Team Website!

Hey Girls, so I guess post on here once your done with everything so we can post the URL tonight. Im ready whenever you guys are!

Caitlin

Hey Caitlin, can you add your digital story to the technology in the classroom page? That way there's three good digital stories people can see all together. Thanks!!!

Hey guys I am having trouble figuring out how to make the links on the website show in some other way that is not the URL... how did you guys do that? by the way i am really sorry I didnt post anything on it yet- I have been working on it and starting to add stuff today! and if there are any things that you want me to do since i didn't help get it started initially let me know please!!

Hey brooke, could you add a link to the bottom of the first page with the standards our unit covers if you have time? If not ill try and do it in a bit, just have lots to do still. This website is way more work than I expected!

Sam

GoWMU

Hey girls, just wanted to give you guys a heads up that I saw an alert on GoWmu that says it will be down from midnight tonight, until noon tomorrow. So I would assume if GoWmu is down that we wouldn't be able to use eLearning during that time.

Website

I've started the website layout and tried to divide it up a bit, but Im not sure exactly how we should do it so hopefully you guys have already been working on your parts and can look at the website and let me know what you think. We really need to get this going soon, its alot of work for us to do in just a few days, since we have to create 2-3 pages each and create another original project each.
Let me know what you want to do from here, once you look at the site.

Sam

Team Website!!!

Hi girls! So for the rest of the semester we just have to create our team website. I started it out just by creating our URL and actual site. So that we can all access it the login name is: weatherandtechnology@gmail.com and the password is: weather&technology I tried so many different, better names but all the cute, good ones were taken, lol. So thats what I ended up with. When signing in spell out and, but for the password use the symbol( & ), they hade to be different.
I know its Thanksgiving week, so we probably won't get to much done this week, but Im going to at least start uploading pages and organizing my lesson plans and projects a little. Feel free to change anything and start working on the website! It's due at the end of next week. Have a great Thanksgiving :)

Sam

Revised Final Concept Map- Weather

Concept Map

hey girls! Im doing our last revised concept map. Just wanted to let you know!!!

Podcast Part One

Weather Monitoring Podcast
Part 1: Introduction
(Here's what I said in mine...it ended up being a little over a minute and a half)
"Our group project is about weather monitoring. When this project began we wanted to make sure we would at least briefly cover a lot of different areas, regarding the weather. We chose to start our project by focusing on some general, main concepts of weather, to create a broad range of topics; Including: temperature, humidity, clouds, atmospheric pressure, wind and precipitation, and how they all fit together to create the weather we see each day.
We then started to dive into these different areas, to get a better sense of each element that creates our weather. For our first element, Temperature, we looked at how wind chills and heat index affects our temperatures. For humidity, we focused on the water vapor in the air and relative humidity. We found the three main types of cloud formations, Cumulus, Cirrus, and Stratus Clouds and their main differences and similarities. For Atmospheric Pressure we concentrated on high and low pressure, the weight of air on the Earth’s surface, and how to use a synoptic map. We looked at different areas of wind, like the jet stream, gale winds, breezes, and how the wind is affected by the sun. And for precipitation we focused at sleet, fog, rain, snow, and hail, as well as looking more into the water cycle; such as evaporation, condensation and water collection."

Podcasts

Hi girls! So to get us started for this podcast assignment I figured we could just split it up into three sections, one each. I'll do the first segment if you guys dont care, just to get it going. They only have to be 1-2 mins so Ill just do a brief overview of our main concepts about weather and then add in two concepts from the book. Im not sure which ones yet, Ill post on to here when I figure it out later. Then another part could be about our lesson plans and digital stories, maybe briefly going over a few of them?!? And the other part like a conclusion, maybe talking about how we will use technology to finish up our project and review main concepts!?!?
Sorry that was really long! But let me know what you guys think, obviously its just an idea so feel free to change anything or talk about whatever. Lets keep posting on this though, so we can see what each of us will talk about and make sure it flows together once were all finished.
Have a good weekend :)

Lesson Plan 2

Hey girls, hope you had a good week. I am working on my lesson plan 2 and am doing mine based on favorite types of weather.

new concept map

Hey guys- what kinds of changes should we make to the new concept map? I am not sure what new things to add. I feel like it is pretty detailed already but we have to update it and add more!

