The Paper-Free Class
Technology
Spooky Episode!
Check out our newest podcast episode at https://paperfreeclass.buzzsprout.com or search Paperfree Class on most podcasting platforms!
Our Podcast Has a New Home!
I have had to migrate over to Buzzsprout since Soundcloud was blocked throughout the school system. Very excited to get back to podcasting this year on our new platform. Don’t worry, your subscriptions will still be pointed to the right place! You can find our new listing here: Paperfree Class Podcast. Also have a new … Continue reading
Online Portfolio Project
Gifted students will be working on their online portfolios starting today. We will be writing a persuasive argument about exotic animals being pets and publishing it online. The advanced classes will be doing their speeches in class, with the online component being a powerpoint presentation or a Sway presentation. (Image borrowed from indiatoday.in)
New Episode Available!
Please check out our podcast here – you can also put the RSS feed into any podcast player to search for our podcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:174561607/sounds.rss – the latest episode from Ponce is episode 203! Hope you enjoy, and learn along with us as we try something new! Now also available on iTunes Podcast app! Just search for … Continue reading
The New Podcast is Here!
Please check out our podcast here – you can also put the RSS feed into any podcast player to search for our podcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:174561607/sounds.rss – the latest episode from Ponce is episode 201! Hope you enjoy, and learn along with us as we try something new!
The Podcast Returns!
This has been a rather exciting week. I have just recently started listening to a podcast by a famous comedian and reminiscing about the few episodes we did in my 8th grade class back at JFK Middle. The school year is about to start, and I want to start up again with these great kids … Continue reading
SAMR Model for Technology in the Classroom
This was all I could think of when we were talking about the SAMR Model in a workshop recently. This is why I make online publishing a big part of my class.
Online Portfolios
Getting started: Go to http://www.wordpress.com and click on Create Website. Choose the topic “Education” and what you would like your Portfolio to look like. Choose your Domain name – it MUST be firstnamelastinitialmdcps – then select the domain that comes up as firstnamelastinitialmdcps.wordpress.com (that’s the free one). You will need to put your email address … Continue reading
The Giver Games!
We have not had a post in a long time! But that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy! Check out an overview of our projects based on The Giver by Lois Lowry. Per. 1 Giver Games Per. 2 Giver Games Per. 3 Giver Games Per. 5 Giver Games Per. 6 Giver Games Per. 4 is … Continue reading
Blues Journey
Do you think Lemon Brown might have looked something like the man above? We are going to go on a blues journey. You will see four youtube links to blues songs that we may have heard in the class for this unit. For your home learning assignment, you should listen to the music. Do these songs … Continue reading
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