Monte
Vista School
The
Independent Learning Academy
Principal’s
Message
September
4, 2015, 2015
“The
object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout
their lives.” - Robert M. Hutchins
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This
message as well as the past messages can be found on the Principal’s Blog:
Good Afternoon
and a Happy Friday! August has come and
gone and we have already completed 3 weeks of school. Soon it will be Autumn and we’ll be enjoying
cooler weather along with Fall colors.
Great
article in today’s Acorn. Monte Vista is
certainly growing and making its mark in our community. If you haven’t yet seen the article, here’s
the link:
Earlier
in the week, I met with Dr Morse from the county to discuss possible CTE
programs for Monte Vista. She relayed to
me that there is some funding from the CTE grant for alternate schools and that
Monte Vista could jump on the band wagon and develop a couple of pathways. Two that come to mind are a Robotics/Technical
& Art of Engineering as well as an Agriscience pathways. If you know a retired/semi-retired
engineer/computer type of person, let me know and we’ll see if they would like
to teach a course!
Also, we
still looking for parent volunteers, our Makerspace Lab (w/its new green
screen) and a possible ‘gamification’ room could use a volunteer or 2 to help
staff it.
Thanks
to our volunteer, Elaine Hitchcock our library is now on Mondays from 12noon to
3:00pm and on Wednesdays from 9 to noon on Wednesdays. If you’re going send a student over, give her
a call to let her know that a student(s) are on their way. Also, all of our students are invited to drop
in to read, do research, use the computers and/or get lost in the wonderful
world of books.
Besides
the Library, here’s a list of the available labs and activities available for
our students…please help get the word out!
|
Subject
|
Course/Grade Level
|
Day of the Week
|
Location
|
Time
|
|
Math
|
MS Math
6-8
|
Tuesday
|
Rm 9
|
11 – 12noon
|
|
|
Algebra
|
Wednesday
|
Rm 9
|
11 – 12noon
|
|
|
Alg/Geo/Alg2
|
Monday
|
Rm 16
|
11 – 1pm
|
|
|
Alg/Geometry
|
Tuesday
|
Rm 16
|
|
|
|
All
Levels (APEX on line learning)
|
Wednesday
|
Rm 4
|
3 – 4:30pm
|
|
|
Algebra
|
Thursday
|
Rm 16
|
10 - 12
noon
|
|
|
Geo/Alg
2/and above
|
Thursday
|
Rm 7
|
2:45 –
4:45pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
English
|
Eng
& Writing 6 -12
|
Monday
|
Rm 9
|
2 – 3pm
|
|
|
Eng
& Writing
|
Thursday
|
Rm 9
|
12noon
-1pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Foreign Language
|
Spanish
1
|
Tuesday
|
Rm 4
|
3:30 –
4:30pm
|
|
|
Spanish
2 & 3
|
Thursday
|
Rm 4
|
3:30 –
4:30pm
|
|
|
French
1
|
Tuesday
|
Rm 10
|
3:30 –
4:30pm
|
|
|
French
2 & 3
|
Thursday
|
Rm10
|
3:30 –
4:30pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Social Studies
|
History
|
Wednesday
|
Rm 9
|
11
-12noon
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Science
|
Earth
Sci Lab
|
Monday
|
Rm 6
|
12noon
– 1pm
|
|
|
Science
Lab Help K-12
|
Tuesday
|
Rm 6
|
12noon –
1pm
|
|
|
Chemistry
Lab
|
Wednesday
|
Rm 6
|
12noon –
1pm
|
|
|
Biology
Lab
|
Thursday
|
Rm 6
|
12noon –
1pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Physical Ed
|
Yoga/Pilates
|
Monday
|
MPR
|
2 – 3pm
|
|
|
Golf
|
Wednesday
|
MV
Field
|
7 – 7:45am
|
|
|
Spin
|
Thursday
|
YMCA
|
3:30 –
4:30pm
|
|
|
Skateboarding
|
Tues
& Thur
|
Skatelab
|
2
-3:30pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Elementary Activities
|
Discovery
Day
|
Wednesday
|
Rm 8
|
12:30 –
2pm
|
|
|
Parent
Directed
|
Friday
|
TBD
|
9
– 11:00am
|
Activities
and labs to come:
Floral Design - Monthly
Gardening Day – Weekly
Gamification
– Weekly
MakerSpace
– Weekly
4H
Meetings - Monthly
Follow
Monte Vista on Twitter*, keep smiling and let’s not only all make it a great
day but a fantastic 3 day weekend!
Steve :)
*Yesterday
I was facilitating a Twitter 101 Session at edcampLA and a couple of teachers
who were new to twitter asked for a Twitter 101 or Twitter for beginners blog
post. We didn’t have access to a projector screen in the session so I couldn’t
show them any posts during the session, so I promised them I would send them a
link. Instead of just sending them to one spot I thought I’d post a bunch of
links below that are curated by me since I use Twitter a ton and help run two
Twitter Chats. So below are some links, tips and thoughts about Twitter that I
will update as often as I can.
