The Blog of Ms. Mercer

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From Gail Desler, my CUE roomie…the state has recently opened up the k12 High Speed Network, with EdZone, where I can drop my videos and podcasts off for storage in a safe home that should not be blocked (after I finally got TeacherTube unblocked at my district). The network is for use in California, and [...]

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It was the first week back after Spring Break, so I did not keep good track of where I went and commented on blogs, at all. It’s all sort of a blur. Part of it was a very grinding after school schedule, the culmination of which was a podcasting training I did in my lab [...]

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Well, although today is the last day of CUE 2008, it’s already over for me. I’m back home skipping the last day. I’m relieved to have a day to rest because it was exhausting, but I’m sorry to miss some great stuff. I’m looking forward to the CUE*FETC conference in October already. Here is an [...]

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Well, given our flight time, and drive into Palm Springs from Ontario Airport, we arrived as things had already started. Steve Hargadon, the show host, announced I was going to be doing a 5 minute demo within 5 minutes of me walking through the door, lol…
I did a five minute demo/discussion on Diigo, but since [...]

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 Digital CPR: Bring Your Reading Series to Life with Video Podcasting (Needleman, Mathew) - The CUE Community
Description: Bring your students into the 21st Century with six fun and easy standards-based video podcasts to motivate even those reluctant learners.Starts out with a DARLING movie (with lots of great demonstration of knowledge) about Camouflage by second graders.
How [...]

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50 Ways to Use Discovery Education Streaming (and Beyond) (Demian, Jannita with Kim Randall) - The CUE Community
Description: A deeper look at Discovery Education streaming (unitedstreaming), its hidden treasures and recent updates. Media is transforming teachers’ classrooms by maximizing their subscription to this great media library.Well, starting out there are not enough chairs, and people [...]

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Presenter: Gayle Berthiaume
Preview: Engage students in reading and writing with online literacy activities. Learn how to integrate the Internet into the primary classroom. Taught by a Scholastic.com Teacher Mentor and Apple Distinguished Educator.
I arrived late, so I missed picking up her main links page, which is on del.icio.us. She showed a number of different [...]

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Presenter: Arlene Anderson, Desiree Spang
Preview: The Spang Gang website is a compilation of grade level, standards based, curriculum area links to some of the best games on the Internet. No more time consuming searches!
Has a long name, so look up her page by google search.
The site is color coded by level (do the orange activities). [...]

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Presented by: Brian Bridges
Preview: Discover a variety of online, collaborative writing tools, and see how teachers are using them to engage their students, participate in online writing projects, and publish to an authentic audience. We’ll review and demonstrate a variety of free resources including Edublogger, pbwiki, and Google Docs. Handouts include content standard connections, 100 [...]

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