It has a slow scroll of her statement about what is missing (interesting & easy for kids to read) and there are 4 video demos about: unchopping a tree, the blue fin tuna, the prairie chicken, and the exhibit in China. Use the skinny white line on the right of the video to scroll down to see the other videos.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Brainstorming innovation ideas for the classroom 8-21-09 PD
On Friday's PD, staff was given 3 minutes to brainstorm ideas on the theme of innovation and then pick the one they thought was best or that they wanted to work on. Here's the list. Notice any commonalities?
Innovation Notes
Brainstorming session led by Joyce 8-21-09
o Order books from SF public library online (students)
o Computer-aide music program – GarageBand
o Using blogs or the idea of text messaging in terms of communication
o Using library catalog ---move from cards(history/past) to electronic(now/present)
o Science – experiment --- follow directions -- innovate
o Look around --- observe --- think what you see -- create….
o Have kids create their own way to measure wind or rain
o Identify strength & area of need. Students help each other create toolbox rather than reinvent the wheel.
o Research that leads to prevention/cure of AIDS
o Innovative places/ways to write
o Recruitment for MathCounts- Dailies, posters, visit classrooms, rewards, integrate into curriculum
o Create your own game; make your own equipment for the game
o Student needs collaboration between services for success
o Show ‘n Tell: At least 3 times during the year, create something at home & tell how you made it & what it’s for
o New extensions on topics
o Deepen understanding
o Use types of cooking or different foods to design clay bowls appropriate to the food.
o Creative reuse of familiar object. Eg.- Galileo used opera glasses technology to make telescope
o Design paper, cardboard or wooden airplanes through looking at existing test planes
o Expressing creatively through self portraits
o Reading comics –encourages writing – reading – overcoming fear of self expression
o What can you do to create a process/organizer/check sheet for an essay or edit a paper that works for you
o Using innovative strategies in working with middle school girls…
o Early communities and collaboration
o Earth Day. Give a simple item for child to create something new
o Redesigning challenges
o Back to School Night during the day
o Local history ---- architecture---Academy of Sciences, GG Bridge, City Hall --- EQ retrofit --- seismology
o Ending with your product
Innovation Notes
Brainstorming session led by Joyce 8-21-09
o Order books from SF public library online (students)
o Computer-aide music program – GarageBand
o Using blogs or the idea of text messaging in terms of communication
o Using library catalog ---move from cards(history/past) to electronic(now/present)
o Science – experiment --- follow directions -- innovate
o Look around --- observe --- think what you see -- create….
o Have kids create their own way to measure wind or rain
o Identify strength & area of need. Students help each other create toolbox rather than reinvent the wheel.
o Research that leads to prevention/cure of AIDS
o Innovative places/ways to write
o Recruitment for MathCounts- Dailies, posters, visit classrooms, rewards, integrate into curriculum
o Create your own game; make your own equipment for the game
o Student needs collaboration between services for success
o Show ‘n Tell: At least 3 times during the year, create something at home & tell how you made it & what it’s for
o New extensions on topics
o Deepen understanding
o Use types of cooking or different foods to design clay bowls appropriate to the food.
o Creative reuse of familiar object. Eg.- Galileo used opera glasses technology to make telescope
o Design paper, cardboard or wooden airplanes through looking at existing test planes
o Expressing creatively through self portraits
o Reading comics –encourages writing – reading – overcoming fear of self expression
o What can you do to create a process/organizer/check sheet for an essay or edit a paper that works for you
o Using innovative strategies in working with middle school girls…
o Early communities and collaboration
o Earth Day. Give a simple item for child to create something new
o Redesigning challenges
o Back to School Night during the day
o Local history ---- architecture---Academy of Sciences, GG Bridge, City Hall --- EQ retrofit --- seismology
o Ending with your product
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Innovation Song/Video
Here's the Innovation song/video through another link besides Youtube. Hopefully it can be seen at school now, though it is on a small screen.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Innovation Song/Video
Success! I have to remember to copy 'the embed' code from the youtube site and then just paste it into my blog post. The blogger help videos are actually quite helpful!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Spirit of Saint Louis
Louis Armstrong recorded "When the Saints Go Marching In," in 1938 and the song has remained a tried and true staple of American Music since then. There are close to 1,000 different recordings of the song, and the song received the distinction of being named a "Towering Song" by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. When a song achieves that level of fame, it becomes known as a "standard." Here you can listen to eleven different versions of the song by artists as different as Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles, the Cincinnati Symphony, Fats Domino, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, James Brown, and even the Beatles, whose version was on the "B" side of the their first commercial release in 1961. But it's Satchmo's version that people turn to capture that familiar New Orleans Spirit.
When the song was first played, the traditional use of the song was as a funeral march. In New Orleans, accompanying the coffin to the cemetary, the band would play the song slow and sad, but on the way back, after the funeral, the song would be played in an upbeat tempo. Louis said this about this tradition of the returning funeral parade, "the second line is a bunch of guys who follow the parade. They're not the members of the lodge or the club. Anybody can be a second liner. Whether they be raggedy or dressed up, they seemed to have more fun than anybody."
When the Saints Go Marching In
We are trav'ling in the footsteps
Of those who've gone before
But we'll all be reunited (but if we stand reunited)
On a new and sunlit shore (then a new world is in store)
O when the saints go marching in
When the saints go marching in
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
And when the sun refuse (begins) to shine
And when the sun refuse (begins) to shine
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When the moon turns red with blood
When the moon turns red with blood
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
On that hallelujah day
On that hallelujah day
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
O when the trumpet sounds the call
O when the trumpet sounds the call
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
Some say this world of trouble
Is the only one we need
But I'm waiting for that morning
When the new world is revealed
When the revelation (revolution) comes
When the revelation (revolution) comes
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When the rich go out and work
When the rich go out and work
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When the air is pure and clean
When the air is pure and clean
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When we all have food to eat
When we all have food to eat
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When our leaders learn to cry
When our leaders learn to cry
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
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