tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26967529547350762802023-11-16T03:05:20.054-08:00My Adventures as a Curriculum and Technology Teacher My experiences as I work to support teachers in Lakewood as a Curriculum and Technology Teacher. Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-9422211287276512662017-09-21T09:14:00.001-07:002017-09-21T09:14:41.102-07:00Writing for an Authentic Audience<span style="font-size: large;">Today we worked with Kindergartners to begin publishing their first writing pieces for this school year. We used iPads, clear nesting tables, and recording headphones with a microphone to cancel out background noise. Students were so excited to begin this process and were so excited to share their writing with their family through the Seesaw App! Below are some pictures of the process, as well as a finished product. </span><br />
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-10770563384317548342016-03-22T18:39:00.001-07:002016-03-22T20:04:03.647-07:00Teach the Writer, not the Piece- 3rd Grade Test Prep Writing UnitToday, our amazing Lincoln 3rd graders took a look at a recent opinion writing piece they did as part of their test prep unit. In today's mini lesson, students reviewed a classmates writing for all of the things that good Opinion Writers do. We used fun post-it tabs to mark each of these important parts. We used the following labeling system:<br />
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After engaging in this experience as a whole class, students returned to their own writing to evaluate themselves as good Opinion Writers (not their writing). </div>
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Without even being told to do so, students began to see where they forgot their good Opinion Writer habits and began adding those parts as part of the revision process. </div>
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During the workshop, we paused to ask how many students found things to add, all hands shot up. We shared a few examples of additions students had made. </div>
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At the end, we reminded students that they should always go back and revise what they have written, by making sure they have all of the "good opinion writing parts."</div>
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-82886902328956046422015-04-15T10:38:00.000-07:002015-04-30T10:49:17.172-07:003-D Shape Walk with 1st Grade and Attributes <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8AedaUDgBye5aEMuCzL7IZ7A7V3ZMcddwwDAKtT8pdHHhxXILGcQuRxZ3WUwSkw4xciv282DaT1CVzrevAaL06EDgIBboRVmZAuJAcGoJ1OoJYF5bde3y7loMaFX9zKhdy0Sk4VGOnRI8/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-04-30+at+1.33.14+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8AedaUDgBye5aEMuCzL7IZ7A7V3ZMcddwwDAKtT8pdHHhxXILGcQuRxZ3WUwSkw4xciv282DaT1CVzrevAaL06EDgIBboRVmZAuJAcGoJ1OoJYF5bde3y7loMaFX9zKhdy0Sk4VGOnRI8/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-04-30+at+1.33.14+PM.png" height="335" width="400" /></a><br />
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<br />Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-23334871494462112772015-03-10T10:42:00.000-07:002015-04-30T10:44:41.337-07:00Using Explain Everything to Tell the World what we Know! <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In First Grade, we are using the iPad App <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8" target="_blank">Explain Everything</a> to show the world what we know about books we are reading. We are using our typing and speaking skills, as well as researching for pictures that match our words. </span></div>
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-66843923044417703602015-01-26T08:00:00.000-08:002015-01-26T21:02:47.881-08:00Shape Walk with Kindergarten for 3-D Shapes This past week, kindergarten students went on a shape walk around the school. This walk was similar to one that we did earlier in the year with flat shapes, except for this time we were looking for 3-D shapes!<br />
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Students were searching the school high and low for 3-D shapes including: cylinders, cones, rectangular prisms, cubes, and spheres.<br />
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We were not sure how many shapes our kindergarten students would find, but they amazed us! They found 3-D shapes everywhere. Check some of them out below!<br />
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Next we will be putting these 3-D shapes into a Padlet, where we will again review what it means t be a 3-D shape and then provide the shape name and give the attributes of the shape. Our class Padlet will then be posted on the teacher blog and here to share the great kindergarten searching and thinking! Look forward to it!<br />
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<br />Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-31140393113017880862015-01-22T21:15:00.000-08:002015-01-26T21:15:52.665-08:00Our New Take on Field TripsWe now have a new way to reflect on field trips. During the 2nd grade trip to WKYC, students took pictures to document their learning with the iPad. They then reflected on their learning once they returned to school. This reflection helped students not only to process their learning during the trip, but also allowed them to practice and demonstrate 21st Century skills, including sharing their ideas and learning digitally through pictures and words with a their peers, parents, and community. Check out their work below!<br />
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-22984017678911106582015-01-22T20:30:00.000-08:002015-01-26T20:33:46.963-08:00Cross Curricular in Grade 1: Merging Math and Social Studies There are some topics that lend themselves so well to cross curricular work. Once of those topics happen to be Maps in the first grade Social Studies curriculum.<br />
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-20091478650276651062015-01-20T21:09:00.000-08:002015-01-26T21:09:27.653-08:00LincologyDuring the past week, our fifth grade students have been working hard to answer the question: How does technology help you better meet the standard in the classroom...here is what they came up with!<br />
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-50563440045744956232015-01-16T20:49:00.000-08:002015-01-26T20:53:18.176-08:00New Crew at Lincoln Elementary A new club this year at Lincoln is the Lincoln News Crew.<br />
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Lincoln News Crew is a group of 13 fourth and fifth grade students who work collaboratively each week to plan, produce, and publish the Friday video announcements at Lincoln.<br />
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Through this club, we are reenforcing multiple 21st century skills, as well as classroom standards. Students are learning how to make news interesting with their script and the way in which our Anchors Deliver the Script. Students are learning how to record and edit video. But most importantly, students are learning to work together with their peers to plan something great and getting to see the end product of their work each week.<br />
