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Welcome to the Capstone Experience Wikispace!
==== ==This [|wiki]is a place for Dr. Lea Evering's student teachers at IUP and Mrs. Ariane Burke, Mrs. Barbara Ginsburg and Mrs. Rae Ann Hirsh's student teachers at Carlow University to receive and share information, discuss important issues in student teaching, and celebrate successes! Once you join, you can add edit pages and content including files and links. You will also use the Discussion feature to share your experiences during this capstone experience. ==

==Student teaching is the most important experience of your teacher preparation program. Much like the architectural definition of a capstone, //one of the finishing or protective stones that form the top of an exterior masonry wall or building,// the capstone experience in teacher education is your finishing "stone" and is placed above all other experiences. We hope you will use this wiki and its resources to strengthen your experience in student teaching and beyond! ==

=__Helpful Links__=

[|Digital Teaching Portfolio] How to guide for creating a digital portfolio/website with Google Sites.

__**Digital Portfolio Examples**__ [|Kendra Linenger] [|Christina Young] [|Ali Langer] [|Robert Field]

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[|How to Use Google Docs]

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[|Dropbox]

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[|Discovery Education's New Teacher Survival Central]

[|New Teacher, First Year Teacher]

[|YouTube for Schools] and [|TeacherTube]are great resources for video demonstrations. You may have to watch a few minutes of advertising on some, but there are many very helpful videos available.You can also create your own video and upload or have your students make a video to review concepts. By the way, did you know that YouTube was co-founded and co-created by [|Chad Hurley], an IUP graduate? :-)

In this video, you can watch a guided reading lesson on //Tough Boris//. [|Guided Reading Lesson]

In this video, you can watch a 4th grade writing workshop minilesson. [|Writing Workshop Mini Lesson]

You can also find videos that use catchy songs or ways to help kids remember concepts. In this video, Mrs. Burk, a math teacher from NC, created her own "Perimeter Rap" video to help her students with perimeter and area. [|Perimeter Rap]

[|Mr. Duey] has become somewhat of a YouTube legend for his math rap videos. Here's an example of his long division rap. [|Long Division Rap].

Students also love to make videos...consider this as a culminating activity for your unit. Here are some kids doing their own division rap. [|Division Rap]

[|Two Writing Teachers]

[|NAEYC]

[|Earlychildhood website]



[|Bloom's Technology Question stems]

[|Guide to Writing/Asking Higher Level Questions]