Examples of Video in the classroom:
Mr. Gorey -
1.Round Table Debate - Type goreyma into the guest space to find links pertaining to his project
Ms. Wolotsky
1. Movie Trailer
-An article on alternatives to book reports
2. Public Service Announcements(PSAs) - The Rubric
Mr. Wolotsky:
1. Short Film Project
Projects in the Planning stage
1. Mr. Dionne - Nutrition PSAs
2. Mr. Gorey Online Magazine with an interview with the author or character and creative piece
3. Skip L - Living History
Stuff we have to help make your videos:
- Flight Studios
- New Computers in the lib that can easily handle video
- Channel 7 as a place to show vids and Jonne Trees
-Ustream TV
-Imovie
-Final Cut
-Cameras - both high def and regular
-Microphone with mixer capable of 12 mics
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Career Day - Charter Captain
-how Mr. Wolotsky became a charter fisherman
-Charter Fish here or somewhere else? Seasonal or year round?
-making ends meet as a Charter guy
The Legal Requirements to be a Charter Captain:
A TWIC Card
It is a tamper-resistant, common identification credential, issued by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), containing a biometric (fingerprint template) of the card holder.
If you are applying for any Merchant Mariner credentials, you must already have applied for a TWIC
Captains license from the Coast Guard(a 6 pack or a operator of an uninspected vessel) :
- pass a written test after taking a USCG approved course
- sea time
- pass a physical exam
- drug test
- cpr
- fingerprints
- 3 character references
- Pass First Aid
- Pass a written and oral exam
Some Business Stuff
- Insurance
- website/facebook/blog
- Selective Advertising, where makes the most sense?
- brochures
- Telephone talking on phone
- Calender
- Newsletter
- Buying gear
Some characterisitcs of a good charter captain:
-Patient
-funny
-get along well with others
-Have some way of staying organised
-Be Fishy
-Patient
-funny
-get along well with others
-Have some way of staying organised
-Be Fishy
The Fun Stuff
Costa Rica Fishing
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Formative Assessment
The following blog post is laid out in chronological order for you. In other words links shared and information presented at the beginning of our Tech Wednesday will be first and stuff shared at the end will be last.
1. Click on this link and say what you hope to get out of our time with each other today about formative assessment.
2.Today's short workshop will be organized around the Big6, a model of learning and information-problem-solving.
3. Dan's Big6 Ribs Presentation
4. Please take this questionnaire on the Ribs presentation.
Some of Dan's Favorite Formative Assessments
Task Definition:
A. Paraphrase the Assignment (Takes away the helpless hand-raisers)
-Have students interview You
-Grade based on how completely they describe the project back to you
B.Essential Questions
C. Process Assessment
-What has been your best source of information and why?
-What have you done since we started our research?
-What will be your next steps?
-Moving forward, what will your biggest challenge be and what will you do to handle this challenge?
-Grade is based on their Meta-cognition and their willingness to write it out
Information Seeking Strategies
A. Brainstorm
B. Justify sources
Choose 4 sources and rank them according to what you anticipate being the most helpful to the least helpful
Location and Access
A.3 Minute Pause
B. Compare Notes
Use of Information
A.Graphic Organizer(elmo time)
B. 3-2-1 end of the class See my example below
Name three things you learned today?
What two things do you want to try in regards to formative assessment in your instruction?
Describe one conclusion you want to make about formative assessment and your instruction?
Nice explanation of formative assessment and some well explained examples too
Below is another form of an electronic formative assessment made with SurveyMonkey, another free site.
Click here to take survey
1. Click on this link and say what you hope to get out of our time with each other today about formative assessment.
2.Today's short workshop will be organized around the Big6, a model of learning and information-problem-solving.
3. Dan's Big6 Ribs Presentation
4. Please take this questionnaire on the Ribs presentation.
Some of Dan's Favorite Formative Assessments
Task Definition:
A. Paraphrase the Assignment (Takes away the helpless hand-raisers)
-Have students interview You
-Grade based on how completely they describe the project back to you
B.Essential Questions
C. Process Assessment
-What has been your best source of information and why?
-What have you done since we started our research?
-What will be your next steps?
-Moving forward, what will your biggest challenge be and what will you do to handle this challenge?
-Grade is based on their Meta-cognition and their willingness to write it out
Information Seeking Strategies
A. Brainstorm
B. Justify sources
Choose 4 sources and rank them according to what you anticipate being the most helpful to the least helpful
Location and Access
A.3 Minute Pause
B. Compare Notes
Use of Information
A.Graphic Organizer(elmo time)
B. 3-2-1 end of the class See my example below
Name three things you learned today?
What two things do you want to try in regards to formative assessment in your instruction?
Describe one conclusion you want to make about formative assessment and your instruction?
Nice explanation of formative assessment and some well explained examples too
Below is another form of an electronic formative assessment made with SurveyMonkey, another free site.
Click here to take survey
Monday, September 13, 2010
Mr. Wolotsky's Favorite Marvel Databases
Maine Newstand Index to and full text coverage of five Maine newspapers. Database includes coverage of the Bangor Daily News (12/3/92-present), the Kennebec Journal (6/11/93-present), the Portland Press Herald (10/30/95-present), and the Central Maine Morning Sentinel (8/12/93-present). Selected business coverage of the Maine Times (2/4/94-4/25/02) is also included. Updated daily.
Proquest newspapers online access to the most respected national and regional newspapers from across the U.S. The titles in ProQuest National Newspapers offer researchers thorough coverage of local, national, and international events with journalistic balance and perspective; together ProQuest National Newspapers provides a comprehensive package to retrieve important articles, and research events over time and from different perspectives.
Britannica Online School Edition gives teachers and students instant access to four
complete encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language. Online learning materials developed by teachers and curriculum experts, as well as a dictionary, thesaurus, Internet guide, and atlas.
Middle Search Plus Designed to assist middle and junior high school and high school students in learning how to research current events. Search only contains lower lexiled items.
Novellist K-8 and Novellist and Novelist plus
NoveList and NoveList K-8 are tools to help you find a good book to read providing plots, book discussion questions, author read-alikes, genre book lists, thematic units for teachers... Try NoveList! Novellist Plus also contains non-fiction,
World Data Analyst is a resource from Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. that lets you analyze countries and regions at a glance. It offers detailed statistical comparisons of countries around the world, using both the most recent statistics and historical figures. Users can create tables, charts, and even export the information to a spreadsheet for printing and data crunching. Highlights include: country snapshots, comparative statistics, historical statistics, and ranked statistics.
Academic Search Premier is a database containing scholarly articles from a wide selection of professional journals.
Try the Scavenger Hunt below to see how you can find some great information using the databses we have discussed.
What novel's main character discovers an incomplete quilt on Christmas eve?
What seems to be the problem with Striper fishing here in Maine according to Dierdre Fleming?
What country spends the most per capita on Health Care?
What is the difference between a spiny lobster and true lobster?
According to Discover Magazine, what is a problem with Offshore Wind power?
Who did Obama pick to win the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Hi, from the new library ed tech
Hi, my name is Ms. Ganong. I'm excited to join the amazing staff at BRHS as the ed tech in the library. I recently moved to the area with my family from Bar Harbor. My husband, Mr Dionne is the new head football coach, health, and physical education teacher. We've met lots of wonderful people. Everyone has been so welcoming and helpful.
I grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Simmons College in Boston with a Bachelor of Arts degree. I majored in Sociology with concentration in education but started my family young and was a stay at home mom for 10 years. I moved to Maine in 2002. Later, I worked as a fitness instructor at the MDI YMCA , a chiropractic assistant, exercise therapist, and most recently was a stay at home mom again for the last 2 years. I also worked for the MDI High School swim team as their diving coach for the last 6 years.
There are so many new faces and names to learn, but I'll do my best. I'm looking forward to getting to know all the students and the rest of the community this year.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
If you missed Mr. Gorey's speech on Friday....
Mr. Gorey addressed the graduating class of 2010 on Friday morning during class day. We think what he said was important and want to share it with you.
"I want to thank Brittany and Ntina for asking me to speak today; I want to thank Ms. Patrick for fitting me into the program; I want to thank the class of 2010 for your kindness; kindness still matters.
What I’ve written to share with you is part poem, part essay, part tall tale, part jeremiad—let’s just say it defies genre. I’m calling the piece, “Wisdom is a Long Song”:
Given my day job, I have to believe that language still matters. I’m always looking for wise words that help me understand what it is to be alive. If I owned one, I could wallpaper a mansion with the mottoes, maxims, and mantras I’ve come across that say something true about being human. They might be from a song on the radio by a band such as Men Without Hats reminding me that it’s, safe to dance. You know that one-- You can dance if you want to—you don’t want me to continue. They might be from my Mother who kept repeating throughout my adolescence, “patience is a virtue.” They might be from someone called Shakespeare; in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Polonius says to his son “To thine own self be true”; this advice has been lifted out of context and used to inspire people to pursue their individuality and dreams for most of the 400 years since the play was staged, but if we actually read the play closely, we realize that Polonius is a scheming, hypocritical tool of a corrupt, murderous king. All these pithy sayings are clever and seemingly clear, but they don’t tell the whole truth. So, what I’ve concluded is that wisdom doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker. Instead, wisdom is a long song, the various refrains of which, I can only, occasionally, tune in. But I don’t think that I’m alone in my quest.
