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Westwood Schools - USA
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I am a teacher and I love my amazing students. I also enjoy the country and grew up on a farm. I love all kinds of technology, love to read,and adore cooking. Mrs. Lindsay and I have been working together for almost two years now and it has been a great co-collaboration.
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Student Summit for WHS today

Feel free to join us today at 10:45 am and again at 1:20 pm as the students at Westwood present in the student summit for Horizon 2008.

Just click on the elluminate link:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.9301D01FB411E98248792B3A33F345

Bring a mike and you may ask them questions.

Next Wednesday at 5:20 am EST the Qatar class will have a summit and at 9:30 AM the… Continue

Posted on May 20, 2008 at 10:39am — 1 Comment

Vicki Davis

Final Checklist for WHS Students

1) Make sure you have uploaded your video to the Ning. (See instructions.) Due 5/16/2008

2) Post the video on your main wiki page using the video template.Due 5/16/2008

3) Post the link to the video on the… Continue

Posted on May 15, 2008 at 4:04pm — 1 Comment

Vicki Davis

What do you say to someone who is not there?

We have some students contributing, communicating, responding and participating. And we have some students who simply AREN'T THERE!

We are entering a new age in our society with Face to Face (F2F) is simply not enough because so many of us are communicating computer to computer (also called Peer to Peer or P2P). I say that we need effective "techno-personal" skills.

If you do not respond, you do not exist. If you do not exist, you cannot be promoted, you cannot get an "A," you cannot ge… Continue

Posted on May 8, 2008 at 5:36pm — 2 Comments

Vicki Davis

Setting up your PLN

Today my students are setting up their PLN (personal learning network) in Netvibes. The advantage of doing this is that you have ONE page to start with that includes EVERYTHING you need to stay on top of the activities in Horizon.

Setting up your Netvibes

  • Include the RSS feed for your main page's wiki edits --
    You can find the location of the RSS button, by going to the Teams p

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Posted on April 7, 2008 at 6:37pm —

Vicki Davis

Hello Horizon, How are you?

I'm so excited to be joining in this project again this year as a co-planner with Mrs. Julie Lindsay in Qatar. This project is actually a direct result of the fact that Mrs. Lindsay and I both blog. We connected in the Fall of 2006 as we both had our students read an excerpt of Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat.

Julie found my blog, we created the Flat Classroom Project and then Thomas Friedman, the book's author found us. What beg… Continue

Posted on March 18, 2008 at 2:09am —

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At 12:16am on June 30, 2008, JD said…
why did you remove my video?
At 3:19am on May 15, 2008, Kaitlyn H. said…
you know you love FIELD DAY!!!
At 3:07am on May 15, 2008, Kaitlyn H. said…
conscientious? you can't use big words haha.. What was the blog post about? I didn't know we were supposed to do one...
At 3:01am on May 15, 2008, Kaitlyn H. said…
sorry i didn't know we were supposed to upload it here.... i just thought it needed to be on the wiki.. SORRY
At 12:05am on May 8, 2008, Ren S. said…
no help. found him. thanks.
At 11:27pm on May 7, 2008, Ren S. said…
is there a Jamie C. from Westwood?
At 7:01am on May 4, 2008, Ren S. said…
thanks. i was just making sure. glad you like our wiki. kristi made some really good additions. i just put my 2 cents into it.
At 6:39am on May 2, 2008, Ashley said…
Thanks I already did but I figured I would personally try to talk to them because I will not be in school much longer!!!
At 9:35pm on May 1, 2008, Ren S. said…
uhh....i'll take that as a compliment?
At 6:33am on April 26, 2008, Dylan U said…
thanx!
 
 

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