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McDevitt Library: A Safer Internet Experience
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Ms Clerkin's Blog: Conveniently Located Everywhere. Friday, January 16, 2015. A Safer Internet Experience. We teach our kids that Digital Citizenship means the appropriate and responsible use of technology. Using technology safely and ethically to access information is important in our technology-driven world. But, just because we have access to all the information, doesn’t mean we should, and this is especially true with our kids. How do you search the Internet? Google Safe Search for Kids. Feature is a...
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McDevitt Library: Nearpod and Teacher Rounds
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Ms Clerkin's Blog: Conveniently Located Everywhere. Monday, March 31, 2014. Nearpod and Teacher Rounds. Last week teachers participated in Teacher Rounds here at McDevitt Middle School. If you are not familiar with Teacher Rounds, I can tell you it is a fantastic professional development opportunity for presenter and observers alike. You can read more about the basic premise of Teacher Rounds in this Edutopia article: Teachers Observing Teachers: Instructional Rounds. I love the interactive qualities of ...
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McDevitt Library: Summer Reading and Ready Player One
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Ms Clerkin's Blog: Conveniently Located Everywhere. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Summer Reading and Ready Player One. This week our 8th grade students have been busy with activities designed to celebrate the end of their middle school years. On Monday, Ms. Russak, Mr. Campbell, and I were busy preparing them for their High School summer reading book Ready Player One. By Ernest Cline. You can read more about the Waltham High School One School One Book program here. No room in your suitcase for books? The col...
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McDevitt Library: E-Tickets
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Ms Clerkin's Blog: Conveniently Located Everywhere. Sunday, November 14, 2010. When I meet with teachers to plan a project in the library, the challenge of exit tickets always comes up. What should we do? How much time should we take to do it? What will we do with the information once we have it? To me, these challenges are opportunities. I love trying out new technology tools in the classroom and this time I met the exit ticket dilemma with an e-ticket solution. Clipped from: www.wallwisher.com. I had t...
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McDevitt Library: McDevitt Library News
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Ms Clerkin's Blog: Conveniently Located Everywhere. Thursday, December 4, 2014. Thursday, December 04, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow McDevitt Library by Email. For Parents and Guardians! Interested in volunteering at McDevitt Library? Send me an e-mail at lucilleclerkin@k12.waltham.ma.us or call me at 781-314-5597 and find out more! What is Creative Commons and Why Does it Matter? McDevitt Library on Pinterest. Visit McDevitt Library's profile on Pinterest. More Alike Than Different.
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McDevitt Library: Teaching Primary Sources and the Power of Collaboration
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Ms Clerkin's Blog: Conveniently Located Everywhere. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Teaching Primary Sources and the Power of Collaboration. One of my favorite lessons to teach is Primary Sources: Observing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Artifacts from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Rome, and Greece. I know what you're thinking.Seriously, that's a favorite lesson? Yes it is, and here is why:. In early spring I participated in a class called Thinking Through Teaching. Taught by Dr. Carol Gordon. Students were then asked to cho...
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McDevitt Library: Le buone norme in azione!
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Ms Clerkin's Blog: Conveniently Located Everywhere. Friday, March 20, 2015. Le buone norme in azione! This year, I have been a part of McDevitt's Instructional Leadership Team (ILT). The team is a varied group of Teachers with a shared interest in exploring best practices in the classroom and talking about those ideas with colleagues. In the beginning of the year we worked together as a group to determine a list of core teaching practices we wanted to research, including:. This class was fantastic! The f...
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