Back to School 2008

Welcome back to The New School Year at TJMS. Teachers are working hard and learning new concepts to help make the upcoming school year new and exciting for TJMS students. In August, technology facilitators attended a conference and heard nationally renowed technology guru, David Warlick. These were some of the topics he spoke about which I shared with teachers:

Considered video games as a genre of literature? Students are learning from video games and more educators are looking at video as avenues of learning:
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play

Students need to be exposed to the tools they require for the 21st century. Teachers need to be learning about "personal learning networks". Examples include, twitter, delicious, wiki spaces, and google tools. Check out David Warlick's Landmark for schools website:
http://landmark-project.com/
This is an example of a web 2.0 website...
http://digg.com

Twitter is to Blogs as google is to search engines...
http://blog.twitter.com/

Place to keep on-line bookmarks:
http://delicious.com/

ZamZAR.com will help you (under download videos) paste the web address of a u-tube video into a box and it will convert to a Windows media file and e-mail you as an attachment.
http://zamzar.com/

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Leave us a comment about Your experiences on the TJMS Spring trips!

Spring Trip Season

There are many overnight field trips happening in the next few weeks! If you would like to make a comment on your experiences on the trips, feel free to leave a post!

Wednesday, April 9-Friday, April 11: Web Crawlers-8th grade-Washington, DC-
Trailblazers-7th grade-Coast--Oriental

Wednesday, April 16-Friday, April 18 ICONS-Washington, DC., Navigators-Coast--Oriental

Wednesday, April 23- Friday April 25--Surfers & Mouses--Washington, DC, Trekkers--Coast

Roadrunners: April 30-May 2, 2008--Coast

What's Happening at TJMS?

There's always plenty of things happening at TJMS! In the last couple of weeks, Mr. Davis produced the spring drama and the students performed wonderfully! Ms. Walters brought her students to the district contest, and they received across the board --SUPERIOR RATINGS!!
This week we have several sports events scheduled:

Tuesday, March 18
Soccer @ Home vs. Southeast-3 pm
7th/8th grade Basketball Intramurals

Wednesday, March 19
Track @ East Forsyth High School
Media-Technology Advisory Committee Meeting-2:15 pm-Media Center

Thursday, March 20
A Day Soccer @ Northwest-3 pm

Want to comment on something outstanding you see at one of these events? Post a blog and let us know what we are missing out there!