Rock n Roll Hall of Fame FREE Live Streaming Event

 

Event: LIVE STREAM “Reelin’ and Rockin”: Chuck Berry and the Birth of Rock and Roll

Date: Monday, October 22, 2012

Time: 12:00-1:00 pm EST

Cost: FREE

Want to Participate? This special event will be streamed LIVE on the Rock Hall’s website atwww.rockhall.com/education

Suggested Grade Level: 7-12

Full Description:

On Monday, October 22, the Education Department of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate 2012 American Music Master, Chuck Berry,by connecting to students around the world via the award-winning distance learning programOn the Road.

Rock Hall Educators will demonstrate how Chuck Berry drew from blues, country, and jazz to create the guitar style that came to define rock and roll. Students will also examine how Berry created a new lyric vocabulary in his songs that spoke directly to young people and to the integrated rock and roll audiences of the 1950s.

Students will have the opportunity to email questions to Rock Hall Educators during the live stream.

If you have specific questions about the content of this class, please contact the education staff at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum ateducation@rockhall.org. To find out more about 2012 American Music Masters events, visithttp://rockhall.com/events/american-music-masters/.

New to the Learning.com Marketplace

 

Exciting things are always happening in the Learning.com Marketplace. This week is no exception. If you haven't visited the Marketplace since returning from the Summer, now is the time. Not only is there a special deal going on with 20 digital resources under $20, but look at some of the latest providers that have been added.

 

Cubert’s Cube

Created with input from teachers, Cubert's Cube is an online writing environment designed to make your life easier and to inspire your students to want to write. Our technology is user-friendly and easy to navigate. Children in grades 2-5 are excited to see their writing take shape as they refine their skills, add creative touches with illustrations, collaborate with peers and publish their work in an online classroom library. You are able to tailor the skills you'd like to highlight and view each student's work in one easily accessible place. No more piles of papers to lug home. No more groans when it's time to write. You know how eager they are to use the computers, and with Cubert's Cube, writing is fun!

Cubert's Cube is designed to align with the Common Core Standards in writing and meets most technology standards as well. It's your secret weapon to help students take their writing to a whole new level.

Learn 360

We have indexed Learn 360’s content on our platform.  Learn 360 licensed users can now access Learn 360 content via Learning.com!  You won’t find them in the Marketplace drop-down menu yet, but in a few weeks, we’ll have listed Learn 360 so that educators can easily see that they can access Learn 360 via Learning.com.  For instance, if a school or district has a license to use Learn 360, they will be able to access Learn 360 via Learning.com—very much like our relationship with Discovery Education.

 Learn360 is an interactive, media-on-demand digital delivery service for the K-12 education market. With 24/7 access from any internet-enabled device, teachers, students and parents can stream and download high quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, research articles, teacher resources and more. Content is provided by top educational publishers, including A&E, History, Biography, National Geographic, Reading Rainbow, Weston Woods and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia…over 60 in all! Videos are correlated to Common Core Standards, State Standards and 21^st Century Learning Initiatives.

Professor Garfield

In collaboration with Ball State University, Professor Garfield offers free delivery of innovative and motivational digital learning content with a primary emphasis on children’s literacy.  We’ve added three free products to the Marketplace.  They are: Reading Ring, Orson’s Farm, G-Cubed.  Each of these games can be used in grades K-12.  Professor Garfield will soon be adding more content—both free content and fee-based content.

Animoto - Refer-a-Pro Summer Special

Animoto - Refer-a-Pro Summer Special: Create Hollywood quality videos from your photos and video clips with Animoto to share with your friends and family. Animoto is one of my favorite resources for creating videos. If you haven't tried it yet, you should. It is easy to use and provides music for you with the credits at the end. Saves you time and energy. Plus the end result looks great.

