On Saturday, April 4th, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the Ozarks Writing Project will host a Saturday Seminar focused on "Community Inquiry as a Springboard for Writing". OWP Teacher-Consultants Kim Piddington and Kim Witt will share how they incorporated writing projects based on their urban and rural communities.
Whether you teach kindergarten or college seniors, you will take away ideas that you can use for your classrooms on Monday.
The meeting will take place in Pummill Hall 308. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/BldgTemplate.asp?b=51 .
Parking will be free on Saturday. You may wish to park in Lot 22 or Lot 24. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/othermaps/parking.asp
Registration is $20. However, any TC who brings a guest(s) with them will be admitted for free! Also, you might encourage your guest to see if his/her school district is willing to pay their $20 registration fee…a bargain for such quality professional development, and participatory certificates are given for attending. I am looking forward to seeing you. Please let me know if you plan on attending and have not already contacted me. We would love to see you there!
Friday, April 03, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
New Technology and OWP Applications
Have you heard of ScribD? Thanks to this neat internet site the OWP will have applications available on our blog. Fill out the app and email or fax. You'll see on the top right of the blog the link to the documents.
I'm wondering about ways we can use this same service in our classroom. Ideas?
Also, you'll see that I've added Twitter to the site. Become a follower of our Twitter site, and create your own. Let me know if you can join, so the OWP can follow you.
I'm wondering about ways we can use this same service in our classroom. Ideas?
Also, you'll see that I've added Twitter to the site. Become a follower of our Twitter site, and create your own. Let me know if you can join, so the OWP can follow you.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
OWP Opportunities
The Ozarks Writing Project Youth Writing Conference will be Thursday, May 7 on the campus of Missouri State. Send your writers grades 5-8 to this event. Students will participate in interactive writing sessions led by OWP Teacher-Consultants. Registration is $25 and includes t-shirt and pizza. Teachers who bring at least four students attend for free. Please share this info with middle school students and teachers.
The final Saturday Seminar will be April 25 from 8:30-12:00 in Pummill Hall 308. Kim Piddington and Kim Witt will be presenting on ways they incorporated Community Inquiry projects in their classrooms. These projects were a result of their participation in the 2008 Advanced Institute. Registration is $20. Teacher-Consultants who bring a friend can attend for free.
Nominate teachers for the 2009 Summer Invitational Institute by contacting Keri. Applications can be found at http://owp.missouristate.edu/summerinstitute.htm. Please email this link to any friends that you think might be interested.
Apply for the OWP 2009 Advanced Institute on Digital Storytelling from July 20-24. Learn how to create digital stories. With the help of a grant from the Missouri Humanities Council, we will be creating digital stories focusing on community and place. Fellows will have extended check out of video cameras and memory cards. You will also be able to keep a digital video recorder and headset. Graduate credit is free. Registration is $100. The registration fee will go toward providing you the technology to create digital stories in your classroom. (Please talk to your principal about paying for this. Title I and Title II funds can be used for professional development for technology. See below). Contact Keri for the application.
PROFESSIONAL WRITING RETREAT APPLICATION NOW ONLINE –– Apply now for Professional Writing Retreats A and B, to be held in Southern Arizona, July 16-19. The retreats, which run concurrently, give teachers a chance to write about the profession of teaching, literacy and learning, their own practice, policy and school reform, and more. DEADLINE: MARCH 16.http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/373
Don’t forget. As a National Writing Project (NWP) site, we are an authorized provider of standards-aligned professional development and eligible for NCLB funding under:
Title I, Part A (Professional development and mentoring programs for Title I schools and teachers)
Title II, Part A (Professional development for helping teachers meet NCLB teacher requirements; Professional development in subject-matter knowledge, improving teaching skills, and assisting teachers to use Missouri’s content area Grade Level Expectations and Missouri Assessment Program to improve student achievement)
Title II, Part D (Professional development focused on enhancing education through technology)
So, please talk to your principal about funds that may be available at your school.
ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTS FROM SAN ANTONIO ––More than 1,000 writing project colleagues flocked to San Antonio for the 2008 NWP Annual Meeting. Watch videos of general session speeches, view photographs of the meeting, and read selected writings from the general session writing prompt.http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/08am/highlights.csp
The final Saturday Seminar will be April 25 from 8:30-12:00 in Pummill Hall 308. Kim Piddington and Kim Witt will be presenting on ways they incorporated Community Inquiry projects in their classrooms. These projects were a result of their participation in the 2008 Advanced Institute. Registration is $20. Teacher-Consultants who bring a friend can attend for free.
Nominate teachers for the 2009 Summer Invitational Institute by contacting Keri. Applications can be found at http://owp.missouristate.edu/summerinstitute.htm. Please email this link to any friends that you think might be interested.
Apply for the OWP 2009 Advanced Institute on Digital Storytelling from July 20-24. Learn how to create digital stories. With the help of a grant from the Missouri Humanities Council, we will be creating digital stories focusing on community and place. Fellows will have extended check out of video cameras and memory cards. You will also be able to keep a digital video recorder and headset. Graduate credit is free. Registration is $100. The registration fee will go toward providing you the technology to create digital stories in your classroom. (Please talk to your principal about paying for this. Title I and Title II funds can be used for professional development for technology. See below). Contact Keri for the application.
