For my district, I chose Boise City District. They use Campus Parent Portal to monitor the students' information, grades etc. which is part of Infinite Campus.
"Campus Portal is our tool for parents and students to access instant, online, timely and secure student information: class schedule, assignments, attendance, discipline, course registrations for next year, report cards and transcripts.
Campus Portal is a means to further promote educational excellence by enhancing our program of communication with parents and students."
This video explains all of the pros and conns of infinite campus as well as describes how to use it.
This next video describes how to enter grades into the system!
Here is a list of things you can do as a teacher with infinite campus:
Attendance
Behavior
Census
Enrollment
FRAM
Health
National Records Exchange
School Choice
Course Catalog
Graduation Planning
Mapped Curiculum Support
Online Registration
Scheduling
Standards Management
Assessment
Grade Book
Individual Learning Plans
Lesson Planning
Special Education
Fee Management
Food Service
Locker Management Email and Voice Messenger
Form Letter Wizards
Mobile Interface
Parent/Student Portal
Parent/Student/Staff Surveys
User Notices Ad Hoc Reporting
Integrated State Reporting
SQL Reporting Services
Standard Reports
Data Analysis and Visualization
Data Warehousing
For more information here is a great website the describes everything in detail, show you how to use them, and gives great examples!
http://www.infinitecampus.com/pages/product_menu/district-edition.php
This is a very usefull system that can make interacation between the home and the school very often and easy. The parents will never be in the dark about their student's grade, attendence etc!! I can also post anouncements or upcoming concerts on the page for the parents to be aware of. It would be a great way for me to communicate with parents in every single aspect of the school year!!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Spreadsheets
M&M's Food for Thought is a great presentation.
http://edtech.boisestate.edu/elearn/newbridges/cds/M&M's/mmteaching.htm
The presentation uses M&Ms to make and understand bar graphs and entering data about certain groups of information, mostly averages! Mr. Huckins used a Smart Board to demonstrate to his students how to convert their data tables into spreadsheet tables, how the spreadsheet makes calculations, and how graphs can be created to visually represent data. He starts off carefully describing the parts of the spreadsheet, describing the rows and the columns. Then he describes how to enter data on the sheet. He then talks about how to change the color, size, shape and appearance. His data sheet he had them used he had already figured out the formulas and calculations for the sums, averages etc. for their M&M experiment. Each person makes a graph to represent their own bag of M&Ms in one range on the graph on their spreadsheets. They then learn to add charts to their spreadsheets using the charts in excel.
The students learned how to write down and understand the data from their M&Ms and then use that data and enter it into the spreadsheet. they learned all about spreadsheets and how to enter data, make formulas, and change the appearance of the document.Mr. Huckins used an experiment about color frequency of M&M's to introduce students to the advantages of using a spreadsheet to calculate and visualize data. He used this presentation and lesson to help the students know how to use the collection, recording, and organizing of data while introducing the basic skills necessary to use a computer, spreadsheet software, and fact-fact-conclusion questions as tools to understand data. Most of the project is geared to teach averages, mean, median, and range.
He has a wonderful lesson plan that really covers everything that he needs to do and cover and everything that the students will learn, do and understand. I am really impressed with his ability to predict how and what the students will do in the lesson. I can tell he must have been teaching for a while. He has really good assessment as well of the students at the end of the project. Lastly, he has a great plan to help out kids with special needs, so that they will be able to participate in the project as well.
This lesson will defiantly help students learn how to use and apply data into a spreadsheet and even graphs. The kids will have fun using M&Ms to learn spreadsheets!!!
To use this in my own classroom I could do the same project, just make it for a higher level. instead of just using the data to make a simple spreadsheets, we can find out more complicated matter and apply it to sheets the students create themselves. I love this idea for a future lesson!
http://edtech.boisestate.edu/elearn/newbridges/cds/M&M's/mmteaching.htm
The presentation uses M&Ms to make and understand bar graphs and entering data about certain groups of information, mostly averages! Mr. Huckins used a Smart Board to demonstrate to his students how to convert their data tables into spreadsheet tables, how the spreadsheet makes calculations, and how graphs can be created to visually represent data. He starts off carefully describing the parts of the spreadsheet, describing the rows and the columns. Then he describes how to enter data on the sheet. He then talks about how to change the color, size, shape and appearance. His data sheet he had them used he had already figured out the formulas and calculations for the sums, averages etc. for their M&M experiment. Each person makes a graph to represent their own bag of M&Ms in one range on the graph on their spreadsheets. They then learn to add charts to their spreadsheets using the charts in excel.
The students learned how to write down and understand the data from their M&Ms and then use that data and enter it into the spreadsheet. they learned all about spreadsheets and how to enter data, make formulas, and change the appearance of the document.Mr. Huckins used an experiment about color frequency of M&M's to introduce students to the advantages of using a spreadsheet to calculate and visualize data. He used this presentation and lesson to help the students know how to use the collection, recording, and organizing of data while introducing the basic skills necessary to use a computer, spreadsheet software, and fact-fact-conclusion questions as tools to understand data. Most of the project is geared to teach averages, mean, median, and range.
He has a wonderful lesson plan that really covers everything that he needs to do and cover and everything that the students will learn, do and understand. I am really impressed with his ability to predict how and what the students will do in the lesson. I can tell he must have been teaching for a while. He has really good assessment as well of the students at the end of the project. Lastly, he has a great plan to help out kids with special needs, so that they will be able to participate in the project as well.
