Owsley County Middle School/Owsley County High School
Mrs. B’s Library
 
https://bit.ly/3i21qG5
 
 

Oakview Online

 
Johnson County Schools Back to School Platform
 
https://youtu.be/pzdvwBgIGO0
 

Herald Whitaker Middle School Virtual Learning Center – Part 1
https://youtu.be/lHFN-IOfLEs
 
Herald Whitaker Middle School Virtual Learning Center – Part 2
 
https://youtu.be/vo4uQl4AsS4

Johnson County Schools Back to School Platform
 
https://youtu.be/pzdvwBgIGO
 
Presented by: Superintendent Thom Cochran, Sharon Music, Mike Whitaker and Lisa Salyer

Herald Whitaker Middle School Virtual Learning Center – Part 2
 
https://youtu.be/vo4uQl4AsS4
 

https://youtu.be/lHFN-IOfLEs
 

Floyd County Site for Parent/Student Device Training
 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bnMwJP86nWYtIdfGuTooG-GbRZiWF_YJ/view?usp=sharing
 

https://torreytrust.com/projects   A website with detailed information, tutorials, and evaluation criteria for 85 learner-, community-, knowledge-, and assessment-centered digital tools for educators. This site was designed by students in my EDUC 592A (Online Tools for Learning & Instruction) course in…   Read more»

The attachment includes all the Zip Codes for Kentucky.   You can type your Zip Code into https://broadbandnow.com/Kentucky and it will give you the Broadband Speed, Wired Coverage and Providers for your district.  I included all Kentucky Districts because…   Read more»

We created a google doc that we will be sharing tomorrow with some of the videos that we have created and information that we have collected from the survey we conducted. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19HbQLElYHlEmZAF8ShuWN7GWDQ_np1gnohvxTP_aT2M/edit?usp=sharing

Update on Google student certification. Our 8th grade students have been working on several different apps over the first semester: Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Students have been creating presentations about the colleges they want to attend and sharing documents with other students

Our goal is that the teacher and student both will have the app and be able to use it for different things. The student may want to keep his or her digital notes online in a google folder or work in groups were they share information with their peers, where as; for the teacher he or she will be able to collect digital mathematics sample writing…Read More

So the Rocketbook app is how you make everything work, once a students finishes has work, you can upload it using the rocket app, which is free. Using it you can set up to 10 different destinations that the material can be uploaded. Multiple Emails, google drive folders, One drive folders, and a whole lot more…

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Here is the Rocketbook Fusion, It has a variety of pages that the student one does not. The student version only has the dot version, where as the fusion has calendar, objective, idea and project templates. Both come with pen and eraser sheet. Also, you can use water to erase the pages so you can start over again and again.

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Rocketbook student edition

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In November we finally got our Rocketbooks in. We got over 30 Rocketbooks and 3 Rocketbook Fusion books in for teachers to use. I’m going to share the student version in this post

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Just wanted to take a quick moment to thank everyone (Teachers, Students, Principals, and administrators) in the KVEC region for doing such a great job this year. I was so impressed with all the presentations going on yesterday and I hope to see even more great things next year. Thanks again, have a wonderful rest of the year.

Students in Mr. Thompsons class are using digital tools to created videos. Today, I meet with the students on what they could do to improve their products. Items like adding sound and graphics where so of the things that we discussed. I’m very proud of our students they are doing a wonderful job creating these resources.

What does the day look like for chicken farmers, well at JCS students are getting to learn just what it’s like. Students in Mrs. Back’s agriculture class are getting there hands dirty finding out what it takes to raise chickens: Here is a video our crew worked on that showcases just that. https://youtu.be/qUjdBaWpgv0

Today our group worked on seeing if we could live stream through the SlingStudio onto our Youtube page. We are very excited to say it worked very well. This will lead to more things that we can do with our new technologies.

In addition to our leadership team working on the “Celebrating Educator and Student Success at the Capitol” they were very interested in showcasing all the leadership activities that our school is involved in. We invited “The Holler Boys” to come and speak with our students about creating several videos that would showcase all they have done. We…Read More

We have received our ARI Grant materials! My students were so excited when they saw the Light Changing table and all of the manipulatives that came with it. I can’t wait to get started and watch them having fun playing while building those fine motor muscles at the same time!

We have received our materials this week! My students were so excited when they saw the light changing table! They can’t wait to get to play with it and all our new materials! I am also excited to see their faces light up and watch them play with the materials to build up their fine motor skills. We are ready to have some fun with Fine Motor…Read More

Grant Recipients are starting to get some of their items they ordered. A lot of great things will be happening because the teachers care so much about their students. We are all so proud of them.

