Featuring Melissa Prescott & G.O.T. Farms

A shout-out to Melissa Prescott, art teacher at Telstar Middle School for Service Learning on Sustainable Energy empowered by technology. An outstanding example of project learning and the power of constructivism and connectivism.

G.O.T Farms, Melissa Prescott, Telstar Middle School

Website

G.O.T. Farms Mission

Facebook page for G.O.T. Farms

Documentary Video

TMS Art Website

Learning in Maine Blog Post: Featuring John Howe: Sustainability

Featuring the Work of Mark Arnold

I just happened upon some of the outstanding work of Mark Arnold this morning which I hadn't seen before. He is at Mount Desert High School . . . which is, it so happens, yet another Maine school that is making wonderful use of Google Apps.

First of all, you really need to check out this site called Teaching & Learning Guides. What a straight-forward template for organizing content and resources!

Next, check out Mark's Trojan TechNotes for very helpful advice and resources.

Google Sites 101
Google Apps for Educators
Digital Storytelling
GoogleME
Why Google Apps for Schools
Differentiated Instruction
TV & Radio to Educational Resources
Learning Tools Exposition
Evaluating Web Resources and Wikipedia Articles
Videoconferencing Systems and Idea Bank

Marion Brady on the Common Core State Standards

Ecology of Education:

• Education Reform: 22 Problems, and a Proposal
• Promises to the Future of Education
• Free Market Education?
• Memo to Lawmakers: You Don’t Know What You’re Doing on School Reform
• Calling teachers to action beyond SB 6

Featuring Shanna Wheelock of Lubec

While at the Lubec School I met Shanna Wheelock who has taken the initiative of using Google Apps for Education in her art classes. I found out also that Shanna has an excellent blog called the Easternmost Potter in the United States which speaks to her work both in school and beyond the classroom. Fascinating reading grounded in reality.


Check out, as well, these pages:

We Support Lubec High School.
Lubec Arts Alive 2010

Her husband also blogs on poetry, politics and philosophy at Owl Who Laughs.

Lubec: Google Apps in the Classroom

I got to watch the sun come up in beautiful Lubec, Maine this morning. Lubec has the distinction of being the eastern most point of the 48 contiguous states . . . and the location of majestic Quoddy Head.

Four of Maine's regional learning and technology mentors (Dawn, Ed, Becky & Jim) are joining forces to assist in helping in on-going training in the Lubec school on using Google Apps for Educators as an online environment.

And Olga LaPlante, another Maine regional mentor, is doing the same thing in SAD #55 today as well.

President Obama at Hampton University