Using iLearn (Moodle) for critical thinking skills, oral language development, vocabulary building and more at the elementary level just became easier! I have been busy creating some iLearn (Moodle) courses that elementary teachers can use immediately. Below is a summary of the courses that have been created and are ready to share. You can enroll in any…
This year, I’ve been working with an amazing team of sixth grade ELA teachers at Bryant Middle School to make the transition to implementing My Learning Plan on a digital platform using Mahara. Previously, the team was introduced to Mahara and some of the possibilities. Today, we met to discuss the required elements of student pages…
As I mentioned in Part 1, we can spend a lot of time adding things on to our lessons that make them shine…at least for a while. It’s often just glitter. Here today, gone tomorrow–along with all of the time we spent putting it together and learning how it all worked. This is no less true…
We All Make Mistakes I recently read an article published on Shaelynn Farnsworth’s blog, entitled 6 Alternatives to Reading Logs. It piqued my interest because I remember assigning reading logs in my classroom, and how that plan didn’t always work out so well. When I assigned reading logs in my classroom, I found out a…
“My kids can’t do that.” This is one of the most common (and incorrect) statements I hear as a Tech Coach. But this isn’t what I see when I work with students. I witness students, as young as 5, logging into Chromebooks, navigating the internet, and utilizing apps- all with little or no help at all…
Today, students in Joe Shannon’s 2nd hour history class at Fordson generated QR codes for their “My Learning Plan” Pages and submitted them to Mr. Shannon’s iLearn course. Mr. Shannon can now print the QR codes so students can place the code in a location like their planner cover or a poster on the classroom…
The Tech Coaches have had the pleasure of working alongside an exceptional teacher at William Ford, Ms. Jazel Fakhreddine. Jazel is using her Moodle (iLearn) course to help her ELL students and their families access information in her classroom. By using Google Translate and adding audio files of translations into her Moodle course, students have…
This school year started off with a specific focus on goals and artifacts in several elementary schools around the district. Teachers at Geer Park, William Ford, Haigh, Maples and McDonald have begun using Mahara ePortfolios with their classes to keep track of goals and collect important artifacts throughout the school year. First, elementary students create their…
Yesterday, I encouraged teachers to download one of the most potentially useful apps you can have on your mobile device: a QR-code reader. This is a simple app that allows you to use your camera to scan a code that looks like this…and go directly to a website, access a Google Doc or Slides presentation, view…
Over the past month, I have had the opportunity to work with first graders in Ms. Miryam Shajrah’s class at William Ford on a very exciting PBL project, the Virtual Zoo. Ms. Shajrah’s first graders conducted research on an animal of their choosing, including such facts as habitat, diet, and skin covering. The students then…
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