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Sophomores at Asher are looking forward to Skyping with students in Brownsberg, Indiana. The students have formed groups and picked topics. This is the list:
Liz, Jerri Dawn, Garrick, Jordan Prisoner’s Rights
Brandon, Shane, Jerrod, Brittney Health Care Reform
Taylor, Morgan, Matthew, Ty Tasers on Youth
Alissa, Courtney, Erin, Dakota NFL Women Coaches
CJ, Trent, Phillip Guns on School Campuses

Did you know you can Skype from Asher Public School in Asher, Oklahoma, to a school in Brownsburg, Indiana, one afternoon and Spokane, Washington, the next? This is what our students at our school are engaged in. All in attempts to build support and increase awareness about a very serious issue. The issue is texting while driving. Students from three states will join the project Ning advocating and pledging their support against texting while driving. The Ning is located at: . Students will follow the project’s assignments within the project wiki at: . Our students are making significant progress to conquer the digital divide becoming technology titans!

8:30 – 9:00 Steffanie Exam View FOR 5th grade teachers and up

ALL TEACHERS WILL JOIN AT 9:00

9:00 – 9:30 Carrie
9:30 – 10:00 Kryssi
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:45 Brian with Scholastic Communications

11:45 – 12:00 Dismiss to rooms

Please let me know if we need to change anything. We will meet in Hailey’s room for the entire morning.

I am experimenting with a new web application called Glogster. It can be accessed by following this link:

Keep Your Paws On The Wheel

Perfect example of learning in the 21st century…this morning I Skyped with Mrs. Morgan in New Lennox, Illinois. My students (Mrs. Milburn’s 6th grade classroom) will collaborate with her students after watching their virtual fieldtrip/scavenger hunt from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, where they visited the ancient Egyptian display. Collaboration will take place via Skype and Epals.com. We will share digital autobiographies, and, of course, questions. Inquiry is the one of the highest order of cognition! If I haven’t said it…this is the perfect example of learning in the 21st century. Technology levels the playing field. Here is the link to the virtual fieldtrip/scavenger hunt.

Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

Unbelievable! It took me approximately one week to come in contact with a teacher in Illinois using Classroom 2.0 to facilitate a collaborative project between her students and my students at Asher Public School; actually, this is a trio of effort add to this a colleague of mine, Carrie Milburn, the 6th grade homeroom teacher. My students will view the virtual field trip scavenger hunt posted by Heidi Morgan’s students touring the ancient Egyptian display at the Chicago Museum. We will then Skype with her students in addition to using epals.com to further commensurate this elearning project. I will continue to update our progress. Included in this post is a post to Wesley Fryer’s wiki that includes a variety of information perhaps helpful to this project. The Wiki is entitled Quick-Victories for 1:1 initiatives.

http://wiki.wesfryer.com/Home/handouts/quick-victories-for-1-1-classrooms

This is, tentatively, what the day will look like:

Coffee 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Education is about… 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. (Whitney)
Break 10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Promethean Board 10:45 – 1:00 p.m. (Tiffany)
(ActiVotes and Exam View)
Released to classroom 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

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Here is a preview of the activity we will be doing while studying the unit over Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was influenced greatly by Verrocchio whose name means “true eye”. Verrocchio encouraged Leonardo to explore deeply the art and symmetry within nature. Coupled with Leonardo’s passion to solve nature’s mysteries and his superior mathematical and engineering prose, Leonardo used as his palette, Fibonacci’s nature’s numbers. The chrysanthemum is one example of the pattern represented by Fibonacci’s numbers.

chyrsanthemum