- Ben Knight, 3rd place in the Technology/Engineering section of the Science Fair
- Lynn Palm--Was nominated by fellow teachers since she goes above and beyond whenever an EC teachers needs help!
- Evan Lowrance:
- Was first chair on all state Band for the Bassoon, will participate in all-state Honor's band on May 1st in GSO
- Ms Hamby/Blevins: TJMS Yearbook received recognition in a nationwide competition--with Balfour Yearbook publications-- honorable mentioned, and only 5% of schools nationwide receive this award.
- Conger Davis--Ms. Hartle won $1000.00 savings bond--attending Elk's Lodge--"Proud to be an American contest reception"
- Ebert-- story hatchery writing contest:
- 12 year old category
- First Place--Hennah Khan
- Second Place--Maggie Cox
- 13 Year old Category:
- 2nd Place Michael Hubbad
- Henneh Khan's short story will be published in the Winston-Salem Monthly Magazine.
- Public Service Announcements from encore are awesome--Riddle/Barfield did a great job along with Eric Schoulda
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
April TJMS Good News
Good News:
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Ms. Barfield is our MVP for February!
Congratulations to Ms. Barfield! She was voted as Most Valuable Player (MVP) by our School Improvement Team for the month of February. Ms. Barfield is one of our Career and Technical Education (CTE) Teachers, and during the month of February, she coordinated a number of activities for Black History Month. In addition to her efforts there, she also organizes the Give a Kid a Coat Campaign each year at our school and has served as School representative for CTE. Ms. Barfields classes also make holiday cards for troops serving overseas. These are just a few wonderful things we can say about Ms. Barfield :) Kudos to Ms. Barfield!!
Coats collected by Ms. Barfield's classes during the holiday season...
US Troops' Holiday Cards created by Mrs. Barfield's BCT and Keyboarding classes
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Science Fair Winners
On Tuesday February 22, the WSFC School district Jefferson students placed in the top five of their division. Applying her interest and concern about the recent oil spill, Katy Kneisel placed 2nd in the Earth and Environmental Division for her project entitled “There’s an Oil Spill in My Backyard”. In the Applied Science, Technology and Engineering Division, Ben Knight won 1st place with his project entitled “Living Up to your Potential Energy”, working with capturing sustainable energy. Ben competes in the Regional competition on Wednesday. Congratulations to our Patriot Scientists!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Valetine's Day--Recent Good News
We have several miscellaneous pieces of good news to report!
We had several Essay contest winners. The "Why I am Proud to be an American" Elks Lodge essay produced the following winners at our school:
6th Grade:
1st place Connor Davis
2nd place Laura Reyes
This is for Division I
7th Grade:
Lauren Sears 3rd place , 2nd division
Nicole Williams, 1st place 2nd division
- Two of Ms. Allison Pegram's art students won thousand dollar scholarships by being chosen in the Art Key contest:
- Katherine Bell was a Gold Key Winner and Samantha Wooldridge was a Silver Key Winner
- Our very own Cindy Dietrich will be presenting at the North Carolina Middle School Conference on a technique of discipline that she uses in her class called "Time to Teach"--We are honored to have her represent our school!
- A big Thanks to Lisha Vannoy and all the parents, students and teachers who helped with the 8th grade dance! It was a huge success!
- A big thanks to the 6th grade teachers and faculty who helped make our rising 6th grade open house night a big success--many parents have called and reported how impressed they were.
- Thanks to Mr. Schnably (for his powers of persuasion) and Dr. Martin (for allowing us) to have our 8th grade Award Ceremony at Wait Chapel! The setting is just perfect for our size and what we need that day.
- Congratulations to the Icons team who helped raise money for "Jack and Hunter's Fund--Freak the Mighty"
- Ms. Pickell's exchange students from South Korea reported many good things about our school! They were impressed with the number of computers we have per classroom; (Mr. Downs is shocked at that!) the number of calculators; and the type of discussions that happen between teachers and students. (they were accustomed to teachers doing most of the talking) They were also amazed at the seating arrangements :)
- Finally we had a very nice compliment given to us my a teacher at Kernersville who was very impressed by our basketball coaches and their upbeat attitude and overall camaraderie with the athletes. They said the way that Jefferson conducted itself was "refreshing"!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Mr. Fossa is our MVP for February 2011
Mr. Fossa was voted by our School Improvement team as Jefferson's Most Valuable Player for the month of February! Mr. Fossa is one of those faculty members who is always willing to help his fellow colleagues. Mr. Fossa coaches basketball (for free) and most recently has served on a school district committee to help determine ways the school district can save money next year through scheduling changes. This is a huge commitment of time and effort, and we truly appreciate all that Mr. Fossa is doing to help our school and the students and teachers of Forsyth County!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Feb 2011--Spelling Bee, Chorus
On Friday, January 28, 43 students participated in the Jefferson Middle’s School Spelling Bee. After six rounds of perplexing spelling, five students qualified as finalists. In an intense head to head challenge consisting of five rounds, two finalists were determined.
