Jose Rodriguez

It's Elementary Equinox 2009

Have a listen to a special edition of It's Elementary Webcast / Earthcast09 Echo / 350.org promo show.  This is a call to the Edtechtalk community to global action to save our planet. Please join our sister site Puente Al Mundo in putting together 350 podcast of up to 350 seconds each on message to world leaders on saving the Earth.  All interested please twitter @coordinatortwo

Have a listen to a special edition of It's Elementary Webcast / Earthcast09 Echo / 350.org promo show.  This is a call to the Edtechtalk community to global action to save our planet. Please join our sister site Puente Al Mundo in putting together 350 podcast of up to 350 seconds each on message to world leaders on saving the Earth.  All interested please send us your podcast link to twitter @coordinatortwo

 

It's Elementary #38 - Summer PD and Stuff

Listen as the It's Elementary Team dicusses our summer activities such as NECC 2009, Building Communities, Edbublogger Con and local conferences. We also had a special song by Kevin Honeycutt "Love Them and Let Them Go".  Hope you enjoy the show and remember we broadcast the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Our next show will be Monday September 14th where we will dicuss; "Bringing it Home", how we take what we learn in our online spaces with to our day job.  See you then.

Listen as the It's Elementary Team dicusses our summer activities such as NECC 2009, Building Communities, Edbublogger Con and local conferences. We also had a special song by Kevin Honeycutt "Love Them and Let Them Go".  Hope you enjoy the show and remember we broadcast the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Our next show will be Monday September 14th where we will dicuss; "Bringing it Home", how we take what we learn in our online spaces with to our day job.  See you then.

It's Elementary #37 - Student Blogging with Jan Smith

Have a listen as the It's Elementary team talks about blogging in the elementary classroom with our Guest Jan Smith.  Blogging with her students at: Huzzah! http://huzzah.edublogs.org/ 

Join us, as we talk about elementary student blogging with our guest Jan Smith, a sixth grade teachers in British Columbia, Huzzah! http://huzzah.edublogs.org/  She started with a strictly controled class blog, but found that it lacked conversational give and take.  She started again with an edublogs account, and this time she encouraged a more "conversational" approach both in student's writing, giving them a voice, and how they interacted with each other.  She started a practice of "gradual release" giving students more authority, and control over their blogging and blogs as they showed responsibility until many had earned their own blogs and were self-moderated.  She also shared how she dealt with problems and conflicts when they came up, respecting students, and making them responsible. 

Link to Text Chat.

 

It's Elementary #36, 2008-09 Wrap-up

We talked about various projects we are doing with our students. Some are in classes during the school day, and some are outside of school hours.

We talked about various projects we are doing with our students. Some are in classes during the school day, and some are outside of school hours.  We're building connections with our peers, both far away and in our schools and districts. We're filling in our network, and making some rich and surprising connections   Link to text chat

EdTechBrainstorm - On the street with Hunger Striking Teachers

EdTechBrainstorm - LA Teacher Hunger Strikes
June 4, 2009

Jose's on the street reporting from the site of
Los Angeles teacher protests against proposed layoffs

Chat Log below

 

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