Summer vacation is soooooo close!  I can smell the sunscreen!!  This week is a week to catch up a little.  There will be no videos or reading assignments this week.  Your only assignment will be to create a rubric (due June 5).

(This is a repeat of what I began last week)...

In our Bloom/Gardener grid, we came up with wonderful learning experiences to give our students.  We have gone beyond the paper and pencil worksheets to exploring the world around us, collaborating with peers and using our creative mind.  Now…. What if I told you had to grade each and every student on each and every idea and project in the grid?

For example.. How would you grade the following assignments? What is the difference between an assignment grade of a B or a C for each of these?

1.                  Create a photo collage about their assigned community helper.

2.                  Make a vodcast showing pictures of each type of element. Pictures must contain the characteristic you talked about before.

3.                  Hypothesize what kind of food you would want to eat if you were a butterfly.

4.                  Make up a chant to describe animals that fly.

5.                  Find a series of parabolas in nature

6.                  Create a human fact and opinion chain about farm animals.

7.                  Tell which element you are most interested in and why.

Read this article
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Rubrics/Rubrics.html

Create a rubric for one of the assignments in your Bloom/Gardner Grid.  It may a rubric for the lesson plan you just completed.  It may be a rubric for any other assignment in your Grid.  You may use any rubric generator to create you grid although I suggest Rubistar - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/  Your rubric is due next week.

Here is a rubric tutorial you may watch if you feel you need more information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV3Fjis0k8U

I will be using Aunt Olive’s rubric on rubrics to grade your assignment. http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/VAC/Evaluation/ref_2.html


We are almost finished!!
We have two more weeks and one more written assignment (a Unit Plan) which will be due June 16 (WEDNESDAY).

Multiple Intelligence lesson plan is due Saturday!!! Please refer to last week's blog post for specifics as well as templates and samples.

We will be looking into research concerning our left and right brains.  We will begin by watching a video about a woman who had the opportunity to study the brain from the inside out.  Watch Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight  
Please go to the discussion board to comment on the video and on others comments.


In our Bloom/Gardener grid, we came up with wonderful learning experiences to give our students.  We have gone beyond the paper and pencil worksheets to exploring the world around us, collaborating with peers and using our creative mind.  Now…. What if I told you had to grade each and every student on each and every idea and project in the grid?
For example.. How would you grade the following assignments? What is the difference between an assignment grade of a B or a C for each of these? 

1.                  Create a photo collage about their assigned community helper.

2.                  Make a vodcast showing pictures of each type of element. Pictures must contain the characteristic you talked about before.

3.                  Hypothesize what kind of food you would want to eat if you were a butterfly.

4.                  Make up a chant to describe animals that fly.

5.                  Find a series of parabolas in nature

6.                  Create a human fact and opinion chain about farm animals.

7.                  Tell which element you are most interested in and why.

 

Read this article

http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Rubrics/Rubrics.html

Create a rubric for one of the assignments in your Bloom/Gardner Grid.  It may a rubric for the lesson plan you just completed.  It may be a rubric for any other assignment in your Grid.  You may use any rubric generator to create you grid although I suggest Rubistar - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/  Your rubric is due next week (May 29).
Please post it on your website/blog as well as emailing it to me.  Please label it "RubricYour NameSpringII".

Here is a rubric tutorial you may watch if you feel you need more information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV3Fjis0k8U

I will be using Aunt Olive’s rubric on rubrics to grade your assignment. http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/VAC/Evaluation/ref_2.html 

One last test... for your google reader

Your self assessment was due May 8th.  Thank you for completing your self assessment.  It should have been named “Self Assessment Your Name Spring II”.  It should have been posted on your blog (weebly site) as well as emailed to  me.

Google Reader.  You have already set up a Google Reader and added everyone's blogs to it.  I STRONGLY suggest either setting up the google reader as your home page. Directions here.  OR you could create an iGoogle page.  iGoogle will allow you to have your google reader as well as other apps such a time, facebook, joke of the day, calendar reminders and weather all on the same page which can be set as your homepage. Directions here.

Your first assignment is to watch and comment on everyone's vodcast.  For our next assignment, you will need to understand all of the multiple intelligences as well as Bloom's taxonomy.  Each vodcast should provide you with the basic understanding needed for the assignment.

Read the story from our text book entitled  "Jaime’s Story"  (The link is broke, please use this address. ( http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/mi/mckenzie.htm )
 Leave a comment on the article on the discussion board.  Continue the discussion on two other’s comments.

Upcoming Assignments
Due May 22– Bloom/Gardner Grid
Template and Sample can be found on last week's blog.  Choose a unit of study that is broad enough to think of many activities to teach. If you have already decided on a capstone, use that topic. Fill in the squares using an activity that meets both the multiple intelligence and the level of Bloom’s Taxonomy in which it intersects. A sample has been provided n last week's blog.  I expect 90% or more of the grid to be completed.  It should be saved as "Grid Your Name Spring II". You will post it on your blog and email it to me before May 23.

Due May 29th - Multiple Intelligence Lesson Plan.
Template and Sample to follow.  Choosing just one idea (one square) from your Bloom/Gardner Grid, you will create a lesson plan.  If the topic of your grid is related to your upcoming capstone, then this lesson will be one of many in your capstone.  You may use the lesson format from the template and the sample or you may choose any lesson plan format you wish as long as it includes all the components of the template and sample.

Google reader test II

Is your google reader set up and working?... I will post again on Friday for a test.

Self Assessment Due May 8
A template and example were given last week in our blog.   Complete by describing evidence of each criteria met in your classroom and a self reflection on your teaching.  If you currently do not have a classroom, either describe a classroom you have worked in or your ideal classroom. Please name your file “Self Assessment Your Name Spring II” I need you to post your self assessment on your blog (weebly site) as well as email me your self assessment. 


Website:
POST YOUR URL on the facebook wall for EVERYONE to see. 

Please watch the video above about Google Reader.  Once you have watched the video, set up a Google Reader for yourself.  Subscribe to my blog at www.apumalone.weebly.com/blog.  I will add a one word post every day so they you can check to make sure your feed is working. Next, we will add everyone else’s blog to our Google Reader. Please check the facebook wall for everyone’s address.

 

Vodcast;
Once your vodcast is completed, post it to You Tube (you will need to set up an account if you have not already). Once it is on You Tube, it can be added to your weebly blog. If you have set up the RSS feeds correctly, you will be notified every time someone gets their video completed and on their blog. You will need to watch and comment on everyone’s videos.  These videos contain the information you will need to complete ALL the assignments in class.  Congratulations to Steve Lara who was the first to complete his vodcast.  All vodcast should be completed and posted by May 8.  You will have until May 15 to watch and comment on everyone’s videos.

WOW!!!  How are you doing? That seems like a lot of information crammed into a little space.  Please email me if you have any questions! 


Bloom’s Taxonomy
Read the article on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Leave a comment on the article on the discussion board.  Continue the discussion on two other’s comments.

Read Technology and MI   On our facebook discussion board, please comment on the article and reply to two other’s comments.

Upcoming Assignments
Due May 22– Bloom/Gardner Grid
Please use the attached template.  Choose a unit of study that is broad enough to think of many activities to teach. If you have already decided on a capstone, use that topic. Fill in the squares using an activity that meets both the multiple intelligence and the level of Bloom’s Taxonomy in which it intersects. A sample has been provided.  I expect 90% or more of the grid to be completed.  It should be saved as "Grid Your Name Spring II".