Thursday, November 16, 2006
Saugus Iron Works Goes to MassCUE
Massachusetts educators will gather in Sturbridge, MA to attend the annual Massachusetts Computer Using Educators Conference (MassCUE) November 15 and 16th, 2006. On Thursday, November 16th, 2:30-3:30 PM, Robert Simpson will present a fast-paced session on how technology integration can help motivate today's students. The presentation, Technology Connecting Centuries, highlights the evolution of the Saugus Iron Works PBU initiative in Malden Public Schools. Check out the five minute interactive multimedia preview. 
The preview uses Adobe Presenter and features a demonstration of PBU Builder, the SIW PBU, and a few cool websites that help students learn about rocks and minerals and simple machines. For those techies out there, the demo was authored with Adobe's new Captivate 2 software. MassCUE Interactive Preview (Last updated 12/3/06, Improved audio performance.) Hope to see you at MassCUE!
PowerPoint Presentation Handout [FLASH]
Full Resolution PowerPoint Slides PDF 7.35MB
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher)
The preview uses Adobe Presenter and features a demonstration of PBU Builder, the SIW PBU, and a few cool websites that help students learn about rocks and minerals and simple machines. For those techies out there, the demo was authored with Adobe's new Captivate 2 software. MassCUE Interactive Preview (Last updated 12/3/06, Improved audio performance.) Hope to see you at MassCUE!PowerPoint Presentation Handout [FLASH]
Full Resolution PowerPoint Slides PDF 7.35MB
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher)
Labels: Adobe+presenter, conference, MassCUE
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Student-friendly Science Featured at NSTA Conference
The Saugus Iron Works initiative was presented at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) regional conference in Baltimore, MD on November 4, 2006. Malden sent representatives Janet McKeone, 5th grade science teacher at the Beebe school, Robert Sartwell, Science Curriculum Director, and Robert Simpson, Teacher Learning Center Director, to share our work with other science educators.
The presentation entitled, Implementing a Student-friendly Integrated Science Curricula: The Saugus Iron Works, featured a short history of PBU development, an introduction to PBU Builder, how to create integrated science units, impact on student achievement and samples of student work. Having the opportunity to view student mineral profile books and rock person essays really drove home the high quality learning taking place throughout Malden's fifth grade classrooms. Thanks go out to Ms. McKeone for selecting such good examples of student work to share. 
View the presentation handouts in the FLASH format. NSTA_SIW_handouts.swf
Labels: conference, NSTA, science
