MasteryMaze Blog

Check out my new site-- Hybrid High School for the latest info on the growth of online learning nationally and in my state of New York.Things are changing and we need to be informed!   Here is a link!  www.hybridhighschool.com 

Share this new newsreader with your students!  Cool!  Here's the link!http://www.newsmap.jp/ 

I love Animoto! Here is a short intro to Geography I made with the new video features.  Enjoy.  

This video gives some nice basic info on podcasting for teachers.    Remember,,,You can make podcasts and screencasts for your students as well.

I have been tweeting for a couple of years now for personal and professional use, but this year I plan to give it a try in my teaching to keep connected with my students and their parents.  I will post more on my progress as we go along.  If you are really not clear on what Twitter is, and are afraid to ask, this video from Commoncraft can help!

I just posted on this in my personal Blog at www.educationallysound.com.  Change is scary for many of us but it is never too late.  Check out this video example from Edutopia. 

Hello All!

 I am in the process of writing what will be possibly a book on my use and view of online education at the K12 level and would love to incorporate your stories!

Please consider contributing your stories by emailing me at masterymaze@gmail.com. If you are using moodle I would love to hear how and stories on how it is going. 

Thanks to all who attended the training in July!  I think we need to get on the online train before it passes us by.  Our districts will buy it off the shelf from the many publishers who are dying to replace teachers with credit recovery and other programs.

I believe that we as teachers need to become teachers online as well.

We can do it!  It is not that difficult!

We have recently been impacted by the Swine flu and advised by our District that we may have to close if their is an outbreak.  This can have a significant impact as we only have approxinately 7 weeks until final exams and several new topics to cover.  Not to worry!  I told my students that we will still learn online by utilizing our online learning Lab which I have created in Moodle.  The Mastery Review Lab is a Moodle site where I have created online course modules for my students in each of the subjects I teach.  With this online space I create videos which I post to review various topics as well as lessons where students can post their work via a drop box.

Using a tool like Moodle will help us to finish the material we need  to cover if we are forced to close.  Let's keep our fingers crossed that we will not need to do so!

Here's the link!  www.masteryreview.com

Feel free to contact me via contact page if you are interested in training or help in setting up these types of courses!  School never closes when you have online options!

I thought I would share this video which is a quick look at some of the ways I have used screencast technology in my teaching!  See Palmers Page in the Wiki for more info on my current projects! 

Links!

www.educationallysound.com

www.masteryreview.com

Sue Palmer