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This club has been such a rewarding experience for each of these students and it has been such a pleasure to watch as the club evolves each week!<br />
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Check out our Lincoln News Crews Morning Announcements from this year so far below!</div>
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-44420163131210093502015-01-05T20:34:00.000-08:002015-01-26T20:41:34.525-08:00Preparing for the PARCC Assessment During the last couple weeks before winter break and in the coming weeks, we will be helping students to prepare to show their smarts on the PARCC and Ohio AIR Assessments. We will be reviewing the tools available to them, as well as some of the sample test items.<br />
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As we have begun to review some of this material, it seems that our students are doing these types of tasks on a regular basis and it was so great to see the multiple strategies that were applied, especially on the Math Assessment.<br />
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We have been discussing the importance of PROVING your answer, just like lawyers so in court cases. We prove our answer in English Language Arts by going back to the text and providing evidence from the text. We prove our answer in Mathematics by showing our work and sometimes explaining our thinking in words.<br />
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-69422857420861619972014-12-12T11:06:00.000-08:002014-12-12T11:06:00.782-08:00Hour of Code at Lincoln Elementary This week marks the second annual National Computer Science Week and Hour of Code. This week, students from Kindergarten, First and Third grades took part and learned a great deal about the math, reading, reasoning and critical thinking that go into Computer Science work. For more fun and practice, visit <a href="http://www.code.org/">www.code.org</a> or <a href="http://studio.code.org/">studio.code.org</a>!<br />
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-18815681329153765412014-12-12T10:59:00.003-08:002014-12-12T11:00:40.247-08:00Rhyme Sorting with QR Codes This week our Kindergarten reading group did rhyming sorts using QR codes and iPads. Students worked with a partner and had to scan a QR code, listen to two words read to them and decide if they two words rhymed or not. They then sorted the QR codes-- rhyme or do not rhyme. After all 12 QR codes were sorted, students received an answer sheet where they scanned QR codes to check to see if their sort was right. Students were so engaged and it was really helpful for students to be able to listen to words read to them as many times as they needed to. It was also a great opportunity for students to practice working with a partner and collaborating!<br />
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Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-72592394705274175112014-11-20T16:40:00.001-08:002014-11-20T16:40:17.249-08:00Mastering Those Pesky Math FactsRecently there has been some great discussion centered around the lack of math fact fluency in our elementary kiddos. I have a couple of great resources for that!<br />
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This is a WONDERFUL free resource and something that you could use of skill practice besides just math! It is a game-based practice tool. The teacher can load their questions and answers in and the students can play as individuals or on teams. The best part...after the game is finished, you can get a spreadsheet report as a teacher, so you know exactly what each student got right/wrong and what they answered! The kids LOVE this website!<br />
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I found a template online and modified it a bit. When I shared it with Mr. McGuan, he altered it a bit more and took it a step further that just traditional student led conferences. Students in his class will actually be giving a Student Led Conference Presentation to both Mr. McGuan and his or her parents. Students have been working hard during the past week to reflect on their learning this past quarter. Students created a presentation in Google Slides where they embedded work, as well as their personal successes, struggles and goals.<br />
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When Mr. McGuan turned it into a presentation instead of a traditional conference format, I thought it was a great idea to tie in the Speaking and Listening Standards (see below for more detail). Students have really taken off with their presentations and will even be dressing up for the event, they are SUPER excited! And why shouldn't they be, they have all accomplished great this so far this school year! I am trying to get my hands on one of their presentations to share, but until then, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVglybcgiMiDhkR2Y-DlEKStDvHv0oXFeNwK_onSdII/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">click here</a> for the template used by the students to create their SLC presentations.<br />
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Our first graders are so excited to publish their first piece of narrative writing as we near the end of the 1st quarter of school (crazy, I know!) We used iMovie (Movie>Simple) on the iPad to create a movie of their story across pages with pictures of their writing and voice recording for each page. We then finished the movies and uploaded them to the teacher YouTube page (set as unlisted so teachers can determine who sees the movies). You should have seen the sparkle in the 1st graders' eyes as we tapped "share," they were gleaming with pride. Teacher will be sharing these videos in a youtube playlist with parents via their teacher twitter and/or their classroom Blog! Can't wait to share some very soon! </div>
Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-89060097518906047442014-10-15T06:51:00.003-07:002014-10-15T06:55:32.775-07:00More on Coding...The language our kids need to learn! <div style="text-align: center;">
Another awesome resource for teaching our kids how to code. Check our this article found by Sean McGuan. This is the future! Our students need to be ready and add this skill to their repertoire! </div>
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Today I worked with Kindergarten to find shaped in our environment! You would be amazed by how many shapes they found by just walking down the hall! We used iPads and took pictures in Google Drive so that teachers would be able to get back to the pictures later! If you do not know about using Google Drive to take pictures, you're missing out! You can use it on any mobile device (iPad, iPhone, Android phone).<br />
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First you need to download the Google Drive App on your device. Then sign in using your Google Apps log-in (Here in Lakewood, we have a Google Apps Edu Domain for our staff and teachers). Once signed in, we created a folder for the pictures entitled "Shape Walk Pictures" and then clicked on the folder to open it.<br />
