Monday, July 27, 2009

Pizza Trivia

 

Pizza Trivia


1. In the movie "Iron Man". Where is the pizza from that Iron Man loves?


A) Ray’s Famous Pizzeria

B) Mystic Pizza

 C) Domino’s Pizza

D) Pizza Hut

 

2. What part-time job did Spiderman have in high school?A)Delivering dry cleaning

B) Delivering Chinese fast food

C)


Repairing bikes


D) Delivering pizza

 

3. Who is the character in a movie who runs a small town pizzeria and inherits $40 billion dollars?

A)Spike Lee who played Mookie

B) Adam Sandler as Longfellow Deeds

C)


Harrison Ford who played Jack Stanfield


D) Lee Evans who played Tucker

 

4. What is the name of the movie where the main characters catch a ride on a Planet Pizza delivery truck?

A)

Mystic Pizza

B) Man of the house

C) Do the right thing

D) Toy Story

 

5. In this movie, the main character is a pizza delivery guy who masquerades as an architect to win over someone he falls in love with?

A)

Toy Story

B) Firewall

C) There is something about Mary

D) Fast times at Ridgemont High

 

6. What is your favorite fast food pizza restaurant?

A)

Pizza Hut

B) Boston Pizza

C) Domino’s Pizza

 D)Other....

 

7. How many pizzas do you think were sold in the United States in 1996?

A)

500,000 pizzas

B) 1,000,000 pizzas

C) 200,000 pizzas

D) 3, 000,000 pizzas

 

8. In 1987 the largest pizza in the United States was created. It measured over 10,000 square feet, weighted over 44,457 pounds.

How many slices do you think the pizza was cut into?

A) 

94,248 slices

B) 50,248 slices

C) 74,248 slices

D) 194,248 slices

 

9. How many people (spectators at a festival) did the world’s largest pizza feed?

A) 30,000 spectators

B) 20,000 spectators

C) 15,000 spectators

D) 35,000 spectators

 

10. When was the word "Pizza" first recorded in a book?

A)

997

B) 1297

 C) 1797

D) 1909

 

11. In 2007, what Canadian company became Canada’s number one pizza chain?

A)

Pizza Hut

B) Pizza Pizza

C) Godfathers Pizza

D) Boston Pizza

E) New Orleans Pizza

 

12. In the Netherlands, they have a pizza called the "Double Dutch".

What are the toppings on this Dutch favorite pizza? It is double:

A) cheese, pepper, and ham

B) cheese, sauce, and pepperoni

C) cheese, onions, and beef

D) cheese, onion, and shrimp


 

13. Around the world, pizza toppings reflect regional preferences. Japan has eel and squid, Russia has red herring, Australia has shrimp and pineapple.

What is Canada’s favorite topping?

A) Ham

B) Bacon

C) Pepperoni

D) Chicken

 

14. Pizza should be eaten with a knife and fork?

Yes



No


 

15. Do you prefer In Eat Pizza ( eat in the Restaurant) or Take-Out (Take it home)?

A) Eat In


B) Take-out


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Beyond the Basics: Differentiated Ins...

Beyond the Basics:

Differentiated Instruction and Effective use of the Smart Board


 

Objectives

 

 

Introduction:



 


Introduction Videos:


Agenda:

Theory

Learning Styles

Uses of the SmartBoard

Resources

 

Hands On Work:

 

Theory:

What makes a digital lesson  work or successful?
* the lesson isn’t too glitzy too flashy
* students do not get lost in the glitz and bells ans whistles that they can not
    understand what they are to be learning
* consistent fonts
   What is the best size and style of fonts to use?
* interactive
* powerful content rich
* can be archived and used or modified again
 What was successful and not so successful is documented
* shareable
* reaching every learning styles of the students in the classroom if possible
* connectivity
    Links to the WEB and other resources, Video streaming.....
* Focus more on content
 -  If the lesson is created ahead of time / already prepared
 -  Then the teacher can focus more on delivering the content and interacting with
     the students
 -  Checking for understanding
* More student focused
* Adaptable to the different learning styles in the classroom

* Immediate feedback is provided using multiple forms of media
* Lessons are designed where the student is the one who needs to interact with the material, not the teacher
* Multiple types of media are used to present the information

Resources
:

Public Domain Resources for Images


 

Flickr

 

http//kickyoutube.com

 

 

Links:

Interactive WhiteBoard Revolution Ning:
http://iwbrevolution.ning.com/ 

An online community for those interested in starting a real revolution in the way they use their interactive whiteboards.

 

SMART Board Revolution



SMARTBoard Ning



It is not the SMART Board that is Smart


 




SMART Teacher Hub


 

 

Interactive WhiteBoard Research  by Dr. Robert J. Marzano and Dr. Debra Pickering





 

Beyond the Basics: Differentiated Ins...

Beyond the Basics:

Differentiated Instruction and Effective use of the Smart Board


 

Objectives

 

 

Introduction:



 


Introduction Videos:


Agenda:

Theory

Learning Styles

Uses of the SmartBoard

Resources

 

Hands On Work:

 

Theory:

What makes a digital lesson  work or successful?
* the lesson isn’t too glitzy too flashy
* students do not get lost in the glitz and bells ans whistles that they can not
    understand what they are to be learning
* consistent fonts
   What is the best size and style of fonts to use?
* interactive
* powerful content rich
* can be archived and used or modified again
 What was successful and not so successful is documented
* shareable
* reaching every learning styles of the students in the classroom if possible
* connectivity
    Links to the WEB and other resources, Video streaming.....
* Focus more on content
 -  If the lesson is created ahead of time / already prepared
 -  Then the teacher can focus more on delivering the content and interacting with
     the students
 -  Checking for understanding
* More student focused
* Adaptable to the different learning styles in the classroom

* Immediate feedback is provided using multiple forms of media
* Lessons are designed where the student is the one who needs to interact with the material, not the teacher
* Multiple types of media are used to present the information

Resources
:

Public Domain Resources for Images


 

Flickr

 

http//kickyoutube.com

 

 

Links:

Interactive WhiteBoard Revolution Ning:
http://iwbrevolution.ning.com/ 

An online community for those interested in starting a real revolution in the way they use their interactive whiteboards.

