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Virtual Classroom Spanish 5 1st place winners.

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Virtual Classroom Spanish 5 1st place winners.

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Spanish 5 Honors students collaborated with high school students from India and Italy. Students engaged in a 6 month Challenge Based Project and created a Website title "Rhyme and Rhythm" Students learned how to collaborate in a virtual setting, using digital citizenship. The priceless lesson learned can be read in the students reflections tab.

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GVC1413 - Entry in GVC 2014-15 web contest

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Jessica King & I partnered up with an organization called Pet Partners to bring pet therapy to the essential skills students at LHS. Tanner (a 114 lb golden retriever) and his handler Doug visit the digital learners class weekly. Seeing the students' faces light up when they see the dog has been truly amazing.

Adrienne Fowler

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Students were asked to interview a grandparent and create a presentation to share with the class. Many students created i-Movies or other video sharing options. As a result, they captured a memory that is priceless, even though they may not realize it now.

Brenda Parker

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Portfolios using Blogger and PicasaWeb. Click on a student's name on the right to see his/her portfolio.

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This is space for your spring semester final portfolio.

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Early Bird Learning Center, Liberty's Child Development & Teaching Laboratory

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Early Bird Learning Center, Liberty's Child Development & Teaching Laboratory

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This year, our online presence has sky-rocketed!

We have gone from a website with only experiential & educational information regarding the individuals involved within the laboratory to a website containing nearly 20 tabs of information about our program. It now contains a plethora of information for our current families and students too. We utilized Symbaloo to create a one stop shop for some online personalized learning resources our families can use at home.

Our business Facebook page now has 170 likes and 100% 5/5 star reviews from current/past families and students. We now have a private Facebook group page too, where only our current families and incoming families can mingle, view upcoming events, share pictures, etc.

Our Twitter page is coming along too, with almost 100 followers.

This is our second year to use Class Dojo and our parent participation with it is 100%. We use this tool not only as a visual timer, random student selector, classroom management reinforce, but also as a valuable tool to communicate with our parents. It sends out weekly reports to our families emails/phones providing them with valuable feedback and data. Our students respond to the numerous modes of positive reinforcement it provides. Talk about student and family accountability!

Because of technology, we are an even better and more connected learning community!

Another way we assisted the business aspects of our school, was by going through the hoops of getting listed on Google. Yes, Google us (Early Bird Learning Center 64068)... we now pop-up!

We are also getting the word out about our program's existence. We now have an ever-growing waiting list (including not only three-five-year olds, but also infants) to get into our school.

Our enrollment process and required paperwork consists of not only the Liberty Public School District enrollment forms, but also the Missouri Department of Health Services forms. It is a tedious packet, but with the help of a Google Form, it is about to be paperless and completely online! Halleluah! Halleluah!

This year we have also added to our curriculum, a personalized reading program, called Lexia Reading Core5. By the end of this year, 100% of our students who attended the Early Bird Leaning Center for preschool & pre-kindergarten are entering kindergarten with at least a kindergarten reading level. Because of the data, feedback, and information the program provides, it has helped parents with determining what concepts they can assist their child with at home and how to assist. Lexia Reading Core5  is a program our students are always eager and motivated to use!

Another personalized learning tool we began implementing and utilizing is ABC Mouse. It incorporates math, reading, science, social studies, early learning activities and countless incentives the students can earn.

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This year, instead of having French V students give oral presentations about a favorite 19th century French artist, I asked them to create an i-movie, post it to Youtube, and attach a QR code. They also created an advertising flyer with the artist's name, a famous painting and the QR code to post in the hall. In this manner, more students were able to view the project.

Laura Snead

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With the help of Sara Wickham, my kids did a project-based learning design project where they researched problems that veterans undergo when they return home. We connected this to The Odyssey, and then students interviewed soldiers and came up with solutions to help aid veterans as they come home. Students presented their solutions to a group of panelists, and some of their ideas were even shared at a Veteran's Symposium at the VA! They may be put into action.

Kelsie Kleinmeyer

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Students rocked at the State Journalism competition this year, bringing home a host of awards. Technology rules in our classes, but thanks to Sara and others, new techniques and websites were added to our curriculum to help with students skills.

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In physical science, the students were a bit unruly at times, due to the student dynamics. By incorporating the use of Tackk and schoology during some units - the class ran smoothly and the students learned to work independently!

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I had to create a visual aid for a class I was taking and my 13 year old niece introduced me to S'more. I loved the layout and how visually appealing it was not to mention extremely easy to use. So I decided to try it out on my students and it worked beautifully! I had my AP students create an infographic over a topic related to East of Eden as a way to introduce the novel. I created the original topic list w/ links (with Glory Fagan's help). It was an engaging and easy way to introduce the novel by having the students do the work. I then had them post their infographic to Google Community.