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Check out some of the awesome shapes we found around us! </div>
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This week, we moved on to previewing the shapes concepts that students will begin working with in real world situations next week. We used the <b><u>GeoBoard App</u></b> (<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geoboard-by-math-learning/id519896952?mt=8" target="_blank">click here for the App Store</a>) to show different shapes. We talked about the characteristics of rectangles and squares and their similarities and differences. Students were even able to verbalize the difference between a rectangle and a square! We learned that a square is still a square even when we rotate it (I used Google Slides to demonstrate rotating a shape) or make it bigger or smaller! As long as the shape has four sides and four corners, with all sides being the same length (great use of vocabulary word too!) then the shape is still a square! We also used different colors to show that rectangles have four sides with sides across from each other having the same length (again with that vocab!) We used the same color for all sides of a square because all sides are equal lengths!<br />
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<br />Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-87555765289253012352014-09-24T19:53:00.001-07:002014-09-24T19:55:27.744-07:00So Many Ideas...So Little TimeWow! The past week and half flew by! So many great things happening in our Lincoln Learning Community! We have so many great things going on including teacher blogs with <a href="http://makingourwaythrough1stgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kathy Sisson</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/SissonSmarties" target="_blank">@SissonSmarties</a>) and <a href="http://learninginlincoln207a.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sean McGuan</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/LKWDMcGuan" target="_blank">@LKWDMcGuan</a>) where teachers and students are learning how to share the amazing things happening in their classroom with the community!<br />
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We have Google Classroom up in running in 3rd-5th grade and teacher and students alike are loving the simplified format for creating, collaborating, providing feedback and sharing work! It is awesome for working with The Columbia Writing Project- Writer's Workshop and such great exposure for our students! <br />
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Literature Circle Commercials were a great success in 5th Grade, where students worked to prompt the use of literature circles in the classroom to share with younger grades! How could younger student not want to participate in Literature Circles when after seeing a video like this?</div>
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I cannot wait for all of the other amazing thing right around the corner with our Lincoln Learners! </div>
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<br />Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-76276338163831679382014-09-11T11:06:00.000-07:002014-09-11T12:05:03.249-07:00Okay...This year I will Blog! First Up, Blogger with Lit Cirles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am making it one of my major goals this year to not only support the teachers I work with, but also share the great work we do with the world!</span><br />
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First up, Using Blogger with Literacy Circles. This year, one of the first things I began working on with a teacher is Literacy Circles on Blogger. The steps can be found below and the kids and teacher are loving their ability to pose questions, offer feedback and share their work quickly with their group to facilitate rich conversation, along with video and pictures. Now we just began, so I will post later on to share some of their great work with you.</span><br />
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<b><u>Setting up Groups Literacy Circles on Bloggers</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Students should be in the Google Apps for Edu Domain for your district</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Students go to the Chrome Web Store and Install Blogger for their Browser</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Students can then bookmark the Blogger Website</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. They will create a "Basic Blogger Profile" (unless your district has Google+ enabled for your students)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. One student will start a blog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. That student will then go into the blog settings and add their follow classmates e-mail account (linked to Google Apps for Edu) AND their teacher(s) as authors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. The other group members will then go into their student e-mail and then accept the blogger invitation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. The student who created the Blog will then set all authors as "admin"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Now, all students, and the teacher(s) have access to participate on the blog</span><br />
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Notes: This particular teacher is using Google Classroom and Drive to work though drafting writing, and then Blogger to Post Final work for discussion.</span><br />
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<br />Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696752954735076280.post-87670285839489042522013-11-07T08:12:00.001-08:002013-11-07T08:45:18.214-08:002nd graders into Google Docs, Importing Images and QR coding with classroom youtube videos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2nd Graders at Roosevelt have been very busy lately on their computers! The kiddos in Mrs. Manderfield's class crafted stories about their sought after superpower in Google Docs, shared their doc with their teacher for feedback and even imported a hand drawn illustration to their doc.<br />
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Their next step is to create a video presentation of their work. Students will be recording themselves reading their work on the classroom You Tube channel. Students will then be creating QR codes linked to their You Tube videos and import the QR code into their Google Doc. The final step will be to print out their final piece to display at conference. Parents will be able to use a QR code scanner to scan their child's work and watch their student present the work hanging on the wall!<br />
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Update: This project was a huge hit at conference last night!Abbey Gleasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04308238864261949079noreply@blogger.com0