Aug

25 3 Tips for Teachers Using Social Media to promote online learning in the Classroom

Social media opens up all new avenues of communication for college students, their classmates and their professors. A typical class may only take a few hours a week, but now with social media, the classroom can be a lively, 24/7 experience. Professors are more accessible, often clarifying assignments via Twitter or sharing content on their blogs. Students benefit from these extra communication channels. They can process information and contribute to class discussions at their own pace. They can more easily ask questions of their peers and professors.

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Aug

25 Doctors urge parents do back-to-school health checklist

You’ve bought the school supplies and the school clothes, but do you have your school checklist complete?

The American College of Emergency Physicians recommends you compile a checklist for both parents and guardians to ensure your children stay health.

Most of the tips on the checklist are simple. You can download a copy of ValleyCentral.com.

The ACEP recommends updating your child’s medical records and making it available to the school along with you full contact information.

This should include information on any medication your child is taking, along with any allergies or special needs, and whether the school can administer certain drugs to your child.

If your child does have allergies, make sure you and the school nurse have an action plan to treat your child as quickly as possible, should they have a reaction.

Do a dry run with your child on their route to school, looking for potential hazards.

If your child walks to school, make sure he or she knows how to cross a street, knows not to talk to strangers, and what to do if they are approached by someone they don’t know.

If your child takes the bus, make sure he or she has a consistent pick up and drop-off point that can clearly be seen by adults.

Be sure to have a family emergency plan in case something happens.

Make sure your child has all necessary contact information and knows how to use 911.

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Jul

28 Franklin Will Appeal

Kim Kenny, the interim athletic director at Franklin High School, told me Friday that the district will appeal NJSIAA second reliagment committees recent ruling to deny it its request to leave the Skyland Conference for the Greater Middlesex Conference. The hearing should take place sometime in May, according to state association executive director Steve Timko.
Franklin has been attempting to leave the Skyland for the GMC since the early 2000s, but the Skyland especially burnt by Hackettstowns quick get-away two years ago is digging in and has refused the Warriors release. The GMC approved Franklins application a couple of years ago.
Kenny said that players and coaches she has polled have all told her that the district is doing the right thing.
Kids from every sport, every gender, every race, Kenny said. I inherited this. I have to know what Im fighting for.
I was more surprised by their common experience in the Skyland, she added. We want to do whats best for the kids.
One of the biggest issues Kenny said for Franklins persistence is the time it takes to travel. The average round trip for Franklin to get to a an away football game is 70 miles in football, while it would be 53 in the GMC; 68.5 for wrestling, 53 in the GMC and 55 in soccer opposed to 50 for GMC opponents.
Weve done all of our homework, she said.

