Penzu

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Name: Nancy West

NCSCOS- ELA- 10th grade 1.02 Learner will respond reflectively to written and visual texts by relating personal knowledge to textual information or class discussion and explaining how culture affects personal responses.

Link: [] ( Note: This was my sample penzu, not one that I would use with a class!)

Explanation: I am thinking of using Penzu (IF it works at my school) as a convenient format for students to work together to writethe script for a collaborative play ( a modern version of either Oedipus Rex or Medea). This might work because it allows everyone access to the same work in progress. I could also have students attach subsequent "pages" where they have questions for each other (ex. if one student objects to what another student has written because he feels the dialogue is out of character, and explains why). Having the work on Penzu would also eliminate the "I lost it" syndrome, which happens when one or more students are working collaboratively on one paper copy. Possible problems: having multiple students logging onto the same website and making changes there at the same time... what would happen?

Peer Comments: Nancy, Seems like the "I lost it" syndrome may never be cured, even with all this modern technology. We are constantly having problems with students who lose internet privileges, and sometimes all of us lose access to the internet. So, one way or another, it seems like we still have problems with the "I lost it" syndrome. :-) Today, in class, I had 5 students who, for whatever reason, had lost their internet privileges. I bet these same students would be the ones to lose a paper document. What is a teacher to do?????? Joyce

Name: Joyce Roberts

NC Standard Course of Study ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): Unit E: Keyboarding Composition Skills 007. Compose sentences, paragraphs, and documents at the keyboard. 7.01 Compose sentences and paragraphs. 7.02 Compose, edit, and rekey documents in usable form.

Link: https://penzu.com/p/f3a34282

Explanation (ELABORATE): Students will compose sentences in response to a writing prompt and will use correct finger placement and proper posture and technique. My students have to type a warm up activity when they first enter the room, so Penzu will work perfectly for that. (The penzu link just doesn't work for me.)

Peer Comments: Joyce, I can not use Penzu or Chatzy at work. Even using Windows Explorer (my preference is Mozilla Firefox) my link did not post until after about 3 times. However, I like your ideas. This would also be a great way to cover the business / personal business letter section in DCS as well. Yvonne Cockerham

Joyce, I love the idea on using correct finger placement. I never thought of using Penzu as warm up assignment. May have to use this!Kim

Name: Emily Myers

NC SCOS OBJ: Grade 8 ELA 1.4 Reflect on learning experiences by: evaluating how personal perspectives are influenced by society, cultural differences, and historical issues. apprasing changes in self throughout the learning process. evaluating personal circumstances and background that shape interaction with text.

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Explanation: In my honors ELA 8 classroom I would use penzu when students need to write a journal response, or if they choose a journal response in a tic-tac-toe or other extension menu. With the opportunity to keep all of your penzu entries in the portfolio to the right of the notebook paper, I would assume that this would also be an invaluable way for students to look back on how they and their responses have both changed over time. What a great tool for authentic student reflection.

Also, as a district, we are moving to a workshop model for our ELA classes. Even though I teach an honors class that follows closely the high school model, I would like to encorporate more workshop elements into my classroom. RIght now, our 6th, 7th, and traditional ELA 8th graders have a reader's notebook (marble bound composition book) that they write in daily to reflect on their readings. Penzu would be a replacement for this notebook. Students could email their responses to my weekly and I could respond to them electronically as well! How efficient!

Peer Comments: Emily I think that we can use this same idea at our schools for our IR classes. The only problem I can see taking place is the work being misplaced. Great job!=Kim

Name: Leigh Bright

NC Standard Course of Study ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): Information Skills (6-8) 4.05 Gather information from the most effective sources. 4.06 Comply with the Copyright Law (P.L. 94-553) 4.07 Organize and use information. 4.08 Credit sources of information

Social Studies (6) 2.05 Transfer information from one medium to another such as written to visual and statistical to written. 5.01 Use word processing to create, format, and produce classroom assignments/projects. Students will use print resources to gather, record, and credit information using Penzu.

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Explanation (ELABORATE): I am helping facilitate a sixth grade social studies class where students are working on a Holocaust project in the media center. Students are required to use at least 3 print resources. Students would use Penzu to take notes out of these resources as well as credit their sources of information. Print resources include encyclopedias, non-fiction texts, various reference books.

