Jan
7
Achieve your ed-PD New Year Resolution with an @pbsteachers online course –
My course: RDLA235-Teaching Lifelong Reading Habits- starts Wednesday, 01/16/2019 – and runs through February 26, 2019.
Graduate credit offered too! Enroll at this link: http://www.pbs.org/teacherline/catalog/
@pbsteachers
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
Oct
29
Click this Link for the AP News Story
Click on the link for a Common Core correlated study guide from the Library of Congress —common_core LOC-1osmerk
Common Core Standards:
ELA, History, 6-8, 9: Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.
Oct
25
Our PBS course concluded last night and, even after 12 years of course facilitation, I miss you all.
Here, I make my pitch for dedicated educators, parents (and especially parents who are educators!) to get very involved in your local school politics. The school board, the local teacher representation board, the local PTA are excellent ways to navigate your local education system and provide your expertise.
All: please consider yourself nominated by me, for your next level of educational service!!
Dr. T 🙂
#PBSReaders4Life
@PBSTeachers
Oct
22
THE Library of Congress scares up October 31st fun with “Frankenreads,” a public read-athon of Marry Shelley’s “Frankenstein” now 200 years young!
The reading begins at 9:00 am at the Library of Congress. It is open to everybody.
There is also a livestream so you and your students can join the fun virtually. Check out the live-stream @ the LOC’s YouTube site: http://youtube.com/LibraryOfCongress
Classroom Activities During the live stream:
Oct
17
Bring the spookiness of Halloween to your classroom all month with science, math, and social studies resources for all grades on PBS LearningMedia-
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/the-halloween-collection/
Carve Halloween Into Your Lesson Planning– Halloween is a great time for teachers to encourage children’s imagination and creativity. Explore a collection that offers PreK-12 teachers an easy way to integrate Halloween themes into your classroom. Explore Collection–PBS Learning Media Lesson Plans Link
See more on Twitter: @pbsteachers
Photo link: Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/12707238@N00/22622863856/
Oct
2
PBS TeacherLine uses the Canvas Learning Management System for its full array of online undergrad and graduate courses. Here are some tips shared among us in our course faculty forum.
In the cyclical nature of online courses, it can be a full semester or a year between administrations of the same course.
Before each administration, it is imperative to check external links to content.
This used to be an mind-numbing exercise.
Within the Canvas LMS, there is a tool to automatically check external links. It’s called the Link Validation Tool.
Here is the path: Go to Settings (course navigation list at very bottom) & then choose “Validate Links in Context” & then “Start Link Validation.”
Happy Canvassing!
@PBSTeachers #PBSReaders4Life
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Sep
20
For our @PBSTeachers course “Teaching Lifelong Reading Habits K-12″ an activity application for qualitative information gathering was implemented using an online survey tool to crowdsource a course hashtag.
The online survey tool, SurveyAnyplace was chosen to build, distribute, and collect the results of the survey because of its ease of use, mobile tech option, survey creation templates, QR-Code distribution feature, and results display capacity. Learners were invited to participate through email and course announcements in CanvasLMS.
Here is a screenshot in the early minutes of Survey data collection:
SurveyAnyplace Survey Screen. Survey created by Helen Teague
The survey contained one question with 3 fixed answer choices (“A,” “B,” “C”) and 1 open-ended answer choice (“D”). The open ended answer choice “D” invited course participants to suggest their own hashtag for inclusion.
Five days were given for the first round of choice. Data provided by SurveyAnyplace detailed the response rate and tallied the responses. The survey had an 89% response rate.
In the first round, after the course learners completed the survey, the choice with the most responses and the suggested response were distilled to a final survey. Data collection on these two choices continued for three days. The resulting choice earned the designation of the Course Hashtag.
The Hashtag data collection activity served to crowdsource a common hashtag, build community among all course participants (learners and course facilitator), and model procedure for an upcoming data collection culminating activity.
Course participants were assured that all future posts with the hashtag #PBSReaders4Life would always conform to the Terms of Use of each and every social media site in which it appeared. Further, course facilitators’ posts were assured to be of a general or thematic nature. Specific learners’ names would not be used, accept in the case of a retweet where a learner self-identified through the use of the hashtag #PBSReaders4Life.
Sep
17
As a pre-course activity for my PBS TeacherLine class, “Teaching Lifelong Reading Habits” I constructed a hashtag survey. The intent of the survey was for the class to create, vote, and decide on a common hashtag for us to use during our class.
Here are a few fun hashtag facts that I learned in the process:
Engagement Benefits from Hashtags…Sometimes: Posts with 1-2 hashtags have 21% more interest and by extension, more engagement than those without hashtags (Andersen, 2018; Lee, 2018).
The carbon dating for the first hashtag is circa 2007:
Source: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hashtags/517028/
Hashtag Tips from Social Media experts:
Best quote related to hashtagging and social media: The currency of social media is the share. ~Courtney Seiter
There’s even a podcast dedicated to the humble hashtag called– The Science of Social Media
Because their purpose is to expand the conversation, Hashtags hug constructivist learning theory.
Source: https://blog.bufferapp.com/a-scientific-guide-to-hashtags-which-ones-work-when-and-how-many
Keep practicing your hashtag I.Q. and you will be ready for the next World Social Media day on June 30, 2019
The hashtag for this day is, natch, #SMDay
Happy Hashtagging!!
References
Andersen, I. (February 15, 2018). Everything you’ve always wanted to know about hashtags. Social Media Today. Retrieved from: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hashtags/517028/
Lee, K. (April 17, 2018). How to Use Hashtags How Many, Best Ones, and Where to Use Them. Buffer Blog. Retrieved from: https://blog.bufferapp.com/a-scientific-guide-to-hashtags-which-ones-work-when-and-how-many
Sep
10
PBS LearningMedia is excited to announce an improved site design and user experience, making our resources easier than ever for teachers like you to find and integrate into your curriculum. These new features, which are based on feedback from educators nationwide, include: a refreshed look and feel, the ability to easily browse by curriculum area, standards and grade bands, improved search functionality, and easier access to resources from your local PBS station. Explore the Site
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
Sep
6
September 6th is National Read a Book Day!! Happy NRaB Day, Page Turners!!
Celebrate National Read a Book Day and vote for your favorite novels on The Great American Read from PBS (now through Oct 18). You can vote daily. Learn more at this link: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/ and these hashtags:
http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/source/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/love-read.jpg
There are four ways to vote: online, on Twitter or Facebook, by SMS, and, beginning September 11th, by phone. To vote online, click the vote link for your book of choice. To vote on Twitter or Facebook, tweet or post the hashtag. Explore the list below and vote for your favorites or find the voting hashtags here to vote on social media and SMS. The full voting details are available here. To learn more about voting, visit here.
Decorate your classroom with America’s favorite books! Check out printable posters & quote cards from #GreatReadPBS. https://to.pbs.org/2LIpH3W
Here is a link to the full ballot: https://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/gar-phase-2/assets/TGAR_BookChecklist_2018.pdf
Image Links
http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/source/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/love-read.jpg
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