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Too Much Coffee Man Visits Lewis
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Comic artist, Shannon Wheeler, recently visited his son's classroom at Lewis Elementary. Shannon is the author of Too Much Coffee Man.
Sean Parker
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Today, a former student of mine, Sean Parker, came to Lewis to talk with some of my students about video production. I had Sean in my first and second grade class at Buckman Elementary about 11 years ago. He is a recent graduate of Benson High School in Portland and will be attending Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington next fall, studying film making. Sean is already an accomplished videographer. You can see some examples of his work at Studentfilms.com.
At Lewis Elementary, our music/technology teacher Tony Jamesbarry has been introducing his students to Comic Life. The students are using Comic Life to create how to guides for school routines and procedures.
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Read MoreThe Lewis Elementary PTA is putting on a spring carnival this coming Saturday, May 27. I wanted to note that the poster for the event was created by Lewis parent Shannon Wheeler, author of the Too Much Coffee Man comic and web site.
Read MoreThis year the VBC will be working with Lewis to help build an outdoor classroom structure in the Lewis Outdoor Center.... As part of our participation in the Village Building Convergence, natural builder James Thomson will be working with students and staff during the VBC to construct a cob bench in the outdoor center.
Read MoreThe Spectator Online - Spring Art Show 2006
“My motive and intention is to allow for all who come into contact with these posters to do the same and have a true dialogue about what is being presented,”
The rap on recess: Elementary schools in lower income areas offer less recess and less overall time for exercise than other schools. USA Today reports that, according to the report, "Public schools with more wealthy children get, on average, about 50 percent more recess a day than those with the most low-income students."
Read MoreIn my day, we thought calculators were neat: The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is an innovative program that equips every one of the state's public middle-school students with a laptop computer.... They accepted, and now it looks like Maine will be the first state in the US to have Google Earth, SketchUp Pro, and the 3D Warehouse available to every student, teacher, librarian, and administrator who wants it.
Read MoreMy site has been down for about a week with a DNS issue.... Not that anyone missed anything while I was gone...
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Parent Car Wash,
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As part of Staff Appreciation Week at Lewis Elementary, parents and students put on a car wash for staff members...
ThinkFree Office Online is the first-ever online office suite that gives users free access to editing and the creation of Microsoft Office files, including Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, without buying any software.... ThinkFree Office Online service, using Java technology, is a web-desktop hybrid solution, combining the convenience of server-based computing with the power and responsiveness of desktop-based applications.
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Beautiful Day to Ride a Bike...,
originally uploaded by lewiselementary.
As I headed out to crosswalk duty, I took this picture of the bikes in our bike racks. It is nice to work in a building where so many students can walk or ride bikes to school. We have been involved with a program to encourage students and families to do more of this and it has been a great success.
Tomorrow night Lewis Elementary will hold its 18th annual Art Night. This is a annual night were we highlight the art work of our students and provide an opportunity for our 3rd grade Recorder Club, Beginning and Intermediate Bands, and Marimba Band to perform. If you happen to be in Portland tomorrow evening, please stop by...
#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;} #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {background-color:#ffffff;border: solid 1px #FFFFFF} #flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;} On Sunday, April 30, 2006 members of the Lewis community came together to work on moving our Lewis Outdoor Center greenhouse to a new location.... Lewis parent Martin Nicholson, along with our Americorps Volunteer, Kelly Alsup and PSU students Angela LeVan and Matt Bibeau helped lead a group of volunteers from our community, and Portland State University, in prepping the new location and moving the greenhouse from its old location.
Read MoreGoogle Earth Community: Wikipedia-places This Google Earth KML file shows the 80 best described landmarks in Wikipedia currently in the field of vision on Google Earth. For example, load the KML file into Google Earth, travel to a location and the file pulls in links/placemarks to associated articles in Wikipedia .
Read MoreUsing Google Earth, teachers can fly their students around the world to talk to them about issues like climate change and how it has affected places like Glacier National Park, the Chesapeake Bay and Los Angeles.... Using Google Earth, teachers can show their students placemarks of the towns where outreach projects are taking place and students can get involved in cleaning up their own environment.
Read MoreI can imagine all kinds of interesting hooks being developed to gather and publish content from Google Calendar.... Enter the Google Calendar data API, which can be used to write external applications that query, create, and update Google Calendar events, so they're available to Google Calendar users or other API-enabled applications.
Read MoreThere were several reviews of the work on the iTunes site, each giving an enthusiastic endorsement of the work, though one review stood out and gave me a good laugh... More recordings of literature in the public domain can be found on the Loudlit site.
Read MoreRichard Stephenson has created a very nice little tool, Google Map Maker, for generating Google Maps. The interface is very simple to use and you can easily add placemarks to a map, add popup content, and generate the code, all from a single page.
Read MoreMy favorite public radio program, Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, is now available as a podcast. A listing of all the American Public Media podcasts can be found here.
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