Peer Comments: Great idea Leigh- Tina Leigh- I didn't even think to try to highlight, change the text, etc. You're exactly right, those would be really helpful tools for Penzu to add. I like your idea of kids using the tool to take notes. I think some of my kids would think they needed to fill the page too, since the lines are there. Maybe you should email your suggestions to Penzu- I think you're onto something here! - Emily Myers

Name: Kim Speight

NC Standard Course of Study ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): Grades (6-8) 1.02 Execute the touch method in operating the alphabetic keys

Link : https://penzu.com/p/5cc65d6e

Explanation (ELABORATE): I am going to use this as a ice breaker next year for each of my semester classes. My students have to create an all about me paper at the beginning of the semester. I think they would love the fact that they could uploads photos of people they are talking about as they prepare their papers. Students have to answer basic questions. Examples are how old they are, do they have any siblings, parents name, what they love about school, what is there favorite subject, favorite foods, favorite hobby, favorite vacation spot, what they do in their spare time, etc. I look forward to working in Penzu. This would give them a chance to learn the objective that is given for this unit. Executing the alphabet keys on the keyboard. I could even take this further with my 8th graders and let them correct their journals together as a group with what they have learned in the proofreading unit.

Peer Comments: I love this idea Kim! I think they would really like this! ~Tina Rorer

Kim, Using Penzu as an icebreaker is a good idea. I especially like the idea of using it as an "All About Me" activity. I know the students will have plenty of their own pics to insert. Joyce

Kim, I also do a paper at the beginning of the semester with my high school students. I think I will use Penzu next year. They have specific information they have to write about--almost exactly what you are requiring. --Elsbeth Johnson

Kim, I think the kids would really like to use Penzu to complete their "All About Me" assignment. The added option to upload photos that are 'clipped' on the margin of the display makes it a step above a traditional word processing tool. Great idea! -Emily Myers

Kim, I think the kids will love this. They will especially love being able to insert the pictures into their document.--Leigh

Name: Tina Rorer NC Standard Course of Study ( [|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): 1.10 Identify and use multimedia terms/concepts (e.g., storyboard, linear/sequential, audio/video clips, images). 2.11 Modify/edit an existing linear/sequential multimedia story to include student narration as a class/group activity.
 * Information Skills**
 * 1.06** Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and resources (print, non- print, electronic).
 * 1.09** Demonstrate awareness that resources convey meaning and exist in a variety of formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia, web-based).
 * 5.01** Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats.
 * 5.02** Produce media in various formats (e.g., pictorial, multimedia).
 * Computer/Technology Skills**

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Explanation (ELABORATE): I have seen many of my teachers do procedural writing with their students taking pictures along the way. The teachers always come print out the pictures, and then they do a big writing project together. As I was doing my Penzu, I was thinking it would be so awesome for teachers to take the same idea and do a procedural writing with their students. You could add pictures into the Penzu realtime and keep up with the procedure day by day if it is something like a plant growing. If the process were a recipe, the pictures could be loaded all at one time, put into order by the students, and then written as a group. Then this project could be shared with many more people than just the ones walking up and down the hall.

Peer Comments: Tina, I couldn't get your link to work. Am I doing something wrong? Elsbeth Tina, I tried to use your link too, but could not get it to work. I like your idea of using Penzu to do a procedural writing with their students., Joyce

Tina, You are right this would be a great way to put a sequential narration together. I also plan to share this program with our science teacher at school. She could use this to document steps to experiments. Yvonne Cockerham

Name: Elsbeth Johnson

NC Standard Course of Study ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): There is no specific course objective I can site. Each objective usually requires some note taking and my curriculum guide provides a graphic organizer of some kind.

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Explanation (ELABORATE):

There are three activities that I see that Penzu would be useful for my students. (1)Students can record the notes on the right side of the paper. On the left, they could add images to correspondent with the notes or print out the notes and write questions on the left side. This is sort of like Cornell note taking that our AVID students are required to take and teachers are encouraged to teach. If Penzu allowed typed questions on the left I would be really happy. However, since it doesn't the students would be required to print out notes, then add the questions on the left. The questions will help them improve their understanding of the material and strengthen their memory.

(2) Students will be required to answer their essay questions on tests using Penzu. They will then email me their response.

(3) I am also going to use this tool for an activity that most of you are probably familiar with: K-W-L I am planning to use this as a pre and post self-assessment for different objectives we learn. The student would answer the following as a pre-assessment: (1) What you already know, (2) What you want to learn; then after they complete an objective, they will answer (3) What you learned.

