Thank you Gina Charles and Terri Clem from Pike County, for sharing videos of reading strategies that can be used in the classroom!

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #10 (23 mins)
Develop a literacy identity that promotes lifelong learning.
• Provide opportunities for students to view themselves as lifelong learners who take an active role in their literacy development, understanding they impact and are impacted by their interactions with text
• Carole Mullins, NBCT and Reb…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #9 (31 mins)
Apply high level cognitive processes to think deeply and critically about text.
• Help students must move beyond basic comprehension and interact more deeply with the text
• By applying synthesis, analysis, reflection and other higher order thinking skills, students are equipped to examine text cri…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #6-7 (37 mins)
#6: Collaborate with others to create meaning. #7: Utilize digital resources to learn and share with others.
• Help students learn to interact with others in order to confirm, challenge or shape their views and ideas
• Know how to effectively produce and critically consume digital information
•…Read More

INTRODUCTION TO THE 10 INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICES (18 mins)
• Understanding the purpose and function of the practices
• Carole Mullins, NBCT

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #1 (32 mins)
Recognize that text is anything that communicates a message.
• Expand traditional knowledge about text to include visual, auditory & digital sources
• Use sources across disciplines to provide increasingly rigorous opportunities for students to interpret messages communicated through different med…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #2 (29 mins)
Employ, develop, and refine schema to understand create text.
• Through the use of multiple texts and interdisciplinary content, activate students’ schema. Provide opportunities for developing new connections, applying specialized vocabulary and reflecting on new understandings
• Appropriate for K…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #3 (30 mins)
View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• When students’ literacy experiences cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, their knowledge is expanded and relevant
• Students’ interactions with text become transformational when they are motivated to purs…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #4 (30 mins)
Utilize receptive and expressive language arts to better understand self, others and the world. View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• Experiencing both receptive (i.e., listening, reading and viewing) and expressive (i.e., speaking, writing and v…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #5 (38 mins)
Apply strategic practices, with scaffolding and then independently, to approach new literacy tasks.
• Help students to strategically approach literacy tasks in order to make intentional decisions about when, where and how to apply thinking and learning processes
• Independence and tra…Read More

Composition Video Resources Link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vIg6dkOjgATOSbQCosjIiKQFMGGIqzs1?usp=sharing

KAS for Reading and Writing Video Series: EPISODES 1-5 RESOURCES LINK:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XaizNuJf-tWqMK0CLJU86EZ08xzOabfI

Hey, KVEC Social Studies – check out our first mini-cast for our Holler!

https://youtu.be/gOESeRAFTm8

One of the best apps I have found this year is Teach Your Monster to Read. My FMD students LOVE it! It is a game-based reading program. The website is always free and the app is $4.99, BUT is offered free every few months. If you sign up on the website, you’ll get an email when the app is on a discount or free offer. Even if you pay the $4.99,…Read More

Where is Donna? I miss her!!

hello

http://pbskids.org/apps/

I got a big test coming up.

Yes! http://www.epals.com is a great way for students from all areas of the world, to connect with each other! Check it out! You can join projects, share projects, set up email accounts for your students so they can send/receive emails from other students! It’s a great way for students to explore culture, language, and interesting facts about each other!

We interviewed some kids last year who said Wolfram Alpha is their “go to” app for Math….

Photomath is a great app for students to receive immediate feedback on a math problem. The student captures the problem and the app shows the solution and steps.

What are some good math apps to use for RTI?

What are some good math apps to use for RTI?

Carly teaches first grade, and asks, “Could anybody tell me whether it is just as easy to use a Macbook as a teacher (syncing with Smart board programs etc.), or whether it is best to use a different laptop?”

The Social Studies Teacher Leader Network meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 24th has been cancelled. The next meeting will be March 27th (note the change from March 31 originally scheduled).

Teachers,

Here is a gold-mine for primary sources… Oral-histories for the Appalachian Region. Some of these are amazing!
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/collections/appalachia-oral-history-collection’ title=’Appalachia Oral History Collection | Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History’ image=”]Residents of Appalachia discuss…Read More

Haven’t used this app, but looks very interesting: MoMA: ART LAB iPAD APP. Check it out and tell me what you think.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.moma.org/explore/mobile/artlabapp’ title=’MoMA | Art Lab iPad App’ image=”]MoMA | Art Lab iPad App[/bpfb_link]

Our next SSTLN meeting will be February 24th at HCTC. This will be a hard day of working with the new Social Studies standards. You might bring a laptop to do some of the work. More info will come by email. See you then!

