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What do you do to convince the parents?
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Mathematics and Science 2.0 Connection
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- Hometown:
- Pennsylvania
- School / Work Affiliation
- Middle School Science Teacher
- About Me:
- I am a Middle School Science Teacher and a MathCounts Coach. I also have a non-profit company named the Southern Philippine Children's Shelter. I started my science blog, Siyensya, which is named after the Cebuano word for science. I hope to feature many of my best science and math lessons in video format on the website and to generate some feedback from other teachers who may find them useful.
- Blog:
- http://www.siyensya.com
- Website:
- http://www.spcshelter.org
- Twitter / Plurk / Other Account:
- www.twitter.com/kevtech
About
My non-profit is the Southern Philippine Children's Shelter , (SPCS), and is located in the southern Philippines on the island of Mindanao.
We are working on helping to feed kids and get them back in school if they have dropped out. Many young children drop out to work so they have money to buy food for themselves and their family. We had our first food drive last December and fed over 100 children. We have just concluded our first clothing drive and we are shipping two large cargo boxes of cloths this last week of May '08.
One long term goal of the SPCS is to teach and tutor the students in math, science, and English so they can get a better paying job to support their family and to graduate high school. School in the Philippines is K- 6 and high school is 7th grade to 10th.
Science Teacher
My full time job is a middle school science teacher and MathCounts Coach. I love teaching this level and I am also looking for ways to incorporate web 2.0 in a meaningful way. Students learn best by guided learning and hands-on activities, labs and demos. Many of the activities I use I have developed over the years and I would like to share with other science teachers. On my website:
Siyensya.com my goal is to show in video format the idea behind each activity. This way, a teacher can use or modify the idea to their particular teaching style.
We are working on helping to feed kids and get them back in school if they have dropped out. Many young children drop out to work so they have money to buy food for themselves and their family. We had our first food drive last December and fed over 100 children. We have just concluded our first clothing drive and we are shipping two large cargo boxes of cloths this last week of May '08.
One long term goal of the SPCS is to teach and tutor the students in math, science, and English so they can get a better paying job to support their family and to graduate high school. School in the Philippines is K- 6 and high school is 7th grade to 10th.
Science Teacher
My full time job is a middle school science teacher and MathCounts Coach. I love teaching this level and I am also looking for ways to incorporate web 2.0 in a meaningful way. Students learn best by guided learning and hands-on activities, labs and demos. Many of the activities I use I have developed over the years and I would like to share with other science teachers. On my website:
Siyensya.com my goal is to show in video format the idea behind each activity. This way, a teacher can use or modify the idea to their particular teaching style.
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Hello Everyone 2.0
My non-profit blog is here:
www.spcshelter.org
My science blog Siyensya is here:
www.siyensya.com
Have a great day
www.spcshelter.org
My science blog Siyensya is here:
www.siyensya.com
Have a great day
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Thanks for recommending Wiziq. I've seen it before,now I'll take a closer look to see if it has videos.
In Kalubihan, the tab 'Pamantalaan'(publications) link to some stories published in Dahon Sa Lubi & Sugilanon Bisaya
You can use this dictionary, http://binisaya.com. This has a web reader too.
Lubi
May I ask what is best for video conferencing.
I will still be testing elluminate.
But other than yahoomessenger (video) and skype (audio), I'm not familiar with other tools /web applications for video conferencing. Free. And otherwise.
Duna ba kay sugyot, aron makatabang nimo ang Kalubihan.
(Do you have a suggestion, so that Kalubihan (network) could help you.
Lubi :-)
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Evan Morikawa. I am a 20 year old student from Olin College of Engineering (near Boston). I am a part of a group of six Olin students who are taking a year off to pursue interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, which brought us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school" on Classroom2.0, and since our project is specific to middle schools and uses new learning technology, I thought you might be interested. Our company is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.
Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.
Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!
Thanks,
Evan Morikawa
evan.morikawa@students.olin.edu
Thanks for bringing it to my notice - I'll take a look
Your invite sat on my page forever. I have this bad habit of disappearing over the Classroom 2.0 horizon. Nonetheless, thank you belatedly.
Would you or anyone in your MS Science Teacher's ning like free accounts for our collaborative online authoring software? Any project can immediately be put online with a unique web address or embedded in a blog, ning, wiki, etc. We're a bunch of former Boston Public School folks. Here are some sample screens/projects and our website. Let me know if I can be of help.
Thanks for the invite. I'll see you over at middle school science.
Thanks for the invite to the MS Science ning..
Ryan
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