http://sunbelt.edublogs.org Book weblog for Sun Belt Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:32:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://sunbelt.edublogs.org/2008/06/21/a-summarization-of-summarization-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-3 lgrubbs Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:32:41 +0000 http://sunbelt.edublogs.org/?p=7#comment-3 I was reading the book on the way back from Dothan today and thought the same thing about the chart on pages 33-38. It will help me be conscious of the varitey of techniques available so I don't get stuck in the same ol' rut. I too have found some favorites. I liked the Bloom's Taxonomy cubes. It's simple and hands-on and easily integrates higher order thinking. The camp songs was another one I thought you could have a lot of fun with. It's creative and the results would be so varied. Imagine the review notes you could post if you collected and posted these on your web page. Put a blow up microphone in a students hand and they turn into different creature. I like the jigsaws on a limited basis. My son came home from sixth grade and that was all he did all year long. It got very boring and he totally lost interest in what could have been a fun activity, but was over used and I doubt he got anything out of it at all. I liked all the ones that got the students moving around the classroom and being active in their thinking and summarizing. I still have more reading to do to finish the book, but I plan on rereading and marking the pages I really want to make an effort to try next year. Lori I was reading the book on the way back from Dothan today and thought the same thing about the chart on pages 33-38. It will help me be conscious of the varitey of techniques available so I don’t get stuck in the same ol’ rut. I too have found some favorites.
I liked the Bloom’s Taxonomy cubes. It’s simple and hands-on and easily integrates higher order thinking.
The camp songs was another one I thought you could have a lot of fun with. It’s creative and the results would be so varied. Imagine the review notes you could post if you collected and posted these on your web page. Put a blow up microphone in a students hand and they turn into different creature.
I like the jigsaws on a limited basis. My son came home from sixth grade and that was all he did all year long. It got very boring and he totally lost interest in what could have been a fun activity, but was over used and I doubt he got anything out of it at all.
I liked all the ones that got the students moving around the classroom and being active in their thinking and summarizing.
I still have more reading to do to finish the book, but I plan on rereading and marking the pages I really want to make an effort to try next year.
Lori

]]> http://sunbelt.edublogs.org/2008/06/16/time-is-finally-on-my-side/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Lori Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:17:50 +0000 http://sunbelt.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-2 I used the teacher toolkit lessons 2 years ago when I was teaching third grade at WMR. I loved them as well. It was hard when you are in a system that shies away from scripted texts to use something like the toolkit. My students loved the activities and they taught all of us, me included, new ways to look at things and perform tasks differently in the classroom. That is what I am taking away from this Summarization in Any Subject book ask well. There are so many ways to do things and it's easy to get stuck in the same old way because we know it and are comfortable with it. I look forward to the next three weeks and the finishing of my masters degree, to learn new things and use them with my students. I used the teacher toolkit lessons 2 years ago when I was teaching third grade at WMR. I loved them as well. It was hard when you are in a system that shies away from scripted texts to use something like the toolkit. My students loved the activities and they taught all of us, me included, new ways to look at things and perform tasks differently in the classroom. That is what I am taking away from this Summarization in Any Subject book ask well. There are so many ways to do things and it’s easy to get stuck in the same old way because we know it and are comfortable with it. I look forward to the next three weeks and the finishing of my masters degree, to learn new things and use them with my students.

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