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Eric Biederbeck replied to paula webb's discussion 'Back to School First Two Days' in the group Middle School Science
I have a small group activity I love to start the year off with in science- it is called "Mission to the Moon" and it involves a spaceship landing in the wrong place on the moon and students having to rank 15 items that they will take from…
Aug 3, 2009
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Eric Biederbeck replied to Rob Hurley's discussion 'Twitter'
I too plan on using Twitter in the classroom to keep parents more up to date on what is going on (actually planning on having kids update it) I think you have several options to stop people with inappropriate pictures or tweets from following you.…
Jul 28, 2009
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Eric Biederbeck commented on Glen Westbroek's blog post 'What Makes Technology Web 2.0?'
My feeling on the matter is that the list serve certainly has its place and it works for you the way you use it. At the same time, you are using other sources (such as twitter). Now it seems to me that many of the other people at this recent…
Jul 27, 2009
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Eric Biederbeck replied to Mackenzie Bristow's discussion 'Animoto'
You can sign up for a free education account which lets you get the long version and allows your students to sign up too- I use it in science for vocab by giving each student a different word and then have them find pictures and the definition of…
Apr 20, 2009
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Eric Biederbeck replied to Jan's discussion 'Audacity in the Classroom'
We have a reading resource teacher in 7th and 8th grade in our school who uses it all the time with his reluctant readers. He has students create files of them reading shakespeare, etc and then has another student constructively critic it then they…
Apr 19, 2009
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Eric Biederbeck replied to Heather Dowd's discussion 'Looking for examples of science classrooms using web 2.0' in the group Middle School Science
Please do. This was really my first foray into using glogster and the kids really took to it. Some are using it now for their "World's Best Long Undies" presentations but those aren't due until March 6th. Those should actually be…
Feb 22, 2009
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Eric Biederbeck replied to Heather Dowd's discussion 'Looking for examples of science classrooms using web 2.0' in the group Middle School Science
Sorry I took so long here are some links arctic fox: http://tiny.cc/Riz4a arctic hare: http://tiny.cc/A8zLX polar bear: http://tiny.cc/ra9u8 another polar bear: http://tiny.cc/96H8n
Feb 22, 2009
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Eric Biederbeck replied to Charlie Haffey's discussion 'classroom videos'
I agree about the us of flip cameras- depending on the age of your students many of them may have used them before and are prepared to do more advanced story boards. We have three on our team of 45 students and often us them for projects to…
Feb 11, 2009

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Essex Middle School
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@vtdeacon
About Me
I'm a 6th grade science and math teacher
interested in differentiated instruction and project based learning

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At 6:47pm on February 1, 2009, JackJack said…
Hi Eric. I was wondering if you have students or educator contacts who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
 
 
 

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