MY TWO
BIGGEST TIPS ON GETTING PEOPLE TO FOLLOW YOU BACK ON TWITTER ARE:
1.
Make sure you have a picture of you in your profile, fill out your bio, and use
a header image that gives people a little glimpse of who you are or what you
like. Passion is contagious so showing people what you are passionate about in
your bio helps find like-minded people.
And
here are few other examples:
Twitter
Headers
Chris
Long loves kettle bells, Eric Saibel Loves Travel and Adventure, Sean Ziebarth
loves biking and his blue bug, and Alice Keeler loves her kids so much she will
hold them in her arms while she is presenting and still rock it.
Lastly,
please tweet out six pictures as soon as possible. I can tell what you are like
very quickly just by looking at the picture share part of your Twitter account.
I make the majority of my “follow” decisions by looking at your photo shares
and by seeing if you are interacting with me.
You
can see by Sean Ziebarth’s shares on the left he likes people, silliness,
taking pictures of his friend Greg eating four donuts and music. You can see
that Jodie Morgenson, on the right, LOVES being silly and is a positive person.
As I said in my blog post on taking better photos, you can quickly see into a
person’s soul when you see how they look at the world.
There
are lots of Twitter accounts, even teacher accounts, that I consider SPAM
accounts. SPAM accounts are those that just share relentlessly without actually
interacting with other Twitter users. Worse yet are those that will only share
things that they have done or are a part of. Don’t be like that.
No one
worth their salt cares how many people follow you on Twitter. Heck anyone can
buy fake Twitter followers. If you want more followers provide value that
people appreciate. Point out other’s victories. Post other people’s blog posts.
Find useful tools and resources and share them. Interact. That’s the most
important part, remember it’s called SOCIAL media. Be sociable, have fun, be a
good friend, not a good network.
WOLF
LAST
BUT NOT LEAST: Please, please, don’t lock your Twitter account (keep it
private) unless you are on the run from the mafia, and then maybe you just
shouldn’t be on Twitter.
TWITTER
BASICS:
Great
Tip by Alice Keeler on how to get a group of people to sign up for Twitter
while bypassing all the sign-up steps.
Twitter
101 article by Jeff Dunn on Edudemic
One
question I hear from Twitter newbies is how do you follow conversations in
Twitter. When you click on a Tweet, if people have replied to the Tweet you
will see the entire conversation thread. I going to post a few other
observations under the next picture.
Twitter
Thread 2
When
you click on a Tweet you will see that it has its own shareable url that you
can share, link to in a blog post or presentation or do tasks with it.
There
are three circles at the bottom of a Tweet. If you click on it…
You
can share a Tweet via email, Mute the user without unfollowing them (sneaky) or
report a Spammer or inappropriate tweet.
Here
is the conversation thread
By
putting Twitter handles in your tweet your message will not only show up in the
reader of the people that you follow, but the people whose Twitter handles you
put in the message will see your message in a special area called
“Notifications.”
Here
is where you click to see your Notifications. If there are tweets in here,
people really want you to see what you Tweeted. When I’m busy sometimes I will
only look at my Notifications.
TWITTER
CHATS:
How To
Survive And Thrive In A Twitter Chat.
A list
of educational Twitter chats by day, hour, and subject.
TWITTER
IN THE CLASSROOM:
Using
Twitter Chats In The Classroom Or As An Assessment Tool.
WHO TO
FOLLOW ON TWITTER:
If you
go to the lists section of my Twitter account you can see that I keep a curated
list of people to follow on Twitter by subject taught, grade level, and their
role in education. It’s a great list, seriously.
Alice
Keeler’s List of Teachers by Subject Area on Twitter.
UPDATE 2/18/2015:
I had
a friend ask me “What do you do on Twitter, how do you use it daily?”
That’s
a good question:
Here
are a few things you should try on Twitter either once a day or once a week.
Share
a picture of your classroom.
Share
a picture of some student work.
Share
a picture of a process or tradition you have in your class, give a short
explanation.
Share
a quote or song that is guiding you lately.
Ask a
question to a subject area hashtag like #engchat or #tweatre
Ask a
question of a teacher you don’t know.
Share
a link to a resource, website or video that worked in class.
Share
a link to a Google doc or Google Presentation that you used in class.
Share
when a student says something awesome.
Share
when a co-worker says or does something nice or awesome.
I’ll
think of more, but hopefully that gives you something to do on Twitter besides
sharing pictures of your food and talking about famous people.
The
shortlink to this blog post is: bit.ly/twitter101forteachers
Sean
Ziebarth and I did a training/presentation for the College Board on using
Twitter as a Professional Development tool/strategy. Here is our presentation
on using Twitter as a Professional Development tool. Or you can use this shortlink to the
presentation: bit.ly/twitterpdpresentation
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