Kim Caise's Blog, page 10
December 23, 2015
Time to Connect with Santa Claus!
December 4, 2015
Scratch Jr. App has Arrived!
PBS and MIT have joined efforts to meet the needs and abilities of young children and enable them to learn to code. December 7-13th is the ‘hour of code’ week and this app would be perfect to use in an instructional setting with younger students. Also, students ages six and up can participate in coding activities at the Apple store during the week of coding for students.
November 26, 2015
It’s Time for the 2015 Eddies!
What are the Eddies? The ‘Eddies’ are the Edublogs awards for blogs and bloggers. (I tried to think of something funny but nothing came to mind having to do with “Eddie”). Anyway, after eating turkey or after making preparations for Thanksgiving Day you can nominate some blogs or bloggers and honor the blog authors’ efforts.
You can nominate a blog or blogger for an #eddie15 you can nominate here:
November 17, 2015
Connecting Classrooms via Global Collaborative Projects – 2015 #Globaledcon
Today was my Global Education Conference presentation at 6pm EST/5pm EST titled “Connecting Classrooms via Global Collaborative Projects”. Below are the resources shared during the session.
Recording link: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/exter...
November 11, 2015
2015 Global Education Conference Session – Join me! (Door Prize)
On October 17th at 5pm Central, I will be presenting “Connecting Classrooms via Global Collaborative Projects for the Global Education Conference! I have presented for the conference below and have created an improved presentation and hope you will join the new and improved session! If you are unable to attend, you can watch the recording. All sessions are free, open to the public and recorded. Join us as we celebrate ways you can collaborate with classrooms around the world or across your school district. We will have fun! Come for the fun and come for the door prize!
2015 Global Education Conference Session – Join me!
On October 17th at 5pm Central, I will be presenting “Connecting Classrooms via Global Collaborative Projects for the Global Education Conference! I have presented for the conference below and have created an improved presentation and hope you will join the new and improved session! If you are unable to attend, you can watch the recording. All sessions are free, open to the public and recorded. Join us as we celebrate ways you can collaborate with classrooms around the world or across your school district. We will have fun!
October 6, 2015
Slavery did not lead to the Civil War?
My understanding is that the Civil War started due to disagreement over the treatment and history of slavery. History textbooks in Texas say otherwise. Below is a newslist post from the American Federation of Teachers Texas hotline and shows how egregious errors regarding slavery was discovered. I quoted the whole post below:
Hats off to Pearland parent Roni Dean-Burren for publicizing
October 2, 2015
Teachers Google Wants You!
Google Expeditions are virtual field trips that teachers can participate in with their students. Currently they are looking for schools to serve as content partners.
According to the Google information page:
Expeditions Pioneer teams will visit selected schools around the world, starting with the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Each team will bring a complete Expeditions kit with everything the teachers need to take their students on journeys anywhere. The team will show teachers how Expeditions works and help set it up before class.
Expeditions is a virtual reality platform built for the classroom. We worked with teachers and content partners from around the world to create more than 100 engaging journeys – making it easy to immerse students in entirely new experiences.
Opportunity for Students to Be Featured on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon!
Jimmy Fallon, host of the Tonight Show, is offering students an opportunity to be featured on The Tonight Show. The movie, ‘Bridge of Spies’, is soon to be released and this opportunity is a promotion for the movie.
Students aged five to nine years old are encouraged to write a scene that Jimmy Fallon and Tom Hanks will act it out on the show. Two characters having a conversation must be part of the scene based on the title alone, “Bridge of Spies”.
Students will use their creativity and come up with their own scene and dialogue and based on the title alone. The movie is scheduled to come out October 16 so Tom Hanks will be on the The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon shortly before the 16th.The promo video is below. Take the weekend and have your youngster write a scene and email it to:
October 1, 2015
Virtually Meet a Neuroscientist!
PBS LearningMedia is hosting a virtual field trip where students can view part of the THE BRAIN media series on PBS and ask questions of the featured neuroscientist, Dr. David Eagleman.
After the streamed interview with Dr. Eagleman, a short clip from THE BRAIN will be shown. The audience tuned in will be able to ask questions which will then be followed by a special showcase of resources for students and teachers presented by PBS LearningMedia after the Q&A. This is a great opportunity for students to participate in this virtual field trip and conversation.
The following is from the emailed press release:
Dr. Eagleman is the host of the upcoming PBS multi-part series
