E-Days Ahead? Although Pete Delkus hasn’t declared it yet, we must be prepared. When we first began planning for E-Days, we prepared a “lesson for all seasons” that we could slide in if needed. After that first year when we had three snow days, we realized there was a

more effective way to plan for these days to make them more meaningful and without falling behind in our schedule.

Since we have Blackboard and our students have laptops, there are many ways to continue our lessons even with multiple E-Days. It takes tweaking, creativity, and preparation. We can communicate through Blackboard and FriarNet with parents and with students. We can rec-ord and upload videos and discussion board topics to engage our stu-dents. Since the season is upon us, we will be discussing ideas to stay on track while curled up by the fire in our Winnie the Pooh pj’s sipping hot chocolate.

Nov. 3, 2015 Volume 4, Issue 10

Webinars: PBS LearningMe-dia 101(Nov. 10, 6pm) host-ed by PBS (register here.)

BL’s Web-based Work-shops and Software Train-ing (ongoing) for BL em-ployees on Blackboard In-structors Course.

DE Webinars: Mash it Up! (Nov. 11, 6pm) hosted by Discovery Education (select date on calendar and register here. Participate in live ses-sion for DE-issued certifi-cate)

Thanks for all the submissions on folders last week! I saw some excellent ideas! I liked Maria Rodriguez’ idea of keeping each lesson consistent with 4 sub-lessons in each. And Maggie Raymond has folders everywhere! Pam Price puts each topic and objec-tive in the description of each folder for her chap-ters. Great ideas! Our winner for October is…Pam Price! Woo hoo (and yes, you are the teacher’s pet!) We will bring you your gift card and swag.

This week’s challenge kicks off a month of prepara-tion for E-days! It will be a cold winter with lots of precipitation that could freeze.

Did you know we all have Discovery Education accounts? Do you use it? Well, now’s the perfect time to test it out! For this week’s challenge all you have to do is log in to your account and take a snip or screenshot and submit it. Go to: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ You can click “forgot username or password” and use your BL email address. Go and “discover” something new for use in your classes (or for an E-day).

E-Day Student Survey—Feb. 2014 253 Responses

Students, how do you feel about this statement?

Classes should stay on track and stick to the syllabus on e-Days.

5. Strongly Agree 4. Moderately Agree 3. Undecided 2. Moderately Disagree 1. Strongly Disagree

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