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MEGA Conference 2007
Quality for every facet of learning…..Welcome!Welcome!
MEGA Conference 2007
Shannon Parks, ALEX [email protected]
Stevie Baird, ALEX Project [email protected]
Misty Comfort, ALEX [email protected]
Tiffany Davis, Alabama Supercomputer Center, Systems Engineer
[email protected] Murray, Technology Coordinator,
Huntsville City [email protected]
Jane Jones, Teacher, New Century Technology HS
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Quality for every facet of learning…..
Who are you?Who are you?
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Where do you want Where do you want to go today? to go today?
Quality for every facet of learning…..
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Classroom Resources Classroom Resources
Quality for every facet of learning…..
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ALEX Resources/Links
Thinkfinity.org (ALEX Partner)
Alabama Teachers
Alabama Virtual Library
APT Plus/United Streaming
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Lesson Examples Using ALEX Website ResourcesRosa Parks ~ Montgomery Bus
Boycott (6-8)Three Awesome Bears (K-2)On the Road with Marco Polo
(3-5)Search for High School
Lesson
World War II ~ Pearl Harbor
Reporting on Pearl HarborResearch, Write, Discuss, PresentOption to produce video instead of
written articleUnited Streaming Video (local)
Lesson Examples
Rosa Parks
Lesson Objectives What else could be
added? Written Interview
Written vs. Video• Inserted in PPT to
show another use of downloaded video
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lessons
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Three Awesome Bears
Lesson Plan The lesson will be implemented during a study of
bears. Books, class discussions, and the Internet will be used to learn about bears and their characteristics. Black, brown, and polar bears will be categorized according to their food and their habitat. As a culminating activity the students will use "Kidspiration" software to match bears with their habitat and food.
Video
LessonsLessons
Marco Polo
Students will become Marco Polo adventurers, following his route to and from China in order to learn about the geography, local products, culture, and fascinating sites of those regions.
Students will record their "journey" by creating journal entries, postcards, posters, and maps related to the sites they explore.
Marco Polo Lesson
Interactive Quiz Flash Info (Link from Lesson Plan) Map skills example
Where are the highest mountains located?
Post cards
Lessons
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Each student will create a picture postcard that a medieval traveler might have sent home from Persia.
One side should contain a picture (downloaded or drawn freehand) of a geographical feature or a local product.
The other side should contain a brief message describing some of the highlights of a journey from Acre to Hormuz.
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Thinkfinity ExamplesArtsEdge (Arts Education) Storytime Online (RealPlayer required)
ReadWr ti eT nWhi (Reading & Language Arts) Literary Elements Maps (K-12) A Dickens of a Party (6-8) Comprehension Strategies for English-Language
Learners (K-2)
EconEdLink (Economics) Making Change (3-5)
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Thinkfinity ExamplesIlluminations (Math)Tangram Puzzles (K-2)Fraction Game (3-5; 6-8)Bobby Bear (PreK-5)Cutting Corners (9-12
EDSITEment (Humanities)Voices from the Days of Slavery
• Alice Gaston, Gee, Alabama (Library of Congress recordings) (partial transcript)
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Alice Gaston: We was talking about in the old war time, the old slavery time. I can remember when, uh, I can remember when the Yankees come through and, uh, they carried my father away and carried away, my si, two sisters and one brother. And, uh, they left me.
And I can remember when my missus used to run in the garden, from the Yankees and tell us if they come, don't tell them where they at. Told, don't tell nobody where they at when they come and they all come and they told me, don't get scared now and tell them, where they is, where they is. I told them no, we told them no.
And uh, when they come and ask for them I told them I didn't know there they was, and they was in the woods. And this was at the house. And my father, when my father left, he carried with the, he went away with the Yankees, and carried two, carried two, two girls and one son, the oldest one. Carried them with him. And he with the Yankees. And I can remember that. And uh, my old missus was named Mrs. M., and the master was name Mr. F. I. [pause] Mr. F. I �
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Thinkfinity ExamplesScience Netlinks Tools Lunar Cycle (K-2) Exploring the Solar System (6-8) Heart Transplant (9-12) Make a Mission (9-12)
Xpeditions (Geography) Atlas (K-12)
Smithsonian Games
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How Can ALEX Help Me???How Can ALEX Help Me???
Administrator Specific resources for administrators Provides a FREE resource for ALL teachers
Teachers Provides grade/curricula specific lessons
coordinated with Alabama COS objectives Great online interactive educational sites –
and the price is right …free!
ParentsStudents
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ALEX Overview
ALEX website Courses of Study Aligned Lesson Plans Web Links SEARCHABLE Personal Workspace Student and Teacher Activities Web Page for Every Teacher Free
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More information after the break!!!
Quality for every facet of learning…..
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Coolest thing you Coolest thing you have learned so far? have learned so far?
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Quality resources for every facet of learning…..
MEGA Conference 2007
Shannon Parks, ALEX [email protected]
Stevie Baird, ALEX Project [email protected]
Misty Comfort, ALEX [email protected]
Tiffany Davis, Alabama Supercomputer Center, Systems Engineer
[email protected] Murray, Technology Coordinator,
Huntsville City [email protected]
Jane Jones, Teacher, New Century Technology HS