True story: Most of you don’t know that someone recently wrote on the top floor mens’ room wall, “That government is best which governs least.” That’s a word-perfect transcription from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience”; now, because I am the teacher who drags his students through a few pages of Thoreau’s writing, I felt a weird connection to that inscription on the wall. In fact, I was flabberghasted. (How’s that for onomatopoeia?) The specific nature of the student’s protest is unclear, but this could be a first in the annals of BRHS bathroom graffiti. Despite the power of those seven words, they don’t tell us everything we need to know about the US government. You really have to read the rest of his essay to get his big idea, which is, if you’re a true citizen, you will walk the walk to make your government and your society better. That’s what I mean about wisdom not fitting on a bumper sticker. Thoreau died before the Civil War, but his words help me understand where we are today in America better than most.
Following Thoreau’s trail, I too went to the Maine woods, to “confront the essential facts of life”; Why did I do this? Well, I found myself in a confined space, where one person was dialing up the volume of American Idol because she couldn’t hear above the roar of another person’s Madden 2010, and I began to experience a psychic imperative to escape. So I went to the woods. Life in the woods is raw, unmediated, and unscripted: When you hear an owl hooting in a movie, you might be inclined to yawn, but when you wake up 50 miles from the nearest TV at 2 AM because on a limb above your tent there’s an owl booming its hoots to beat the band, you will take notice. Unlike Thoreau, I left the woods after two days, because I remembered I’d forgotten to pay our TV, Internet, and cell phone bills. And if the TV screen turns to snow at my house, and people can’t connect to Facebook, the mutiny will be swift, and savage.
When I left the woods, I had not slept well and had a headache because of that owl. I went to buy some Ibuprofen, and the Rite Aid Cashier asked me without irony, “Would you like to play the game of life?” For a moment, I considered launching into a tirade, railing against the deleterious, cultural effects of big box chain stores, otherwise known as the mauling of America (that’s M-A-U-L-I-N-G). Instead, I said, “no, thank you.” And as I walked through the sliding, electronic doors, I said sotto voce, “choose your battles.”
It’s easy to get worked up over relatively unimportant things. For example, I’m a huge fan of democracy, but something’s awry with ours, when the people decide that Lee DeWyze is a better singer than Crystal Bowersox.
Choose your battles. So what is a battle worth fighting?
I told this story to a class once;
We were probably discussing some
Lighthearted tale of moral ambiguity such as
Heart of Darkness:
As a father, I sat still, in a swing,
In a Paris playground;
I watched a three-year old Alex
Trying to play the game of life in a French sandbox. (In case you’re wondering there’s nothing special about a French sandbox.) And in that hour,
I saw the future movers and shakers
Who would suppress their compassion
In order to satisfy shareholders.
I saw the schemers who would cajole
The apple from the gullible.
I saw the self righteous
Accost the apathetic, and
The ambitious with the big sticks
Lord over the dreamy and the vulnerable.
In short, I saw injustice unchecked, chalked up as child’s play.
So, here are some words I try to live by:
Politicians decide your future, so inform yourself.
Vote, but don’t vote for somebody just because someone else is, or because of some radio soundbyte or advertisement you saw on TV.
If you see an injustice, do something.
If you hear something that doesn’t quite sound like the truth,
Speak up.
Don’t assume
That others in the room
Will.
This time,
I’m going to make it rhyme:
Don’t be a shill
For any bill
You don’t believe in.
And finally, I agree with the copywriter for LG, Life’s Good, BUT IT’S ALSO POSSIBLE, TO BECOME COMFORTABLE, WITH THE UNACCEPTABLE.
Thank you."
"I want to thank Brittany and Ntina for asking me to speak today; I want to thank Ms. Patrick for fitting me into the program; I want to thank the class of 2010 for your kindness; kindness still matters.
