Getting I.T. Right @ CeVMS!: 6th Grade ELA

The 6th Grade ELA teachers teamed up with Wallwisher/Padlet to create an easy way for their students to turn in, publish, and present work.

Ms. Goldenberg, one of four 6th grade ELA teachers, elaborates on the project:

"My students did a really nice job creating flyers and newsletters in Microsoft Publisher and then posting them on my Wallwisher walls. This was a really necessary lesson for them because they learned how to use Publisher, change file types for posting, and create pie charts. All of the grade 6 LA teachers did this project, and I'm sure they had good results as well."

Check out one of Ms. Goldenberg's walls:

Created with Padlet

Getting I.T. Right @ CeVMS!: 6th Grade Science

Ms. Midkiff elaborates on classroom procedures for integrating technology seamlessly into the classroom. By utilizing tools such as Google Forms and Wallwisher/Padlet, her students are able to spend more time focused on the content and less time unfocused as she loads the next presentation. Additionally, she doesn't have to spend time reformatting student submissions for presentation. Now that's a good example of "never working harder than your students." Thank you , Ms. Midkiff for talking about the how of instructional technology.

"Sixth grade science students researched nine energy resources. They turned in their energy research to my wallwisher (one for each class period) that was embedded on my teacher website. While each student presented, the others completed a Google Response to Presentation form where they wrote questions for the presenter. The Wall Wisher let me run the slides in sequence without copy/pasting them into one PowerPoint, and the response form helped them to focus critically on the presentations." --Kim Midkiff, 6th Grade Science Teacher

A screenshot of Ms. Midkiff's response form.

A screenshot of Ms. Midkiff's wall.

Monster Mash!

The Cedar Valley Foreign Language classes are making a "monstrous" splash into technology this year already! Check out this assignment from Ms. Ruiz de Chavez's classroom and how the students combined speaking, listening, recording, writing, and technology all in one lesson---and it's in a different language!!! Can you believe it? 


Here's the correspondence from Ms. Ruiz de Chavez explaining the lesson: 


Hola!, 

I just thought I'd share a technology lesson that I'm doing with my students this week. They made a bunch of really cool monsters & today they are recording descriptions using vocaroo & posting them on wall wisher. Tomorrow, they will listen to their classmate's description of their monsters & try to recreate them.

If you want to see what they've come up with, here are the links to their wall wisher sites:

http://wallwisher.com/wall/mi_monstruo-p2

http://wallwisher.com/wall/mi_monstruo-p3

http://wallwisher.com/wall/mi_monstruo-p4

http://wallwisher.com/wall/mi_monstruo-p7

http://wallwisher.com/wall/mi_monstruo-p8

http://wallwisher.com/wall/mi_monstruo-p9

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Cordialmente,

Nelly Ruiz de Chavez

Español 1A

Cedar Valley Middle School

Thank you Ms. Ruiz de Chavez for sharing your class with us! Here are links to the resources this class used: http://vocaroo.com/ and http://wallwisher.com/