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Suzanne Rogers
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  • Little Rock, AR
  • United States
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Suzanne Rogers is now friends with Terry Sheehan and Von Danielson
Feb 20
Suzanne Rogers added a discussion to the group AP Think Tank
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Discipline/classroom management

As a new assistant principal of a 8-12 hs, I'm looking for best practices. Can someone point me towards some PD?
Jun 15, 2011
Suzanne Rogers joined Terry Sheehan's group
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Jun 15, 2011
Suzanne Rogers commented on Shelly Terrell's group Educators on Google Wave
"Over? I'm currently using Gwave with my English classes. It still is fully functional."
Nov 14, 2010
Suzanne Rogers commented on Shelly Terrell's group Educators on Google Wave
"suzieswimz@googlewave.com"
Mar 29, 2010
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Mar 25, 2010
Suzanne Rogers commented on Mark E. Weston Ph.D.'s blog post Educating all students well: What could make it happen?
"Oh my gosh! Our school embraces email and chat on a building level. We are encouraged to talk to parents using email. I literally felt my eyebrows go up at the idea that I should interact on an email basis with every parent every day. If it was…"
Jan 26, 2010
Suzanne Rogers commented on Steve Johnson's video
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Digital Footprints- Your New First Impression

"I've used the video with all of my classes. Over the holiday break my 10th grade students were to work on their cleaning up or starting their educational footprints. They were then to reflect on the process and write a 6 word memoir and post it…"
Jan 7, 2010
Suzanne Rogers and Shannon McClintock Miller are now friends
Jan 5, 2010
Tom Shreve and Suzanne Rogers are now friends
Jan 4, 2010
Suzanne Rogers commented on Shelly Terrell's group Educators on Google Wave
"Tom, Aaron Eyler has started a wave. I am suzieswimz@googlewave.com ping me and I'll add you."
Jan 4, 2010
Suzanne Rogers replied to Aaron Eyler's discussion Critical & Integrative Thinking With Google Wave Group in the group Educators on Google Wave
"suzieswimz@googlewave.com"
Jan 2, 2010
Suzanne Rogers replied to Mark E. Weston Ph.D.'s discussion Frequency of ICT use
"Perhaps the true question is does ICT significantly improve instruction and learning. ICT does significantly improve the efficiency of instruction. By using the internet and my PLN, I can gain knowledge that would take significantly longer to find…"
Dec 30, 2009

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Google Wave in the English classroom

Googlewave is an incredible addition to the repetoire of an English teacher. As an eager recipient of the invitation to wave, I have sought to find ways to incorporate wave into our daily classroom and homework experiences. Teaching in a charter comes with its own delights and dilemmas. The students at our school live within a 45 minute radius of the school. The students already voraciously use social media in their private social lives. Googlewave puts their school work and social lives on a the same platform. They can simultaneously socially network and complete schoolwork. Students can easily ask both each other and the teacher questions of both private and public origins.

To date, my English classes have taken collaborative notes, analyzed texts, published poetry, commented on others work and taken meetings and collaborative group projects. They are inspired by the googlewave platform and eager to stay on top of the wave.
Suzanne Rogers
suzieswimz@googlewave.com
12/8/09

December 14, 2009

I've been learning from my PLN about using Wordle to analyze essays. What a neat idea! I tried it out myself with a This I Believeessay. I simply pasted the essay in Wordle and created a word cloud.
http://thisibelieve.org/essay/5561/
https://wave.googleusercontent.com/wave/thumbnail/Screen%20shot%202009-12-13%20at%209.45.16%20AM_thumb.png?id=p_bq5Kc82&key=AH0qf5y1XvCio5WUD-hXD2GUUTO9ZBqhFA

My AP Lang students will be writing their This I Believe essays this week. They will post their wordle into the class wave for comments by other students. Ideally, the wordle will fairly fully present the main idea of their essay. I've enjoyed using googlewave with my classes. It opens another avenue of communication between students and teachers. They will ask questions on the wave that they wouldn't ask in class or take the time to write an email. I can answer their question and then delete it from the wave if it is not pertinent to the task at hand.

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At 5:34am on December 8, 2009, Shelly Terrell said…
Thank you for adding me to the class wave! You are doing exciting things! Will you be blogging about this experience?
At 10:46am on December 3, 2009, Shelly Terrell said…
Can you add me to your class thread? I would love to see how a class uses Wave!
At 12:58am on November 26, 2009, Thomas Whitby said…
Thanks for continuing our discussion
At 12:57am on November 26, 2009, Thomas Whitby said…
At 12:29am on November 16, 2009, Thomas Whitby said…
Just thought that I would point out that there is a discussion on Tenure in the forum Page of this site. I do not want to belabor the point. I suggest it only if you have an interest.Thanks
Tom
At 12:01am on November 12, 2009, Thomas Whitby said…
Suzanne
The purpose of this site is to share and collaborate. Everything on this site can be used for you and your students.Take what you need and contribute whatv you can.
 
 
 

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