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We'd like to serve as a resource to our fellow future educators and professors of Education who would like to put that SmartBoard to use in their classroom, or learn how to use podcasts in the classroom as tools for parent involvement or student assessments. The possibilities are endless!
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Your local Clemson Geek Squad
10.22.2009
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Thank You CUTechEd
5.03.2008
Reflecting on this Year...
5.02.2008
This Year in Clemson Geek Squad
Tony Webb
4.29.2008
Reflection of The Year
4.14.2008
FoCI 2008
Two things we talked about:
1.) If they have a FoCI 2009, we should create information sheets or business-type cards with our website to give out.
2.) We should post instructions for the various things we do for people not in our group to use (of course we could use it to!).
3.26.2008
Owl Pellet Lesson
Helping the boys work with the microscope on the computer...they were trying to discover what the owl had eaten by looking at its bones underneath the microscope.
Before the Owl Pellet Lesson begins...I am explaining what an owl pellet is (while I hear lots of "eww's" After they started dissecting however, everyone was really into it, even the girls...who were most apprehensive at first. I wish I had more time with each group to really go more into a science lesson. As they were leaving many of them wanted an owl pellet to take home and were asking me how to get them!
3.25.2008
A Sea Turtle Photostory
The link didn't work in the last blog, so here it is for real this time...
Enjoy, and thanks again for watching! If you leave comments I'll be sure to share them with my 1st graders.
**Bridget
The Sea Turtles Need Our Help!
We have been studying sea turtles as our latest unit and are currently making turtle key chains like the one below. We call ourselves the "Beading Bears" and our key chain selling business has proven to be a fun and easy way to integrate all content areas into this long term project. We've been very busy advertising with posters, persuasive fliers, artwork, and short daily informational blurbs on the school-wide news program. This photostory is our latest advertising endeavor.
Key chains are $4.00
If anyone is interested in purchasing one, please let me know via email. I'd be more than happy to put your order in and deliver your key chain to you.
Here's my email: brollin@clemson.edu
Thanks for checking out the photostory! My class was so excited about it.
**Bridget
Catching up...
I’ve used it often to take advantage of internet resources such as an online interactive map of the moon during our Unit: Finding the Moon. This particular activity was at the culmination of our unit, and the children and I were planning a “trip to the moon.” The children went to the board and chose a place he/she would most likely want to visit (a named crater or sea on the moon) and wrote about it in his/her trip itinerary.
In addition to the ProBoard we practice researching on the internet and watch video clips through United Streaming and various websites like the South Carolina Aquarium who offer virtual tours and video clips. Photostory has proven another fun tool for showing self created videos which can be personalized and tweaked to present specifically the information you want your students to receive at a particular time.
As a learning station I have also had the children reviewing their spelling words on the desktop computer in the back of the classroom and then they practice manipulating the font, size, and color of the text.
I plan in the future to hand over digital cameras to the class for a project on geometry (searching for shapes around the school and in our everyday lives). I hope to create an imovie with their snapshots and video interviews with the children about what they learned through the project. I think video (or at least audio) interviews are a great means of assessment and also a great way to capture memories! Anyways… I am sorry I don’t have more photos right now to show, but again if you are interested in coming to visit my 1st grade class please let me know. Our schedule is very flexible and we’d love to work around your schedule. Just email me and we’ll work something out. I’m in Ms. Nodine’s 1st Grade class at Clemson Elementary. Hope your semesters are going well…they’re almost over!
**Bridget