MELIScellaneous Media and Tech Blog for Discovery Education/Wilkes University Online classes. I’m getting my Masters in Instructional Media through the program.

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Media and Tech Related Blog Entries:

1. The Pieces of PBL Management - In my district all of our lessons are to be designed in a specific nature, be they PBLs or otherwise. We have to start out with a defining question, and goals. When reading about how to organize and manage a PBL this week I was struck by how many thing I already incorporate into my [...]
2. Our Group Project Glog - http://mchrusch.glogster.com/group1-502/
3. It’s all coming together - To make life easier for the poster of this blog (hi!) and the reader (well, hello there, reader, thanks for coming!) I am going to paste in the 2007 NETS . My comments related to how web 2.0 tools (communication, collaboration, and publishing tools) meets these needs will be in bold.. The 2007 NETS are [...]
4. Testing the Waters - This week’s blog assignment is to test out three web 2.0 tools, so basically the best homework ever for this nerd-girl! Edmondo edmondo.com In our forum discussions this week I replied to someone who mentioned thinking about using Twitter in the classroom. I had never thought about it before, being an avid twitter-er, but it did get me [...]
5. Flat Stanley is following me! - This last month or so I have been watching one of the first grade bulletin boards grow every other week I come to my one elementary schools. I’m watching Flat Stanley travel around the United States. He even ended up at York, Pa where I went for my Undergrad. When I looked into twitter the [...]
6. Well March 2 was Dr. Seuss’ Birthday… - This week we are finishing to the PSSA’s in my district, last week during testing I was sadly kicked out of the library so that it could be used to admin those tests, so I traveled around the school with my cart-o books. When looking for something to share with my students in their classrooms [...]
7. Becoming a Producer - I admit it, I’m an English person, ELA is in the blood, so when I think PROJECT my initial thought comes to some sort of written product. This is of course because most of my own education a written response paper, researched thesis, or reflection of some sort was my final product (ah, the life [...]
8. PBL 1 - After reading the three articles for class tonight I found one quote that summed up the role of teachers in project based learning best for me, as well as the purpose of PBL in general. In “More Fun Than a Barrel lof…worms” Patty Vreeland, a K and First Grade “looped” teacher stated: “We’ve got to [...]
9. Virtual Fieldtrip - Cinderella Tour Project (available for 7 days) I have never had the change to play with Google Earth before this class, I had used the google maps online to zoom in to my house and find that my car was parked outside, which was neat, and a bit freaky-Big Brother is watching you at the same [...]
10. - blog will be up ASAP in the AM, it’s been a technical issue night (not with “technology” though, with lamps blowing fuses)