English_Teachers_Tech

Edublogs, Classblogmeister Wikispaces,[|Wetpaint] Mike Murphy? Move to Google Pages Demo and explain how these can be used for collaborative work Login and practice creating a simple web page Set-up a course that the participants can "take" right then and there with some activities, a quiz, a discussion board, and a chat room Then set them up as Course creators and allow them to start creating a course.
 * Windows Movie Maker
 * Web pages
 * Blogs
 * Wikis
 * How to make web pages
 * Google docs
 * Google pages
 * Moodle

__**NCS Mentor Writing Rubric and other sites:**__
 * http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/henrico/morris_j/ncsoc/index.html
 * http://www.mrshawke.com
 * [|DOE Website Index]
 * http://www.wise.k12.va.us/alted/SOL/sol.htm

Sharon Wood's email: shwood@swva.net

Demo how this works. Find some photos that we can use to create our own voicethreads. Go to [|Voicethread.com] and create an account and get started. Use[|Flickr Creative Commons] to find photos to create a VoiceThread Demo/practice using audacity to create a podcast. Watch Growing Up Online and go over links and curriculum from Joe Showker Look over the plagiarism site and find one that they could use this year Go over Faquier county's curriculum framework website Go ov
 * __Voicethread:__**
 * Voicethread
 * Podcasting
 * Internet Safety
 * Plagiarism
 * Curriculum sites for specific SOLs

http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/ptools/

The Virginia Department of Education is pleased to announce the statewide availability of the Web-based version of NCS Mentor for Virginia, a training tool designed to help Virginia’s teachers prepare students for the English Standards of Learning Direct Writing Assessment. Developed by the Virginia Department of Education and Pearson Educational Measurement, this program provides practice-scoring opportunities with sets of papers written by Virginia students. Participants will be able to score papers in verification sets and view scoring based on Virginia’s three-domain scoring model. Teachers will gain better understanding of the Virginia Standards of Learning Direct Writing Assessments for grade 5, grade 8, and end- of-course, understand the use of rubrics in scoring student writing, and develop consistency in scoring actual student work. Teachers may also use this program with students to facilitate their understanding of the expectations in each of the domains.
 * SUBJECT: || Web-Based NCS Mentor for Virginia ||

This program will provide an opportunity to study anchor papers that illustrate each score point of each domain and promote understanding of the differences between score points.

To access NCS Mentor for Virginia, go to [|www.ncsmentor.com]. For further information, please contact Tracy Fair Robertson __ Tracy.Robertson@doe.virginia.gov __ high school English specialist, Office of Middle and High School Instruction, at 804-371-7585.
 * On the Pearson Mentor welcome page, click on the word “customer” in the top black bar.
 * On the Pearson Mentor Customer page, click on “Virginia”.
 * From the Welcome to NCS Mentor™ for Virginia, under new User, use the key word “Virginia” which will take you to the NCS Mentor™ Create Profile page.
 * From here, you will create your own user name and password to be used each subsequent time you log in.