South Florida News from ExploreLearning: Palm Beach

01/27/2012

Sharing Gizmo Lists!

Here's a video I made to show you how to email your Gizmo lists in your PLC's or with any other colleagues! (here's how to initially share the list: click here...)

Enjoy! Click here! or watch below to see how to email them...

Posted by Desiree Sujoy at 04:00 PM in Announcements, Broward, For Parents, For Teachers, How-To & Support, Math, Palm Beach, Professional Development, Science, Technology | Permalink

01/23/2012

High School Gizmo Correlation Resources

Here are documents that will help you prepare your students for their EOC's and other exams using Gizmos. The documents have links to specific Gizmos embedded in the text. Enjoy!

Posted by Desiree Sujoy at 07:43 AM in Announcements, For Administrators, For Teachers, Ideas, Lesson Materials, Math, Palm Beach, Science, Teaching Strategies, Technology | Permalink

Elementary Gizmo Correlation Resources

Science Benchmarks:

PBC Science Textbooks:

Math Benchmarks:

PBC Math Textbooks:

Posted by Desiree Sujoy at 07:35 AM in Announcements, For Administrators, For Parents, For Teachers, How-To & Support, Math, Palm Beach, Science, Technology | Permalink

01/05/2012

Middle School Benchmark Resources

Happy New Year! I've created easy spreadsheet documents that will help you use Gizmos to remediate particular standards in response to your diagnostic results. Each standard is listed in order on the left, Gizmo in center, and standard + explanation on the right. The Gizmos are clickable hyperlinks that take you straight to the Gizmo. Enjoy!

Science:

Math:

Posted by Desiree Sujoy at 10:04 AM in Broward, For Administrators, For Teachers, How-To & Support, Ideas, Math, Palm Beach, Science, Teaching Strategies | Permalink

01/03/2012

Happy New Year! Here's a Hybrid Shark!

Hope that you are all rested and ready for the rest of the school year! Here is an interesting news article about the hybridization of a shark species off of Australia (I know, it's a Yahoo News article - I'll try to get an actual journal article soon!) Hybrid Shark Found Off of Australia

Here are some great Gizmos for studying evolution:

Rainfall and Bird Beaks Gizmo

Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection

Posted by Desiree Sujoy at 11:53 AM in Broward, For Teachers, Ideas, Palm Beach, Science | Permalink

12/02/2011

Gizmo Refresher Webinar!

YOU’RE INVITED!

Hello Gizmologists!

You are invited to take part in a Gizmo Refresher Webinar! If you’ve had the initial training, but you’d like some reminders or pointers, please join us on December 6^th or 7^th from 8-9 pm. Each session is limited to 25 participants so that we can give personalized attention to your questions, so please RSVP by emailing me (desiree.sujoy@explorelearning.com) to reserve your spot. We will gladly add additional days to the schedule to accommodate everyone’s interest in this event. It will also be recorded, if you’d like to watch it as a video file at your convenience. The video recording link will be posted on my blog on 12/8!

Topics to be addressed: Settings, Class Tabs, Adding Gizmos, Gizmos resources, Enrolling students, Managing Gizmos list, Import Gizmos, Sharing Gizmos, End of the Year considerations, Highlighting a Gizmo

To participate, you need:
- A computer with internet connection
- Username and password for ExploreLearning.com (Gizmos)
- Phone line/cell phone to dial into the conference call

In order to attend, please RSVP by 12/5/11, and a confirmation email will be sent to you with directions; i.e. the site to go to and the phone conference #.

Please pass around to anyone who you know that uses Gizmos too! See you there!

Posted by Desiree Sujoy at 02:27 PM in Announcements, Broward, For Administrators, For Teachers, How-To & Support, Math, Palm Beach, Professional Development, Science, Technology | Permalink

11/14/2011

Gizmos are available anytime! everywhere!

Here's a letter that you can send to parents with lots of helpful information - including the fact that since Gizmos are internet-based, they are available anywhere, anytime you are connected! Although they are primarily for classroom use, they're also great for homework, assignments while away from school, etc. The assignments are always there for the student to print out or answer electronically, right from the lesson info page on every Gizmo!