Tod Baker's Blog (7)

Friday morning I read Ben Grey's post Technology Guidelines. He shared with us his colleague's thoughts about publishing student work.

1. The statement was made that all of the data being produced by teachers and students should be housed within a district.
2. A teacher should never allow a student’s work to be posted if it isn’t entirely free of grammatical or spelling errors.

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Time to Make a Difference from Tod Baker on Vimeo. We projected this video on a larger screen and showed it to visitors before they walked through our Exhibition. I describe the video making process on todbaker.com. Link Continue

Need reusable bags? from Tod Baker on Vimeo. In their first video about living green in Tianjin, the Global Citizen Videos guys (my students) show us the negative impacts of plastic bags on our natural environment and where we can b… Continue

Collaborative technologies can help develop, support, and encourage the kind of learning we are looking for during the PYP Exhibition. The list below discusses the collaborative technologies we use at IST and how they might improve teaching and learning. NING We have two Ning networks to support our teaching and learning. The first one, http://istgrade5.ning.com/ (password protected) works as a our class space for all things related to teaching and lear… Continue

BCIS

April - 16

Year 1: Exhibition experience… with through guidelines, to establish exhibition culture

Year 2: Exhibition: Some staff members had attended Exhibition workshop

Mapping and linking all units of inquiry to lead up to exhibition skills and concepts

Semi regular basis (once a week) meeting as grade level

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9:30am - 12:30pm

Schools
BCIS (host)
WAB
BISS
IST (arrived 11am)


Kay describes IST. 3rd year, each year completely diff. High turnover of students (little pyp exp) Central idea developed by students Inquiry points developed by students In groups, students go through inquiry points

How do other schools address issue of students who show up with no pyp experience? Newbies took a modified approach with same goal.… Continue

The job-alike session for BCIS, WAB, and IST takes place tomorrow. Here's the agenda.

* Structure of grade level POI – so looking at individual units, making connections to each other and the build up/relationships to Exhibition

* Planning of Exhibition
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