Skills Cafe Newsletter 11-01-10

      Skills Cafe

     A week at a time - November 2010    TAKE this Survey please.

Welcome! Congratulations to our sports teams! Football! F. Links BridgeURL.com This link will take you to all the links we have used. http://bridgeurl.com/Skills-Cafe-2010-2011-1 G. Did You Know? You need to keep track of your community service. Get a form and get started. We can help! H.  What is in your IEP? What is in your accommodations list? Be an advocate for yourself.  I. WatchME Video Contest check the bulletin board

November 1, 2010                                                                    A. Week 10- What's Ahead?- Your Webpage for your Toolkit! Glogster! do you need to make a poster? See Mrs. Oakes for a username and PW. Try BridgeURL to have one link to go to your favorites! Did you take the survey? GOOGLE CALENDAR- add new deadlines! Are you all caught up? Do you have all your Trimester 2 classes chosen? C.  The Weeks in Review What belongs in your Toolkit? As a student you need to have tools in your toolkit which will make your life easier. The google domain has a calendar, a document , a presentation, a website tool, gmail, Quizlet and a way to record audio! Sciencewriter.cast.org, Literary Companion, Sparknotes, Animoto, what else? Snapgrades? Make your own document of all the links. See directions in Moodle. D. Books on Audio, mp3, itouch, shuffle, CD Have you thought about listening to your books? We have Night, Mango Street and many more. But even more if you have a library card from Wells Public Library, you qualify for a Portland Library Card, and you also can qualify and download your own audio books.  See Ms. Cowan, Ms. Jortberg and Ms. Oakes to get other books on AUDIO. E. Do you have a learning tip to share? You can share your ideas here with your classmates. One of your Animotos, a poem, a story, ideas, your own photos or movies! Nothing to Do? Here is the $20.00 Challenge You can write an essay for NPR public radio student essay. If your essay is published, I will give you a $20.00 itunes gift certificate. You can have help with your essay. Here are the essay rules.  http://thisibelieve.org/guidelines/

What type of learner are you?

How do you learn best? Are you a visual learner- do you make pictures or images in your brain when you learn something new, or are you an auditory learner-do you think in words and vocabulary, or are you a kinesthetic learner -do you need hands on to get the new learning in your brain?

How about your skills to organize your assignments and calendars? Do you need help with reading strategies, test taking and quiz strategies, filling in the important things in a graphic organizer?

These are the things we will talk about and learn about in the Learning Cafe. See you next week.

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