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List-Subscribe: List-Digest: List-Unsubscribe: Message-Id: 6Traits Digest #66 - Wednesday, September 1, 1999 teaching the traits by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Software Design Contest by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Homework comic strip by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> course hours certificates by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- teaching the traits by Re: 6Traits- course hours certificates by "Gray" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: teaching the traits From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:29:14 -0700 Hi, all, If you've had any teaching moments with 6 Traits, feel free to share with = us. I did voice today with my second graders. At first, I thought it would be a disaster. They were staring at me as if I had two heads! =3D) The = things I found most useful in getting it across were the posters, the one with = the three questions and the one with the statement about voice. They seemed = to begin to grasp it. Using the examples really helped, too. We've been reading _Sideways Stories From Wayside School_ by Louis Sacher. Every day they come in = quiet as mice because they know I won't read the next story if they are noisy coming in. Hopefully, I won't have to read all the books before it = becomes a habit! =3D) We talked about the voice of each student, the fact that we wanted to keep reading and reading and never put the book down, that it makes us laugh or it makes us think. Interestingly, when I asked them to tell me something that had made them cry, thinking of a book or story, they all said the Titanic! So we went with it and talked about the voice in that movie and in Jim Carey's = movies. I think that also helped them to pick up a smidgen of an idea about what = I meant. Stay tuned to find out if any of it stuck! =3D) Susan Nixon, thinking about getting out that tape recorder to help with = voice 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Software Design Contest From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 18:17:57 -0700 Learning Software Design Competition The University of Minnesota is sponsoring a competition to recognize the design of innovative educational software. Entries will be solicited in the areas of K-12 education, higher education, and training; awards will be given in each category. Both professional and student work is eligible; designs may = be submitted in one of two divisions; professional and not-for-profit. (Not-for-profit includes student, pro bono, and conceptual work. All work completed for remuneration is considered professional.) Submissions may be stand alone applications (i.e. software developed with a programming or authoring language), web sites, or may incorporate innovative educational uses of commonplace application = software (such as word processors, databases, spreadsheets, etc.) Submissions must run on Windows 95, Windows 98, WindowsNT, or Macintosh OS, and must be use English as a primary language. No other operating systems will be supported. The entry fee for the professional division is $100 US; the entry fee for the not-for-profit division is $35 US. Work will be judged = by experts in the field of instructional technology. Winners will be = announced at the University of Minnesota Design Summit in April, 2000. Winning designs (and others selected for inclusion) will be compiled and published; by entering, participants agree to provide a finished demonstration version of their design for inclusion. Further information will be available by October 1 and = accessed through the competition web site at = http://design.umn.edu/LearningCompetition. Submissions will be due February 1, 2000. Awards will be announced in May, 2000. Co-organizers of the competition are Simon Hooper (simon@tc.umn.edu) and Brad Hokanson = (bhokanson@che2.che.umn.edu) Brock R. Dubbels dubb0008@tc.umn.edu W: 612-626-0225 211D Burton Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 ######################################################### If a parsely farmer gets sued, do they garnish his wages? ######################################################### ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Homework comic strip From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 19:49:25 -0700 http://www.ozyandmillie.com/ Click on older strips. Click on 8/26 - it's a good one. =3D) If you are doing the Writing Trait of word choice, you might want to make = a copy of 7/27 - Nonsense Words are Fun. Rain doesn't mind - just give him credit. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: course hours certificates From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 21:24:43 -0700 In my original file on who wanted a certificate, I know I had quite a few. When I lost that file, I posted asking you to let me know again. I've = only had 3 people ask for the clock hours certificate. If you need it, please let me know as soon as possible. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- teaching the traits From: Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:49:33 EDT Greetings!!!! What a relief to find out that this summer course has been more beneficial = than I planned. It seems DPS (Denver) uses 6 trait writing for it assessment...I feel far ahead of where I would have been if not for the course. One problem....where AOL used to allow me to save the old mails forever...it now seems to delete them after a while. I'm looking for the = 6 trait poster....per Susan..."I found most useful in getting it across were = the posters, the one with thethree questions and the one with the = statement about voice.". If anyone has these posters saved, I would appreciate recieving them. Just in case....I have an iMAC..... Thanks in advance!!!! David 2nd Denver ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- course hours certificates From: "Gray" Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:46:51 -0400 Hi, Please send Roberta Gray, Sherri Hurst, and Jackie Meehan a = certificate for completing the course. Thanks, Roberta Gray. Jackie Meehan, Sherri Hurst Grade 2 Spencer Elementary 4641 NRE Geneva, Ohio, 44041 rgray7@alltel.net gray_ro@mail.neomin.ohio.gov http://www.genevaschools.org/spencer/clasroom/mrsgray/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> To: <6Traits@> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:24 AM Subject: 6Traits- course hours certificates > In my original file on who wanted a certificate, I know I had quite a = few. > When I lost that file, I posted asking you to let me know again. I've only > had 3 people ask for the clock hours certificate. If you need it, = please > let me know as soon as possible. > > Susan Nixon > 2nd Grade > Phoenix, AZ > > -- > To unsubscribe, send any message at all to: > 6Traits-off@. > Archive of past digests is at: > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of 6Traits Digest -- To unsubscribe, send any message at all to: 6Traits-off@. Archive of past digests is at: