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After inviting my first followers to a learning lab, those teachers collaborated. The 4th grade students created boards and shared them with the kindergarten students.

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The students created a google slide of a Natural Disaster that we are learning about in Science. We are using google classroom to help manage this project. This project lets the students show their understand of curriculum content.

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The students have been working in Seasaw and are learning to use it the many different components of the program. the students wrote a animal research paper and drew a picture to go with it. The students then took a picture of their project and read their research paper and posted it to Seasaw. This program is a great way to keep a digital portfolio of their work and share their work with their parents.

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BookSnaps
My 2nd - 5th grade students are working on BookSnaps. They pick their favorite book and take a picture of a page or paragraph they want to talk about. We will be publishing these on Seesaw to share on our blogs.

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My learning lab consisted of an SOS strategy, Footloose, when the students reviewed the causes of the American Revolution.  With that information, the students used Google classroom to complete a digital timeline.

When I did this lesson, I invited a colleague into my classroom to observe and give feedback. It was very exciting for another person to see the exciting activities going on in my classroom. She was very excited to learn about Discoveries SOS strategies and what can be done in Google Classroom.

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We completed a learning lab using Google Slides to build a timeline of events leading to the American Revolution.  We first used the Footloose SOS strategy to review paper timelines they had already created as notes.  As the song stopped and started, the students met with various peers to review each event.  Then the students worked with partners to create a digital timeline using a template on Google Slides.  The students were extremely engaged in the task while discussing, typing, and searching for images.  I was impressed with their creativity.

During this learning lab, two teachers visited to observe.  Mrs. Becker observed the SOS strategy and was engaged with me in circulating and monitoring the partners' conversations.  Ms. Wengert observed the students as they worked on Google Slides.  She was engaged in monitoring and asking students questions about their learning and choices of text and images.  We also were able to talk and share ideas for using Google Classroom.  She shared how she has used Google Forms in 5th grade and how she could see incorporating Google Slides more after seeing this project idea.  It was very helpful and encouraging to discuss ideas with her.

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First Followers
After participating in a learning lab, Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Drew will be working together on Board Builder.  Mrs. Webb's 4th grade students will be completing a board on a kindergarten topic for Mrs. Drew's students.  Mrs. Drew's class will visit Mrs. Webb's class to view the boards.

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Learning Lab
I conducted a learning lab with a 4th grade class.  Mrs. Webb's class created a board that reviewed SS essential facts.  They each completed 4 facts.  The students that didn't finish in my class, they were going to finish in their own classroom.  After everyone is finished, the students will complete the SOS strategy, a gallery walk, in order to view all the boards and essential facts.

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I did my first learning lab. I invited 2 teachers into my classroom while my students were attempting to create instructional videos.

Before teachers arrived we did a problem with a misconception about adding 2 digit numbers. Then the teachers arrived to observe the lesson. The students did well and completed the project. We did a practice mini-video before to make sure they all understood what they were supposed to do in Seesaw.

As the students made their videos, I was able to provide feedback to help them. Some students discovered ways that made making the video easier and it became a learning process for all of us. The teachers who were observing did a great job of interacting with the students. They asked them questions and even provided a little support to the students. They also asked me questions about how they could implement this in their own classroom.

Overall, I would say it went well, unfortunately our power went out at the very end of the lesson and not all students were able to submit their projects.

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Porfolio Sharing

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My second grade students used Seesaw to create ePortfolios. They uploaded pictures of their work and put it into categories in Seesaw.

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We practiced various skills in our reading groups. For the first portion students participated in a read to self activity where they had to read and respond to independently chosen books. They needed to respond on Seesaw. This is something at that we have been practicing in class so the students were aware of what they needed to do and they were successful.

For the second part, students needed to work in various apps to complete Daily 5 reading activities. They worked in IXL, compass and read theory. This was the first time I had tried this in reading groups and I feel like the students were very successful. One thing I would like to do better is have more SOS strategies.

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I had been working with students on how to answer written response questions in complete sentences, so I posed a question to students and had them link to a padlet to write a complete sentence to a question that I had asked them to respond to. It was the first time the students had ever worked with padlet, so it definitely became a learning experience.  This activity did provide a great opportunity for us to talk about what they did well and how we could make our writing better.
https://padlet.com/mtwaddle/hlcinqyhs59c

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The students are engaged in a Discovery Learning video about magnets I used the video to review concepts that we had been learning in our unit. I enjoyed the fact that I can stop the video at various points to have in depth conversation with the students to enhance their learning.

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In science we are studying Land Biomes / habitats. With help from Dana and myself, a member of our 3rd grade team created learning boards in Discovery learning for our students to experience and do research. I would introduce each habitat and talk the students through the board, then the students each had paper flip books to record the information that students need to master. Each board contained pictures of animals and plants, written information and videos. The students have really loved learning about each habitat and were very engaged.

https://google.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/BD5A32A6-FE26-2987-86AD-35DA968397CD

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We just finished using boards to learn about land biomes. The students loved it! They had a paper flipbook with a guide for recording notes and used the information from the boards (pictures, text, and videos) to complete the flipbook. We started each new board together and talked through the new information as the students looked at their laptops and I had the same board displayed on the Promethean board. Then students worked independently to explore the rest of the board and finish their notes. They stayed very engaged! Another exciting aspect of this activity was that one of my colleagues heard Michelle and I talking about boards and got so interested she wanted to incorporate them into the next science unit...it was great to see others see how helpful and engaging the tools we are learning to use can be.

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We did stations at the beginning of our unit on text features in reading. The stations used a mix of web tools (slides, videos), paper/pencil recording, and discussion.The students were very engaged and demonstrated the knowledge they had gained in a whole group discussion. I was also able to float around the room and provide assistance and further questioning since each station had self-guided directions to follow.

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We used seesaw for the first time today. The students were asked to pretend to be a water droplet moving through the water cycle and describe what they were doing. First, they had to draw a picture of the water cycle then they had to record themselves tell their story. The students really demonstrated a deep understanding of how the water cycle works. However, many of them just ended up telling the steps of the water cycle rather than tell the story as the water droplet. After they complete this task they were asked to give constructive compliments on what they liked about someone else's video. For example, do not just say I like it. Tell what you like about it and why you like about it. We are still working in this skill. The students really seemed to enjoy this task though.

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We tried something new in Math today. We learned about pictographs. The students developed their own survey question and surveyed the class. Together we talk about why some classmates had different results than others and how we can make our results more valuable. Then we took the results and made it into a bar graph using our ipads and website found online. Then we compared our pictographs and bar graphs and discovered what was the same and different about them.
Many of the students came up with some very insightful comparisons. While we could have used a little more time to complete the lesson, overall the lesson was a success.

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We did stations during reading. During the first rotation, one group worked with me while the other students read and responded to their personal books on their level.
In the second rotation, the student went to various related to station to allow them explore different aspects of reading. One station worked on spelling words and counting how much that word was worth using coins. Another group wrote a How-To about counting up a certain number of coins. Another group used their ipads.

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Technology Lab
We did stations on how to create a Board. The week before, the class I used practiced going to one of the stations. Afterwards, we discussed how we could make this activity better. The students gave me some good suggestions (ie smaller groups) and I used their suggestions to finish planning. There were 4 stations: inserting text, inserting pictures, inserting videos, and discussion (How could I use Board Builder in the classroom?). The groups spent 5 minutes at each station and then returned to their computers to start practicing creating a board.

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I used the SOS strategy "Footloose" to engage students in discussing their results of a math activity about the need for standard units of measurement. After completing the measurement activity, students moved around the room with their results while I played a song. When the music stopped, students stopped and paired up with someone next to them. Then they discussed a question I posed about their findings and conclusions. Then I played the music again, and students moved until I stopped and they had a new partner to discuss a new question with. This strategy was very successful in keeping students engaged and on task with discussing the activity.

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We did stations in Social Studies to help review for our test. Students worked in a variety ways: sorting, using google earth to explore, drawing pictures, reading and following directions and on group worked with me reviewing math and playing a review social studies game.

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Technology Lab
We watched a Discovery Education video about the Internet.  The Fixies taught my students what the Internet was and how to use it.

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mtwaddle@greenville.k12.sc.us
3rd Grade Teacher

Goals
1.  I would like to find new ways to incorporate technology during my enrichment time.
2.  I would like to use the google apps into my classroom with students.

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cdwalker@greenville.k12.sc.us
2nd grade teacher

Goals:
1. I would like to increase use of technology tools in math centers (one then two.)
2. I would like find new ways to incorporate more technology during my enrichment time.

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dtinklepaugh@greenville.k12.sc.us
3rd Grade Teacher

Goals:
1. I would like to increase the use of Discovery and other web tools in Science and Social Studies by 15 minutes.
2. I want to incorporate new technology stations/centers to Enrichment.

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tbowie@greenville.k12.sc.us, nthompso@greenville.k12.sc.us
Instructional Coaches for Duncan Chapel Elementary
School Wide Goals:
1)  We would like to use/increase technology in math centers (one, then two, etc.)
2) We will increase (15 minutes) the use of Web 2.0 tools in our classrooms in a particular content area (Teacher's choice).

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Technology Lab
asopko@greenville.k12.sc.us
Goals:
I want to learn how to use Board Builder and teach some of my classes how to use it.
I want to incorporate videos from Discovery Education into my lessons. These videos can be on content the students are learning in my class or in their regular class.