February 23, 2011 Podcast | Meriwether Lewis Elementary School

Show Highlights:

Snow day update, inclement weather, Kindergarten Round-Up and Middle School transfer information, Lewis Garden Fair, classroom weblogs and a story about a student encounter with a Grammy winner…

Links:
PPS Inclement Weather: http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=69

Middle School Transfer Information: http://www.pps.k12.or.us/rsc/5305.htm

Classroom Notes: http://lewiselementary.org/notes

Esperanza Spalding story: http://mrcolvin.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/a-true-story-by-graham/

 February 24, 2011 Lewis Elementary School Podcast [11:00] Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download (6)

This entry was posted on February 24, 2011 at 4:07 pm and is filed under Podcasts, School Info. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

via lewiselementary.org

ADE Application Video — Dan Meyer on Vimeo

via vimeo.com

This is Dan Meyer's video application to the Apple Distinguished Educators program. In it he explains a bit about how he teaches and why he shares. Simply amazing....

Integrate Dropbox with Pages, Keynote, and Numbers on iPad | Techinch

via techinch.com

A solution for getting student work from the iPad to Dropbox...

Friday Afternoon...

I found myself on Friday afternoon sitting in one of our 5th grade
classrooms. After what turned out to be a very busy week, I found this
time to be very refreshing. In this particular classroom the teacher
has a rocking chair and as I sat, very comfortably I might add, in
that chair I looked around the classroom and watched as students
worked on various tasks. I find this time in classrooms to be the best
part of my job. Watching the interactions between students and
teachers and watching how students work together is something that I
greatly enjoy and never tire of.

5th Grade...

We recently took delivery of 65 iPads for use by our 4th and 5th grade students. Lots of excitement, and also a lot to learn...