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Jul

27 Landram, Lee earn Kitsap Sun Female Athletes of the Year Awards

Past winners

2010: Ruby Roberts, Kingston

2009: Lindsay Willmann, Bainbridge

2008: Emily Farrar, Bainbridge; Jacki Hill, Bremerton

2007: Hannah Stuart, Bainbridge

2006: Anne Scott, Bainbridge

2005: Brooke Nall, Bainbridge; Stephanie Davison, South Kitsap

2004: Emily Silver, Bainbridge

2003: Tiffany McDonald, North Mason; Emily Silver, Bainbridge

2002: Dana Kirk, Bremerton

2001: Nicole Zygmontowicz, Central Kitsap

2000: Tara Kirk, Bremerton

1999: Britt Themann, Bainbridge

1998: Anne Morgan, Bainbridge

1997: Chelsie Pentz, Central Kitsap

1996: Rachel Davenport, Central Kitsap; Keri McCallum, South Kitsap

1995: Kari Meigs, Central Kitsap

1994: Leah Francis, North Mason

1993: Yashiva Edwards, Central Kitsap

1992: Danielle Fessler, South Kitsap

1991: Cassie Jackson, South Kitsap

1990: Kristen Kane, North Kitsap

1989: Christina Marshall, Bainbridge

1988: Janet Soderberg, Bremerton

1987: Rosie Zimsen, Bellarmine, South Kitsap

1986: Laura Geschke, Bremerton

1985: Donna Monette, South Kitsap

1984: Patti Pendergast, Olympic

1983: Pam Clark, North Kitsap

1982: Laura Dahl, Bremerton

1981: Sarah Allen, Bainbridge

1980: Lori Craver, Bremerton

1979: Lori Craver, Bremerton1978: Tammie Mason, South Kitsap

1977: Julie Ramstead, North Kitsap

1976: June Griebel, South Kitsap

Tracy Landram picked up her tennis racket and Erynne Lee took her golf clubs, and the pair dominated their state tournaments.

Lee, a senior at Central Kitsap, won her first Class 4A state golf title last month, and Landram, a junior at Klahowya, won her second Class 2A state tennis championship.

Because of their dominance, Landram and Lee earned the Kitsap Sun’s co-Female Athletes of the Year.

Landram beat Abigail Pellett of Ellensburg 6-0, 6-0 in the state finals at the University of Washington’s Nordstrom Tennis Center. The hard-hitting Landram dropped just five games during the postseason.

Five games. Not sets.

She went 10-0 in the regular season, and did not play a third set all year. Her win at state gave the Eagles a third-place finish in the team standings.

Landram is 29-0 in the regular season in her three years at Klahowya.

Landram said she did not for one minute take for granted she could repeat as state champion, especially with so many schools making the drop from 3A to 2A and bringing in a new crop of talented players.

“Someone could have popped up,” she said.

Landram beat Pellett in last year’s semifinals and was prepared to face her in the finals.

“I knew that there was no way she worked harder than me for one whole year,” she said.

Landram is currently ranked No. 9 in the Pacific Northwest in the USTA junior rankings. Tennisrecruiting.net has her ranked fifth and lists Landram as a four-star recruit.

Landram, who will start taking official college visits in September, hopes to make her decision in the fall.

Asked if a three-peat is in her future, she didn’t hesitate.

“Of course, that’s what I’d like,” she said. “You have to earn it every year.”

For Lee, her future, at least for the foreseeable future, is secured.

Lee committed to play at UCLA and hopes to have her LPGA tour card not long after that.

“I’ve been working really hard the past couple years (for that goal),” Lee said.

She will move to Los Angeles in September and said she will be rooming with a tennis player in the dorms.

Lee recently qualified for her second U.S. Women’s Open, which will be played July 7-10 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo. She shot a 2-under 144 at the sectional qualifier at Industry Hills Golf Club in Pacific Palms, Calif.

That score was nothing compared to what she shot at Downriver Golf Course in Spokane last month at the state tournament.

Lee smoked the field to win by eight strokes. She shot a shot a final round 7-under-par 66 to give her a two-day total of 9-under 137.

Lee chose to play another year of high school golf — she played briefly two years ago — so she could join her sister Katie, a sophomore, on the team.

“We wanted to play on a team together before I left,” she said. “It was nice to go to state together and represent CK.”

Lee will also play in the U.S. Women’s Amateur on Aug. 6-12 at the Rhode Island Country Club in Barrington, R.I. It’s her fourth time playing the event. She was medalist and reached the quarterfinals a year ago. She was a semifinalist three years ago in Eugene.

As for next month’s U.S. Open, Lee said: “It’s a learning experience,” she said. “This year I really want to make the cut.”

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Jul

27 Arizona high school football: Top 10 quarterbacks for 2011

Richard Obert ranks Arizona’s Top 10 quarterbacks for 2011

Quality improving

Some players expected to put up huge numbers this season

Quality of quarterbacks keeps improving in the state and this should be a stellar year. It wasn’t difficult to come up with 10. The list could go on and on with talented quarterbacks attracting the attention of college coaches. Here is a list to start, guys expected to put up huge numbers this season.

Click here to see photos of the Top 10 quarterbacks in action