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When I student taught I worked with a wonderful group of children in Waterbury, CT in a transitional first grade. The class provided more sheltered instruction for students, many learning English, who did not meet Kindergarten readiness benchmarks...after Kindergarten. "5senses-015" by atsukosmith is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND I had them write poems about ca
Greg McVerryYou first get a list of blogs you are following and click on add a blog. You can add any blog and not just those on the blogger platform (like wordpress.com integrated reader) You then enter the blog by url. There are extensions to chrome that add these in one step. You then can choose to follow the blog publicly or anonymously Tou can then add a widget on a
Greg McVerrymz_lat Interesting story on how I got there. An animal walked outside my window bigger than a coyote, but can't be a Grey Wolf?? Could it??? Turns out its an Eastern Coyote or Coywolf (though I do believe the Grey Wolf has returned to Connecticut, regardless of the legend of Putnam ). Trying to identify the species (found no prints or scat) lead to research
Greg McVerryDraft Plan for the Tech4Teens Free Remote Technology Camp
Greg McVerryMantra, a Sanskrit word from Buddhism., means a repeated phrase used during meditation. A universal truth that keeps you grounded? So what truths will you hold about literacy? What will guide yoru everyday actions as a teacher. Some Examples: another example of a literacy mantra: https:// twitter.com/ telliowkuwp/ status/ 1089170164673855489 Number of Words
Greg McVerryI encourage everyone to blog or use a personal website for #edu407. Something magical happens when you learn from your own domain. You of course can choose to stick with Blackboard for the journals if you want privacy, convenience, or just because. You are in control. Your data, your learning. Create an Account Add to Your Homepage Launch and Verify Site Pub
Greg McVerryWhen we put pen to paper we invite our audience to join us on a journery as we line the path with prose. pointring directions with our thoughts and signaliing turns with our transition. Often we use metaphors as a map to illuminate the way. Why do these metaphors matter so in our writing? How do metaphors, even when mixed, provide a compass to steer readers
Greg McVerryMy syllabus for #edu407 starting tomorrow @scsu. Excited to get back to learning from future teachers
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Greg McVerryClass Description EDU106 New Literacies: Digital Text and Tools for Lifelong Learning s a technology fluency class I teach at Southern Connecticut State University. We learn a crazy amounts of tech but the class is really one of philosophy of self and growth. The class gets broken into four components Tell Your Story Learn Something Teach Something Do Someth
Greg McVerryA #clmooc exploration in methods of making two images sing together
Greg McVerryThree poems written in the verse of vortex of a frozen May of Covid Quarintine #clmooc #poemsofpresence
Greg McVerryA collection of poems butchering the #clmooc history as bad as the #poetry
Greg McVerryI provided students as a cognitive wrapper (haven't used a ppt in >365. Try it! So freeing). https://edu106.jgregorymcverry.com/2020/hey-edu106-here-are-photos-of-our-lecture-lastdiscussion-at This graphic organizer was a cognitive stop in a collaborative writing project. Students were going to analyze a space from connected learning lens. This shifted to an
Greg McVerryA collection of poems butchering the #clmooc history as bad as the #poetry
Greg McVerryObserve your world. Write, live it. Embody meaning. Write and live through your senses. Embrace emotion. Channel joy through pain in word and life. Listen to sounds words paint across the sky. Practice. Then Practice.
Greg McVerryMy advice is to first make a multimodal text.....See the Write task where I ask you to respond to a text with a multmodal text...you could use that..... Make a text and design a lesson around it. This is what I did with https://jgregorymcverry.com/videos/howtowriteasciencepoem.mp4 I first did this planning on the Google Doc I can now turn this into a lesson
Greg McVerryJohn and his friend hanging during lunch and after school engaging in the craziest collaborative creating writing.They don't realize it but they are engaging in activities that far better align to academic standards than I ever seen.Kids would be living sports 24.7...his choice, not mine. Getting a chance to explore other avenues of making and creativity. #e
Greg McVerryYesterday the credible web group got together to do some though excercises as we get closer to building a credibility rating engine. We began, and I did not have time to participate by rating credibility of public figures. You can see an example on the Google Doc using this framework. I would rather link the credibility rating to a person canonical website t
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