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I'm BACK!

Ok, so life got in the way of finishing my graduate degree but I am now finally doing it. After a two year hiatus I am taking my last class. My original cohort graduated in the spring of 2009, I however was busy taking care of my sweet baby girl who was diagnosed with heart failure. She had a very successful open heart surgery on May 20, 2009.

I am happy to report that my sweet baby girl is now a VERY healthy and BUSY 2 year old. We are expecting her baby brother to arrive on May 16th at 11:15 am (scheduled C-Section)

When I found out we were expecting baby #2, I made a promise to myself and to my husband that I would finally finish my degree.

I am enjoying the 2.0 class. It is re-igniting my fire for technology in the classroom.

ECOMP 5007

Stacie Stoller
ECOMP 5007
March 8, 2008
Project One Proposal

a) This lesson is designed for 7th grade students who are in an inclusion class. Some of the students have been diagnosed with LD, autism, ADD, ADHD, EBD and some of the students are considered “on level”.
b) The characteristics of many of the 7th grade students with or without a diagnosis is that they are very easily distracted. My students with LD struggle greatly with the difficult vocab words.
c) Students are introduced to new vocabulary. Students will be able to use vocabulary words correctly to edit a “My Space” page at the end of the lesson.
d) Teacher will introduce the 12 words through Power Point and links to Inspiration. Students will have the choice to work on one of two puzzle links. The “quiz” at the end will assess student’s knowledge of the words.
e) The LD student will have the choice to read or have the text read to them with the Natural Reader. The student with Autism is VERY visual so the use of the Inspiration Map for each word will help this student to better understand. Using the “My Space” page for the quiz will engage that ADD/ADHD and typical 7th grade student who is easily distracted and easily bored with our vocabulary book.

Final Project 5106

Here is the link to my final portfolio for ECOMP 5106
http://stoller5106.weebly.com/index.html

5106 Brochure - Science Court

http://msstaciestoller.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/5/132513/5106_brochure_stoller.doc

My Final Project Reflection

http://msstaciestoller.weebly.com/

I created a Class Website for my final project. This was much more time consuming then I had first anticipated but I had so much fun. Searching through websites of other teachers I found what I liked and didn't like. There were some websites created by teachers that were not very user friendly and some that didn't seem to serve much of a purpose. I decided that I wanted my site to be easy to use and a site that my parents could actually benefit from.

After talking with Ellen and looking at her site I decided to use Weebly as my host site. Weebly was easy to use but I did run into a few problems. I didn't like the look of the attached files. I tried to change this but was unable. I would have liked it to look more like a list as opposed to the generic looking icon. My plan is to eventually link all of my worksheets,power points and test reviews for each unit in both Math and Science. My Reading curriculum is still "under construction." We are reading the Westing Game, which the kids love, but I still have not implemented the Math strands of Reading. I will link sites as I find them.

The most exciting part of creating my website was when I was able to find the HTML for different widgets and horizontal lines. I've learned so much from this class. Blogging, creating websites, RSS feeds, Bloglines, TeacherTube, Wikki, WebQuests, HTML and PortaPortal are just a few of the things I've learned. My friends are benefitting from me taking this class as well. Leann, a close friend, had been searching for a job for several months. I taught her how to create a blog and showed her Mashable which lead her to LinkedIn. Linkedin is the site where she ended up finding her current employer.

I wrote a proposal for the technology committee at my school and it was approved. My proposal suggested that to better utilize the interactive white boards in our school, we should have teachers apply to have them in their classrooms. It will be like applying for a grant. There has to be a plan and the teacher will have to keep data. The data can be pre/post test or anecdotal data.

project

http://msstaciestoller.weebly.com/