Today, I meet with our ARI Grant Recipients and discussed purchasing, responsibilities, posting, and upcoming dates that are required of them.

We are so proud of all our teachers who submitted applications this year. This is going to be a great year at Jackson City.

Application 2018-19 is turned in. The excitement for my class is beyond belief. 💕

Imagination library brings the love of reading to our little ones 💕

Application is turned in. Now we wait 💕

I am so happy with how the project went! My students loved the devices and I loved watching them learn about Science. I think by incorporating the hands on activities with the devices helped my students get a better understanding of Science. They were full of curiosity and wonder!
One thing I would have liked to have thought of before was…Read More

Also, I spoke to my Original Trainers and asked them how many videos they had created this year since the training. They had stated that they had created over 100 videos this year. A lot of hands on training going on with this group. A lot of their work focuses around a high school entrepreneurial grant that focuses on building a video…Read More

Educational Reform has made major impacts within education within the past 20 years.
But not until recently has the impacts driven the way we evaluate student achievement and success. There have been several major players who have helped this movement, such as KDE, Gates Foundation, and ARI. Teachers no longer are waiting on state test…Read More

We have been sending our PBS Tablets home with several students for the weekend. They have got to enjoy working on Science Applications with their parents at home. We introduced this to the parents During a Parent meeting and introduced the skills we were working on in Science. The parents and children both were so excited to get to take the…Read More

Our JCS Leadership team created this for the March 6 event in Frankfort.

I created this cool reminder for our ARI grant recipients using a google chrome app: animaker

Here is our latest video on “Sources of Strength” . Finding what gives you strength. Family Support. https://youtu.be/EyZooio1pCw

what an amazing change in literacy practice. Using the coding for literacy tablets was an awesome and worth while investment. The children are engaged and learning has accelerated!!!!

We enjoyed a nice winter day outside with our PBS playtime tablets! We worked on the PBS app Outdoor Family Fun With Plum and observed at different insects outside with magnifying glasses! My students loved getting to work on the app and explore and then exploring their surroundings outside!!
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Children have been using their new tablets to code and make stories on PBS scratch Jr. They have learned about plot,setting and characters. We are still looking for an awesome coding app that is age appropriate that focuses on letter identification and phonics.

Children have been using their new tablets to code and make stories on PBS scratch Jr. They have learned about plot,setting and characters. We are still looking for an awesome coding app that is age appropriate that focuses on letter identification and phonics.

Children have been using their new tablets to code and make stories on PBS scratch Jr. They have learned about plot,setting and characters. We are still looking for an awesome coding app that is age appropriate that focuses on letter identification and phonics.

In today’s fast-paced world, it is often a challenge for families to spend time together around a meal or have a conversation concerning the day’s events, much less take advantage of a teachable moment.  We freq […]

Family Creative Learning Workshops Are Fun for All in Lee County

ARI, Highlights, KVEC

December 20, 2017

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In today’s fast-paced world, it is often a challenge for families to spend time together around a meal or have a conversation concerning the day’s events, much less take advantage of a teachable moment.  We frequently are looking for...

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When was the last time you heard someone say, “Pick Your Battles”? Well, teams of students, educators and community leaders are doing just that in tackling a major challenge impacting far too many lives in App […]

Students, Educators and Communities Taking Action Against Opioid Crisis

ARI, Highlights, KVEC

December 18, 2017

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When was the last time you heard someone say, “Pick Your Battles”? Well, teams of students, educators and community leaders are doing just that in tackling a major challenge impacting far too many lives in Appalachia and across our...

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Children and I are so excited waiting on our new tablets!!!! We have been talking about coding and how much fun its gonna be to use them for literacy projects.

Children and I are so excited waiting on our new tablets!!!! We have been talking about coding and how much fun its gonna be to use them for literacy projects.

The JCS Leadership Team attended the Teen Prevention Conference @ Lees College Campus on HCTC sponsored by KRCC

Today we had so much fun while learning on our PBS tablets. We love the app Ready Jet Go! Space Explorer. We got to explore the solar system and visit different planets. They loved that we lived on a planet and that they could see what it looked like from other views. After using the device they drew their observations and made predictions about…Read More

Today we had so much fun while learning on our PBS tablets. We love the app Ready Jet Go! Space Explorer. We got to explore the solar system and visit different planets. They loved that we lived on a planet and that they could see what it looked like from other views. After using the device they drew their observations and made predictions…Read More