2008-2009+Archive

Thursday, May 14
Bob Marzano (Classroom Instruction That Works) "Those of us who research will become dinosaurs if we don't learn more about technology in the classroom" [|Watch the 20 Minute Show]

Tuesday, March 24
Here is another video that is worth seeing. I am also pasting in the explanation about it underneath. media type="youtube" key="kra_z9vMnHo" height="344" width="425" This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project: http://netgened.wikispaces.com When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them. Students from The Elisabeth Morrow School Tech Club contributed machinima created in Quest Atlantis. Marianne Malmstrom (aka Knowclue) worked remotely with the students of Suffern to create machinima of their avatars on Teen Second Life. Original music, "Harpsicord" was created by a former Suffern Middle School student, Larry Bordowitz. All editing was done by educators Peggy Sheehy, Suffern Middle School and Marianne Malmstrom, The Elisabeth Morrow School.
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Friday, March 13
It is the Friday before Spring Break and I am using my time to edit the wiki.

Monday, February 16
Here is a link to all of the handouts from the TCEA Conference. http://www.tcea.org/convention/2009/Attendees/Pages/WorkshopHandouts.aspx

This is a link to notes from CTCs and teachers at Eanes from the TCEA conference.

http://www.eanes.wikispaces.net/TCEA+2009

Wednesday, January 21
Did you know that there is a technology innovation team at the new White House?! This video is a must see for all educators. What are you doing to prepare kids for the future? media type="youtube" key="InI5n3NTvR4" height="295" width="480"

Wednesday, December 17
Dan Beuttner is known for riding his bike across continents while communicating with kids around the world via satellite. I have seen teachers and classes participate in his projects and they are motivating and fun. Here is a link to information about the one that is coming up in April. Let me know if you are interested and we can figure out how to do this. There is a video to watch that explains it!

http://www.bluezones.com/education

= = media type="youtube" key="l8rJ1WML60Y" width="425" height="350" This is an interactive video from YouTube. Really fun! What could your students do that is similar?

Tuesday, November 18
BCE Book Blog http://bcebookstudy.edublogs.org/

[|Quizlet.com] Study vocabulary or anything else that you can study with flash cards, tests and games that you kids can make themselves. It can be private or shared with a small group or public. Watch the video on the site to see what it can really do!

Tuesday, November 11
Linda Fredrickson! She was the first one to sign her name on the Videoconference List. ||
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Monday, November 10
Try [|http://jibjab.com]! You can make a really fun video easily with yourself (or anyone you have a digital picture of) in it!

Thursday, October 30
Wiki Winner of the Week This week she was seen editing a picture that she took on her digital camera! She is always ready to learn new things. || ||
 * This week's Wiki Winner of the Week is Diane Warren!

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Monday, October 20th
Videoconference Archive**-Do you realize that we have a whole year of FREE videoconferences to choose from on various topics connecting to all parts of the world? Check out the link to the left named** Videoconferences**. The first three people who do that and add their names to the top of the page are the Wiki Winners of the Week!**

Thursday, October 16th
Here is another video that is a MUST see! It is under 5 minutes.

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Tuesday, October 13th
PRIZES! This week's winner of the Wiki of the Week prize is Becky Roberson for sharing a website with all of us! __http://writingfix.com/traits.htm __ || Here is a picture of Becky getting her prize, an interactive book with quizzes about gooey and gross things!
 * Here is the link and a picture of the page.

