I "jumped in" and will be keeping a journal as I tool around and try to make a story about fractions. I hope that if I make a story that is engaging enough I will only have to teach reducing fractions 10,000 more times this year.
Oh No! No spell check. I will love to see what the students spell in their storybird story. I guess I need to get my journal of What Students Said or Wrote ready.
Okay this program lends itself to including dialogue. The hilarious characters that you can put in the story are just begging to get a voice. I am having a blast making them come to life.
I am having trouble focusing on putting the math content in and not focusing on the plot of the story.
I think I am going to scrap this book and focus on literacy (boo!)
check it out and sign up. It's FREE!
www.storybird.com
Monday, February 8, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Check Out My Bookmarks
The following are a list of my 20 favorite bookmarks. If you want to post your top bookmarks you can go to www.delecious.com and sign up for free. After about 10-15 minutes of playing around you will ge the hang of it. Remember your weblink, it will be something like www.delicious.com/firstlastnames. Then post it to the comments and we call all check them out, to decide if you are worthy of praise or not.
My Link is at www.delicious.com/chuckcowley
My Link is at www.delicious.com/chuckcowley
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Welcome to the Chapel Glen Blog
What is the purpose of this blog?
The vision that teachers in the K-6 arena can visit this blog and post their best practices, cool things they have tried in their class that succeeded and not so cool that that have failed miserably. We all have those days. This blog can be a place where we share what feel and think are the next best things that we need to do in our classrooms to help students achieve. Finally, this blog can be a place where we come to laugh about and share events that have happened in our classrooms. We all could use a bit more joy.
Why did I create this blog?
One late night while taking a break from reading and meditating about my future a vision of the future struck me. I saw Pam Elliott and June Dwoark sitting down blogging to each other about one of June's latest escapades through Europe. I took this epiphany and ran with it. Just kidding, I have to do it for a class.
You might say, "Who Cares"
Well I would say to you, "Quack, Quack." I could have made a blog about my children. But to be honest, who really would care to read that. My family might, but they get to hear about and see my family on a regular schedule. I would hope that you will post some of your writings here. I know that we are doing great things here at Chapel Glen and at least I know that I am interested in knowing what other teachers are doing. I think that is a dialogue that is dieing in our rushed school day.
The vision that teachers in the K-6 arena can visit this blog and post their best practices, cool things they have tried in their class that succeeded and not so cool that that have failed miserably. We all have those days. This blog can be a place where we share what feel and think are the next best things that we need to do in our classrooms to help students achieve. Finally, this blog can be a place where we come to laugh about and share events that have happened in our classrooms. We all could use a bit more joy.
Why did I create this blog?
One late night while taking a break from reading and meditating about my future a vision of the future struck me. I saw Pam Elliott and June Dwoark sitting down blogging to each other about one of June's latest escapades through Europe. I took this epiphany and ran with it. Just kidding, I have to do it for a class.
You might say, "Who Cares"
Well I would say to you, "Quack, Quack." I could have made a blog about my children. But to be honest, who really would care to read that. My family might, but they get to hear about and see my family on a regular schedule. I would hope that you will post some of your writings here. I know that we are doing great things here at Chapel Glen and at least I know that I am interested in knowing what other teachers are doing. I think that is a dialogue that is dieing in our rushed school day.
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