I know some of the districts are using Google with their students. I see that google has just released apps, IOS and Android for Google Classroom based on the article from eschoolnews. Here are some of the features:
The Classroom mobile app lets students and teachers the ability to:
1. Snap a photo and attach it to an assignment directly from…Read More

A few weeks ago, I was asked about NearPod, an app that will allow teachers to create, engage, assess students in real time. I will be creating a tech tip that will go out in the future on this app. If there are any teachers using this device in your classroom, would you please post commons on how you are using it and are there any issues or…Read More

In the upcoming tech Tuesday, you will see the tip about Post-it Note App for iPad. I’m sorry it is not available yet for Google Play, but heard it is coming. We are always using post its in the classroom, would it be cool to not only collect the evidence but to use them as tools to enhance classroom and staff meetings.
[bpfb_link…Read More

Anyone have any experience with this resource? I signed up today and am peeking around a bit.
[bpfb_link url=’https://www.opened.io/’ title=’Lesson Plans, Assessments, Homework, Videos, Games. Over a million items aligned to Common Core, PARCC, SBAC’ image=”]Teach, Learn and Analyze with the largest K-12 Resource Library[/bpfb_link]

WONDERFUL RESOURCE The US Holocaust Memorial Museum offers an online experience, “Some Were Neighbors” to explore the role of “onlookers”” during the Holocaust…those who helped the victims and those who helped the Nazis. Includes teacher resources for lessons on analyzing images, etc.
http://somewereneighbors.ushmm.org/#/exhibitions

Interesting
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog/how-to-edit-office-files-in-google-drive’ title=’How to Edit Office Files in Google Drive – Shake Up Learning’ image=’http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog/how-to-edit-office-files-in-google-drive/ http://www.shakeuplearning.com/uploads/1/7/2/2/1722468/3860323.png?250'%5DYes! You can edit…Read More

An oldie, but a goodie.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/how-to-create-a-test-that-grades-itself-using-google-forms’ title=’How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms’ image=’http://www.teachthought.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/google-forms.jpg’]How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms[/bpfb_link]

One of my teaching colleagues stopped me in the hallway the other day to share her excitement over using the ClassDojo app. From what I could tell in the two minute exchange that we had, it’s a positive behavior management system. Anyone else had any experience with it?
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.classdojo.com/’ title=’ClassDojo’…Read More

ASCD article on questioning in social studies/history classes
http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol10/1009-mount.aspx?utm_source=ascdexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express1009

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Resources
[bpfb_link url=’http://highland2011.edu.glogster.com/edit/dr-martin-luther-king’ title=’Dr. Martin Luther King: #GlogContest2013, #glogcontest2013, glogcontest2013 | Glogster EDU – 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students’…Read More

If you are not a member of the Kentucky Social Studies (KYSOCSTU Listserv but would like to join the online community and receive updates and info from them regarding SS instruction..or post questions to the group, you may join at the link below
http://www.coe.uky.edu/lists/kylists.php

I found this web resource with TONS of questioning strategies…also contains support materials for the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). More appropriate for Middle and High SS Teachers/Students.
https://studyskillsforuniquelearners.wikispaces.com/Questioning+Strategies

I found this web resource with TONS of questioning strategies…also contains support materials for the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). More appropriate for Middle and High SS Teachers/Students.
https://studyskillsforuniquelearners.wikispaces.com/Questioning+Strategies

Information in this week’s Superintendent email:
Summer history workshop – (Please share with teachers)
We hope that you will apply to be part of the 2015 Summer Teacher Workshop at the Kentucky Historical Society. This exciting and informative weeklong workshop, “Torn Within, Threatened Without: Kentucky and the Border States in the Civil War…Read More

Here is a link to the Model Curriculum Framework:
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/KY-Model-Curriculum-Framework.aspx

Stanford History Education Group-Reading Like a Historian, Document based lessons, and other resources
http://sheg.stanford.edu/

Kentucky Council for the Social Studies resource page:
http://kcss.org/?page_id=25/

Kentucky Council for the Social Studies resource page:
http://kcss.org/?page_id=25/

Article in Harvard Education Letter about Question Formulation Technique (QFT) would be a great resource to help Social Studies Teacher Leaders share the technique.
http://hepg.org/hel-home/issues/27_5/helarticle/teaching-students-to-ask-their-own-questions_507#home

@michelle and @breewilson… Great to see Leslie folk joining theHoller!