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It’s Capstone season, and that means CapCon! is getting closer. CapCon! is the annual Capstone Learning Conference where students share the stories of their learning. The Capstone support section of the HeathcoteGateway is up. Use it to get inspiration from previous years, guide your thinking on final presentation format, reference the project guidelines, request support,…
Recording an interview is alway a good idea. It allows you to review the interview at a later date, and as often as you’d like focus on listening in the moment instead of taking notes you can take notes on the recording later allows you to review the feelings, inflection, and tone in the voice…
5th graders, As we talked about today, your Adobe Creative Cloud project on Immigration does not start with Adobe, it starts with gathering resources. What we did in class: In your Social Studies folder, we made a new folder called Immigration your interview questions, resources, and script will live eventually in this folder In the Immigration folder…
Students and Parents, We have begun to roll out devices to students. As of 9/9/2022 all 3rd, 4th and 5th graders have had the Responsible Use Policy lesson. All of 4th, 5th, and half of 3rd grade have also had an initial Chromebook login lesson. During the week of 9/12 the rest of 3rd grade…
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. The students documented the process on their own blogs. The blogs can be accessed via the classroom teacher’s blogs (look for the “My class” menu on the sidebar). Ms. Boyer Ms. Cooper Ms. Edwards Ms. Robert Check out all of…
It’s Capstone season, and that means CapCon! is getting closer. CapCon! is the annual Capstone Learning Conference where students share the stories of their learning. The Capstone support section of the HeathcoteGateway is up. Use it to get inspiration from previous years, guide your thinking on final presentation format, reference the project guidelines, request support,…
5th graders, As you work on your blogs and look to other blogs for information and inspiration, it is important to view everything you see with a critical eye. Just because someone has a blog doesn’t mean the information on it is accurate. Blogs are often written from the author’s perspective and have specific opinions…
Students and Parents, The Responsible Use Policy is the document that outlines, for all Scarsdale Schools users (students, teachers and staff alike) appropriate use guidelines for using district devices, accounts, and services. Every year I do this lesson with the students, usually in big grade-level groups, where we can talk about it, ask questions, and…
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. The students documented the process on their own blogs. The blogs can be accessed via the classroom teacher’s blogs (look for the “My class” menu on the sidebar). Ms. Edwards Ms. Robert Check out all of their speeches and movies…
5th graders, Now that you are done with your Capstone Projects, it is time to add them to your blogs and write your final reflection. Here are the steps for adding a YouTube video to your blog: Write your post. Go to YouTube and search for HeathcoteTech Find your playlist Find your video in the…