The Blog of Ms. Mercer

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AFI Screen Education Center: Digital Filmmaking in the Core Curriculum (Guttler, Frank with Mitch Aiken) - The CUE Community
Description: AFI Screen Education–empowering educators with the tools of digital filmmaking to engage students in mastering core curriculum and key 21st Century skills.
Students make sense of things by turning them into stories, and narrative.
They were doing [...]

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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.
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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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Intro from by Mike Lebsock: Podcasting, videocasting, streaming video and more…have become technologies to bring history into the classroom. This session will connect participants to some fantastic sites, lessons and ideas to take advantage of these terrific tools.

Not how-to, but what it looks like session. Presenter impressed me because he was dressed up like [...]

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