Nov
20
2008
rrisdinsttech
Round Rock High School Intelligent Classroom teacher, Lynda Summers, had her English II students make a movie trailer based on books. She loaded several of the videos up on her Moodle page allowing the students to vote on their favorites in certain categories. Her Moodle tool automatically calculates the winners for her!
A special thanks to Erin Balfour at McNeil who piloted this lesson last year.
Lynda says: Moodle is great. Everyone can do this.
Here are some links to some of the videos that were submitted via youtube:
The Once and Future King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBZoFkEMq4
The Poisonwood Bible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l9wvMS6wjc
Mythology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLE9Q5C0y4A
Tags: book trailers, Moodle, video
Nov
20
2008
rrisdinsttech
Bluebonnet 5th grade teacher, Vanessa deBecze, uses her whiteboard and student response devises to help teach simplest forms in math. Round Rock has 163 interactive classrooms in the elementary and middle schools.
Tags: interactive classroom, Promethean
Nov
20
2008
rrisdinsttech
We have now completed offering our second online blog class. Check out the blogs of some of our staff members who completed one of these online classes and has integrated this into his/her professional life.
Janet Rice from McNeil http://mrsrice-mcneil.blogspot.com/
Will Waghorn from Hopewell http://eslmathlab.edublogs.org/
Christina Zapata from Instructional Support Services http://awsupport.edublogs.org/
Tags: blogs, professional development, web2.0
Nov
16
2008
rrisdinsttech
The Fern Bluff Greencast is a student-produced podcast that has been funded through a service-learning project grant through Round Rock ISD. This initiative gives our students a unique opportunity to provide
community service abroad by educating listeners on environmental issues and providing tips on living green. Our podcast is available online at http://www.fernbluffgreencast.net and can be subscribed to through iTunes or your favorite RSS feeder.
Tags: podcasts, service-learning
Nov
16
2008
rrisdinsttech
Using Jing, a popular web 2.0 technology, and a tablet/slate, Heath Walz and Tom Collins of Stony Point High School created videos to support concepts in Algebra and Geometry. They created and shared over 100 videos which students access on the shared folders of all the high school campuses.
logarithmic-expressions-video
Tags: Jing, secondary math, video
