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Last week was another excellent #PassTheScopeEDU event. If you didn't see the scopes live, you should totally check out the #PassTheScopeEDU hashtag and watch them soon because it was great! I once again was able to take part in the event but I wasn't there on the scheduled 3rd Thursday typical of the event because something happened that got in the way of my filming, life happened and it was okay.
I was finally able to get on camera two days late on Saturday and share some of my #aMAYzingMoments from the 2016-17 school year along with the reason for me being late, I was busy spending time with my family. We need to be sure to take the time needed to show our families that we care about them as much (or hopefully more than) the students in our classes. I loved working with my students and colleagues each and every day, but my own family was the reason why I was out there with my students, I was making a living to provide for my own family. Be sure to take the time needed to show your family you care and they mean the world to you.
I linked the Periscope above, but in case you can't find it up there, here it is again. And feel free to join us in the next edition of #PassTheScopeEDU, each and every 3rd Thursday of the month, unless of course you're busy spending time with your family and need to join in a little later.
Today is the day for the September Edition of #PassTheScopeEDU and we're excited to make it happen! You're probably wondering why #PassTheScopeEDU is happening on a Wednesday instead of our normal Thursday? It has to do with our theme for September tying in with the International Day of Peace so it's on a different day. We are very excited about the topic this month and hope you all enjoy the messages.
As a reminder, what is #PassTheScopeEDU and how do I take part? #PassTheScopeEDU is an event where educators use Periscope to create a live broadcast (called a Scope) and share their thoughts. Each person participating will be using their own Periscope account and those of us following along will use Periscope to follow and watch their scope wherever we want, making #PassTheScopeEDU a truly personalized PD opportunity.
For our #PassTheScopeEDU event, we're gonna keep each scope live stream to about 5-10 minutes. When the first person finishes their scope they will tell you who is next up and what their Periscope user information is so you can go watch the next part. This continues until the last person finishes and the event ends. We didn't invent the idea of #PassTheScope, but we are very excited to do another one and share some great educational ideas.
If you are more of an auditory learner, check out this great episode of the Hack Learning Podcast by Mark Barnes, who is also participating in this month's edition of #PassTheScopeEDU. It's a great explanation that is short enough you can listen just about anywhere.
Who is involved and when are the times? Often a #PassTheScope event happens all at once, back-to-back, but we are going to do it a little different and have people throughout the day so feel free to jump in whenever you have time. The schedule and lineup are below:
Come join us for #PassTheScopeEDU and don't forget to follow each of these amazing educators on Twitter and Periscope! Also, if you follow the #PassTheScopeEDU on Twitter at @PassTheScopeEDU you'll see reminder tweets so you don't have to worry about when the next scoper is starting. And remember, if you watch, feel free to give lots of hearts because we love you!
Today is the day for our August Edition of #PassTheScopeEDU and we're excited to make it happen! It's been a crazy wild for me in the last couple of week with me accepting and starting a new job, but I'm excited to be back with my #PassTheScopeEDU crew and hope you'll join us today. Our theme for August is "What did you learn this Summer and how will you use it this year." This is such an excellent topic as school is about to get started because it can help us remember all the amazing things we learned and hopefully help you to also remember some of the amazing things you learned as well.
But what is it and how do I take part? #PassTheScopeEDU is an event where educators use Periscope to create a live broadcast (called a Scope) and share their thoughts. Each person participating will be using their own Periscope account and those of us following along will use Periscope to follow and watch their scope wherever we want, making #PassTheScopeEDU a truly personalized PD opportunity.
For our #PassTheScopeEDU event, we're gonna keep each scope live stream to about 5-10 minutes. When the first person finishes their scope they will tell you who is next up and what their Periscope user information is so you can go watch the next part. This continues until the last person finishes and the event ends. We didn't invent the idea of #PassTheScope, but we are very excited to do another one and share some great educational ideas.
If you are more of an auditory learner, check out this great episode of the Hack Learning Podcast by Mark Barnes, who is also participating in this month's edition of #PassTheScopeEDU. It's a great explanation that is short enough you can listen just about anywhere.
Who is involved and when are the times? Often a #PassTheScope event happens all at once, back-to-back, but we are going to do it a little different and have people throughout the day so feel free to jump in whenever you have time. The schedule and lineup are below:
Come join us for #PassTheScopeEDU and don't forget to follow each of these amazing educators on Twitter and Periscope! Also, if you follow the #PassTheScopeEDU on Twitter at @PassTheScopeEDU you'll see reminder tweets so you don't have to worry about when the next scoper is starting. And remember, if you watch, feel free to give lots of hearts because we love you!
Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE to disconnect occasionally and be away from the interwebz, but I also legitimately LOVE being involved with my #PassTheScopeEDU crew, so this is a little crazy for me. So don't be alarmed if you see me jump in on a slow moment and share some of my own ideas for the coming school year, and they are many! Plus, I may even have some breaking news about my next year plans. But I didn't officially plan a time due to not knowing where I'll be, but watch out for me.