What I’ve written to share with you is part poem, part essay, part tall tale, part jeremiad—let’s just say it defies genre. I’m calling the piece, “Wisdom is a Long Song”:
Given my day job, I have to believe that language still matters. I’m always looking for wise words that help me understand what it is to be alive. If I owned one, I could wallpaper a mansion with the mottoes, maxims, and mantras I’ve come across that say something true about being human. They might be from a song on the radio by a band such as Men Without Hats reminding me that it’s, safe to dance. You know that one-- You can dance if you want to—you don’t want me to continue. They might be from my Mother who kept repeating throughout my adolescence, “patience is a virtue.” They might be from someone called Shakespeare; in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Polonius says to his son “To thine own self be true”; this advice has been lifted out of context and used to inspire people to pursue their individuality and dreams for most of the 400 years since the play was staged, but if we actually read the play closely, we realize that Polonius is a scheming, hypocritical tool of a corrupt, murderous king. All these pithy sayings are clever and seemingly clear, but they don’t tell the whole truth. So, what I’ve concluded is that wisdom doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker. Instead, wisdom is a long song, the various refrains of which, I can only, occasionally, tune in. But I don’t think that I’m alone in my quest.
True story: Most of you don’t know that someone recently wrote on the top floor mens’ room wall, “That government is best which governs least.” That’s a word-perfect transcription from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience”; now, because I am the teacher who drags his students through a few pages of Thoreau’s writing, I felt a weird connection to that inscription on the wall. In fact, I was flabberghasted. (How’s that for onomatopoeia?) The specific nature of the student’s protest is unclear, but this could be a first in the annals of BRHS bathroom graffiti. Despite the power of those seven words, they don’t tell us everything we need to know about the US government. You really have to read the rest of his essay to get his big idea, which is, if you’re a true citizen, you will walk the walk to make your government and your society better. That’s what I mean about wisdom not fitting on a bumper sticker. Thoreau died before the Civil War, but his words help me understand where we are today in America better than most.
Following Thoreau’s trail, I too went to the Maine woods, to “confront the essential facts of life”; Why did I do this? Well, I found myself in a confined space, where one person was dialing up the volume of American Idol because she couldn’t hear above the roar of another person’s Madden 2010, and I began to experience a psychic imperative to escape. So I went to the woods. Life in the woods is raw, unmediated, and unscripted: When you hear an owl hooting in a movie, you might be inclined to yawn, but when you wake up 50 miles from the nearest TV at 2 AM because on a limb above your tent there’s an owl booming its hoots to beat the band, you will take notice. Unlike Thoreau, I left the woods after two days, because I remembered I’d forgotten to pay our TV, Internet, and cell phone bills. And if the TV screen turns to snow at my house, and people can’t connect to Facebook, the mutiny will be swift, and savage.
When I left the woods, I had not slept well and had a headache because of that owl. I went to buy some Ibuprofen, and the Rite Aid Cashier asked me without irony, “Would you like to play the game of life?” For a moment, I considered launching into a tirade, railing against the deleterious, cultural effects of big box chain stores, otherwise known as the mauling of America (that’s M-A-U-L-I-N-G). Instead, I said, “no, thank you.” And as I walked through the sliding, electronic doors, I said sotto voce, “choose your battles.”
It’s easy to get worked up over relatively unimportant things. For example, I’m a huge fan of democracy, but something’s awry with ours, when the people decide that Lee DeWyze is a better singer than Crystal Bowersox.
Choose your battles. So what is a battle worth fighting?
I told this story to a class once;
We were probably discussing some
Lighthearted tale of moral ambiguity such as
Heart of Darkness:
As a father, I sat still, in a swing,
In a Paris playground;
I watched a three-year old Alex
Trying to play the game of life in a French sandbox. (In case you’re wondering there’s nothing special about a French sandbox.) And in that hour,
I saw the future movers and shakers
Who would suppress their compassion
In order to satisfy shareholders.
I saw the schemers who would cajole
The apple from the gullible.
I saw the self righteous
Accost the apathetic, and
The ambitious with the big sticks
Lord over the dreamy and the vulnerable.
In short, I saw injustice unchecked, chalked up as child’s play.
So, here are some words I try to live by:
Politicians decide your future, so inform yourself.
Vote, but don’t vote for somebody just because someone else is, or because of some radio soundbyte or advertisement you saw on TV.
If you see an injustice, do something.
If you hear something that doesn’t quite sound like the truth,
Speak up.
Don’t assume
That others in the room
Will.
This time,
I’m going to make it rhyme:
Don’t be a shill
For any bill
You don’t believe in.
And finally, I agree with the copywriter for LG, Life’s Good, BUT IT’S ALSO POSSIBLE, TO BECOME COMFORTABLE, WITH THE UNACCEPTABLE.
Thank you."
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