Digital Storytelling With Prezi

Computer application students, today we will be taking a different approach to our class as we begin to a unit on digital storytelling. Today we will be using a website called Prezi to tell a story…first though we need to sign up for the service. Click here to visit Prezi’s website and get started making…

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REPSI Review

Students, above is the Prezi that we will be using to review our REPSI unit to prepare for our upcoming test. Mr. McClung

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Little Lion Man

Your band of the week is Mumford & Sons. Mumford & Sons are an English folk rock band. The band is made up of Marcus Mumford (vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, accordion), “Country” Winston Marshall (vocals, banjo, dobro), and Ted Dwane (vocals, string bass). Although the band members have claims on certain…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

My 6th period students working on their hand turkeys last Friday. Wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and I hope you all are enjoying your break…see everyone on Monday. Mr. McClung

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Teaching The Frayer Model…Kinda

In class on Thursday of last week, I gave my students an opportunity to do recorded explanations of how Frayer the Model works. The video above is the piggyback approach, which Brock and Ethan took to explain how Frayer works. In response, Josie and Walker took a bit of a different approach to teach us…

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Talking Frayer Model

This past week my students learned how to take notes using Frayer Model graphic organizers. The Frayer Model is a vocabulary building organizer that requires students to define a term, give examples, draw a picture, and give non-examples. This is an excellent way to build vocabulary and retain the taught content. The example above is…

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Lessons Learned

Lesson One – No Shave November Gets Dangerous After much ridicule and many itchy days, I finally gave up on my No Shave November dreams…depressing I know. However, it looks like I got out of the game just in time. As you can see from the video above, it is no longer safe to walk…

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Unit Three Study Guide

Students, here is your study guide for our upcoming test on December 1st…just as I promised. A few things to remember for the week when we return to school from Thanksgiving break: I will have your essay questions ready for you on Monday (11/29). We will talk about the industrial revolution on Monday and review…

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Yogurt Thursday – Salute to Coleman

Thursday was 4th period’s weekly celebration of yogurt…that’s right, Yogurt Thursday. This day was created by the ever creative Coleman, who is always up for a good theme day, but there was one problem with this Yogurt Thursday…Coleman was absent. So in his honor we held a yogurt toast in his memory. Mr. McClung

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