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6th Grade Pivot Movies - June 27, 2011 by

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8th Grade Photography - June 25, 2011 by

8th Grade Photography 8th graders picked a theme, took digital photos and then put them together in a Slide Show using Photostory 3. Many students also did some editing of thier pictures using Adobe Photoshop.

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8th Grade Pivot Movies - June 23, 2011 by

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What’s New at North? - June 3, 2011 by

I am excited to be getting a student teacher for next year. I will be getting him on board with TAB. I will let Kevin introduce himself, later, but he comes from a number of years of being an artist and has volunteered in classrooms for the past several years. He knows a number of computer programs that I am super excited to learn and build for my program, like Google sketch-up.

He will be with me for the full school year, even starting to collaborate this summer. If all goes well I will have a great spring quarter to myself to travel to other classrooms as well! and work on some articles, demo videos and curriculum.

Also I got it in my silly head just yeaterday to offer a free online summer camp to my students. we will use our same online learning platform (Moodle) and have a variety of computer activities, along with student classroom chats and forums. I will be offering a free disk to the first 25 students that sign up that will come loaded with a bunch of free-software (like pivot, scratch and gimp). I am also offering an online drawing camp, where the first 25 that sign up will get a kit of drawing materials. Like I don’t have enough to do this summer? HA!

The principal is going to connect me with the program leaders at our local YMCA, boys and girls club and community center to get them the software disks too, because many of our kids get their only computer access at these locations. looking forward to connecting with my students a bit over the summer to keep them engaged, out of trouble and making art! 

The artsonia galleries have been a great success too! Having this platform to share student work and communicate with parents has been great, and we have only been doing it a month. It is awesome to see parents and family commenting on the student artwork, kids uploading their own work from home and the general excitement about having their work online. Check out our gallery! and feel free to COMMENT on student work.  The kids LOVE to see the comments!! http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=70981

I also have uploaded some slide shows of the digital work on school tube (along with our door movies and animations) Links to them here:

Check out the slide shows of our 2011 MS Paint Projects!

Did I mention that I am in charge of the first ever literary arts zine at our school? 50+ pages of poems, stories and photography… still formatting the beast :)

BTW: We still have a MONTH of school! So that’s what’s new at North!

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Photoshop projects - May 28, 2011 by

Watch some slide shows of our Photoshop projects!

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The American Academy Online High School Chooses BrainHoney - May 27, 2011 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 BrainHoney, not LMS, powers progressive online high school

Orem, UT, May 30, 2009 — The innovative American Academy Online High School (TAAS) announced the selection of Agilix’s BrainHoney – an innovative alternative to a learning management system (LMS) – as their core learning application.

BrainHoney provides individualized learning and ongoing standards-aligned formative assessment for classroom, hybrid, and online students. Teachers and administrators efficiently and effectively track individual student progress. The innovative design incorporates a gradebook, content, assessments, state-standards, and assignments with tools that make it easy to teach students across multiple sections, each working at their own pace.

“BrainHoney is great!”, said Rebekah Richards, SVP of Academic Affairs and Principal of TAAS. “My teachers – who have previously used all major LMS systems – can’t thank me enough for making the switch to BrainHoney. It saves them time, effort, and they are much more organized.”

Not only are her teachers pleased that they have tools to make their job easier and more effective, Ms. Richards also has a much better grasp of the day-to-day status of her students and teachers: “Best of all, I get the data I need to make sure my school stays on course. We can now truly deliver our school-as-a-service model as efficiently and effectively as possible.”

As a modular system, BrainHoney fit in easily with the TAAS enterprise technology. Built on web-services technology, “BrainHoney is an open, extensible platform with complete API access. Integration with our student records systems has been easy and straightforward.” said Gregg Rosann, CTO of TAAS.

“We are thrilled to have such an innovative group like the American Academy as one of our partners” said Mark Luetzelschwab, SVP of Agilix. “They have a great, easy-to-implement student-centered solution that serves both individuals needing a degree and high schools who need to supplement their offerings with online courses.”

