Crafting PLE
The Art of Creating Personalized Learning Environments
FMS Edition - November, 2015
Important Info
PLEF Schedule
My schedule this year is:
Monday and Tuesday - Ferndale
Wednesday and Thursday - JSGS
Friday - WSA
I am always available by email and if you need to meet on a day I am not at Ferndale, we can make arrangements.
PLEF Role
FMS PACE Team
Our next PACE Team meeting will be November 18th at 7:30 AM in the Upper Media.
I'll give a prize from my Swag Bag to the first person who remembers who this guy is and sends me an email:
News
Trojan Teacher Institute
Here is the line up for November:
Monday, November 9 - Amplify Your Lesson: Bring a lesson plan to see how you can use the tablet to integrate technology.
Monday, November 16 - Using the Tablet for Formative Assessment
Monday, November 23 - Using the Discussion Feature for Questioning and Writing
Monday, November 30 - Movement in the Classroom with GoNoodle
What do you want to see in December? Send me an email to let me know!
PLEF 30-Day Social Media Challenge
The PLEFs are doing a 30-day Social Media Challenge to encourage teachers to follow us. We hope you'll follow along, and like, share, and comment on our posts. We hope to have a 30-Day Challenge for teachers after the holidays.
Here's how to follow us - our Username is @theplefs for all social media accounts.
As a reminder, we also have a Pinterest page with boards for Guide with Standards, Know the Learner, and Flex the Environment.
News You Can Use
- Hey homeroom teachers - New students: Remember to ensure new students have returned their parent signature form to you. You'll find the form HERE. We'll get students a new tablet as soon as we can. Thank you for your support.
- Math teachers rejoice: The Moby Max app has been added to the tablet.
- Do you have problems opening Playlist Builder files on your tablet? Be sure not to include special characters (&%$, etc. - Debate&Argument) in the file name.
Shout Outs
Ms. McCain Presents at TeachMeet
Next year I expect to see you all there!!
Tablet Triumphs
Ms. Bost used the tablets to get information to her students about the IB Learner Profile contest. She also had them using the Mindomo app to create mind maps.
Ms. Hannah uses Math Map for students who complete their warm-up quickly. It's a great tool for review as well as learning new concepts, and students can really see their progress.
And a special thank you to Ms. Myles and Ms. Roan for helping to enforce proper use of tablets in the classroom.
How will you use the tablets in your class?
Words of Wisdom
Teena Martin, PLEF
Email: martint6@gcsnc.com
Website: ple.gcsnc.com
Location: serving Ferndale Middle and Johnson St. Global Studies
Facebook: facebook.com/PLEFs
Twitter: @craftyPLEF