If you want to get a run down of who IS participating, look no further than the wonderful Stacey Lovdahl's great post on her site ScienceToyBox. She has put together a nice view of the event as well as another great video, which is shown below.
Be sure to check out Stacey's blog for the full schedule and join in as much of the #PassTheScopeEDU fun starting at 12pm EST and going until 11pm EST with some breaks in between. And if you can't join in live, be sure to search for #PassTheScopeEDU on Periscope to find out what you missed.
As many of you know, I have been part of a growing educational experience called #PassTheScopeEDU each month on the 3rd Thursday. We just completed our 3rd event and it was amazing! While I'd love to say I've watched and studied each of the 30+ Periscopes by some of the best educators in the business, I haven't had the full chance due to my single-parenthood this week. So I don't think I can give you a full-on reflection of the event, but don't worry because you're in luck. Three of our amazing edu-scopers have taken the time to reflect on their experiences both in front of as well as watching the event unfold. So I thought I could pull a Marzano on y'all and just give you a recap of their recaps.
To start, Stacy Lovdahl wrote about her struggle to decide on just one Big Idea as well as focusing on Global Connections. Stacy wrote:
The topic on PasstheScopeEDU this month was One Big Idea and Global Connections. I have to confess that this topic had me stumped mostly because I’m terrible at narrowing things down to just one thing. There are so many tech tools and I want to learn all of them. There are so many things that need to be done in education. There are so many books that I want to read and every time I tune into EduMatch I add a few more to my list. And what about conferences; the list of conferences that I wish I could go to is long and expensive.
You really need to read through the rest of Stacy's great post because she not only discusses #PassTheScopeEDU, but she also brings up a couple other events that helped her finally narrow down her thoughts for her scope.
Next, we have Cynthia Day shared some of her experiences with the event and why she had to spend her day cleaning her windows.
Why did I need to wash the exterior of all my windows the morning after periscoping during #passthescopeEDU’s June episode? Why was that the first thing I did upon waking and drinking coffee?
The answer is that I had been impulsively inspired to write all over them with dry erase markers as a way to provide visual back up to my scope. Why window? Because they were there.
Again, be sure to go back and read the rest of Cynthia's post as it has some great thoughts on the day as well as some great pictures of her windows covered in her thoughts.
And last but not least we have Brian Smith's excellent reflection on the day's events even though he wasn't able to participate as a scoper this month. Brian used his post to not only reflect on June's #PassTheScopeEDU event, but he also took some time to give a great background on the event itself. He even started piecing together a video with some of the scopers, as seen below.
Brian is also the talented artist responsible for many of the logos we've been using. Be sure to hit up Brian's post #PassTheScopeEDU reflection and maybe learn a little more about what it is all about.
Thanks to all the amazing educators who have taken time out of their busy schedules to either join us as a scoper or watch along and learn with us. If you would like to learn more about #PassTheScopeEDU, be sure to follow the Twitter account @PassTheScopeEDU or feel free to direct your questions to either me, @lars3eb or the founder, Valerie Lewis - @iamVLewis. We can't wait to see how July's event turns out, but first, we need a little rest.
We are back again for this month's #PassTheScopeEDU which will happen this week on Thursday, June 16th. After the success of the first two events, we now have a number of additional educators who will be taking part this month and I'm sure that trend will only continue as we go forward.
But what is it and how do I take part? #PassTheScopeEDU is an event where educators use Periscope to create a live broadcast (called a Scope) and share their thoughts. Each person participating will be using their own Periscope account and those of us following along will use Periscope to follow and watch their scope wherever we want, making #PassTheScopeEDU a truly personalized PD opportunity.
For our #PassTheScopeEDU event, we're gonna keep each scope live stream to about 5-10 minutes. When the first person finishes their scope they will tell you who is next up and what their Periscope user information is so you can go watch the next part. This continues until the last person finishes and the event ends. We didn't invent the idea of #PassTheScope, but we are very excited to do another one and share some great educational ideas.
If you are more of an auditory learner, check out this great episode of the Hack Learning Podcast by Mark Barnes, who is also participating in this month's edition of #PassTheScopeEDU. It's a great explanation that is short enough you can listen just about anywhere.
Who is involved and when are the times? Often a #PassTheScope event happens all at once, back-to-back, but we are going to do it a little different and have people throughout the day so feel free to jump in whenever you have time. The schedule and lineup are below:
** This list will be updating for the next couple of days until our #PassTheScopeEDU June Event!**
Wanna see another great video ad for #PassTheScopeEDU? Thanks to our very own Stacy for another awesome video.