 

SMART Board Revolution



SMARTBoard Ning



It is not the SMART Board that is Smart


 




SMART Teacher Hub


 

 

Interactive WhiteBoard Research  by Dr. Robert J. Marzano and Dr. Debra Pickering





 

Thursday, July 16, 2009

bells and whistles - using technology...

bells and whistles - using technology to help that information is disseminated to students

Think about how to use the smartboard.

- you can save the notes and publish the notes

If you publish the notes then why should they take notes?


With the smartboard - you can make better use of your time

 

world is shifting under our feet
multi modal test
linear text and images based
scan fro text and scan for images
combining linear test but also designing text
video resumes - now in video age -
when will be reach digital age
conventional knowledge - do we need to increase multi modal text skills
online social media - primary sources?
reading writing and research and liner text is literacy for our administration and the test
Students need to be multi media literacy - textural literacy - multi modal - make it multi media
kids learn 24/7 and often on line
use social networks
70% of the time on social network - they are talking about school
Online environment
asynchronously we teach synchronous
kids learn synchronous
Nearly now world - facbook like
synchronous - here and now

Vision of students today
multi modal learning
ability to create distortions in video, sound, multi media

Video a "Vision of Students today"
our students live in a way that is fundamentally different from how we learned
we need to teach through differentiated instructional strategies
Students do not know pre- Internet world
Dis engaged students - see the curriculum as being irrelevant
Video will be increasingly more

We need self-directed people who either have problem solving skills or can easily be trained to think on their feet and find creative solutions to some very tough challenging problems  by Mark



Greatest impact in change now is informal

Teachers need to be more connected to each other - and learn from each other
Ning, social networking

21st Century learning

effective learners

learning happens 24/7
hypothesized benefits to teaching with Web 2.0

 

Agenda Day One

Modeling and contrasting use of SmartBoard / Interactive Whiteboards

Basic Reveal technologies

Visual Learning Maps

WBs and Web 2

Student response systems

working with video

 


Blog adifference.blogspot.com
Barbara Peskin

elephants.com

 

images from Flickr.com

 

use of text in white and background in white

 

create a storyboard of one minute of what you do in your classroom

Introduction to classroom

 

Flickr

CC creative commons


attributing images

 

privacy issues - classroom with glass walls

- only use aliases or first names

- don't use images of themselves

- incidental learning spills over to their use of FaceBook

- initials - two letters and two numbers

 

Podcasting

- appropriate content

 

Active Studio

My Interactive White Board Journey

 

Work surface  and the surface


real estate


Shape and Text- to brand or cue that the info is linked

 

Reveal 

Shade

Layering - Move to back- Move to forward


Notes-  background colour is the same - visual que

 

Re size to see answer

 

Work Pages - answers are hide on the page  - then posted

 

Erasers -  answers are covered over with pen colour to match the background

example - question with answers hidden

Delete to Reveal or Move or Send to Back

 

Drag and Drop

Statement - is it ..... or ........

Match the icon and then infinite clone

 

Magnifying Glass to reveal- layering - same colour text on shape - magnifying glass - is different colour- when you move the magnifying glass over the shape the words appear

 

Hide the butterfly - what am I click to reveal - shrink and enlarge

Marzano's IWB Sweet Spot  

 

iWB ning

 

hot potatoes - Internet games - downloaded from Internet

 

41 ways to use the smartboard


 

Note taking is over rated- students say

Notes are posted and students work on the posted notes

- students loose notes 


 

we learn from our mistakes

we learn as we talk 

 



Bruce732785

 

each student is responsible to write there own textbook

Class Tags- for each class, class blogs, class images, individual tages for each students

Student scribes - new scribe every day - students start to out do each other
Notes for students by students


 

 

 

 

 

 




 

Monday, July 13, 2009

Designing Effective Interactive Lessons

Different Uses of the SmartBoard:

  • Teacher Centered
    • Demonstrate
      • (whole class instruction)
  • Student Centered
      • (individual, small group instruction)
  • Activity Center
      • (reinforce/practise concepts already introduced)

What are the different ways the SmartBoard can be used as an Instructional Tool?

  • as an "interactive" whiteboard

    • writing on it

    • clicking responses

    • revealing hidden text

  • like a manipulative

    • moving objects

    • sorting & categorizing

  • as a viewing surface

  • Demonstration and Interactive tool

    • Example: shared reading

    • Interactive
      • students respond
      • students try application
      • allows use of interactive web sites geared to a variety of learning styles

What makes a digital lesson work or successful?
* the lesson isn’t too glitzy too flashy
* students do not get lost in the glitz and bells ans whistles that they can not
understand what they are to be learning
* consistent fonts
What is the best size and style of fonts to use?
* interactive
* powerful content rich
* can be archived and used or modified again
What was successful and not so successful is documented
* shareable
* reaching every learning styles of the students in the classroom if possible
* connectivity
Links to the WEB and other resources, Video streaming.....
* Focus more on content
- If the lesson is created ahead of time / already prepared
- Then the teacher can focus more on delivering the content and interacting with
the students
- Checking for understanding
* More student focused
* Adaptable to the different learning styles in the classroom

* Immediate feedback is provided using multiple forms of media
* Lessons are designed where the student is the one who needs to interact with the material, not the teacher
* Multiple types of media are used to present the information