New Curriculum Now Available in Learning.com Marketplace

It is exciting to find resources that you love to use in your classroom partnered together to be delivered in one location. As I follow the new curriculum items added regularly to the marketplace in Learning.com, I am more in awe of the way integration is taking hold in what we are able to deliver to our students through technology, the places we can take them and the way they can explore their interests to take charge of their own learning.

The digital learning environment that is the Learning.com platform provides a location for teachers to locate digital curriculum, create their own curriculum and assess student learning all in one place. Teachers do not have time to teach all curriculum content in separation, so having resources all in one place seems such a relief. The integration of digital resources into the tried and true classroom environment has made teaching and learning far more exciting than it was.

Learning.com has recently added a few of my favorite digital resources to the marketplace. I recommend that you check them out......

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): These K-12 free science resources cover the following topics: Climate, Freshwater, Marine Life, Ocean and Coasts, Weather and Atmosphere, and Special Topics.  NOAA’s reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as they work to keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them.

Glogster: Glogs are interactive digital posters that allow teachers and students to add various types of content into one location (text, video, audio, images, weblinks and more). Glogster EDU has been one of my favorite resources since they first came into being. Creating glogs is easy and fun. Use it to give an assignment, gather resources for teaching a unit or anything else your creativity can devise. After creating a glog, you can copy the embed code and paste it into a journal or activity on the Learning.com platform to assign out to your students. The integration options are endless. The Glogster EDU Teacher Premium product can easily be used in Grades 2-12.  Teachers can buy a 12 month teacher subscription for up to 200 students for a discounted price in the marketplace.

Verizon Thinkfinity : Thinkfinity by the Verizon Foundation offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by some of the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. The easy-to-navigate K-12 resources are grade-specific and aligned to the Texas TEKS.  Thinkfinity is not visible in unlicensed search in order to prevent users outside of the aligned states from accessing these items.  Learning.com has access to the complete Thinkfinity library.  Item types include PreK-12 activities, lesson plans, videos, collections, Audio, Interactives, Primary Sources, and Worksheets.  Subjects include Art, Economics, Educational Technology, Foreign Language, Geography, Health, History, Literacy, Mathematics, Professional Development, Reading & Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.

Log in to your Learning.com account and explore these new resources in the Marketplace to discover another new way to integrate technology into your classroom.

Digital Storytelling with Matt Monjan

Digital Storytelling is an amazing way to share information and be creative. Check out the information shared by Matt Monjan from the DEN.

Open publication - Free publishing - More den

Nature Works Everywhere

Nature Works Everywhere | Presented by The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Works Everywhere site challenges us to think about what impacts nature has on our world with "Nature: It’s more than just a faraway beach or mountain. It’s a fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives – food, drinking water, the stuff we own and the air we breathe. It makes amazing memories, and even protects us from floods and storms!" Visit the Nature Works Everywhere site to find videos, lesson plans and a meet the scientists section to assist with teaching and learning about nature.

Summer Enrichment Fun

Summer is rapidly approaching and I remember the days where I worried if my students would forget what they had learned as the lazy days of Summer rolled by. I would work hard all year to compile an activity list to share with my students. Before the more prevalent access to technology existed, my students went home with a paper calendar of "things to do" over the summer to keep them thinking. Sending these ideas home now can be so much more engaging. I think of the websites used in and out of classrooms, the way that digital curriculum can be assigned out to students through their Learning.com accounts, the Discovery resources that can be used, the many ways to challenge students to explore their interests away from school and I am excited that teachers have so many resources to use to engage students over the summer. I read the latest Discovery Educator Network weekly e-newsletter and was happy to see that Martha and hence Lance have begun the process to engage students over the summer. The enrichment packet included below is geared towards 5th and 6th grade students. Use it, share it and be inspired by it. Create your own digital enrichment packet to share with your students to meet the needs of your grade level. Once it is created, remember to add it to a "journal" item in Learning.com and assign it out to your class. Help your students stay engaged over the Summer and enrich their learning experiences to prepare them for the upcoming school year.

DE Summer Enrichment Packet

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