Posted on : 17-12-2009 | By : grykat | In : Wallace Middle
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Just in time for the winter break, WMS Journalism students have published their holiday edition of What’s Up at Wallace. Journalism teacher Coach Jonathan Campbell and his staff are keeping us up to date with the travels of the Ranger Choirs for Christmas caroling, and the exciting news about winning streak of the Ranger Basketball squad.
Holiday Edition of What's Up at Wallace
Posted on : 16-12-2009 | By : bradfielda | In : Science Hall Elementary
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Student view during the Trail of Tears web conference
The fifth grade Gifted and Talented students at Science Hall participated in a web conference on December 14, 2009. The web conference was a new way of distance learning for our students; we connected through webcams on computers. The conference was facilitated by James Yasko from The Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee and the students learned about the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears. The students explored how and why native populations were removed from the land they had lived on for generations. Mr. Yasko shared information about the Cherokee and all the legal steps they took to remain on their land, but were still removed. Did you know the Cherokee had a newspaper that was first published in 1828? It was called the Cherokee Phoenix and is still in publication today. Our students really enjoyed this opportunity and we are grateful to Mr. Yasko and The Hermitage for this experience.
Mrs. Morgan and Ms Blansitt
This fall one of our Student Teachers completed her required observations via Video Conferencing. We found this was another great use of Distance Learning for the Supervisor and the Student Teacher.
“I graduated from the University of North Texas in May 2008 with a BA in English. After graduation I moved to Austin in search of a career in nonprofit organizations. After a few months of unsuccessful job searching, I received a letter from UNT about their post baccalaureate teacher certification prgram. Luckily, they had an on-line option to take all of the required courses, but Iwould have had to travel up to Denton for meetings and final exams. UNT is one of the few schools that provides long distance supervision, so when it came time to complete my student teaching I did not have a problem. I had four class observations by my supervisor via a Tandberg Video Conferencing system. We were able to talk and see each other in real time. It worked great thanks to the help from Mrs. Jurica and Mrs. Richert…….. We would conference after each observation and my supervisor spoke with my mentor teacher, Mrs. Morgan, at times as well. Using the Tandberg VC system was helpful and overall a great experience.”
Posted on : 10-12-2009 | By : piern | In : Chapa Middle
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Mr. Yount’s sixth grade students were researching a country in Europe using the Encyclopedia Britannica databases provided by the Hays Library, the CIA website, and the resources books in the library. The students located information on the countries geography, people and cultures, economy and climate.
Posted on : 07-12-2009 | By : piern | In : Chapa Middle
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Mrs. Johnosn’s 7th grade language arts students are at a listening station where they are viewing a video about the childhood of Charles Dickens. The students choose something that they find interesting about the video or something that they think might affect him as a writer and respond using Microsoft Word. As the groups rotate, each student will respond on the same word document and add any comments to students’ prior responses.