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- I am a 7th & 8th grade teacher in New Sweden, Maine. All classes are double graded due to our small population. This year I have 6 eighth graders and 10 seventh graders and I teach all subjects. I coach both Nordic skiing and baseball (we are part of Union 122 schools).
I am also a grandfather with two lovely granddaughters. I love to garden, build things, and read. My academic passions are local Swedish history, the Civil War, and the Holocaust. I was very fortunate to join other Maine educators and the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine as part of a study tour to Germany and Poland in 2002.
Website: Maine Holocaust Education Network at http://meholocausteducation.ning.com
I Twitter at http://twitter.com/ErnieEaster
I blog here at Seedlings.
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Thanks for getting this post up. I hope everyone who Twitters participates, I know I learn so much each day from my Twitter Personal Learning Network. I am gaining such a wonderful group of links as well as having meaningful conversations all within…
I'm on twitter as "ernieeaster" with the Northern Maine Weather report courtesy of the Caribou Weather Service.
Venting is good! How do we get the non education oriented IT people to become involved? One way would be having tech organizations sponsor events hosted by those IT people who do "get it." Would they listen? Maybe better to fellow IT people???
Woul…
Hi Jim -
There are 2 Web 2.0 tools that are really making a difference for me and my students.
The first one is Twitter. I get an incredible amount of great links each day from my PLN. Many of these links I send to the teachers at my school or to m…
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President Elect Obama is on YouTube, When can we unblock it?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ernie Easter Jan. 13, 2009.
Living and Learning with New Media, a white paper from the MacArthur Foundation
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ernie Easter Nov. 25, 2008.
An Incredible list of Web2.0 Tools on "Cool Tools For Schools" Wiki
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My Diary of NECC 2009 - A Newbie's Perspective
It has been a while since I posted anything here. Not sure why, other than a lot of time end of year stuff and life on Twitter.
My goal is to use this space as my NECC09 diary. I will tweet anytime I add content to this NECC09 Diary Post.
June 28, 2009
I'm here in Washington, D.C. at the NECC 2009 Conference having come down on the ACTEM Express Bus from Maine. About 50 educators all on a bus with their laptops connected to the internet. What a ride! What a lot of tweets with the hash tags #ACT… Continue
My goal is to use this space as my NECC09 diary. I will tweet anytime I add content to this NECC09 Diary Post.
June 28, 2009
I'm here in Washington, D.C. at the NECC 2009 Conference having come down on the ACTEM Express Bus from Maine. About 50 educators all on a bus with their laptops connected to the internet. What a ride! What a lot of tweets with the hash tags #ACT… Continue
Posted on June 28, 2009 at 10:30am —
Spinning Scenarios As A Way To Engage Students In Learning
This Science / Language Arts Creative Writing Activity is adapted from GEMS with a tribute to “Bartholomew and the Oobleck” by Dr. Suess. Students are assessed for the science lab and for the creative writing story.
The first part of this activity is to read the book “Bartholomew and the Oobleck” by Dr. Suess. Middle school students love to be read to and most seem to enjoy picture books still. After reading the story, we then start the Oobleck Lab.… Continue
The first part of this activity is to read the book “Bartholomew and the Oobleck” by Dr. Suess. Middle school students love to be read to and most seem to enjoy picture books still. After reading the story, we then start the Oobleck Lab.… Continue
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 8:39pm —
The Use of Nings in Educational Settings
This post has been rattling around since the Seedlings 2/19/09 podcast without coming out. I finally decided to just sit and do it as they say. It is snowing today and we do have a snow day.
Nings are by definition Social Networking Sites. According to Wikipedia, a “Ning is an online platform for people to create their own social networks, launched in October 2005. Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina… Continue
Nings are by definition Social Networking Sites. According to Wikipedia, a “Ning is an online platform for people to create their own social networks, launched in October 2005. Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina… Continue
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 1:30pm —
End of Unit Culminating Projects - What do you do?
We all survived! Our projects are in and demonstrated and we are all breathing a little easier now.
To wrap up a half year of middle school physical science - physics, I assign a Rube Goldberg challenge. This follows study in Force and Work, Speed and Motion, Simple Machines, and Electricity. Lots of hands on labs where we "play" with these concepts.
As a final activity to wrap everything up we take the Rube Goldberg challenge. The challenge is to build a complex machine made up of 3 different… Continue
To wrap up a half year of middle school physical science - physics, I assign a Rube Goldberg challenge. This follows study in Force and Work, Speed and Motion, Simple Machines, and Electricity. Lots of hands on labs where we "play" with these concepts.
As a final activity to wrap everything up we take the Rube Goldberg challenge. The challenge is to build a complex machine made up of 3 different… Continue
Posted on February 3, 2009 at 10:00pm —
Seven things about me -- Meme
Mark Spahr who writes on Cooked on Education tagged me. He was tagged by Richard Byrne of the award-winning Free Technology for Teachers blog who was tagged by Beth Still. The idea of this meme is to share seven things that your readers and / or your PLN might not know about you.
