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Related to our PDs on Close Reading, Turner's Graph of the Week is a great website for teaching graph-reading, which is a kind of literacy just like reading words.
Check it out and use it as needed for openers, special lessons, or topical tie-ins. Its a great way to teach reading in any course. Graphs relate to math, science, social studies, languages, and encore subjects. http://www.turnersgraphoftheweek.com/ Related Posts: For more specific lesson ideas and plans, check out the Lesson Ideas page.
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 Sometimes I get bogged down with what's going wrong in the larger ed reform world.
During those times it's helpful to focus on what we have the power to change immediately as we continue to advocate for those changes others need to help us create. Math teacher Justin Aion started this hashtag on Twitter and I ran with it enthusiastically (there's no other way I run) Many of the ideas I shared in the #ThingsTeachersCanChange list are directly inspired by YOU-things you've told me, things I've seen you do, things we've discussed together that matter in ed. If you or your students are feeling demoralized and need a bit of a pick me up, click the image to read the hashtag ideas, and also please add your own ideas! (If you need to make a Twitter account, contact me and I will walk you through it.) These are things you can change right now and you may like them. I'll be out of town on Saturday, but this is my way of helping the cause, using somethign I know how to do Hovercraft, anyone? This 1 minute video only scratches the surface of how we use Digital Learning everyday in our rooms. I've basically been filling up my storage every time I head out of the office because I run across something film-worthy each step I take down the halls of Piedmont! For more photos, videos, and information, check out the Digital Learning Day Post , the 21st Century Piedmont Wiki Page or my Twitter media feed. (The video was made for a Digital Learning Day contest on Edmodo. Thanks to Ms. Newburger for finding and spearheading and directing this video contest effort.) Wow! What a day! The biggest thing I learned from this day is that there is so much amazingness happening in all the classrooms on any given day, you can't tweet it all. Here are just a few highlights:  Ms. McCarthy's hilarious rubric is perfect to help sixth graders create a project that doesn't 'taste like cardboard'!  This student proudly gazes down as her friend shows off her creation- She built "The Book Thief" house in Minecraft.  Danielle in Mr. Kollar's class created this cute avatar for herself to learn math while having fun on Sumdog.  Who says learning with tech means being isolated behind a screen? hese students use BYOT in a face-to-face battle game in Mr. Reddig and Mr. Parkins' class!  The iGenius Tech Helper Club has their first meeting at our Makerbot 3D printer.  The cafeteria decor is set for the Olympics QR Code Contest during our second annual Digi-Dine BYOT lunch. Students competed to research and submit answers to Olympics trivia questions in honor of Sochi 2014.  We can use our phones at lunch today? Yay!  The student becomes the teacher as Matt explains Ragdoll physics to Ms. Gurthie through this game.  Ms. Suckstorff is able to help each student 1 on 1 as they work on their personalized learning lessons she and Mr. Kollar created and posted on their websites.  Principal Barone joins in the DigiDine lunch with her BYOT iPad!  Ms. Lyttle's student shows off his graphic design capabilities in this Glogster for his novel project. We figured out together how to embed a video on Glogster right after this photo was taken.  This student chose to make a recipe book. Even on our old monitors, it still looks delicious!  The learning doesn't stop for lunch when Piedmont has a DigiDine BYOT QR code Olympics!  Emma taught herself photo editing. She's kind of a big deal on Instagram- With tech, it is now possible to learn anything anytime anywhere.  This was the most enthusiastic focused team at DigiDine. They wanted to win that gold medal and worked together to do it! 
 Huge- Courtesy of Mr. Hampton on Edmodo who writes:
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AuthorLisa Gurthie is the PD facilitator at Piedmont IB Middle School. She specializes in tech and arts integration, interdisciplinary holistic education, and unschooling school to reconnect academia to real life. One day she will modernize her "about" page. She curates this blog for the professional development convenience of the teachers at Piedmont, but the editorial comments are her own. Categories
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