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 This week the K-12 Online Conference begins. I will post a schedule here just in case you may want to look into any of it. This is an awesome chance to learn from other teachers who are using technology in the classroom. Stephen Heppell || [|k12online08pc] || Fireside Chat || With Stephen Heppell TO JOIN THE SESSION http://snurl.com/3xbc0 [sas_elluminate_com] || || Alice Barr, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes || [|k12online08gs01] || Jennifer Kraft || [|k12online08gs02] || Kern Kelley || [|k12online08gs03] || Chris Betcher || [|k12online08gs04] || Glen Bull, Thomas Hammond, Curby Alexander || [|k12online08pi03] || Jon Becker || [|k12online08pi04] || Sharon Betts || [|k12online08gs05] || Laurie Fowler || [|k12online08gs06] || Alec Couros || [|k12online08pi05] || Sara Kajder || [|k12online08pi06] || Steven Kimmi || [|k12online08gs07] || Brian Crosby || [|k12online08gs08] || Barbara Bray || [|k12online08pi07] || Kathy Cassidy and Patrick Lewis || [|k12online08pi08] || Jackie Gerstein || [|k12online08gs09] || H. Songhai || [|k12online08gs10] || Elaine Newton || [|k12online08pi09] || Richard Beach || [|k12online08pi10] || Fireside Chat || With Week One Keynotes and Presenters || || Sylvia Martinez || [|k12online08ki02] || Carlene Walter and Donna DesRoches || [|k12online08lc02] || Lisa Parisi || [|k12online08ki03] || Elizabeth Lloyd || [|k12online08ki04] || Scott McLeod || [|k12online08lc03] || Louise Maine || [|k12online08lc04] || Scott Snyder || [|k12online08ki05] || Kim Cofino and Jen Wagner || [|k12online08ki06] || Aimee Stoffel || [|k12online08lc05] || Peggy Sheehy || [|k12online08lc06] || Michele Wong Kung Fong || [|k12online08ki07] || Ann Oro and Anna Baralt || [|k12online08ki08] || Wendy Drexler || [|k12online08lc07] || David Warlick || [|k12online08lc08] || Lorna Costantini and Matt Montagne || [|k12online08ki09] || Mathew Needleman || [|k12online08ki10] || Bud Hunt || [|k12online08lc09] || Dennis Richards and Charlene Chausis || [|k12online08lc10] || Fireside Chat || With Week Two Keynotes and Presenters || || When Night Falls || When Night Falls begins! || ||
 * Date and Time || Strand/Event || Presenter and Presentation || Session Tag ||
 * [|12:00 PM Monday, October 13 GMT] || Preconference Keynote || [|It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It? So Why Would We Teach as Though It Was?]
 * [|11:00 PM Thursday, October 16 GMT] || Live Event
 * 12:00 PM Monday, October 20 GMT || Getting Started Keynote || What Is School?
 * ^  || Getting Started || Free Tools for Universal Design for Learning in Literacy
 * ^  || Prove It Keynote || Gardner Campbell || [|k12online08pi01] ||
 * 12:00 PM Tuesday, October 21 GMT || Getting Started || The Google Gamut: Everything you need to get started.
 * 12:00 PM Tuesday, October 21 GMT || Getting Started || The Google Gamut: Everything you need to get started.
 * ^  || Getting Started || I Like Delicious Things
 * ^  || Prove It || Best Practices with Primary Access: An Overview of Research on Student Creation of Highly Scaffolded Digital Documentaries in a History Classrooms
 * ^  || Prove It || Facilitating Tech Integration: A Synthesis of the Research
 * 12:00 PM Wednesday, October 22 GMT || Getting Started || Never Too Young
 * ^  || Getting Started || Reading Revolution: New Texts and New Technologies (Suggestions for revised focus)
 * ^  || Prove It || Open, Social, Connected: Reflections of an Open Graduate Course Experience
 * ^  || Prove It || Promise into Practice: What It Now Means to Teach Adolescent Readers and the Impact of the Results
 * 12:00 PM Thursday, October 23 GMT || Getting Started || Travelling Through the Dark
 * ^  || Getting Started || Video Conferencing
 * ^  || Prove It || Throwing the Box Away
 * ^  || Prove It || We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors
 * 12:00 PM Friday, October 24 GMT || Getting Started || Web 2.0 Tools to Amplify Elementary Students’ Creativity and Initiative
 * ^  || Getting Started || What Did You Do In School…?
 * ^  || Prove It || “You know, I can download those pictures myself and show you how to make a Photostory”
 * ^  || Prove It || Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn in a High School Composition Class
 * Saturday, October 25 ( [|3 PM GMT] ) || Live Event
 * 12:00 PM Monday, October 27 GMT || Kicking It Up A Notch Keynote || Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay || [|k12online08ki01] ||
 * ^  || Kicking It Up A Notch || Games in Education
 * ^  || Leading the Change Keynote || Chris Lehmann || [|k12online08lc01] ||
 * ^  || Leading the Change || Beyond the Stacks: Using Emerging Technologies to Strengthen Teacher-librarian Leadership
 * 12:00 PM Tuesday, October 28 GMT || Kicking It Up A Notch || Oh the Possibilities
 * ^  || Kicking It Up A Notch || Changing Disabilities
 * ^  || Leading the Change || Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
 * ^  || Leading the Change || Overcoming Entropy
 * 12:00 PM Wednesday, October 29 GMT || Kicking It Up A Notch || Back-channels in the Classroom
 * ^  || Kicking It Up A Notch || Connecting Classrooms Across Continents: Planning and Implementing Globally Collaborative Projects
 * ^  || Leading the Change || Pushing the Limits: Web 2.0 and 21st Century Learning
 * ^  || Leading the Change || Ramapo Islands
 * 12:00 PM Thursday, October 30 GMT || Kicking It Up A Notch || Interactive tools for remote and synchronous mentoring
 * ^  || Kicking It Up A Notch || Monsters Bloom in Our Wiki
 * ^  || Leading the Change || Teaching Web 2.0 - Everything you need in one place
 * ^  || Leading the Change || Telling the New Story: Leverage Points for Inspiring Change Orientation
 * 12:00 PM Friday, October 31 GMT || Kicking It Up A Notch || Parental Engagement in the 21st Century - Leveraging web 2.0 tools to engage parents in non-traditional ways
 * ^  || Kicking It Up A Notch || Film School for Video Podcasters
 * ^  || Leading the Change || The Lie of Community: The True Nature of the Network
 * ^  || Leading the Change || There’s Something Going on Here You Need to Know About…
 * Friday, October 31 ( [|1 AM GMT] ) || Live Event
 * Saturday, November 1 ( [|12 AM GMT] ) || Live Event

