http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 23:09:43 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 23:09:43 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=756836 STAIR Project – Career PathwaysSTAIR is an acrynom for Stand Along Instructional Resource. This is a resource for teachers to teach students a specific lesson completely on their one, or independently. This STAIR include information about the subject, practice questions, feedback on correct or incorrect answers, and opportunities for review.I am not an educator, however, I facilitate Career Development workshops whenever the opportunity arrises, so my hope was to create a plan that I could use when asked to do a workshop for Middle School students, 6-8th Grade, who are already familiar with how to use a computer and are familiar with internet safety.This lesson will incorporate doing research, integrating computer skills, language arts, and creativity in order to create an awareness of Career Pathways and how Career Development practices can help the students to create a plan to help them reach their career goals.Please click here to view my STAIR project on Career Pathways. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=756569 This project was developed to teach elementary students about Natural Disasters. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=755934 Presentación realizada en la herramienta web Prezi, en donde ser abordan ciertos elementos de la introducción a la informática educativa. Al respecto se revisa el concepto de informática educativa, sus aportes, algunas herramientas y aplicaciones e implicancias en el aula, así como la evolución de la misma. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=755712 I have created a Stand-alone Instructional Resource or StAIR for my second grade class. This StAIR will help students learn and practice identifying syllables in a Haiku poem. The StAIR is supportive for our poetry unit that is covered in second grade. Students have learned how to clap/tap or snap out syllables in first grade and the StAIR will give them the opportunity to extend that knowledge. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=755282 This StAIR is intended for use with Advanced Level English Language Learning students.It is designed to help students practice for paraphrasing, summarizing, and differentiating between paraphrasing and summarizing effectively.Instructional Objectives:Students will be able to effectively paraphrase sentences and texts by using their own lexical resourcesStudents will be able to effectively summarize texts of their level by extracting the main ideasStudents will be able to differentiate between paraphrasing and summarizing http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=755460 The link is to my blog, where I have posted a StAIR (Stand-Alone Instructional Resource). The StAIR is a PowerPoint presentation that is designed for beginning trumpet players to learn how to achieve a good tone on the trumpet. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=755197 I designed a presentation that would help Saline coaches promote their programs and support our athletic department. In my StAIR project, I wanted to cover concepts such as: what it means to be a Hornet, topics to cover at parent meetings, ways to use social media to promote Saline Athletics within our community, and how to build teams using team gatherings and events, and other promotional events. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=754084 This interactive presentation will guide your students in learning how to use Google Spreadsheets to create and organize a budget for a trip (real or fake). The HOW TO includes creating a Google Spreadsheet, naming it, sharing it, creating a new sheet & renaming it, using the SUM function, and using the TRANSPOSE function. It also includes how to stay organized when budgeting for a trip by giving two options for the students to keep the budget organized. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=753861 A few weeks ago, I had to create a StAIR, or Stand Alone Instructional Resource, for a graduate class I am taking through Michigan State University. At the time, my students were learning about the natural ways that the Earth changes. I thought that this would be a great topic on which to focus my StAIR project. This is intended for use with my third graders, so it is not as interactive as some of the other projects, although it does have several questions for the students to answer throughout the StAIR. I also narrate throughout the presentation, making it easier for my students to get the most out of this resource and to keep them engaged in the material. I would ideally use this as a means of remediation for a student that was absent or struggled with mastering the concept. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=744581 Many educational concepts are easier to understand when illustrated with vivid examples. This film explores methods for creating illustrations for educational presentations, videos, and printed materials. From the 2013 Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference at Kansas State University. Mitch Ricketts.