great beginnings... july 09 - first meet up with Cape Town
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discuss/edit/share and finally create me-videos (purpose is to help them find their passion and to help direct their connection to an expert individual tutor gus below and the rest here
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gus starting us out sharing project ideas and expert tutor possibilities
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maddie's prezi reviewing relations and functions
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madi, lauren m and shannon on domain/range/function/relation
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courtney's ppt on d/r/f/r
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simeon's use of quizlet to create a study place for his peers
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keaton and megan's video on arithmetic and geometric sequences
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austin and cody's sketchfu on exponential vs linear growth
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austin's amazing eye sketchfu - the class's first dabble with sketchfu
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erin and kelsey's ongoing splashr mosaic of the entire year in algebra 2
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pj and jeff dabble with toondoo over fraction busters
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catching a 2nd wind - yeah it got messy - how do we survive without the box?..
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vicki makes an ipod quiz on fraction busters
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lauren a and laura do sketchfu review for sequences
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making sure we're keeping up with the jones's
these students (in the pilot open-sourced class) took the same tests as all the other pre ap alg 2 math classes. throughout the year, their scores stayed the same and/or above the other class averages.
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first tutorial that gains a following - (students from other classes start requesting topics)
more from the same kool beans student: math in 10 minutes
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a gus and molly creation
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lauren, maddie b, madi & shannon reach out to orphans in uganda -
ongoing - just sent them $600 for wifi and other things...
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often we find croatia and uganda meeting on our ning site to chat.
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the school - our friends in croatia go to. they happened to win the international edublog award this year - for best ed use of a wiki. - we keep good company. our contribution there.
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after spending about two months interacting with students in croatia (mostly blogging back and forth, some incredible student posts - mostly on their class ning), we decide to watch freedom writers together.. and then decide to toast to change
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croatia sings jingle bells for us
Find more videos like this on English for Class IIIA
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in search of a virtual chalkboard for our ning. we first dabbled with flockdraw and more flockdraw, and end up loving and going with dabbleboard - now residing in the middle of our ning. this is me catching them during class one day when I was away at a district meeting.
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tested out best ways to do boxed math
biking while graphing:
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call out to expert tutors
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finally came to this: self-regulated/paced resource grid
explanation of grid and of the open source class philosophies via jing
and now we have our open source alg 2 explanation via jing
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interviewed former graduates (jessica)
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interviewed teachers (hewson) that were brave to try out our suggestions for change
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interviewed students (nash) in hewson's class
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beginning conversations with lucas on why we need to branch off math into passion for next year
part 1 of innovation lab
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beginning conversations with hannah on why we need to train kids to be tech experts
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more on the student teaching the teacher how best to use a cell
a conversastion worth noting: student was leary of sharing this video public. when asked why - they said then teachers would think we are only going to cheat with cells.
i think this is huge - we've taught them cells are bad - that we will only see them as bad. can't we just put them away during test time? not the rest?
and here is me - going out on a limb - thinking they should get 1-2 lifelines during a test. agree - disagree - be outraged.. that's real life. school should be real life.
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first official poll on our ning
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first interaction with cape town students - not surprisingly - spent talking about common music interests... suprisingly... sharing interest in Harry Potter, being as how the student, Ben, from colorado, talking to the student, Jackson, from cape town, heads our Harry Potter club
more on ben's thinking
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stopping for now.. have more to add - later....