Monday, October 6

Last year I decided to listen in to what I could in the Online Conference. It encouraged me to start Podcasting! I had the support of other educators online who were also doing it. This is a GREAT way to get ideas for what you can do with technology in your classroom. It runs for three weeks and there are various presentations that are live and recorded and have Wikis and Web pages as resources. It is all recorded for future access. It is amazing! Look at this trailer!
 * The K-12 Online Conference

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DIGITAL FLAT STANLEY PROJECT For students in Grades K-2 * Open to National Participation What happens when a normal boy finds himself flattened by a bulletin board and is sent through the mail to places all across the country? Your students can find out during this fun project, based on the 1964 book written by Jeff Brown! Classes across the country will participate in this project and send their Flat Stanleys around the USA to visit different students. Every month, one school's Flat Stanley will visit another partner school. Students will take their new flat friend on different adventures near their school and record the adventures in a journal. At the end of each journey, partner schools will meet via videoconference for 30 minutes to greet one another, discuss their hometown and experiences with their flat friends. At the end of the project, Flat Stanley will have visited 4 places and - - and so will your students! More information: __http://www.magpi.net/programs/flatstanley.html __** Heather Weisse Walsh Applications Coordinator MAGPI 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 233A Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 Email: __hweisse@magpi.net __ Phone: 215-573-6417  www.magpi.net



Wednesday, September 25
Did you know that Dr. Wellman is considering a One to One laptop program for our whole district? This is a huge visionary move, but it will be a big change for everyone. Here is a video showing one school that did this. What do you think? If you are logged in you can write here and everyone will be able to see it. http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=15292

This looks like a great idea. I hope they will implement it in all the schools in Eanes as well as giving each teacher a computer too. It is the wave of the future and I cant wait to be part of it. Go APPLE!!!!!!!

Monday, September 15
Picturing America Grant URL-[|http://www.PicturingAmerica.neh.gov]

Atomic Learning and Kidspiration-There are a whole page of tutorials on Kidspiration 3 on Atomic Learning. Check them out!

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Monday, September 15
Additions were made to the new staff tips. Tech Monday this week was about VoiceThread. Here is a link to lots of great examples of how teachers have been using VoiceThread with their classes. http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com Here are some Math VoiceThreads http://math247.pbwiki.com/5Ns2-5

Monday, September 1
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BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Based on these assumptions the professional development required during the week before school starts will be available on many different topics: Each day topics and times will be sent out through email. The following topics will be covered depending on need:
 * Technology professional development needs to be "just in time"-what you need... when you need it.
 * Every teacher in this school is professional and excellent.
 * You know your own strengths and weaknesses.
 * Effective use of technology is essential in the classroom.
 * Eanes is committed to facilitating that use so that our students have the best background and opportunity.

Eduphoria Forethought Atomic Learning Wikis Eduphoria Aware Eduphoria Help Desk Groupwise (groups, proxies, archiving) Google Earth VoiceThread Blogs ePals (student email) Finding good Graphics (copyright and student safety) District Resources (there are tons of them that you might not know about!) Basic Troubleshooting

Let Janice know if there are other things that you are needing to spend time on and as interest is expressed each day a topic or two (depending on the rest of your schedule) will be chosen.

<span style="color: rgb(164,39,231);">THOUGHTS FOR NEXT YEAR
 * 1.** Scheduling**-Except for 1st and 2nd grade computer lab should be open. People need to sign up weekly depending on their plans and projects. Since we have the mobile labs often the lab stays empty when someone is signed up and there are others (Advanced Math for example) who want to use it and are blocked out. For 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades the best use of the lab is for working on projects where EACH student needs to have a computer. Students doing these projects can often benefit from having the lab more than one hour during a week and there may be other weeks where they do not use the lab at all, or only use the mobile lab.

2.** First Weeks**-Each class will be scheduled to come to the lab for the first week in order to get their username and password and to learn a few things about the computers. For 3rd-5th this will include Care and Feeding of Laptop carts.

3.** Keyboarding**-The best way for students to improve in keyboarding is to keyboard and so 3rd-5th grade is encouraged to institute a 5-10 minute keyboarding practice using TTL3 (or whatever you want to use) whenever students use the computers. 3rd Grade will start the year with an intensive month of keyboarding where they do keyboarding EVERY DAY for 15-20 minutes a day. Most likely this will be done in one classroom and students will rotate through. We will use Word Processing for Keyboarding and so they will learn some word processing skills as well.

4.** Tech Specialist**-Each week a Tech Specialist will be chosen for each grade level in 3rd-5th grades. This person will report to Mrs. Friesen on Monday for instructions. They will be responsible for the Care and Feeding of the Laptop carts and for helping with any other technology issues that come up. At the End of the Year assembly one person from each of 3rd-5th grades will be honored with an award as the Tech Specialist