Ohana Learners

Wow!  I finally created my first really simple webpage with lots of help from the Art teacher at our high school, who has a great webpage.  Her web is Juliana Kunstler.com.  Juliana is originally from Russia and she previews all of her art pieces (paintings) on her webpage, it was great working with her.  We didn’t have much time, so I just did the basics on Dream Weaver.  I had trouble loading it, I was trying to make it harder than it was.  When I thought it wasn’t uploading – it actually was but I did not have the index.html attached to the address.  Tom helped me figure out my uploading problem.  Oh, by the way, my background was originlly a nice yellow – I’m not sure how it turned into a mango orange!!

http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/mwoolums/students/mw090103/website1/website1/index.html

Yoder:  The Student WebQuest

WebQuests allow us to steer our students in a responsible search on the Web.  Students may be given a real life problem and search for answers as they analyze and create  along the way.  Teachers need to do the leg work to set up the quests so that students are using authentic sites.  Consider your student’s interest and reading levels before they begin their venture on the Web.  WebQuests can be either short or long term projects and Bernie Dodge, who created WebQuests, has a great site to get you started or you may use one of many samples on the Web.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

http://l2l.ed.psu.edu/linktuts/inteweb.htm

Family & Consumer Science

Online  Lesson Plan Ideas:

After browsing through many resources, I finally found a site that included  FCS  (AKA – Home Ec) ideas.

Fashion – The link was:  http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.cfm  and this site was set up by subject and grade level.  Under the grade 6-12^th there was a great site for my Fashion class, which I could implement this year.  It was on Native Dress and it features an on-line exhibit from Smithsonian and subtitled “Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses”.   The time frame was from the 19^th to the 21^st century.  This site allows students to step back in time and attend a Powwow dance completion in Native Dress and beads.  One of my students did bring in the beads from her Grandmothers “Blackfoot” tribe to show to the class.  My student participates in Native dance each year.  This site also featured a video.

Consumerism – This is an interactive site for high school students studying real life scenarios http://www.consumerjungle.org/  and promotes consumer literacy. Some of the scenarios include:  not acquiring insurance, using payday loans or rushing into buying a new car without  doing research.   There are some scams along the way of this Consumer Jungle; ATM scams, card swipe scams and mortgage rescue scams.  Students will either financially succeed or go bankrupt.  My students will enjoy learning about finance as they make their game decisions.  This is a free site offered by AT & T.

On Wednesday morning the moon shown into my west-side window, I thought it was getting light out already.  As I was driving to school that morning, I could not help but notice the full moon.  The time had just changed and it was still dusk.  The moon’s radiance was so brilliant, I could hardly keep my eyes on the road – it was so alluring. 

What will the student’s be like today, I wondered out-loud?  Many teachers make comments on the effect of student’s behavior, so I investigated a little more and was surprised to find so many online articles on the subject.  It’s intriguing – legend says that it brings out the worst in people.  It is blamed for aggressive behavior, violence and even disasters.  Sometimes you will hear doctors, delivery room nurses and police make a comment, such as; “It’s a full moon tonight.”

The full moon does have a direct effect on the tides.  Garner believes that since humans are eighty percent water, their behaviors are changed during this full moon phase.  Author, Arnold Lieber, wrote a couple books on this phenomenon and warns law-enforcement officers to be extra cautious because of it’s effects in the Miami area. 

Personally, I do believe there is something to this lunar effect, when it comes to education.  It will prove to be a good study for me and my students.  What are your thoughts and experiences on “Moon Madness?”

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