Wonder Wall November 17-21

Teachers will be brainstorming with their class for questions for the Library Wonder Wall

Wonder Wall

I published this for the teachers here:
http://cnx.org/content/m18255/1.1/
creat your own Connections site at http://cnx.org/

http://www.faqkids.com/
http://biophile.co.za/children/what-do-children-wonder-about
http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/8126ch01.pdf
http://questioning.org/Q7/toolkit.html
http://questioning.org/nov04/whyquestion.html
http://questioning.org/jan05/whywonder.html
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/?word=wonder&ad=mwcom.dict.txt1
http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/Did/docs/QUESTION/quest1.htm - encouraging students to think on their own
http://hsp.myweb.uga.edu/question.htm
http://www.joycevalenza.com/questions.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=408
I am starting to think about how I can encourage our teachers to work with the students in their class to create questions of things they wonder about for our Wonder Wall in the library.

Thursday, November 6

We had 18 teachers meet all day and all moved forward with technology. Most popular activities were: updating webpages, Photostory, wikis, setting up blogs, using
Bighugelabs for trading cards, leearning about lexiles in Destiny and Destiny Quest.
What kind of activities would you like to focus on for our January Workshop Day? Do you want tutorials or instructions for any activities? Please comment.
Just one more thing...I just had this article by Will Richardson appear on my iGoogle page where my blog reader sends me interesting articles. This really relates to our day, today!
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/nov08/vol66/num03/Footprints_in_the_Digital_Age.aspx

November 6 Links

Here is an article I found in the summer about our kids getting ahead of us with technology of the future. Read this and think about how you can use you GYBIG day to integrate technology into your classroom.
http://www.cea-ace.ca/media/en/Locked_System_Fall07.pdf

This article talk about building a personal learning network. We can do this with each other in the GYBIG group.
http://www.masscue.org/publications/oncuespring08/BuildingYourOwnPLN.pdf

Many of our librarians met Jan Radford last year when Debbie brought her around to visit our schools. She won an award and what I noticed was her personal learning network mentioned, which we belong to. She was just honored with the Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year Award for 2008. I thought you would enjoy reading the article.
http://www.asla.org.au/advocacy/award/awards08.htm
Here an article about creating a network in school. http://www.districtadministration.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=1344
Some of us have Moodle and have looked at Diigo. We have thought about creating a wiki.
I created one and will start using it soon. Anyone want to join in?
http://mmwreadingolympics.keystonespa.org/
See how one principal has his staff communicating.
http://www.districtadministration.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=1251

Do you wonder how I find these articles? I use del.icio.us and I tag them GYBIG. Then I checked my bookmarks and found the handouts for you.

November 6 GYBIG

November 6: We have 20 people signed up to come to Maureen M. Welch Elementary School for our workshop.

August 12 GYBIG

CR teachers met on August 12, 2008 to look at information sources for our 21st century learners and to learn about some web 2.0 tools. We set goals for integration of technology into our lesson plans and some teachers worked on their web pages, MovieMaker and PowerPoint.

We were guided by these presentations:
August 12, 2008
Get Your Brain In Gear - the future of education