Come join us for #PassTheScopeEDU and don't forget to follow each of these amazing educators on Twitter and Periscope! Also, if you follow the #PassTheScopeEDU on Twitter at @PassTheScopeEDU you'll see reminder tweets so you don't have to worry about when the next scoper is starting. And remember, if you watch, feel free to give lots of hearts because we love you!
** Update June 16th **
Added a video by Stacy Lovdahl.
** Update June 15th **
Added in Justin Schleider and removed Brian Smith from the list.
After the success of last month's #PassTheScopeEDU, we've decided it needs to become a regular learning event and will be holding it each month on the 3rd Thursday. So that means the next #PassTheScopeEDU event will be on Thursday, May 19th, so mark it on your calendars now! One of the best things to come out of the first event was that we will have a lot more teachers taking part this month and I'm sure that trend will only continue as we go forward.
But what is it and how do I take part? #PassTheScopeEDU is an event where educators use Periscope to create a live broadcast (called a Scope) and share their thoughts. Each person participating will be using their own Periscope account and those of us following along will use Periscope to follow and watch their scope wherever we want, making #PassTheScopeEDU a truly personalized PD opportunity.
For our #PassTheScopeEDU event, we're gonna keep each scope live stream to about 5-10 minutes. When the first person finishes their scope they will tell you who is next up and what their Periscope user information is so you can go watch the next part. This continues until the last person finishes and the event ends. We didn't invent the idea of #PassTheScope, but we are very excited to do another one and share some great educational ideas.
If you are more of an auditory learner, check out this great episode of the Hack Learning Podcast by Mark Barnes, who is also participating in this month's edition of #PassTheScopeEDU. It's a great explanaton that is short enough you can listen just about anywhere.
Who is involved and when are the times? Often a #PassTheScope event happens all at once, back-to-back, but we are going to do it a little different and have people throughout the day so feel free to jump in whenever you have time. The schedule and lineup is below:
** This list will be updating for the next couple of days until our #PassTheScopeEDU May Event!**
The following is a great YouTube video created by our very own Stacy to showcase the order of the participants as well as their home locations. I hope you enjoy it because I think it is amazing what Stacy came up with and hope we're lucky enough to have more videos like this one in the future.
Come join us for #PassTheScopeEDU and don't forget to follow each of these amazing educators on Twitter and Periscope! Also, if you follow the #PassTheScopeEDU on Twitter at @PassTheScopeEDU you'll see reminder tweets so you don't have to worry about when the next scoper is starting. And remember, if you watch, feel free to give lots of hearts because we love you!
** Updated 5/16/16 **
** This post has been updated to include some changes to the schedule. **
** Updated 5/15/16 **
** This post has been updated to include a link to the YouTube video about the event as well as to update the schedule. **
** Updated 5/12/16 **
** This post has been updated to include a link to the Hack Learning Podcast episode about the event as well as to update the schedule. **
Do you have your classes present some kind of program during the school year? I am currently in my 8th year of teaching and have been involved in at least one program every year and I really like it!
When I was in 4th-grade we would teach our students to play the Recorder and we would put on a Mother's Day program. It wasn't always pretty at the start, but by the end it usually sounded decent and there were even a couple years where it legitimately sounded good. It took a lot of practice, but the kids eventually got it and most ended up enjoying the instrument as well. While you may not think of the Recorder as an actual instrument I find it to be a great starter instrument for many of the woodwinds that students may be playing in Intermediate and Middle school.
As much as I loved the Recorder concert, I am really looking forward to our 5th-grade program we are doing called Give Me Liberty that deals with American History. I spoke about it on a recent #PassTheScopeEDU event and all the items the students have learned in preparation for the program. While there won't be any musical instruments, there will be singing and many spoken parts. This will be my first time with this program and I look forward seeing it performed in its completeness.
If you have your students do any kind of a performance, let me know because I'd love to know what more of us are doing to help our students practice their performance skills.
I am so excited to take part in a new event calling #PassTheScopeEDU along with some amazing educators today. It will happen on Periscope and use multiple people's accounts to share some awesome educational ideas.
How does a #PassTheScope event work? It starts with one person starting a Periscope live stream where they share out some ideas or an event for a set amount of time. For our #PassTheScopeEDU event today, we're gonna keep each "scope" live stream to about 5 minutes or so. When the first person finishes their "scope" they will tell you who is next and what their Periscope user information is so you can go watch the next part. This continues until the last person finishes and the event ends. We didn't invent the idea of #PassTheScope, but we are very excited to do one today and share out some great educational ideas.
Who is involved today and when are the times? Often a #PassTheScope event happens all at once, back-to-back, but we are going to do it a little different and have people throughout the day so feel free to jump in whenever you have time. The schedule and lineup is below:
Come join us for #PassTheScopeEDU and don't forget to follow each of these amazing educators! And if you watch, feel free to give lots of hearts because we love you!