For additional information or to learn how BrainHoney can help you integrate formative assessment and individualized learning at your school, college, or online program, contact sales@agilix.com.

For additional information on how to partner with The American Academy Online High School to supplement your high school offerings, contact sales@theamericanacademy.com.

 About Agilix Labs, Inc

Agilix delivers formative assessment and individualized learning solutions based on the belief that the future of education is an equitable, learner-centric, objective-aligned, lifelong learning model that adapts to a changing world.

Agilix’s most recent product – BrainHoney – is a quantum leap forward in student-centered, objective-aligned learning that will enable the shift to individualized learning in classrooms, schools, colleges, and online learning programs.

Agilix was founded in 2001 by the same core team that created Folio and MyFamily.com/Ancestry.com – one of the largest online communities in the world with over 16M registered members.

Contact:

  • Mark Luetzelschwab
  • Agilix Labs, Inc
  • (801) 932 1441 (P)
  • (801) 437 2052 (F)
  • pr@agilix.com
  • 733 E. Technology Ave
  • Orem, UT 84097
  • http://www.agilix.com

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Agilix Releases BrainHoney - May 26, 2011 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

BrainHoney Delivers Free Personalized Learning Platform

Orem, UT, June 26, 2009 ‐ Agilix Labs, Inc announced the release of BrainHoney – a free personalized learning platform that combines critical elements of an online gradebook, state‐standards alignment, curriculum mapping, formative assessment and learning management into a single teacher‐friendly platform.

“All teachers should have free access to the best student‐centered, standards‐ aligned 21st century teaching and learning tools available” said Curt Allen, CEO of Agilix. “Every classroom, blended, and online teacher in the country can benefit from BrainHoney – and it only takes a minute to sign up.”

“BrainHoney helps teachers know what their students know and enables intelligent intervention – laser‐focused, timely response to the students who need it the most.” said Dr. Mark Luetzelschwab, Senior Vice President of Agilix. “For the first time, teachers can easily align ALL types of activities – projects, websites, assignments, direct instruction, etc ‐ to state standards, and then report progress against those standards without any additional effort other than maintaining a traditional gradebook”

“BrainHoney is an exceptional learning platform” said Rebekah Richards, Principal and Chief Academic Officer of The American Academy Online High School. “Teachers save time and effort while being more responsive to student needs. The BrainHoney dashboard gives teachers the data required to make intelligent interventions to help students succeed.”

Teachers at MaryMount School who got a four‐week sneak preview of BrainHoney were excited about BrainHoney: “Wonderful”, “BrainHoney is a magical system!”,”We want BrainHoney forever!”

“One of the most exciting things about BrainHoney is the way that the content and assessments are aligned using the objectives as the intermediary.” Said Dr. David Wiley, professor at BYU and founder of the Open High School of Utah. “BrainHoney allows you to do the kinds of things a tutor would do that you could never do [before] with a classroom of 30 students.”

“We are looking for innovative solutions, and we see BrainHoney as one of those innovations. It is going to change the world.” said Robyn Bagely, chair of Parents for Choice in Education.

BrainHoney is a modular system developed on the assumptions that students learn at their own pace, learning takes place both inside and outside of a classroom in many different forms, and that all learning can be aligned to objectives. It consists of a seamless integration of curriculum mapping for all 50 states, a gradebook, objective mastery charts, automated assessments, assignment tracking, online discussions, and other learning management tools. The platform is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

BrainHoney is free to all K‐12 public school teachers in the United States of America. Teachers join BrainHoney by selecting their school on BrainHoney’s website, then choosing their grade level and/or subjects. The state standards aligned to those subjects (specific to the teachers’ locations) are automatically connected to their gradebooks and teachers simply drag and drop standards onto their schedules to build curriculum maps. Teachers then add activities, assignments and assessments to their schedule; BrainHoney automatically aligns these to state standards to generate views of standards coverage and student objective mastery.

