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Please give a description of some of the things you are currently doing in your classroom to incorporate 21st Century Teaching and Learning. Also, please post some student examples or links to share.

Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009/May 2009 - Ms. Vicki Stelma's English classes are blogging about __Fahrenheit 451__ by Ray Bradbury. This allows the students to post their thoughts about the novel and also to read others' insights and comment on them. Check out what these students are saying. . . [|Period CD] [|Period HI]

Students also blogged about their beliefs (based on a selection that they read for class), and you can check out these belief statements through the links above.

Mr.Jerry Matava's Senior Social Studies class has created Photostory presentations that were to give the viewer a feeling of why the American people viewed the Kennedy administration and the White House as this magical place called "Camelot". The following is a student example: (double click for full screen) media type="file" key="kennedy.wmv"

Ms. Vicki Stelma's English classes have been creating semantic maps for vocabulary words using the computers. They have been using online dictionaries and thesauri to create these maps which include images of the word, other forms of the word, and word origins. media type="custom" key="3383282"

Students completed a webquest for [|The Call of the Wild] Her Honors students made informative brochures discussing Green issues - this project was in addition to a persuasive research project.

A few examples:  In Ms. Vicki Stelma’s 10th grade English classes they recently completed Photostory projects as part of a narrative essay assignment. Please click on the links to see student examples on their class wiki:
 * [[file:Green Homes.pub]] || [[file:Recycling & Conserving for the Future.pub]] || [[file:Greener Living - Ways to Go Green in the Home.pub]] ||

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One of Ms. Stelma's 10th grade English classes also created glogs (or online posters) in response to a short story and concepts of courage. Click on the link to their class wiki below to see some samples of their work.<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">

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<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 132%; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Feb. 2009 Mr. Penrose has created this video to increase awareness about United's involvement with the Fairchild Project - The<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Recycle Fashion Show media type="custom" key="3097390"

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mr. Bob Penrose's Biology classes have created photostories to report on geological/evolutionary timelines. The following are some examples of student projects: =<span style="display: block; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> The Quarternary Perio d =
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= ||  || ====<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">As for what is going on right now, Biology I classes will be developing materials to help elementary students learn about the cell. They will have choices as to what type of final project they will turn in, but they will have the opportunity to make a video, use photostory, animoto or other ideas to complete the project. In Environmental Studies, the students are working on reports about alternative ways to say energy here at United. They will also have the opportunity to turn in their report in any format they wish. They are looking at current research in those areas as well as developing a cost analysis for transition to those types of environmentally conscious solutions. ==== <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0,0,0); text-align: center;">media type="file" key="quaternary Anders.wmv" || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0,0,0); text-align: center;">media type="file" key="Tertiary.wmv" || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0,0,0); text-align: center;">media type="file" key="The Permian.wmv" ||

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mrs. Jennifer Buchkovich's Stats class has recently loaded the Data Analysis TookPak Add-In to Excel to enable her Statistics students to create frequency distributions, histograms, frequency polygons and pie charts. This tool will enable students to calculate difficult statistical computations such as the variance and standard deviation for normally distributed data.

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mrs. Jody Conrad's AP Literature and Composition class is also keeping ahead of the 21st Century curve by Blogging and using wikis to help aid in their intruction of Literary analysis. [|United AP English Wiki] [|United AP English Blog]

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">District presentation about 21st Century Skills and Teaching On January 19th the district teachers were presented a presentation regarding what it means to be preparing students for the 21st Century.

<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Technical Training Professional Development Day

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">February 13th Act 80 Day The district teachers have a full day of training on technology and how to apply these application to their specific classes. They could choose three sessions from among the following: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Smartboard Training
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Podcasting
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;">WikiTraining
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;">School webpage Refresher - new applications for use
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Finding Resources and tagging (Power Library, Nettrekker, and Delicious)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';">Blogging /RSS feed
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Web 2.0 tools and differentiated instruction
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Digital storytelling (Photostory and Animoto)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Google Earth
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font: 12pt/115% 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Technology and Math Applications <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[| MATLAB -], [|Algebasics],[| **National Library of Virtual Manipulatives],[| geogebra]
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Internet 2, Teleconferencing Equipment, and Virtual Field trips <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Knowledge Box

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