We are proud to announce 7th grader Jackson Hayes as the 2010-2011 Thomas Jefferson Middle School Spelling Bee Champion. Congratulations Jackson! Jackson will compete in the district wide Spelling Bee on February 18th. Good luck Jackson!
Congratulations to our school Spelling Bee Finalists
- R’nold Tanchico
- Katie Kneisel
- Sohm Dawalbakta
- Ruth Moffatt
- Jackson Hayes
- 1st runner up Sohm Dawalbakta
Here is a list of the participants in this year's Spelling Bee:
Bowles, Jordan (alt James Flynt)
Boyer, Nick
Cummings, Adrionna
Hudson, Tirrezz
Lyons, Chase
McCluney, Justin
Morales, Boris
Nesbi, Matthew
Owens, Zach
Rajamahanty, Aishwarya
Reaves, Asuante (CamRon Williamson)
Rutter, Jake
Spangler, Avery
Tanchico, R'nold
Udodirim, Kelly
7th grade
Blair, Jourdan
Collins, Sam
Dawalbhakta, Sohm
Douglas, Chelsea
Farley, Cole
Gortman, Haley (alt John Pelham Pickell)
Hayes, Jackson (alt Heerali Patel)
Joyner, Wayland
Lance, Chloe (alt Tyra Moore)
Lin, Amy
Moffatt, Ruth
Morales, Nelsy (alt Bailey Clapp/ Stephen Snow)
Ramirez, Leslie
Thomas, Naim
8th grade
Allen, Elyse
Carpenter, JayShaun
Green, Daniel
Greene, Bryce
Igoe, Bailey
Jacobius, Josh
Kelly, Sarah
Kiger, Andrew
Kneisel, Katie
Phillips, Patrick
Salehani, Sara
Scanlon, Erin
Vaughn, Brieanna
Wooten, Robbie
All-County Chorus is Tuesday, February 1st. The following students should be congratulated for this achievement:
8th Grade: Nikki Almengual, Emma Hamilton, Evan Hardy, Derrick Horne, Taylor Kearney, Amber Shelton, Christine Smith
7th Grade: Jackson Hayes, Tripp Tiner
6th Grade: Tom Aldhizer, Anna Ball, Cheyenne Banjoko, Matthew Barrett, Sydney Bitancor, Reynolds Craver, Will Fangmann, Emma Hayes
Friday, January 14, 2011
New Year, Good News!
Congrats to the five Jefferson Middle School students who auditioned for and were selected for the Northwest NC All-District Honor Band! - Evan Lowrance, Bassoon (First chair overall and will get to audition for All-State!)
- Maria Roberts, Clarinet
- Vincent Patella, Trombone
- Gordon Davis, Trombone
- Aaron Radford, Tuba
Marc Schaub, Jefferson Band
Congratulations to Mrs. Pickell for being voted Jefferson's "most valuable player" for the month of December and January !!
Some of the food boxes:
Mr. Johnson:
Monday, December 13, 2010
December 2010--Good News Happenings
Congratulations to our 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year--Ms. Gena Loflin, 8th grade social studies !!
Congratulations to Mr. Davis & Mrs Abrams and all the participants in the December Play. Everyone did an outstanding job!
Kudos to Mrs. Hartle for helping Ms Mooney's sub while Ms. Mooney was taking time with the recent loss of her Mother. Ms. Hartle also wanted to recognize the 5 reflection contest winners from her homeroom!
Congratulations to Mr. Mercer & Mr. Bryant for an outstanding volleyball season. Many thanks to the many other faulty and parents who helped too--especially Ms. Hall, Ms. Francis.
Great news from Mr. Atkinson who was awarded a Grant for $700.00 !
Speaking of Mr. Atkinson, what a fantastic job that he and Mr. Bryant did in demonstrating the technology of the 21st Century classrooms at the PTA open house on Thursday, December 8th! Also, kudos should be given to the other members of the technology committee including Ms. Holland and Mr. Schnably who worked on the technology brochure.
