your regular Hallco computer login password.  You will be redirected to Connect to reenter these credentials, then Blendspace will automatically be connected to your Google drive files.

1. Political Topics
• Loupe Collage - Google App
• Can Save as a jpg to your Google Drive and upload the picture
• Can link directly to the Loupe Collage on web
• Political Cartoon - Web link
• Response (2 Options)
•  Use Google Doc  make public in share settings to anyone with the link, use web link to insert -- any changes you make to doc will automatically be updated on blendspace
• Use Google Doc and drag over into blendspace -- changes will NOT be updated.  Document will show with edits at the time you added it.
2. Social Topics
• Reading - weblink
• 7 questions: Blendspace Quiz or type out questions on a google doc and insert using response options from #1 above
• Narrative - google doc and insert using response options from #1 above
3. Economic Topics
• Youtube or other videos (weblink for non youtube)
• 5 questions about video -  Blendspace Quiz or type out questions on a google doc and insert using response options from #1 above
• Flyer -  google doc and insert using response options from #1 above
4. Overall
• Review Games - insert weblink for each
• News Report - can directly upload the video to blendspace OR upload to Google Docs and use an App to edit like WeVideo.

Find a New Book to Read today at EHMS Learning Commons

I "heart" reading!

Watch us build our heart for reading @

http://flipagram.com/f/L75YctA5y0

 

 

Literacy Week at EHMS

Literacy Week

January 13-17

Sponsored by EHMS Learning Commons & Jr. Tome Society Book Club

Monday – Get Excited about Literacy Day

Students vote for your favorite “It” lists books of Jr. Tome Society 

After Ever After - Outcasts United - Variant - Prisoner B-3087 - The Scorpio Races - Changeling - Slated - The Last Dragon Slayer - Tiger's Curse - Cinder

Go to www.tomesociety.org/vote to rate how you liked each one you have read!

Tuesday – I Heart Reading Day

Literacy is the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of the written or printed text.

Today’s Literacy Challenge - Help the Learning Commons Build a “Heart” for Reading.  Come by the Learning Commons today to write your favorite book title on a sticky note to build our heart for reading

Wednesday - Information Literacy Day

Information literacy is techniques and skills utilizing a wide range of information tools as well as primary sources to mold information solutions to problems.

Today’s Literacy Challenge - Think of a question you have and answer the question using any of the resources available to you through the learning commons – library books, Safari digital videos and Galileo online database articles.

Thursday - Digital Literacy Day

Digital Literacy is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology.

Today’s Literacy Challenge - Check out a Catalist Digital AudioBook or a FollettShelf Ebook.

 www.catalistdigital.com/students See the flyer in your Homeroom for the username/password

https://wbb07725.follettshelf.com/ Your Hallco Computer Username & Password

Friday – Media Literacy Day

Media literacy is the ability to analyze, evaluate and create messages in a wide variety of formats.

Today’s Literacy Challenge - Discover a new tool to create with – Powtoon and Animoto are both great ones to try!

Students Join EHMS Jr. Tome Society!

See Mrs. Parker in the Learning Commons for Information to join

Searching for Health Websites

Select research questions.

What question(s) do you have? Write the question(s) below.

Extract keywords and terms.

Be broad or specific, depending on your goals. Use synonyms, and apply some of the strategies you learned. Write your keywords below.

Apply search strategies.

What search strategies will help you find the information you need? Write down your keywords with search strategies applied.

Run your search.

Search using the terms that you chose and look at the results. Remember to check out several sources.

CHart your search.

Keep track of what you searched for and where, so that you don’t repeat work. Jot down what you searched for and where you searched for it.

KWL

Search Topic:
What Do I KNOW?	What do I WANT to know?	What did I LEARN?

Topic	Good Websites
Diseases	CDC http://www.cdc.gov/diseasesconditions/ Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions Teens Health http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/
Drug Use	NIDA for Teens http://teens.drugabuse.gov/ National Institute of Health Drug Abuse http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugabuse.html National Institute on Drug Abuse http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/understanding-drug-abuse-addiction Teens Health http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/
Nutrition	President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, & Nutrition http://www.fitness.gov/eat-healthy/ Teens Health http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/fitness_nutrition_center.html#cat20130
Exercise	President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, & Nutrition http://www.fitness.gov/be-active/ Teens Health http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/
Self Esteem	University of Texas Counseling and Mental Health http://cmhc.utexas.edu/selfesteem.html Teens Health http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/
Dieting	Harvard School of Public Health http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid/ Teens Health http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/weight_center.html#cat20130