Inspiring Middle School Literacy - Carolyn Jacobs

Date:  Saturday January 11, 2014
Time: 9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/
11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern
Location: Blackboard Collaborate

Carolyn Jacobs, Senior Manager for Training and Professional Development at WGBH - PBS station will be sharing some fantastic, free resources with us to support Middle School Literacy. It is a special grant collection on PBS LearningMedia called Inspiring Middle School Literacy. Enhance the literacy skills of middle school students with this collection of online lessons for blended learning.

These online self-paced lessons for blended learning, funded by the Walmart Foundation, are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5–8.  Each uses videos, interactive activities, note taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science, social studies, mathematics, or English language arts topic.

Each lesson addresses a range of literacy strategies, which are listed in the accompanying teacher's guide.

Recording (full): https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2014-01-11.0914.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350

Tiny URL for Recording: http://hnyctt.me/cr20live-CarolynJacobs-InspiringMSLiteracy-1-11-14

Recording Chat: http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR20LIVEJanuary_2014

Audio Recording (mp3)

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Video Recording (mp4)

Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions:  (links shared by participants during the session will be added to this list and also to the Livebinder)

LiveBinder Link:http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1199893 (Note: Click on tab for "PBSLearningMedia-MS Literacy" in the LiveBinder)

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/midlit/ (PBS LearningMedia-Inspiring Middle School Literacy Collection-- a series of 40 cross-curricular online lessons for grades 5-8)
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/ (PBS Learning Media home page)
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/search/?q=middle+school+literacy (2374 resources on PBS LearningMedia for Middle School Literacy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkYDXJJMFcA (Inspiring Middle School Literacy introductory video)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/midlit11.ela.splbirds/personification-cowbirds/ (PBS LearningMedia lessons: Personification-Cowbirds)
http://d43fweuh3sg51.cloudfront.net/media/assets/wgbh/midlit11/midlit11_doc_splbirdstg/midlit11_doc_splbirdstg.pdf (Cowbirds Teacher’s Guide)
http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/azpbslearningmedia_toolkit.html PBS Learning Media Toolkit
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/help/favorites-and-shareable-folders/
(Favorites and shareable folders)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/search/?q=collections    (Collections in PBS LearningMedia)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/collection/ngss-eng/ (Next Generation Science Standards Collection-Teaching Engineering Design Through Media)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/collection/mathcore/ (Math at the Core: Middle School Collection)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/collection/pe08-ex/ (Poetry Everywhere Collection)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/collection/shakespeare-uncovered/ (Shakespeare Uncovered Collection)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/adlit08.ush.begin.pocareveal/pocahontas-revealed/ (Pocahontas Revealed)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/adlit08.ush.begin.pocamyth/the-myth-of-pocahontas/ (The Myth of Pocahontas)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/midlit10.soc.splpoca/the-story-of-pocahontas/ (The Story of Pocahontas)
http://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/b263635f-b642-4c6b-83d6-001f9054d6fb/b263635f-b642-4c6b-83d6-001f9054d6fb/ (Placing Artifacts in Time using the example of Pocahontas, exploring how historical representations change over time, and often reflect the period in which the representation was created)
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YCVPZFF (Survey URL - enter a drawing for an iPad®)

Teach NGSS Engineering Design Through Media teacher webinars:
        Grades 6-8, 1/16, 6:30pm athttp://bit.ly/1bTDTSw
        Grades K-5, 1/27, 6:30pm athttp://bit.ly/IBdVYX
        Grades 9-12, 1/28, 6:30pm athttp://bit.ly/1hWOUpV

Read, Watch, Interact! Webinar series
        "Teach Math and Literacy Seamlessly" on 1/14/14 at http://bit.ly/1gzb6mT
        "Flipped Lit" on 2/25/14 at http://bit.ly/1bdN2k6


Links added during chat have been added to the Livebinder:
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/nvslos/ (Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers Collection: Help students see science and engineering as career possibilities.Profiles today’s leading scientists—and shows what they’re like when the lab coats come off—showing viewers a human side of science that many students can relate to.)
http://www.thetakeaway.org/about/ (The Takeaway NPR daily radio show with John Hockenberry featuring important natioinal issues and analysing the news/issues through a local lense with call-in visitors)
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/midlit10.sci.splwinter/surviving-winter/ (Erica Rabner, WGBH-one of my favorite videos/lessons: Surviving Winter)
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/midlit10_vid_splwinterb/ (Erica Rabner, WGBH-Frozen frogs)
http://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/help/account-registration-and-management/#tips (Information about registering on the site and registering your students)
http://www.puffinbrowser.com/ Wes Fryer: Use the free Puffin browser on an iPad to view Flash content)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puffin-web-browser-free/id472937654?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 (Wes Fryer: Puffin also has a free version)
http://www.mathplayground.com/ (Math Playground works on mobile devices)
http://www.mangahigh.com/en-us/ (Manga High game-based math program)
http://www.sumdog.com/ (SumDog: free games that make learning fun)
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/digitalinnovators/ (2014 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators Program. Apply now! All 100 selected PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators will receive one year of professional development.)
http://bitly.com/Top500edtoolsin2013byLucianeCurator (Top 500 Ed Tools in 2013 by LucianeCurator)
http://www.personalizelearning.com/p/webinar-series.html (3rd Personalize Learning webinar with Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey, Jan. 21, 2014, 2:00pmPT/4:00pmET)
http://educonphilly.org (Educon Philly: Jan. 24-26, 2014-Register to participate virtually)