Congratulations to Ms. Tamara Hughes who was recently engaged to be married!
Best Wishes to Ms. Friesen who announced she is expecting a baby next June.
Ms. Peverall praised her students who ran in the Mistletoe race in Winston-Salem this December: JP Hayes, Brock Newsom,Spencer VanFleet, Starnice and Staraya galloway, Jackie Lin, and Nick Mandragona ran the 5k mistletoe race (fitness club members) on Saturday Dec 4th
Many Thanks to Kathy Anderson who filled in during our search for Ms. Fernandez's replacement!
Accolades to Ms. Loflin for coming up with an idea to not waste food in the cafeteria
Praise goes out to one of Ms. Cummings students Elisabeth Regnery -whose christmas card was featured in the December issue of Forsyth Family Magazine
Mr. Cardarelli celebrated December with a cake to commemorate the fact that Jefferson Middle School achieved high growth for five consecutive years a feat shared by only 24 (out of 433) other Middle Schools in the state of North Carolina. This represents an achievement only 5% of schools have attained.
Congratulations to Mr. Davis & Mrs Abrams and all the participants in the December Play. Everyone did an outstanding job!
- 8th graders: Ryan Francis, Evan Hardy, Sara-Alysse Atkins, China Brown
- 7th graders: Khari Church, Dusty Uhrig, Meg Johnson
- 6th graders: Lauren Priddy, Delaney Hobson, Kaitlin Francis
- Mr. Davis was brilliant as the director of this play.
Kudos to Mrs. Hartle for helping Ms Mooney's sub while Ms. Mooney was taking time with the recent loss of her Mother. Ms. Hartle also wanted to recognize the 5 reflection contest winners from her homeroom!
Congratulations to Mr. Mercer & Mr. Bryant for an outstanding volleyball season. Many thanks to the many other faulty and parents who helped too--especially Ms. Hall, Ms. Francis.
Great news from Mr. Atkinson who was awarded a Grant for $700.00 !
Speaking of Mr. Atkinson, what a fantastic job that he and Mr. Bryant did in demonstrating the technology of the 21st Century classrooms at the PTA open house on Thursday, December 8th! Also, kudos should be given to the other members of the technology committee including Ms. Holland and Mr. Schnably who worked on the technology brochure.
Congratulations to Ms. Tamara Hughes who was recently engaged to be married!
Best Wishes to Ms. Friesen who announced she is expecting a baby next June.
Ms. Peverall praised her students who ran in the Mistletoe race in Winston-Salem this December: JP Hayes, Brock Newsom,Spencer VanFleet, Starnice and Staraya galloway, Jackie Lin, and Nick Mandragona ran the 5k mistletoe race (fitness club members) on Saturday Dec 4th
Many Thanks to Kathy Anderson who filled in during our search for Ms. Fernandez's replacement!
Accolades to Ms. Loflin for coming up with an idea to not waste food in the cafeteria
Praise goes out to one of Ms. Cummings students Elisabeth Regnery -whose christmas card was featured in the December issue of Forsyth Family Magazine
Mr. Cardarelli celebrated December with a cake to commemorate the fact that Jefferson Middle School achieved high growth for five consecutive years a feat shared by only 24 (out of 433) other Middle Schools in the state of North Carolina. This represents an achievement only 5% of schools have attained.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Latest Good News Happenings at TJMS: November 2010
- Mikayla Johnson, 7th grade, was auditioned and selected to participate in the 2010 Middle School Honors Chorus.
- Ms Walters was sworn in as the North Carolina Music Educators Association Middle School Choral President prior to the concert by Boston Brass on Monday evening.
- Check out the Reflection Contest winners: Congratulations to all our winners!
- TWELVE Jefferson students were named to the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools All-County Band!
- 8th grade students Erin Jameson, Elyse Allen, Evan Lowrance, Maria Roberts, Dakota Sawyer, Mathis Nedell, Christopher Tomlinson, Vincent Patella, Peter Bi, and Aaron Radford all made the band,
- plus 7th graders Gordon Davis & Waylon Joyner.
- Bassoonist Evan Lowrance is the top chair in the county!
