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Yeah, our inaugural PD blog. A new neater way to remember what we talked about. Noriko is leading a lesson on creating a classroom record while elsewhere in the school Carrie is leading a Step Up to Writing lesson and Doug is teaching about using primary sources. I don't know how all that is going, but this is fun and everyone seems interested. So far Noriko has shown us the notebook and notes that she keeps as a model for the notebooks of her students in her classes. Then she showed us her paper notebook class logs and she passed them around for all to see. Now we are looking at her online blog for her classes and getting an example of what and how kids keep a record of what happens in class each day. What kids write is funny and somehow misses and nails the point of the class at the same time. A blog could be as simple as just the agenda. Noriko is giving us details of how she implements the blog in class and sharing more examples of what the students wrote. Noriko is offering us time to hop on computers and start our own classroom blogs. I can tell by the silence and the questions that people are taking this in and really seeing how they could use this in their own classes. Noriko is showing us how she incorporates photos and student work in the blog. Noriko is also going to show us how to do Wordle and Tagxedo to create word clouds and images. Some teachers are ready to start their own blogs. Wordle and Tagxedo can be used as a quick assessment. I volunteered Anne to have Wordle made about her. The higher the frequency of the words as you type, the larger the word in the word cloud. People seem VERY excited about this, throwing out ideas of what they would do. Now she is showing us Tagxedo and how you can import text to make a word picture using different shapes, not just a cloud. I feel like this blog is getting a little dry and informative. Noriko is showing us how she incorporated the Tagxedo for students in a profile assignment. And that's it for Noriko's PD. Now we have to fill out the evaluation.
