Collaboration, Communication, Community

01/26/2012

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Collaboration, Communication, Community 

These are definitely a few of my favourite things!  And I am so grateful that I work with such wonderful colleagues who want to collaborate and communicate about what we are doing in our classrooms!  It is such a wonderful sense of community, especially in my wing of the school where many of us plan together and do the same things with our students.  

For example, I am doing my second field study on the concept of #geniushour and blogging with my class and it is so wonderful that my neighbour down the hall, Mr. McDonald, is doing the exact same activities with his grade 7s.  We talk, email and tweet about what we are doing (successes, struggles) everyday and it is so valuable to have this sense of community here and to know that I am not trying out new activities/teaching styles on my own but that there is someone here in the exact same boat as me.  

I am also fortunate to have such a wonderful PLN on twitter, and I also collaborate with them (especially about #geniushour).

Speaking of #geniushour, it is going really well!  So far this month, students had three Monday afternoons to work on their personal inquiry projects and this Monday they will present to the class what they accomplished during that time.  I am really excited to see the powerpoints, movies, etc this Monday. And I am so thankful to Mrs. Krebs and Mr. McDonald for helping me along my journey.

Mr. McDonald's class website
My class website
Mr. McDonald's students' blogs
My student's blogs
Follow Mr. McDonald @hughtheteacher
Follow me @gallit_z
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Hugh McDonald link
01/26/2012 21:38

Mrs. Zvi,

I enjoy learning with you about how to transform our teaching to create authentic and enjoyable learning experiences.

I look forward to seeing what your geniuses created. Having my students work on one #geniushour project over a few weeks is something I've been wrestling in lead up to our next one. How do think this model worked for you?

Thank you for all the collegial conversations! I look forward to many more! We work at a great school!!

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Gallit Zvi link
01/27/2012 12:24

Hugh,
I think using the whole month approach to genius hour works really well! I gave my students the first three Mondays to work on their projects and then the final Monday is for presentations! I'll let you know how the presentations go...they are excited, and so am I :)

Thank you too,

Gallit

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Denise Krebs link
01/27/2012 04:23

Gallit,
Exciting stuff! You are blessed to have Mr. McDonald down the hall. I am exciting to be connecting with you and Hugh on Twitter because I don't have anyone down the hall who is even in middle school teaching (the rest of my colleagues are high school).

I cherish the PLN I have found online, and thank you for being a part of it.

Denise

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Marlene
01/24/2013 06:25

It's my first time with my students after seeing what great work you have done with your students , I would like to ask you..are you on weebly free or weebly pro? bec i noticed your students have many page?

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Gallit Zvi
01/25/2013 17:42

Hi Marlene,

We are using weebly PRO. You are right, if you are not on PRO then you will only get 5 pages per website, so this way my students can have as many pages as they want.

Where do you teach?

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Marlene
01/30/2013 11:04

I teach in Lebanon. I'm orignally from Australia. How can your studnets archive their portfolios from year to year Or is that not possible they just break up their dates. I'm just worried there a possibillity we stay free to lose our content?




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