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| - | [[Image:star.png|20px]] '''Please discuss your personal teaching philosophy: "I have always maintained the philosophy that it is not our job as teachers to impart or impose our knowledge upon others, but to encourage our students to build their own knowledge and skills. My main role as an educator is to motivate, inspire, and encourage the learner and be a role model for enjoying the learning process! 21st Century skills continue to change and evolve, and we are all learners." | + | [[Image:star.png|20px]] '''Please discuss your personal teaching philosophy: "I have always maintained the philosophy that it is not our job as teachers to impart or impose our knowledge upon others, but to encourage our students to build their own knowledge and skills. My main role as an educator is to motivate, inspire, and encourage the learner and be a role model for enjoying the learning process! 21st Century skills continue to change and evolve, and we are all learners. The definition of teaching is that someone learned." |
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Name: Cindy Willis
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* Meaning of your name: Means "light".
* School you represent: Clay County Schools. See our website at http://www.claycountyschools.org
* Hometown: My roots are in Widen, WV,
I grew up in Clay, WV, and now I live at Duck, WV.
All of these are in Clay County, West Virginia,
where the Golden Delicious Apple grows,
Clay County, West Virginia, where the beautiful Elk River flows (lyrics from the Mo Truman song) WV 
* Favorite food(s): Spare ribs and sauerkraut
* Favorite music: Beatles! 
My life is a Beatles song. Here is a YouTube clip of
my favorite Beatles song "In My Life".
They must have written this song about my life and its how I feel about my little boy Mike. YouTube clip:
* Place in the world you'd most like to visit:
- Paul McCartney's house,
but I would settle for a concert of his.
I always thought I'd travel with my Down Syndrome brother, Gary,
later in life, but found that we must live life today, we may not be around far down the line.
Having a baby at 42 changed my entire family's life.
I want to show him things that took me many years to see and do. He is the child on the left.
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* Hobbies: Flea-marketing, auctions, science & nature, bird-watching.
* Educational or Social issue(s) you are passionate about:
- Our children are from a rural, economically poor county (2nd highest free and
reduced lunch). I just want opportunities for Clay County kids.
* Favorite technology ‘gadget’ and why: The flash drive,so I can carry my work.
* Describe when you started using computers: We used the Commodore 64 and Tmaker.
* Describe what you use computers for: Databases, word-processing, researching for grants
* Describe what you like to do on the internet? Ebay, shopping, email
* What do you hope to accomplish using the MyGLife platform this year?
To provide opportunities for our kids, expand our afterschool programs so that students can have choices! They are so restricted during the school day because of all the credits that they have to have. This allows them to do something that they want to do. I would like to see them get a credit for this class. Can we borrow and perhaps help with a syllabus?
- My Dream Game: IDENTIFY! I have invented a game that could only have many educational purposes. In music or pop culture, click to hear a bit of a song,
to identify it would give you a point. To identify the artist would give you two points. This game could also apply to famous portraits, famous places, microscopic pictures, trees, birds, terminology in a course, etc. I am not sure how to download bits of songs???
Mike 08:49, 29 September 2007 (EDT) To edit bits from songs, try Audacity. link Audacity on Source Forge. It's an easy to use (and free resource) :-) Many excellent tutorials are available by doing a Google search. Hello, best of luck to you and the future project. Its nice to work with you, We will keep in touch.
10/3/2007 We are making flyers to promote the course to students and have arranged our meeting with Nancy to be on 10/12/2007 at 1:00. Jared will be doing tutorials for staff development.
11/13/2007 Suggestion from Cindy Willis in Clay County:
Go to http://www.ruckusnation.com [1] to find details on a contest for kids to create an educational computer game. Your ideas are due before November 20, 2007, so look at it quick. There are opportunities to win money! The game must encourage physical activity! There are $75,000 in prizes. Can someone make this link look better? The site is www.ruckusnation.com
12/18/2007 Merry Christmas to everyone!
Cindy's Finds:
11/13/2007 Suggestion from Cindy Willis in Clay County:
Go to http://www.ruckusnation.com [2] to find details on a contest for kids to create an educational computer game. Your ideas are due before November 20, 2007, so look at it quick. There are opportunities to win money! The game must encourage physical activity! There are $75,000 in prizes. Can someone make this link look better? The site is www.ruckusnation.com
'Cindy's Finds':
Hey everyone! How can I make this look better?
1/9/2008 http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/digital_story [3] Look here for free tutorials and examples on making movies using flash. Thought this might be some good practice.
http://marcopolo.k12.wv.us/stafftraining/stafftraining.php[4] Go here to find staff development for some tidbits that may be helpful.
Hey everyone! How can I make this look better?
Go here for teacher videos from WVDE! [5]
Go to [6] for info and articles related to technology.
2/21/2008 Go to [7] for a free workshop on blogging!
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is launching a free multiplayer online game, PowerUp ([www.powerupthegame.org]), challenging teenagers to help save the planet "Helios" from ecological disaster. The game is part of IBM's TryScience initiative and will be launched at Engineer's Week 2008 opening on February 16 in Washington, D.C. The game, which can be played alone or together, features a planet in near ecological ruin where three exciting missions for solar, wind and water power must be solved before sandstorms, floods or SmogGobs thwart the rescue.
View video news release: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhlVmbJYFc.
full story: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0362330.htm