This lesson will defiantly help students learn how to use and apply data into a spreadsheet and even graphs. The kids will have fun using M&Ms to learn spreadsheets!!!
To use this in my own classroom I could do the same project, just make it for a higher level. instead of just using the data to make a simple spreadsheets, we can find out more complicated matter and apply it to sheets the students create themselves. I love this idea for a future lesson!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Video games are a great way to capture Kids' attention. I looked hard for music games and there wasn't much to choose from. I might have to do more extensive search sometime or make some games myself!
This game is a silly little drummer game that works on some rhythm and tempo. The goal is to alternate left and right hands hitting the drum at a steady tempo for as fast as you can in one minute!
Using this game with beginning percussionist could be very fun indeed!
This game is from Addictivegames.com
Play Games at AddictingGames
This game is a silly little drummer game that works on some rhythm and tempo. The goal is to alternate left and right hands hitting the drum at a steady tempo for as fast as you can in one minute!
Using this game with beginning percussionist could be very fun indeed!
This game is from Addictivegames.com
Play Games at AddictingGames
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Classroom Netiquette Rules
For my Senior High classroom, I have chosen these Netiquette rules:
1. Use the Golden Rule: Treat others how you would like to be treated. Treat people on the Internet just like you would treat someone sitting next to you in class. Correcting others grammar, using slang and lots of sarcasm can make you appear to be a very rude person. Please be respectful!
2.Always make sure that the Internet site you are about to visit is approved by me or one of your parents. There are many bad sites out there, and the most important thing is your safety. This includes not opening emails that you are unfamiliar with. They could have bad content, or worse be a virus.
3.NEVER post your full name, address, phone number, location, passwords or any other important information online. Even emails can be sent astray.
4. Always cite anything you use from the Internet. Plagiarism is ugly and very disrespectful. make sure to give people props for all their hard work!
5.Be polite with Instant Message Language as well as caps. ALL CAPITALS CAN BE RUDE. Somtims loz of abrv can get annoying ALT u know!? BRB and LOL can get bothersome.
1. Use the Golden Rule: Treat others how you would like to be treated. Treat people on the Internet just like you would treat someone sitting next to you in class. Correcting others grammar, using slang and lots of sarcasm can make you appear to be a very rude person. Please be respectful!
2.Always make sure that the Internet site you are about to visit is approved by me or one of your parents. There are many bad sites out there, and the most important thing is your safety. This includes not opening emails that you are unfamiliar with. They could have bad content, or worse be a virus.
3.NEVER post your full name, address, phone number, location, passwords or any other important information online. Even emails can be sent astray.
4. Always cite anything you use from the Internet. Plagiarism is ugly and very disrespectful. make sure to give people props for all their hard work!
5.Be polite with Instant Message Language as well as caps. ALL CAPITALS CAN BE RUDE. Somtims loz of abrv can get annoying ALT u know!? BRB and LOL can get bothersome.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
My Playlist on Youtube!
I made a play list of famous Opera pieces that everyone of my students will know! The videos are very important for my students. They can watch the videos to see:
-proper stage presence
-proper diction
-good stage etiquette
-learn about famous performers
It is a great advantage to have them see performances that in the past only the rich people could travel to and pay to see. It is amazing that kids can have the experience of seeing these famous performers singing famous pieces in the classroom! I am really excited to use this tool in class.
-proper stage presence
-proper diction
-good stage etiquette
-learn about famous performers
It is a great advantage to have them see performances that in the past only the rich people could travel to and pay to see. It is amazing that kids can have the experience of seeing these famous performers singing famous pieces in the classroom! I am really excited to use this tool in class.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Slideshow Presentation
"Movie Musicals Through The Decades"
What I like :
Clear instructions with fun photos to support the new idea. I like when there are things in the slide to make me think and laugh. It's a good presentation when all the information is presented in an easy, memorable way. It also helps when there is not TOO much stuff and or information on one slide. Transitions, animations, fun things like that help make the slide show cool... as long as it does not clutter the slide or make the presentation too hard to understand. All in all this presentation below is no supreme, but an 'okay' presentation.
What I like :
- Has a good title page
- good bullets
- fun curtain design for background
- fun movie knowledge
- Slide 7 has fun facts that I found interesting
- Slide number5 has way too much text
- same background the whole time
- no pictures
- Not very in depth about the musicals
- no animation or slide transitions, very, Very basic
Clear instructions with fun photos to support the new idea. I like when there are things in the slide to make me think and laugh. It's a good presentation when all the information is presented in an easy, memorable way. It also helps when there is not TOO much stuff and or information on one slide. Transitions, animations, fun things like that help make the slide show cool... as long as it does not clutter the slide or make the presentation too hard to understand. All in all this presentation below is no supreme, but an 'okay' presentation.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Google For Educators
Well, the first classroom tool that I would use in my class from Google for Educators would definitely be the Google Book Search. I love that students can not only look for any book they might need, but also look within that but for specific topics or characters. I would let students use this as one way to work on a research paper. iGoogle is also a tool I would use. It has a great layout that I can personalize for my class and have them see posts, current events, class schedules or announcements. Its almost like having our own website for the classroom. I really like it. Third, Google groups would be an awesome way to track and encourage group activities. It is like a safe chat room that students could use to do projects, discuss books etc. I love all the features it involves. Using Google Docs with students can open a whole new door in the class. We can do papers together online, have discussions, look up information-all in a safe controlled environment that is free and available to everyone.
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