- These band students will be participating in the All-County Honor Band Clinic on November 19 & 20 at RJ Reynolds High School. Way to go Patriot Band Members!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Technology At Jefferson...What Happened? We have "made do"
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
3500 Sally Kirk Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
(336) 774-4630
Technology at Jefferson...Our Vision of 21st Century Learners
During a recent meeting, we had the purpose of helping develop a vision for our school where we aim to prepare our student population to become 21st century learners. Research supports our unified aim of transforming classrooms from a single dry erase board where students’ attention is directed on the instructor, to an interactive playground that excites and motivates even the most reluctant learner. While developing 21st century classrooms has proven results, we lack the funding to purchase this much needed technology, which interferes with our goal of meeting the needs of our children. In last year's teacher survey, there was a 21% drop in the number of teachers who feel like they have adequate access to instructional technology. For the past several years we have been saving money to put towards a technology campaign and we are finally in the position where we can move forward.
History
Back in 1999, when many members of the staff of Cook Middle School came to start a new middle school at Jefferson, our school was provided very few new resources. In contrast, new schools today such as Flat Rock Middle are provided a new "classroom solution" for every classroom. In some cases The Cook staff literally had to pack up all the old stuff they had to move into the new facility. Not much of anything new was provided. He had to "make do".
Over the years since 1999, Jefferson focused on academic achievement and was wildly successful! For the majority of our 11 year history, Jefferson was a "School of Excellence", a "School of Distinction", an "Honor School of Excellence", and a school of "High Growth" according to the NC ABC test results . Our School report card has always shown that our computer skills test results were among the highest in Forsyth County and for that matter in the entire state of North Carolina. But along the way, our focus on academic excellence left us drifting further and further behind in technology tools.
Other factors that left us in "limbo" include our lack of distinction with regard to the demographic and socio-economic status of our student population. We have a diverse population (2009-2010) by state-wide and national standards, but compared with the some schools in Forsyth County, Jefferson may not "stand-out". For this reason, Jefferson has never qualified for federal funds under the Title 1 provision of No Child Left Behind.
Where does Jefferson stand now?
Each year the state of North Carolina compiles an Annual Media and Technology Report (AMTR) for every school in the state. The results from this survey show that the ratio of students to computers at Jefferson is much higher than the average for the county (2.36 students for every computer in Forsyth County) and the state average of 2.37. At Jefferson our ratio is 4.03--we have four students for every instruction computer What does that mean? And what is an instructional computer?
An instructional computer includes any computer that a student has access to--4.03 might suggest that a class of 25 would have (25 divided by 4.03) about 8 computers. That is clearly not the case! On the contrary, most classrooms have about two working computers. The computers on our one working laptop cart, in our three Career and Technical Education labs, and our one and only sign up lab skew that ratio figure.
What do the 1200 students have access to with regard to technology?
We have one flexible sign up lab with a mix-matched set of computers including ten newer Dells (Four years old), about 8 IBM's (older than 5 years), and 10 laptops (3 years old). In our Media Center we house one laptop cart with 22 Lenovo laptops that have taken a beating the last three years with over 1200 students using them at various times. In classrooms, most of the computers are 5 years or older and in poor condition. Many only have 256 MB of RAM and processor speeds that can barely handle many instructional Internet applications.
Beyond that, instructional technology resources are at a bare minimum. Until recently, most teachers had used their ~ 7 year old Wake Forest laptops as their main instructional computer. Some have LCD projectors but many are aging and have dim pictures because of low lumen's. Instructional carts vary from old rolling media carts that came from Cook Middle School, to old AV/overhead carts, to cafeteria type tables.
The electrical and Ethernet cord situation is down-right dangerous. Teachers run long electrical & Ethernet cords to outlets in the front or side of the room. Many tape them down with duct tape or cover them with throw rugs. This is often pointed to by the fire-marshal as a possible hazard in our rooms, but what other choice do we have?
Last year alone, we had several incidents of students tripping over cords, pulling laptops off their carts crashing into the floor and damaging them beyond repair. Several ethernet jacks were ripped out of the wall by tripping cords, and several expensive ethernet cords were damaged or destroyed in the process. The "cord situation" is simply unacceptable.
For our staff of almost 80 teachers and 65 classrooms, we have only about 5 document cameras, 1 student response system (CPS) , and no sound amplification systems (other than in the gym). We have about 10 interactive tablets (several of which were won by teachers who applied for Donor's Choose grants).
