Friday, February 27, 2015

February 23 - March 1

Wix is the big project on board for this week. Students in Mrs. Honn's class spent last week researching and African country and are making a website about that country this week in class.  The majority of the students have not used this program before and have picked it up quickly. The design skills that students are showing are fantastic.  Below some pictures of the students working on their websites.





Mrs. Andrews's class will be the library on Thursday to get an introduction to the web tool Thinglink. They'll get an introduction to how this tool is used and then they'll be working on creating a Thinglink to go along with the novel they're reading City of Ember.

I'll be popping into Mrs. Serkowski's on Thursday and more later next week to work on a project for Digital Learning Day.  The students will beginning brainstorming ideas for their project which will deal with technology evolution, more on this next week!

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

House 7A Smore Project

Ms. Pozolinski's students finished up the Smore project focusing on a country in Europe.  Some examples of their project are below.





Tuesday, February 17, 2015

February 16 - February 20

This is an exciting week for House 7A!  They will be spending the week in the library during their social studies class with Ms. Pozolinksi where they will be creating an online brochure using the web tool Smore.  Each student will be focusing on a specific European country for this project.  I'll be posting some of the students projects online next week.  To end their week House 7A will be going on a field trip to the Domes in Milwaukee and then the Pettit Ice Center.

Students have been working on videos that they will embed in their Smore projects, which involves a great deal of team work since they have to work on a script together, find a background, and decide which member is going to take on which part.  Overall, this group has shown fantastic teamwork, I'm looking forward to seeing their final projects.




Teams participating in their first round battles.


Since we had a double elimination bracket students were able to work their way back to the top of the competition, which is exactly what happened.  Our winning team Insert_Name_Here had to beat Ravenclaw twice in order to become Park View's winning team!


The Final Battle!


Our winning student team - Insert_Name_Here
Our winning teacher team - Bookends

Thursday, February 12, 2015

February 9 - February 13

Mrs. Grau's class will be coming to the library for most of the week.  Similar to what House 7A and House 7C did in social studies, the students will be creating a Movenote video to go along with a presentation on who of the elements of culture in regards to Native American tribes located in Wisconsin.  Students will be researching their information, creating a Google Slide and then making a video presentation using the Movenote app.

A huge thank you to Mrs. Coopman who has been helping out this week.  As she completes her student teaching hours she has been a great help to the students on their Movenote projects.  Thank You!

On Friday, the Battle of the Books Sweet Sixteen battles will be taking place.  Students will participate in head-to-head battles throughout the day in a double elimination style bracket to find out who the winning team at our school is.  The winning team will then have the opportunity to compete against the other winning teams in the state of Wisconsin.  We'll have the results of the battles next week!





Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Join the Conversation!

We're challenging students to join the conversation this month by making a conversation heart that goes along with a book.  The book can be their favorite, the last one they finished, one they want to read, or simply a cover that catches their eye. Students are able to stop in before or after school or during their study hall to create their conversation heart.

Some examples of students conversation hearts:






Tuesday, February 3, 2015

February 2 - February 6

Cyberbullying is the topic in the library this week. Our 8th grade guidance counselor, Mr. Langenfeld will be working with each of the 8th grade houses to explain the benefits and risks that are taken when students post images, videos, and words online.  After discussing cyberbullying students will then create online posters that show five positive words and five positive images that represent them.



Mrs. Pease's science class will be in the library later this week working on rainforest postcards.  Students will be using the computers to do some research and then they will be creating a postcard explaining their trip to the rainforest.