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December issue of the Google for Education newsletter

The 16 Best Google Apps Updates of 2015 (So Far)

Formative Assessment in Math with Google Draw!

Common Core Vocabulary Shifts

Genius Bar at BHS!

One of the goals of the Technology Planning Committee has been:

"Students of the Baldwinsville Central School District will become an integral part of the planning, implementation and support of the district technology plan".

"Goal #13: Students at Baker High School serve as trainers and support systems for staff and teachers"

Mrs Cartier, the Library Media Specialist at Baker has made the goal a reality!

Check out this CBS News Channel 5  " Terrific Tuesday" segment!

Plickers

Just give each student a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your Smartphone to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and polls.  It's free and all of your student data is saved automatically at plickers.com  Click the Picture to get to the website!

Google for Education Blog

Here's a helpful blog you may want to subscribe to!

Learning Coaches- Welcome to Baldwinsville!

What is a Learning Coach?

“Coaching is a confidential process through which two or more professional colleagues work together to reflect on current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; conduct classroom research; or solve problems in the workplace”.1

Learning coaches work in small groups and one-on-one:
building instructional strategies to engage students and improve student learningsolving classroom and academic challengesdeveloping lessons and units of instructiondiscussing student assessment data and plan for future learning
Our overall goal is to maximize student success!

We are available to work together individually or with your team.  

We can be reached at learningcoaches@bville.org.  

We’ll see you soon!

Jessica Ancona

Tonya Buda

Julie Jones-Beckwith

Eric Ziegler

Our Name and Mission have Changed!

A big thanks to all of you who have followed us as Bville Instructional Technology! 

We are now broadening our mission to "all things learning" and will be posting all sorts of information to help our students achieve their full potential!!!

Learn Like a Pirate

Great Book!

PIRATE is an acronym that author Paul Solarz uses for Peer Collaboration, Improvement, Responsibility, Active Learning, Twenty-First Century Skills, and Empowerment

1st Grade Academy Awards in Mrs. Bach's Class

Mrs. Bach's 1st graders at Reynolds Elementary created Superhero iMovie Trailers to learn about their Verbs!  During the process we wrote out our storyboards, had students videotape and take pictures of each other to act out the verbs they picked on the playground, and had The Academy Awards in class with their parents to showcase their hard work.  Students dressed up, Walked a Red Carpet, and signed autographs at the end of all the presentations!

Kindergarten Palmer Pengiuns Egg Drop Test

Egg Drop Carriers

Palmer Kindergarten Students learning how to Plan, Design, and Construct and Egg Drop Carrier.. They also Learned about the concepts of Gravity, Momentum, and Air Resistance in the process.  Some kids even added Parachutes!

KAHOOT

Check Out Kahoot!

Kahoot is a free, highly engaging, game based response system similar to Socrative.  Teachers create and then display questions of a quiz or survey on the Smartboard screen.  Students can answer them using ALL kinds of devices.  It benefits instruction because it provides teachers with Quick Formative Feedback as they can check for understanding in real time.  Click on the Picture to Check it out!!

Mr. Ashworth's 4th graders working with a library automation software company on product development. Thier feedback is pushing the product development! Talk about PBL!

iMovie Book Reviews for Class and the Library

iMovie Book Reviews

 Mrs. Campbell's Language Arts classes designed iMovie trailers based on 19 different novels that they read in class.  Students that read the same novel, worked individually and in collaborative groups to plan out and work on their project.  They had to take into account character development; Images that were symbolic of parts of the story; Text that intrigued a person to want to read the book.  The template that they chosed for the story had to set the mood by having the correct kind of music and transition.  Here are a few to check out.  All 19 will be featured on the Ray Library Learning Commons Webpage so that other students can watch to see if they would be interested in reading the novel. If you would like to try it out in class and would like some help setting the project up let me know. (eziegler@bville.org)   

How to...Lesson with the NAO Robot in Miss. Dembs' 1st Grade Classroom

Check out how engaged Miss Dembs' 1st graders were as they programmed their own file using the Choreograph software that makes the NAO robot move and interact. They created "How to" instructions for the robot to act out and showcase for the rest of the class to see.  Some students had the robot explain how to get to the library incorporating distance (measurement), others chose to create some instructions on how to perform a daily task they do in the classroom.  If you would like the robot to visit your classroom, contact me for more information at eziegler@bville.org

BoomWriter!

Let your students develop & enhance
their writing, reading, vocabulary,
& peer assessment skills

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