How to Post a Pwr. Point Presentation

1) Open Powerpoint File
2) File > Save as Web Page, type your file name and save as type PNG
3) A box will pop up, choose > Every Slide
4) Once you have saved your powerpoint succesfully and know where you saved it you can move on to the next step
5) Go to flickr.com > Select "Create Your Account" and either > create an account or Sign In using your Yahoo ID
6) Once you have an account and are signed in in the center of the screen there will be a Blue Box titled "Here's How to Get Started" > select "Upload your first photos"
7) Step 1 > Choose photos and videos
8) The files you are supposed to use will be in the folder with your PNG files > select the files in "chronilogical" order from Slide1.PNG to Slide2.PNG etc.
9) Select > Upload photos and Video
10) Return to the flickr.com homepage and select the "Organize and Create" tab on the top of the screen
11) Drag items from the bottom onto the blank slate on the center of the screen to edit them
12) Select the "Add to Set" Tab > type name > select save
13) Select "You" > "Sets" > select your Set > copy the HTML from that page for later use)
14) Go to flickrslidr.com/
15) "URL of User, Set or Group" paste the HTML from step 13
16) "Tags" enter terms related to your powerpoint
17) Click on "Create Slideshow!"
18) scroll down, if the preview is everything you desire then copy the entire "Code" above the preview
19) paste the code in an entry on your blog
20) You're DONE!

Developing Homework Policies

Follow the link below to an article on homework, read the article and discuss with your assigned partner.

WikEd Homework Policies

Homework and Practice

Establishing and communicating a homework policy that students and parents can understand is an important teacher responsibility.  After researching this topic write a policy that you can use for the remainder of the year and post that policy to this blog by copying and pasting the policy into a comment to this post.  You may also want to post your homework policy on your own blog or website.

Advance Organizers

An advance organizer is a cognitive strategy proposed by Ausubel in his Subsumption Theory, which allows the learner to recall and transfer prior knowledge to the new information being presented. This theory is based on the idea that learning is facilitated, if the learner can find meaning in the new information. If a connection can be made between the new information and previous knowledge, the learning experience will become more meaningful to the learner. Therefore, the new information will be learned. The advance organizer is not a strategy used by the learner, but rather an instructional strategy used by the teacher. In essence, the advance organizer is a brief, general speech, written outline or graphic representation prepared by the teacher, before presenting the new material, to introduce the lesson. In designing the advance organizer recall of previous knowledge relevant to the new knowledge is important. It should provide a bridge that links the known to the unknown, by including an abstract outline of the new information and a restatement of old knowledge. Theoretically, this will encourage transfer and application of old knowledge, to make the new knowledge more meaningful to the learner. Given what you know about the importance of using advance organizers create one that you can use this week in one of your classes. Post your advance organizer on your own blog and be prepared to discuss this in class when we meet again. Also, add one or more of the links which are listed under "Advance Organizers" just to the right of this note to your own delicious account or your blog, whichever you use more often.

Cues and Questions

1. Cues and questions should focus on what is important rather than what is unusual.
2. "Higher level" questions produce deeper learning then "lower level" questions.
3. Wait time has the effect of increasing the depth of student answers.
4. Questions are effective learning tools even when asked before a learning experience.

On your blog OR Delicious account, post three web sites that you can use as a resouce for creating lessons that have the four generalizations about cues and questions as stated above.

Creating a Google Account

You'll need to create a Google account in order to establish a blog, this is easily done from the Blogger.com. If you happen to have a blog already then you can use that one for class assignments and you won't have to create another. If you've created a website that too can be utilized for the class. We will be posting various things to the web and establishing a social network with other members of the class as well as other teachers from around the world. In order to comment on the posts you will eventually need a google account.

Follow these instructions for setting up a blog and a google account at the same time:

• Log into blogger.com ---you can click on the link above if you wish.
• Click on the (CREATE A BLOG) button
• Complete the online instructions and be sure to record your password.

Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

Setting objectives establishes a direction for learning. Once students understand the parameters of an objective, they should brainstorm to determine what they know and what they want to learn. Specific, timely, and regular feedback to students enhances their learning. Also, feedback should include an explanation of why an item is correct or incorrect and be criterion referenced. In other words, students should understand where they stand relative to a specific target of knowledge or skill.

Look over an objective you've written for next week, have your students create a KWL or contract with them about the learning you wish for them to do as well as what they would like to become more knowledgeable about during the lesson. You may wish to utilize the links that are provided to help you develop a rubric for students as they self-assess their learning and/or a graphic organizer.