1.… Continue
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Posted on December 29, 2008 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments
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NECC 2009 Washington, D.C. June 28, 2009
Comment Wall (34 comments)
- At 9:31pm on October 25, 2009,
Cynthia Curry said… - Thanks for the message, Ernie! Good to be here.
Cynthia
- At 11:09pm on October 24, 2009,
Carolyn Stanley said… - Thanks for the "friend" invite, Ernie. I don't do Facebook-no time-so it's nice to have a conversation with other dedicated educators at Seedlings Ning. I looked again at your video and hope my husband and I can visit New Sweden next spring. We visit Maine often. I grew up in Gorham, and my husband's mom is still with us at 91. She lives in Camden.
By the way, those lupin seeds my hubby planted bloomed beautifully this summer past (2009), and I'll upload a picture later.
I am the computer technology integration teacher at my 7th and 8th grade middle school - 400 students. It would be cool if we could connect this year through a wiki or some other collaborative tool.
Finally, you mention the Santa Lucia festival. I was brought up Lutheran and still attend a Lutheran Church in West Haven, CT. We are a pretty small congregation now, but years ago we also had wonderful Santa Lucia festivities. (I am of Danish heritage, but there was a large Swedish contingent at the church.)
- At 8:16am on July 21, 2009,
Kristy Johnson said… - Thanks, Ernie! Looking forward to the conversations!
- At 11:43pm on June 7, 2009,
Raman Job said… - Hey thanks, Ernie. I appreciate the welcome. Cheers!
- At 10:19pm on March 14, 2009,
Gayle Wolotsky said… - Thanks Ernie! Yes, I'm sure this will help out with my discussions through Lesley.
- At 10:10pm on March 5, 2009,
Annemarie Stoeckel said…
- Thanks, Ernie, I'm looking forward to it:)
- At 4:31am on February 27, 2009,
Kevin Jarrett said… - Thanks Ernie! Great to be here! Seedlings Rocks!
- At 10:20pm on February 17, 2009,
Jim Moulton said…
- Hello, Ernie. I look forward to being part of the conversation here.
Jim
- At 12:48pm on February 2, 2009,
Betty Wright said… - Thanks Ernie,
Trying to get the site unblocked to be more useful :-)
-Betty
- At 12:00pm on February 1, 2009,
Scott Shelhart said… - Thanks Ernie. Just put up a new blog post this morning. Enjoy!
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Eric, it is tough when no matter what you say, you still get the trouble tickets. That happens here in WOCSD too. We all try to help out, but really the tech people who can take care of the problem quickly need to be the ones. Otherwise, the problem…
When I was hired, my job description was to work in two elementary school buildings; a K - 2 school and a 2 - 4 school (second grade is split in half in my district). My job description was in coaching, lesson development, curriculum design, tech. p…
I got to make my own schedule. So, I only have one office day. It is usually really long, but also important that I am visible in the schools. Then I spend certain days in certain schools. I find the responsive teachers ask me to co-teach, so I capi…
Fantastic and emotionally provocative work! It is hard to encourage teachers to change when, for so long they have been working one way and it has been enough! Change can be stressful but fom this change and stress can come great things. We just hav…
Fantastic presentation of what is a real and continual problem in our schools where education has become part of a market economy!
Janice,
We also use an online ticket system for staff to report tech. issues and software install requests. It is REALLY nice to say to a teacher "please put a request in Trakker." I ask them to not stop me in the hall or email me because their req…
mmm..interesting
mmm...thanks for info
mmm...interesting info...as for me on mac I like Macvide ScreenCap
Cheryl,
How did you start with your 30% co-teaching and 30% coaching? That sounds great. Some weeks I am having the following percentage which is a little frustrating to me:
40% Office and paperwork
10% meetings (weekly staff meeting, district meeti…
Eric,
Your situation sounds familiar even though I am in an Elementary School. In our district they have become really serious about having us in an instructional position rather than a tech support position. We have a Work Order system online and…
I really like Jing and how I can post to YouTube, then embed the video to my webpages.
Cheryl
Here is an example:http://www.tinyurl.com/wocsdwriting
Great conversation! I am part tech integrator and part tech coordinator, so they call me a Collaborative Content Coach for Technology K-12, 3 buildings. Most of the time I support teachers and their projects by helping them embed technology into the…
I am in year three of a newly created tech integrator position. I started out covering both the high school and middle school, but after a year it was determined that this was more than one person could cover efficiently. Now we have a tech integrat…
My job is called Technology Instructional Partner and it is very similar to what Alice does. In this district it has changed from a Campus Technology Coordinator that focused on Technology to a job that focuses on Instruction. In my elementary schoo…
Great conversation here.
Below are some Tips that we receive at parent conference time:
1) Framing at the start of the conference….
“It is wonderful to have the opportunity to speak with you for five to eight minutes about ______’s work so far this…
Wow, this is a great topic and thread of conversation. I sometimes would have parents who had not experienced pleasant school situations, but with a calm voice, an agenda and showing off their student's work, most often ended up with positive meetin…
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