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Transitioning from Middle School to High School

Jacquie Henry — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:46:13 +0000

Moving on Up!

This page will give you insight into the anxiety that our 9th graders might be feeling. The project would be a great one for middle school teachers, and also for Chris Corey’s class to look at. His class is preparing a “handbook” for the upcoming class, full of advice from the kids who have “been there and done that”.

Some (most?) of the web tools used in the above link are blocked by BESS. But there are other tools that can be used. The other tools are not as good or as collaborative – but perhaps our district policy will become less retrictive in the future. Meanwhile – we are all pretty good at adapting ideas to our circumstances.

Hope you find some useful ideas.

Freebies are good.

Jacquie Henry — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:59:29 +0000

We have a free trial right now from Gale – a company that produces very high quality databases. College professors will require students to use scholarly resources from databases, and not depend so heavily on websites from the free web. If you want to know more about scholarly resources, check out this video.

I am not sure how long the trial lasts – but it will be at least a month.

This particular trial covers several subject areas.

ENGLISH – LITERARY RESEARCH

For Students Online

Literature Resource Center

Literature eBooks

OTHER SUBJECT AREAS – BOOK CENTRAL

Arts

Biography

Business

Dorling Kindersley Collections

YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Jacquie Henry — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:21:07 +0000

From Joyce Valenza’s blog post – How do you get to Carnegie Hall? (practice, practice, upload!) :

“The YouTube Symphony Orchestra opened for auditions on December 1st. This is the first-ever such international, collaborative project.”

eJamming

Jacquie Henry — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:07:28 +0000

eJamming

A way for musicians to jam online. Requires software to be downloaded and needs a very fast internet connection. This might work at school – or it might not. In any case – it might be a site to keep and eye on.