Schools can upgrade to the BrainHoney School Suite, which enables the administrator dashboard and daily drill‐down reports of individual and aggregate student progress against state standards, allows integrated registration and data exchange with student information systems, provides single‐sign‐on through SAML, Active Directory, SharePoint, Live@Edu, CAS, or others, and allows customized login pages and user interfaces.

More information can be found at http://www.brainhoney.com or at booth 3264 at NECC.

About  Agilix  Labs,  Inc

Agilix Labs, Inc. is transforming education through BrainHoney, its personalized learning platform. BrainHoney (www.brainhoney.com), the latest offering from the creative team that has delivered innovative educational solutions for nearly a decade, provides student‐centered, objective‐aligned learning that improves student achievement, increases teacher productivity, delivers administrative insight, and enables parental involvement. Based on an open technology architecture, BrainHoney is the only learning solution that works seamlessly across classroom, hybrid, and online environments. Individual teachers, schools, and districts can experience the power of BrainHoney either online at www.brainhoney.com or through a growing network of education resellers. Agilix delivers its software applications to hundreds of thousands of users in countries worldwide. Founded in 2001 by the team that created Folio and MyFamily.com, Agilix is based in Orem, Utah, USA. For more information please visit http://www.agilix.com.

For More Information

Contact:

  • Mark Luetzelschwab
  • Agilix Labs, Inc
  • (801) 932 1441 (P)
  • (801) 437 2052 (F)
  • pr@agilix.com
  • 733 E. Technology Ave
  • Orem, UT 84097
  • http://www.agilix.com

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Learning Magazine | A free, personalized learning platform to help teachers teach and students learn - May 24, 2011 by

Listed in the October 2009 issue of Learning Magazine

BrainHoney is a free, personalized learning platform that helps teachers track grades, differentiate instruction, and monitor students’ progress against state standards. It consists of a gradebook, objective mastery charts, automated assessments, assignment tracking, online discussions, and other learning management tools for grades K-12. Drag and drop standards into your schedule to build curriculum maps. Register at www.brainhoney.com.

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still 6 weeks left… - May 9, 2011 by

This last trimester has been all periods of “Digital Video Arts” It is more structured than my modified art classroom, but I still work in as many choices as possible.

3 periods of 6th graders and 3 periods of 8th graders all completed the American Film Institute curriculum to create “the door movie” these came out AWESOME! and I will be posting some of the best on School tube soon. (with links on here)

Then we moved into the digiart unit. I have a list of 14 different MS Paint projects (with directions) and I had the kids pick 4 of their choice to complete. Then I have about 10 Photoshop assignments (also with directions) and they get to pick 3 to complete. This will be our fall back projects when kids are done with other things…

Now we are doing an artist research project. The kids are working with partners to research an artist. Then they will present the info in their choice of a Power Point presentation (particularly for those that really want to work alone) or a recorded podcast interview show or a interview VIDEO. I am excited with how excited the kids are for this project. We picked artists and partners yesterday. They have homework to go check out books… hopefully that will happen. :)

Two of my classes are not doing the artist interviews and are instead going to help me publish the first ever Literary arts ‘zine. I got a grant to professional publish a lit book. They are pretty excited, but I am pretty clueless as to how this is going to work. It is going to be interesting for sure!

At the end of May both of these units will be done and we will still have a full MONTH (JUNE 27 is our last day) So then I will enter my big “choice” unit. I am going to offer photography, video games using gamemaker and scratch, animations using pivot, scratch and power point, more video or podcasting.

I was very worried about this trimester, because the beginning of the year was just so difficult! But they are SO engaged with these computer projects I am have a lot less behavior issues. The digiart unit is going well as kids mentor each other on the different projects and skills. They LOVED the video project and I was so impressed with how well they did.

My Kiln DIED and luckily the PTA just had a great fund raiser and will buy me a new one. (since the cost of a kiln is 3 years worth of my supply budget)

So that’s how my year is wrapping up.

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