At this point we recognize our deficiencies and are moving forward with a plan to bring significant new technology to our school. Our action plan is outlined below and posted on our blog: http://tjmstechtips.blogspot.com/2010/10/classroom-solution-at-tjms.html
Action Plan for 2010-2011:
Overall Goal:
120 Dell mini notebooks @ $500.00 each
6 Mobile Laptop Carts @ $2,900.00 each
20 Classroom Solutions @ $7,500.00 each
each including:
55” LCD TV
Document Camera
Wireless Interactive Tablet
Wireless Teacher Microphones (2 per set)
Surround Sound System
Student Individual Response Systems (30 per set)
AV Cart (storage)
Wiring and Installation
Funding within the School:
$50,000.00 School Contributions (fundraisers, etc)
$11,000.00 PTA Contributions
40 Dell Mini Laptops @ $20,000.00
4 Laptop Carts @ $11,600.00
5 Partial Classroom Solutions plus 1 Student Response System @ $29,500.00
Total $61,100.00
Still Need Funding for:
80 Dell Mini Laptops @ $40,000.00
2 Laptop Carts @ $5,800.00
15 Classroom Solutions @ $112,500.00
Total $158,300.00
Miscellaneous:
Training – Covered by the WS/FCS
Students Impacted – 1,200 students per year
Check out our pledge brochure
3500 Sally Kirk Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
(336) 774-4630
Technology at Jefferson...Our Vision of 21st Century Learners
During a recent meeting, we had the purpose of helping develop a vision for our school where we aim to prepare our student population to become 21st century learners. Research supports our unified aim of transforming classrooms from a single dry erase board where students’ attention is directed on the instructor, to an interactive playground that excites and motivates even the most reluctant learner. While developing 21st century classrooms has proven results, we lack the funding to purchase this much needed technology, which interferes with our goal of meeting the needs of our children. In last year's teacher survey, there was a 21% drop in the number of teachers who feel like they have adequate access to instructional technology. For the past several years we have been saving money to put towards a technology campaign and we are finally in the position where we can move forward.
History
Back in 1999, when many members of the staff of Cook Middle School came to start a new middle school at Jefferson, our school was provided very few new resources. In contrast, new schools today such as Flat Rock Middle are provided a new "classroom solution" for every classroom. In some cases The Cook staff literally had to pack up all the old stuff they had to move into the new facility. Not much of anything new was provided. He had to "make do".
Over the years since 1999, Jefferson focused on academic achievement and was wildly successful! For the majority of our 11 year history, Jefferson was a "School of Excellence", a "School of Distinction", an "Honor School of Excellence", and a school of "High Growth" according to the NC ABC test results . Our School report card has always shown that our computer skills test results were among the highest in Forsyth County and for that matter in the entire state of North Carolina. But along the way, our focus on academic excellence left us drifting further and further behind in technology tools.
Other factors that left us in "limbo" include our lack of distinction with regard to the demographic and socio-economic status of our student population. We have a diverse population (2009-2010) by state-wide and national standards, but compared with the some schools in Forsyth County, Jefferson may not "stand-out". For this reason, Jefferson has never qualified for federal funds under the Title 1 provision of No Child Left Behind.
Where does Jefferson stand now?
Each year the state of North Carolina compiles an Annual Media and Technology Report (AMTR) for every school in the state. The results from this survey show that the ratio of students to computers at Jefferson is much higher than the average for the county (2.36 students for every computer in Forsyth County) and the state average of 2.37. At Jefferson our ratio is 4.03--we have four students for every instruction computer What does that mean? And what is an instructional computer?
An instructional computer includes any computer that a student has access to--4.03 might suggest that a class of 25 would have (25 divided by 4.03) about 8 computers. That is clearly not the case! On the contrary, most classrooms have about two working computers. The computers on our one working laptop cart, in our three Career and Technical Education labs, and our one and only sign up lab skew that ratio figure.
What do the 1200 students have access to with regard to technology?
We have one flexible sign up lab with a mix-matched set of computers including ten newer Dells (Four years old), about 8 IBM's (older than 5 years), and 10 laptops (3 years old). In our Media Center we house one laptop cart with 22 Lenovo laptops that have taken a beating the last three years with over 1200 students using them at various times. In classrooms, most of the computers are 5 years or older and in poor condition. Many only have 256 MB of RAM and processor speeds that can barely handle many instructional Internet applications.
Beyond that, instructional technology resources are at a bare minimum. Until recently, most teachers had used their ~ 7 year old Wake Forest laptops as their main instructional computer. Some have LCD projectors but many are aging and have dim pictures because of low lumen's. Instructional carts vary from old rolling media carts that came from Cook Middle School, to old AV/overhead carts, to cafeteria type tables.
