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Join the Common Core Conversation!

Posted by Kristina Holzweiss on April 27, 2012 at 12:41am

What if you could find a learning management system that would allow you to take polls, post assignments and links, create online quizzes, and upload files for free? Better yet, what if you could find an online resource that would actively engage students to become independent, lifelong learners? Edmodo is that site! Edmodo is a secure worldwide learning environment where teachers and students can collaborative and learn from each other.

Almost 800 educators are connected in a nationwide Edmodo group, the "Common Core Conversation," to discuss what their schools, districts, and states are doing to address the new Common Core Standards in the k-12 classrooms.

Help us reach 1,000 innovative educators. Join the Common Core Conversation at http://www.edmodo.com. The group code is gy48aa.

Kristina Holzweiss, The Laptop Lieberrian

lieberrian@yahoo.com

Literacy Leads the Way

Posted by Cheryl Hill on March 15, 2009 at 1:00pm

As a part of the literacy professional community, as a school librarian, I received an invitation through my school district to join other literacy professionals as a participant in Online Course Work targeting the theme Literacy Leads the Way.The overall objective is for literacy professionals to increase their literacy building expertise so as to provide appropriate activities to build reading fluency, develop oral language, world knowledge; and, to build listening/reading comprehension as well as to ensure wide exposure to literature lending supportive ideas for building inner dialogue for reading comprehending and written composition.Additionally, I am presently working on a media project with my library book club students. We are in the process of creating a DVD which exhibits the students discussing inclusive of props depicting their favorite books read for the Book Contest held in my district. The slide show will include voiced audio and music. The students are very excited and so am I!