Monday Memo
October 14, 2019
Welcome our New Staff Member
In-service Day - Monday, October 14
8:00-11:00 am Schoology Session #1 Beginners (MS Library)
- Session 1: Getting Started - Intended for those that are new to Schoology, struggling or confused with getting started.
· Logging In, Navigating Features,
· Communication Tools - Using Updates/Announcements
· Using Calendar
· Gradebook Tools
· Course Materials - Add Pages, Assignments, Test/Quiz, Discussion
· Course Management Tips
· Navigating Resources
· Time to explore, practice, create course materials/assignment
OR
8:00-11:00 am
- Ongoing budget review
- Submit 1/person/subject area taught
- Ongoing course recommendations (8th to 9th grade)
- Data review within data team
- Elective/Specials at respective locations (ie, BCIU)
11:00-12:00 pm Lunch
12:00-3:30 pm Schoology Session #2 Advanced (MS Library)
Session 2: Those ready to learn more, understanding more features. Expanding uses of common tools to transform learning.
- Adding Media - Integrating YouTube Videos, other Web 2.0 tools/apps
- Integration of Google Suite - Slides
- Using Test/Quiz for different Types of Assessments
- Creating and Using Rubrics
- Student Completion Rules
- Creating Groups and when to use them
- Time to explore, practice, create course materials/assignments
OR
12:00-3:30 pm
- Ongoing budget review
- Submit 1/person/subject area taught
- Ongoing course recommendations (8th to 9th grade)
- Data review within data team
*You must attend one of the two trainings. Please self-assess and decide which session would be most appropriate for your skill level.
**You are welcome to attend both Schoology Sessions
*** You need your laptop for the Schoology sessions.
New Duties (AM cafe & Bus Duty)
Oley Valley Athletics ROCK!
Weekly Athletic Review
Golf (10-4)
Boys Cross Country (10-5)
Defeated Daniel Boone
Lost to Twin Valley and Wilson
Girls Cross Country (10-5)
Lost to Daniel Boone, Twin Valley and Wilson
Field Hockey (17-0)
Defeated Kutztown 8-0
Defeated Boyertown 9-0
Defeated Great Valley 5-1
Boys Soccer (15-2-1)
Defeated Kutztown 7-0
Defeated Exeter 2-0
Girls Soccer (0-15)
Lost to Kutztown 2-3 in double overtime on a penalty kick
Football @ Fleetwood (7-1)
Defeated Hamburg 24-8
Girls Volleyball @ Muhlenberg (11-8)
Defeated Conrad Weiser 3-0
Defeated Governor Mifflin 3-0
Week Ahead in Athletics
Monday, October 14th
Field Hockey – BCIAA Quarterfinals vs Schuylkill Valley @ Exeter – 6:00PM
JV Football @ Hamburg – 4:00PM
Tuesday, October 15th
Boys’ Soccer – BCIAA Semi-Finals vs Fleetwood @ Tulpehocken - 7:15PM
Cross Country – BCIAA Championship Run @ Kutztown University (Dismiss @ 1:45PM)
-4:00 (Boys Race), 4:45 (Girls Race)
Girls’ Volleyball @ Muhlenberg vs Reading – 6:00PM
Wednesday, October 16th
Field Hockey – BCIAA Semi-finals vs Berks Catholic @ Exeter - 7:15PM
Thursday, October 17th
Girls' Volleyball - BCIAA Quarterfinals vs Fleetwood @ Reading - 7:00PM
Friday, October 18th
Boys’ Soccer – BCIAA Championship Game vs Governor Mifflin @ Exeter - 5:30PM
Football @ Berks Catholic – 7:00PM
Saturday, October 19th
Field Hockey – BCIAA Championship Game vs Wilson @ Exeter - 5:00 PM
PSAT Assessment
Red Ribbon Week
Monday - Sock it to drugs - Wear your crazy socks
Tuesday - Don’t get tied down by drugs - Wear tie dye
Wednesday - RED Out - wear your Red for Red Ribbon week
Thursday - Healthy living is no sweat - Wear sweatpants
Friday - Team up against drugs - Wear your Sports gear
Fire Drill
Ideas to Use in the Classroom!
So you’re saying that searching Google is the same as Remembering?
So you’re saying that searching Google is the same as Remembering?
I’ve been researching Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of Cognitive Tasks, and I’ve been seeing a number of guides attempt to match iPad apps with each level in Bloom’s hierarchy. These app guides seem built on a false assumption that using a certain app will reliably stimulate a certain mode of thinking. I think equating apps with Bloom’s thinking tasks create the false impression that if you have all the right apps, your students can just click their way to critical thinking.
To be generous, you definitely could use many of these apps to exhibit the qualities of thinking Bloom describes, just as you could do with paper and pencil, a Word doc, a microphone, a camera, or a PowerPoint. The problem, of course, is that you can also successfully use those apps without exhibiting any of the desired thinking skills. The worst case scenario, of course, is that you squander valuable class time (and money!) on a huge repertoire of apps that don’t help your students become better critical thinkers, problem solvers, know-ers, and do-ers.
Apps can be as distracting as they are stimulating, and you could get lost in the details of each app without having a clear idea of what thinking task you’re supposed to be focusing on. You may discover too late that your amazing Keynote presentation doesn’t actually apply previously learned content towards solving a novel problem. You may find that tweeting about something you learned does not make you more likely to recall it later (much less understand it), or that the Evernote-as-flash-cards app “Peek” has nothing at all to do with evaluating ideas against agreed-upon standards (who came up with this diagram anyway?).
So please– think critically about your education technology choices before you implement them. If you need help, there’s a great underused document called Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy that can help you. It doesn’t light up and it’s not multi-touch-sensitive, but it’s got some good ideas nonetheless.