Dayna M's Blog

I think I’m done, and I’m kind of just beginning this whole thing!  I’ve started a new job as a teacher; I’m almost done with my degree: always something new!

Okay, so we already know I am using these ideas in the classroom.  Yet, to bring it to a standards level, I would like to look at projects for freshmen and junior using Indiana Language Arts Standards. Freshmen I have written so much about this process of inquiry, it’s kind of hard to remember what [...]

I have some freshmen who can talk to each other just fine, but you ask them to speak in a professional manner and suddenly they whisper.  So, I’d like to integrate these inquiry skills in the Listening and Speaking section of the 9th grade standards: 9.7.19 Deliver descriptive presentations that: •establish a clear point of [...]

I did really enjoy my project.  It was a nice way to interact with my dad as I interviewed and shared my search process with him.  I felt like the strongest part of my project was my webbing phase, the discovery of factual information that correlated with family stories.  During my time at the Indiana [...]

Product Link: https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/dmcross/S574/timeline-1.xlsx Here are the four technology elements I used: Productivity tool: Digital camera, final product Concept Map: Gliffy Web-based 2.0 tool: Google Doc. spreadsheet Electronic communication tool: expert e-mail response below: Some databases of Arkansas information are available through Ancestry.com or the Arkansas History Commission.  Mississippi County & St. Francis County are areas [...]

For my final product, I created a timeline that has my family history on the top half of the timeline with African-American/American history on the bottom.  On the family history portion of my timeline, I have shared facts/stories I learned, pictures I found with my father, and records from the State Library.   The pictures [...]

I have started creating my final product for this project.  I analyzed the different information I obtained, combining historical and personal data and stories.  I discussed ideas for my product for my father but decided on the final product myself.  I also took notes on the different information I looked at at the State Library [...]

So, I just came from an outdoor festival with a great band and great dancing!  Now I’m taking some time to reflect on my mental dancing or “wiggling.” I spent my day at the Indiana State Library analyzing and sythensizing the information I have been gathering. I have been synthesizing the information collected through personal [...]

Okay, so I’m still creating my research web but doing a little wiggling of my information as I use data from one inquiry as a foundation to enlarge my web: I received an e-mail response from Rhonda Stewart, Arkansas genealogy and local history specialist, at the Arkansas Studies Institute.  She offered me websites and researach [...]

Project Focus: use discussions with family members and research on general Southern history as a foundation of information to bring to the State Library to use in their databases of last names and family history So, I’ve begun my “webbing.”  Because, if I were teaching this, I might have my students display their research, and [...]