PROFESSIONAL WRITING RETREAT APPLICATION NOW ONLINE –– Apply now for Professional Writing Retreats A and B, to be held in Southern Arizona, July 16-19. The retreats, which run concurrently, give teachers a chance to write about the profession of teaching, literacy and learning, their own practice, policy and school reform, and more. DEADLINE: MARCH 16.http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/373
Don’t forget. As a National Writing Project (NWP) site, we are an authorized provider of standards-aligned professional development and eligible for NCLB funding under:
Title I, Part A (Professional development and mentoring programs for Title I schools and teachers)
Title II, Part A (Professional development for helping teachers meet NCLB teacher requirements; Professional development in subject-matter knowledge, improving teaching skills, and assisting teachers to use Missouri’s content area Grade Level Expectations and Missouri Assessment Program to improve student achievement)
Title II, Part D (Professional development focused on enhancing education through technology)
So, please talk to your principal about funds that may be available at your school.
ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTS FROM SAN ANTONIO ––More than 1,000 writing project colleagues flocked to San Antonio for the 2008 NWP Annual Meeting. Watch videos of general session speeches, view photographs of the meeting, and read selected writings from the general session writing prompt.http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/08am/highlights.csp
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday Seminar -- January 24, 2009
On Saturday, January 24th, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the Ozarks Writing Project will host a Saturday Seminar focused on Using an Artist’s Eye (appropriate for grades K-12).
In this workshop-based seminar, you will experience research-based strategies to incorporate visual learning activities into language instruction. Leave this seminar able to help students use their artist’s eye to explore writing. OWP Teacher-Consultants Shelley Malady-Martin, Hollister Junior High School, and Michelle Keller, Hollister High School, will be the presenters. Light refreshments will be available.
The meeting will take place in Pummill Hall 308. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/BldgTemplate.asp?b=51 .
Parking will be free on Saturday. You may wish to park in Lot 22 or Lot 24. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/othermaps/parking.asp
Registration is $20. However, any TC who brings a guest(s) with them will be admitted for free! Also, you might encourage your guest to see if his/her school district is willing to pay their $20 registration fee…a bargain for such quality professional development, and participatory certificates are given for attending.
I am looking forward to seeing you. Please let me know if you plan on attending. We would love to see you there.
In this workshop-based seminar, you will experience research-based strategies to incorporate visual learning activities into language instruction. Leave this seminar able to help students use their artist’s eye to explore writing. OWP Teacher-Consultants Shelley Malady-Martin, Hollister Junior High School, and Michelle Keller, Hollister High School, will be the presenters. Light refreshments will be available.
The meeting will take place in Pummill Hall 308. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/BldgTemplate.asp?b=51 .
Parking will be free on Saturday. You may wish to park in Lot 22 or Lot 24. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/othermaps/parking.asp
Registration is $20. However, any TC who brings a guest(s) with them will be admitted for free! Also, you might encourage your guest to see if his/her school district is willing to pay their $20 registration fee…a bargain for such quality professional development, and participatory certificates are given for attending.
I am looking forward to seeing you. Please let me know if you plan on attending. We would love to see you there.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Exciting News
At the risk of sounding like a bragging parent, I had to share this news with my OWP community. My students participated in the Letters to the Next President project through the NWP this fall. We received word a few days ago that one of my student's letters has been selected for publication through the National Writing Project and the College Board’s National Commission on Writing. We're not exactly sure how or when it will be published, but Nick and I were both excited. Here's the link to his letter, if you'd like to check it out. The topic is pretty interesting.
Thanks, OWP! If not for the OWP, we wouldn't have even participated in this project.
Thanks, OWP! If not for the OWP, we wouldn't have even participated in this project.
Participating in a Weekly Webcast
I want to share with those who follow the blog about a recent experience with some new technology. I participated in an online discussion pocasted live on a weekly program called Teachers Teaching Teachers moderated by Paul Allison. Participants in the discussion include Sondra Perl, director of the Holocaust Education Network, and past summer seminar attendees. I was asked to describe how the seminar has impacted my my personal and professional life and the work being done on Breaking Down Barriers, a collaborative blog between my College English class in Miller, MO and an 11th grade honors English class in McCool Junction, NE. The students have created an extremeley rich body of text on this blog, which caught the attention of Sondra and prompted my invitation to be on the podcast.
We broadcasted live using Skype. I found the technology fairly simple and straight forward. We did have some tech glitches, primarily at the beginning and again at the conclusion. I am looking forward to playing some more with Skype, especially with video. I want to figure out how to stream live video over the internet and across mobile phones. The technology is there, I just gotta figure it out.
CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCAST
Holocaust Educators Network podcast on Teachers Teaching Teachers.
We broadcasted live using Skype. I found the technology fairly simple and straight forward. We did have some tech glitches, primarily at the beginning and again at the conclusion. I am looking forward to playing some more with Skype, especially with video. I want to figure out how to stream live video over the internet and across mobile phones. The technology is there, I just gotta figure it out.
CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCAST
Holocaust Educators Network podcast on Teachers Teaching Teachers.
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