Peer Comments: Elsbeth, sounds like you have some good plans for Penzu! I like it as well although I think they could add a few more features to make it more user-friendly!--Leigh Bright

Elsbeth- You just gave me an idea for my AP Seniors, who are struggling to improve their AP Essay-writing skills. If they wrote their essays in Penzu, maybe I could have students access at least two of their peers' papers on Penzu, read them, and attach another page with their comments. But would there be a place I could list the url's of all the papers? Nancy West

Name: Dawn Roberson

2.G.1.2 Recognize faces of polyhedra (cube, triangular prism, rectangular prism, triangular pyramid, and rectangular/square pyramid) as polygons (triangles and rectangles, including squares).
 * NC Standard Course of Study** ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation):
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 * [[file:///pad|https://penzu.com/p/d305572d]]**
 * Explanation (ELABORATE):**
 * I would have students take pictures inside/outside the school of**
 * 2 and 3 dimensional geometric shapes. Next they would import photos in iPhoto. Next, they would use Penzu to insert a photo, add a caption, and write sentences explaining what they know about each shape.**


 * Peer Comments:** Dawn, I really like this idea. Sometimes because I teach computer applications and I have really stretch to come up with something. But I could have the students work in groups and create a page about the school using a Flip Video camera, add captions, and a short explanation at the right. Elsbeth Johnson

Name: Kelly Garcia

NC Standard Course of Study ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): 1.03 -- Interact appropriately in group setting by contributing relevant comments; monitoring own understanding of the discussion & 1.04 Reflect on learning experience by describing personal learning growth and changes in perspective and identifying changes in self throughout the learning process

Link: https://penzu.com/p/951840d5

Explanation (ELABORATE): The first idea that came to mind with using penzu is having my students use it as a reflection piece after they have a literature circle. I love using lit circles but it is always hard to catch the pertinent comments and connections being made in large classroom settings. In penzu, the students could record their best thinking in this journal format and submit to me. They could also include images or illustrations if someone share these during the discussion. Peer Comments:

Name: Vickie Sutton

NC Standard Course of Study ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): Competency Goal 4 The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts. 4.06 Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., __**narratives of personal experiences**__, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).

Link: https://penzu.com/p/3dae3b5e

Explanation (ELABORATE): I would use the Penzu site to begin to teach students what to include in narratives of personal experiences and also to introduce journaling. After reading __//Cat's Diary//__ from the bookroom, we would begin talking about keeping a diary/journal, how to determine audience (is this personal, just for me, or are other people going to read it?). Then we would discuss what to include (important details, vs. everyday mundane "I woke up." "I went to sleep."--2nd grader are famous for this kind of writing) in your personal narrative (see my example) or journal entry.

Peer Comments:

Name: Terri Carpenter

NC Standard Course of Study ([|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation):

The learner will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span. (National Standard 1) 1.08 Communicate knowledge with classmates and adults.

The learner will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and interpersonal skills to help understand and respect self and others. (National Standard 7)

The students will use the online journal to reflect upon new learning, apply the information to help them increase self-efficacy and share their insights with others.

Link: https://penzu.com/p/e671f759

Explanation: After each session of Surviving Sisterhood, I will give a reflection question or open ended statement for the group members to think about and record their thoughts in their journals. The journals can be used to check for understanding, to communicate new revelations, to explore personal applications, to record feelings and experiences, and many other flexible uses. Penzu and Counseling are a natural fit!

Peer Comments:

Name: Yvonne Cockerham

NC Standard Course of Study ( [|North Carolina Standard Course of Study], Please include the objective and goal number as well as a written explanation): Digital Communications – Objective 001.03 Discuss the security and confidentiality issues and ethics-related to data, hardware, and software Link: https://penzu.com/p/72ffc1dd Explanation (ELABORATE): I would divide up the computer crimes provided within the standard course of study between my students. After researching each crime, I would have each student create a scenario in which they were guilty of performing such a crime. They would have to set the scene of the crime, tell how they planned to commit the computer crime and give an outcome. In this outcome they must discuss criminal charges pending or fines issued. Lastly, they must discuss why such a crime should not be committed.

Peer Comments: Yvonne, very good idea. Have you thought about having the students share the scenarios with each other through email? Of course, the students would all have to have personal email accounts. They could then make comments to the students about their scenarios. Elsbeth Johnson