PEPSICO K-12 Technology Mentor Program

A New School Year and a New Look September 17, 2007

Posted by Dottie Black in : Blogging, Technology, Uncategorized , add a comment

Welcome to the new face of the Pepsico K-12 Technology Mentor Program. I decided to move my previous website into a Wordpress blog to make it more flexible and accessible to the teachers I am working with. I hope you like the new design. As always, feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Last fall I attended the NCETC in Greensboro. The keynote speaker was Will Richardson. In his presentation, he showed the list of blogs that he reads on a regular basis. He refered to the list as his textbook and the authors as his teachers. Over the past year I have come to understand what he was referring to. I have learned so much from Will and David Warlick and several other leaders in the K-12 technology field whose blogs I read regularly. I hope I have a chance to teach my new audience some of the great things I’ve learned from my new teachers and from being a part of the Duke Center for Instructional Technology. I am looking forward to a very productive year.

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Kelly Stevens’ GPS Treasure Hunt March 5, 2007

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Ms. Stevens’ students use GPS devices to find a treasure. Movie about the Treasure Hunt (Quicktime File)

Ms. Stevens created a treasure hunt complete with a captured Pirate captain and some gold booty.

The students had to use GPS devices to find and solve the clues so they could rescue their captain and earn the reward.

See the first Pirate Movie (Quicktime File)

See the Second Pirate Movie (Quicktime File)

Download the clues to use in your classroom.

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Kelly Stevens’ Blog Projects March 5, 2007

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Seventh Grade social studies teacher Kelly Stevens is the Rogers-Herr Year-Round Middle School Technology Mentor. Kelly and her team have been incredibly prolific this year. Here are some of the projects they have done.

Blogging

Kelly introduced Blogging to her team and students last fall. The blogging tool they have been using was developed by David Warlick. You can create your own classroom blogs by going to classblogmeister.com

Homeless Bird Blog

The seventh graders read Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan. The teacher posed questions to the students to answer using the blog. Read some of the entries here.

Ms. Stevens encouraged her students to comment on other student’s blog entries about Homeless Bird. She called this assignment “Everyone’s a critic“.

Red Scarf Girl

The seventh graders also used a blog as part of a webquest called Red Scarf Girl. Read some of the entries here.

Utopia

Can Utopia really exist? This blog is part of Ms. Beth Spataro’s webquest.

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