Amy Ahart

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After investigation both Google Communities and Blogger, I have determined Blogger wins. I plan to have every student develop and publish their own blog with their work and reflections about the processes and techniques documented. We will set up at the beginning of the year and make this part of the routine and the way they turn in their work.<br>

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Julie Miller - This year there have been several wins.

1 - Took students to districts - brought home 11 one ratings and three eligible to go to state - Took three to state and won three medals.

2 - Through the digital transformation class I learned about adaptive release on blackboard as a way to provide more independent learning and as a way to reduce lecture in a class. Sara Wickham helped me with setting it up and trouble shooting problems before using it in class. I implemented this second semester and found that it was very helpful and a great way to allow the students more independence and accountability in their work. It also helped with class discussions as they were able to give more input based on what they had learned in the lessons on blackboard.

3 - Blog - the entire art department utilized a digital platform for our 'virtual' art show this year.

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Sara Wickham, Keslie Kleinmeyer, and I worked to put together a speech project for sophomores. It included use of technology and traditional speech giving techniques. The kids LOVED it and we recorded a few and sent them in to the Ted Talk website. Woot! -Rebecca Burnett

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Working with Sara Wickham to discover Socratic.com, which we used to get feedback as my juniors prepped for the ACT. Students were much more engaged. Since then, I have figured out how to use it and am using it to get quick feedback for reading questions for Gatsby...engagement has gone up. -Lori Oyler

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Project based learning is an integral part of any industrial tech or Project Lead the Way classroom, but that doesn't mean improvements can't be made. This year I have seen a large growth in myself and my students as I have placed more and more ownership on students to create projects from the ground up. It can be hard to give up the control and trust students to do the right things, but with consistent scaffolding and building toward an outcome, students have completed far more than I ever thought they would.

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We put the class in quads based off their leadership style. As a class, we took on big projects and were successful at most. We did the first annual Strut n Stroll, the first annual spring assembly, Military Appreciation Week, a hallway of stars so everyone feels like they belong, celebrations for every event at school, two send offs, helped organize spirit busses, and I am sure more. Jessica and I integrated a lot of technology in this class. We did a Google Community, a remind.com to help remind students of upcoming events, and a padlet for their "senior legacy."

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A student came up from 8th grade expecting to have the same para-professional with him all day. Not only did we slowly introduce him to working with multiple para-professionals throughout the day, be he has recently moved through the school without any additional adult support. He still won't get lunch by himself, but the Scramble can be a bit overwhelming. It is a small win, but one moving in the direction of independence.

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Found out Tackk is my soul mate - Kari Sherman

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Found out Tackk is my soul mate - Kari Sherman

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While participating in one of Sara's wonderful PD opportunities, I observed Charity using a Tackk to differentiate with her students. This sparked my interest so I began exploring and trying new things with this website. Throughout the year I was able to use Tackk with my students in numerous ways. I found it extremely helpful for days that I had subs since I could put step by step exactly what students needed to accomplish.

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Following a building season after a trip to state the year before, our Scholar Bowl team took second in Districts. At our awards night, one student said the turning point this season was when one of the coaches said, "Hey, let's actually be good this year." Next year we plan to say, "Let's actually be great this year!" Maybe we'll make it back to state again!

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Students used Padlet to share digital projects made from digital platforms of their choice from Thinglink to Piktochart to Smore/Tackk to iMovie

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Over 300+ incoming freshmen from LMS & DMS posted pictures and bios to Padlet walls to introduce themselves to their 9th grade advisory teacher and to one another!

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The freshman advisory classes this semester took on the task of creating videos to show our incoming freshman about how things operate at Liberty High School. The videos that were made inform the 8th graders about how to use Liberty hour, how to walk in the hallways, the difference between grading in middle school and high school, how important attendance is, where to sit during lunch, how to use their counselors. The hope is our incoming freshman will have heard of these things before they arrive at school to reduce some of the stress of a transition. The teachers and students did a great job of making these videos and I think this will help create some pride and more of a family atmosphere of trying to help out others at Liberty High School

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Students in our 5th hour Digital Information class submitted our first ever entry to the Follett Challenge. The students' contribution was that they created the video submission portion. Every other video was created by professionals or at least adults. The whole process was a learning one for each of us. Our class entry didn't win, but we did have over 400 views and several hundred votes. Just putting together the entry was a minor victory. It came on the heels of another small victory with their contribution to our LMC Make Over grant, which funded some of the changes in the library. ~Glory Fagan