The electrical and Ethernet cord situation is down-right dangerous. Teachers run long electrical & Ethernet cords to outlets in the front or side of the room. Many tape them down with duct tape or cover them with throw rugs. This is often pointed to by the fire-marshal as a possible hazard in our rooms, but what other choice do we have?
Last year alone, we had several incidents of students tripping over cords, pulling laptops off their carts crashing into the floor and damaging them beyond repair. Several ethernet jacks were ripped out of the wall by tripping cords, and several expensive ethernet cords were damaged or destroyed in the process. The "cord situation" is simply unacceptable.
For our staff of almost 80 teachers and 65 classrooms, we have only about 5 document cameras, 1 student response system (CPS) , and no sound amplification systems (other than in the gym). We have about 10 interactive tablets (several of which were won by teachers who applied for Donor's Choose grants).
At this point we recognize our deficiencies and are moving forward with a plan to bring significant new technology to our school. Our action plan is outlined below and posted on our blog: http://tjmstechtips.blogspot.com/2010/10/classroom-solution-at-tjms.html
Action Plan for 2010-2011:
Overall Goal:
120 Dell mini notebooks @ $500.00 each
6 Mobile Laptop Carts @ $2,900.00 each
20 Classroom Solutions @ $7,500.00 each
each including:
55” LCD TV
Document Camera
Wireless Interactive Tablet
Wireless Teacher Microphones (2 per set)
Surround Sound System
Student Individual Response Systems (30 per set)
AV Cart (storage)
Wiring and Installation
Funding within the School:
$50,000.00 School Contributions (fundraisers, etc)
$11,000.00 PTA Contributions
40 Dell Mini Laptops @ $20,000.00
4 Laptop Carts @ $11,600.00
5 Partial Classroom Solutions plus 1 Student Response System @ $29,500.00
Total $61,100.00
Still Need Funding for:
80 Dell Mini Laptops @ $40,000.00
2 Laptop Carts @ $5,800.00
15 Classroom Solutions @ $112,500.00
Total $158,300.00
Miscellaneous:
Training – Covered by the WS/FCS
Students Impacted – 1,200 students per year
Check out our pledge brochure
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Open House Thursday, February 4, 2010
On Thursday, February 4th, TJMS is hosting an Open House and PTA meeting. This is event is geared toward rising 6th graders, but anyone is welcome! Here is an outline of the night's event's: Click here for an Open House flyer
Jefferson Middle School
Open House Night
Thursday Feb 4, 2010
6:00-8:00 PM
v Your interactive tour will feature hands-on student & parent activities planned at each location. You will have opportunities to see all three grade levels and meet with encore teachers and club representatives.
6:00- PTA meeting and instructions for rotations in the GYM
6:20 - 6:50 - Rotation #1
6:55 - 7:25 - Rotation #2
7:30 - 8:00 - Rotation #3
Art Club
Chess club
Battle of the Books
Crosby scholars
Drama
Intramurals
Math Counts
Student council
Drama
Intramurals
Math Counts
Student council
National Academic League
National Junior Honor Society
Student Technology Advisors
Yearbook
Student Technology Advisors
Yearbook
Looking forward to a fantastic night!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Times are changing
It's amazing how technology is transforming the way teachers teach and students are learning. Just recently, 8 teachers in the school received Smart Board Airliner tablets. These tablets allow teachers and students to interact with material being shared on the projection screen. Ask teachers about these new tools!
http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/AirLiner/
http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/AirLiner/
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Back to School 2009
We had a pretty good first week of school, and teachers and students seems to already be back into the swing of things! Welcome back, and let's all get excited about learning new things and new ideas this year. President Obama is speaking to the students and staff on Tuesday, September 8th. We are excited about participating in this nationwide event. Here is more information...
In a recent interview with student reporter, Damon Weaver, President Obama announced that on September 8 - the first day of school for many children across America - he will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education. The President will challenge
students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility
for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and
commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that
every child in every school receives the best education possible so they
can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and
productive lives as American citizens.
the President deliver this address on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. It will be broadcast live on the White House website www.whitehouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov/
at 1:00 p.m. eastern standard time.
In a recent interview with student reporter, Damon Weaver, President Obama announced that on September 8 - the first day of school for many children across America - he will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education. The President will challenge
students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility
for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and
commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that
every child in every school receives the best education possible so they
can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and
productive lives as American citizens.
the President deliver this address on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. It will be broadcast live on the White House website www.whitehouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov/
at 1:00 p.m. eastern standard time.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
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/
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/
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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
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
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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!
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!
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