MST Meeting March 13, 2008

Welcome!

Your interest in the value of aligning and integrating mathematics, science and technological studies through design as a means to increase student achievement has brought you to this blog. Oakland Schools, in partnership with local school districts from across Oakland County, Michigan, have developed the Mathematics, Science and Technology through Design Middle School Initiative. Professional development activities for middle school teachers of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics/STEM subjects are organized to provide opportunities to work collaboratively to develop integrated units of study and related learning activities that are challenging and exciting for adolescents. Some of the units are posted on this blog. Use the blog for information sharing, inspiration, and a means to bring new practice to your classroom and lab. In order to streamline the name of this initiative, it has been labeled Project M/S/T through DESIGN

Posted on March 13, 2008 by mstdesign

A optimistic day! So many resources that we are learning to share with each other. I am going to try the embedding of video. At this point, you can only comment but I will make everyone a contibutor soon.

Here are some notes from our meeting:

bloglines.com is a way to keep track of all the blogs you want. A one stop shop that will allow you to check all the new entries in any blogs you subscribe to.

http://community.discoveryeducation.com/

become a STAR Educator http://community.discoveryeducation.com/star/index.html

is a small company dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of wind energy science education throughout the US. While we believe the web is a useful to we try to promote inclusion of wind energy in science classrooms through 1 – 4 day workshops where teachers can get their hands on wind energy!

What is Ed.VoiceThread? It’s a web-based collaborative network that is simple, powerful and safe. Specifically designed for K-12 educators and students, Ed.VoiceThread enables rich collaboration around multimedia in a secure environment. More like a pencil than a software platform, Ed.VoiceThread is a space for creating digital stories and documentaries, practicing language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, collaborating with other students, or simply finding and honing student voices.
A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways – using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) – and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
K12Grants.org Resources for grants.
http://del.icio.us A great way to access all of your favorites from any computer and easily share with others.
www.teachers.tv A UK based site that has 15 – 30 min videos on many topics including Design and Technology