-Caitlin

Google Maps

Hi girls! Wondering if either of you did the "description" part of the googlemaps that we did a while ago? We still have a 0 out of 50 for our grade for that portion of the assignment. Im not sure what exactly she wanted or if you guys knew when you posted it?
Thanks!

Hi Guys! Im doing my digital story on clouds again. Thought it would be easiest to just keep the same theme running. Have a good week!
Sam

Lesson Plan One

Hi!!!
I am getting my lesson plan started for this week, and saw that we needed to make sure we each do a different topic in our category. So I am planning on doing a lesson based on the three types of clouds and somehow integrating technology and everything from there! Let me know if either of you need anything this week, since were kind of on our own for this lesson! Have a great weekend :)
Sam

Google Maps and ePals

View Weather Monitoring: Michigan and California in a larger map



If the above embedded version of our ePals Google Doc is not sufficient, please click here to visit our document.

ePals

ePals and Google Maps Project

Hi guys, hope you've had a good week. I'm wondering what the status of our weekly assignments are. I'd like to try to finish this as soon as we can. 


We need to figure out what type of project we would do. And also need to answer the following questions within our paper, via Google Docs:

• Who are the students your students will communicate with (specific location, grade level)?
• When would your students contact these other students (at what point in their project work)?
• What kinds of questions would they ask each other and what kinds of information would they share?
• What will they do with the information they get from the other students?

Did either of you have ideas regarding this?


Off the top of my head, this is what I've come up with:


I was thinking that we have our students focus on daily weather, and compare them with students  in another region, whether that be overseas, or in a different region within the United States. Possibly, students from both regions could note forecast (like a 7 day) then record their findings, and compare the accuracy of the forecast to the actual weather. Then students could discuss their findings with students from different regions and then compare the results or something along those lines.


That's just a rough draft of my idea. Would love some feedback, additions, or to hear any other ideas that the two of you have. Let me know, Thanks!

Google Docs

Hi! Im trying to get a jump start on this weeks assignments since we all have to work together to write the paper and do the map. Im trying to start on google docs now but i need both your emails again please! Ill send you a invitation for it and we can get started.
Sam

Web Site Evaluations

Hi guys! I am doing my web site evaluations and want to make sure we are not doing any that are the same, since we all need to have three different ones. The three I am working on are DiscoveryEducation.com, TheTeachersGuide/Weather.com, and NOAA.gov (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). They all give good information on weather in general and monitoring and forcasting, as well as good ideas for lessons and activities. I just poked around at all of them, but they seem like they could help us out once we get going on this project! Hopefully they will be useful for us.
Hope you guys are having a good week! - Sam

Elements of Weather Concept Map

Inspiration Concept Map

Apparently when we download this software to make our concept map, we only get a 30 day trial of the program. We have to use this program 3 times throughout the semester, therefore we need to discuss who will download, and use it, and when they will do that.

I have already downloaded it, so I will use it first, for Part A of Assignment 2, which is due tonight. I am having trouble figuring out exactly what we need to do for the concept map. I saw an example on eLearning, and am going based off of that, it is just a draft, from my understanding. So I'm kind of just going with it, if either of you have a better understanding of what exactly we need to do for this, or any ideas or contributions to add to the concept map, please comment on this post and let me know.

We also have our first quiz due tonight. I am trying to tackle this concept map, and get it done, so that I can then tackle the rest of my reading, and the quiz.

Caitlin- I have made you an admin of the blog.
Samantha- I am still waiting for you to accept the invite to the blog

Welcome

Hey all. Here is what I have created so far for our blog. I have a weird obsession with weather, so I'm glad to be a part of this group!