Williamson

Ms. Williamson's Journaling Page:
I found that everyone wants to do a good job and some districts are behind while others have used the iPads in direct relation to the grant. setting up visitations was great so we have 2 visits to see and 2 schools visiting us during the month of November.

The research lessons, ela 10, books and film, and creative writing strategies including the ipads (and other teaching strategies) will be great to see.

Once students show us their excitement directly and via flip camera, their successes will keep us all motivated.

LOVE working with everyone, and especially appreciate the English depts. Working as one team.

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ELA 10 Period 3 October 2010: Quasi Survey Results for iPad Quest= Google Earth and Sarfari win over iBrainstorm, iMaps, and iBookshelf.

11/17/10 Alden and Depew visitation from Pioneer:

Great day. Janice Fisher (ELA 11 &12) and myself (consult for English 10 & 11; Global) had a very nice visitation with Kevin Edward this morning. His sophomores were very mature, competitive, focused and nice. We observed students using the ipads at a very proficient level having only minimal usage.I really liked the idea of taking a dry subject such as citations and plagiarism and revving it up with the 3 iPad challenges that Kevin used. We definitely should utilize this lesson for both our 10 & 11 graders prior to our research projects: MLA Master Blaster, interactive quiz on plagiarism and the utilization of student choice to either research using either the laptops or ipads. It is evident that Kevin and Ann are master teachers and we thank you so much for opening your classroom to us.

Maria McCabe was wonderful in her Depew classroom with seniors researching Greek Gods, exploring their personal connections and discovering the essential questions of good and evil in the world. When her junior class was introduced to an ant. Set for To Kill a Mockingbird with pictures from the Depression set to music, students were transported to that setting. Then their curiosity was whetted by searching their own picture of segregation to show off to their classmates utilizing the Elmo camera. 12.15.10 The iPad grant participants have all been very helpful. Our Alden and Depew visits have been great and it was neat to see some borrowed lessons from Ian at Pioneer that I couldn't observe with visitors and then that same strategy was used in Depew when I visited there. The students love our lessons and we should take another updated survey on what apps &strategies that they prefer. We also incorporate our Thoughtful Education strategies using the ipads as a district initiative that interconnects well. I hope we can use reading scores soon to measure increased comprehension within the next semester in order to fulfill the most important goal of this grant.

Happy Holidays everyone and enjoy precious time with your families.