a group of students is making a glog (online poster) on the topic of film genres - to include definitions and film clips Melissa Techman, Albemarle County
We are using a web-based test preperation site to help our students prepare for the SOL's at home as well as in the classroom. The site is USATestprep.com. M. Ketron Botetourt County Public Schools Lord Botetourt High School
For Geography Week, we posted a student video on the Internet each day called "Where in the World is Our Wildcat?" The student reported from a different "location" each day and other students had to guess based on clues.
We are using Turnitin.com for blogging within the school community. Although the site is often used for monitoring student writing, there is also a discussion component that can be used very effectively.
Creating podcasts in Grades 1-5 on subjects from American symbols, to China, to booktalks. Students write a "script" draw or take pictures and put them together.
Engineering projects like...create a race car that can crash test and not break a raw egg given recyclable materials.
I am using a flip camera as an interview tool with teachers and students about their learning work-you get a youtube vid feel and these can be emailed or put on a share drive for job embedded development reflections Pam
We have an Adobe Connect Server and are using it to link outside resources to the classroom. Last year we had a class connect to a class outside of Paris. Their teachers work with ours on french development skills while our teachers worked on english skills with her students.
I use Camtasia Studio to screen capture and record video tutorials on different software applications to share with other teachers in my districts. Cheryl, NY - BOCES
We have smartboards in most of our classrooms, we have a pod squad with 2-5 grade students, 4 & 5 grade students create yearbook digitally. Gloria The Master's Academy
I established a program in the middles school called ISB Tech. This stands for Integrated Solutions Block. It involves taking the core curriculum and infusing it with technology, project based learning, and 21st century skills. The final goal is a curriculum that is relevant, reaches across curriculums, and has connections with the real world. Mike Gorman Southwest Allen County Schools Fort Wayne, IN mgorman@sacs.k12.in.us
The technology innnovation at our school is limited at best, though I have started using the Moodle CMS for our web design class. Right now the activities are similar to non technical ones such as compleing scanned PDFs and submitting to a drop box. Ultimately I would like to create tutorial based lessons with periodic checks that have the students use class learned knowledge, internet resources, and collaboration to answer.
We are using Garage Band/Audacity with our Reading intervention students to practice fluency. We are also using Smart Boards in our 1st grade classrooms to have students be more interactive with the reading program. Another tool my teachers are using is a voice thread to publish poems and allow others to comment on them.
My school is unfortunately not doing enough to motivate and engage students with technology. Our district is on the verge of spending a great deal of money on bringing our schools up to speed with technology. We will be training teachers on the latest 21st Century Tools and that is why I'm here at FETC.
We are currently using simple interactive website tools, use the school network for online tests, webquests, Google Earth. Hope to expand our exposure to technology tools.
As a school, we use a program called PD360 for online staff development opportunities. I use a site called quia.com for assesments, it allows mw to post video clips and pictures to assesments.
Individual high school teachers are creating class forums for students to use to communicate with one another about the class content and complete specific assignments.
hmmmmmmm......some teachers are in the beginning phases as we have just received an E2T2 Grant. Mimio boards, laptop carts, some slide shows and Audacity for fluency.
In my district, all 5th through 8th graders have laptops. I invite sutdents to learn more about using their laptops for more than just word processing and note-taking, like podcasting and animation.
We love using Interactive Video Conferencing with our teachers...classroom to another district classroom, classroom to other district classrooms, and content providers (like museums, etc.).
I've created an Online Literature Circles project for all of the GT eighth graders across the district. I'm using ITS, Librarians and ELA teachers to moderate these blogs.
Kids across our district discuss novels read during the course of the summer.
This year we had amost 2000 kids talking to each other.
Amazing.
I've also launched a 5 picture story (we call it visual storytelling) initiative.
Kids are creating 5 picture stories and we're linking the curriculum to that through all subject areas.
We have an Intranet where we post these and kids get to discuss them, very much like Flickr, but in a more protected environment.
Jill Darter We are equipping some of our classrooms with wireless student response "clickers" and the teachers are getting Mobi interactive chalkboards to use in the classroom.
Karen Brown Arkansas Press Association Statewide Newspapers in Education Director Little Rock, AR. We are working with educators on ways to incorporate technology and newspapers into their curriculum. Newspapers are still an excellent resource to learn about their community, state, world and universe.
We teach high school students within an interactive online environment. We use Moodle as well as other web authoring tools, along with chats, discussion boards, instant messaging, videos, dim dim, eluminate, wiki, just to name a few.
I am not sure how innovative this is but a local company donates their old machines to the school. The machines have not operating system and some of the machines do not work.
Our 5th grade students completely take apart the computer down to the empty case. They learn about how each component operates as they do this project. They reconstruct the machines and replace any non-functioning component. They then install the operating system.
Thus far, 3 years in, we have had 100% success rate with all of the machines working and they have been placed into service.
We have used One True Media to present a Montage about who we are called "We are Indian Ridge" to show to the community as an intro to a meeting about adding 6th graders to our school.
Rick Benitez Indian Ridge Middle School Ysleta ISD, El Paso, TX
We have a classroom blog that is our hub. Students post assignments themselves, we share our photostories, give opinions on certain topics, etc. Also, I have a group of students who are creating a blog for our community.
We have purchased tablets and projectors for teachers. We will have a complete wireless network by August 1 along with a fiber backbone between schools. Next year K-2 will get tablets, projectors and interactive whiteboards. Along with that, lots of staff development!
Melissa Huntsville ISD Our district has inundated all campuses with Promethean Boards (interactive white boards). Most of the teachers that have them use them religiously, and do a terrific job with them. The students are getting to the point where they expect the technology now instead of seeing it as something unusual, so it more than any other technology in recent years (at least in our district) has begun to be seamless in its integration.
Some of the teachers in our district use a discussion board feature within our electronic community to help students with reflective writing. I have created a blog that offers technology integration tips for the teachers in our district. However, blogs are also blocked in our district, so I was only able to post three items. We are hoping to get that changed soon.
I am becoming versed in Web 2.0 tools so that I can implement these tools and use them in my high school library such as preparing/using wikis for a reference trivia hunt to teach library reference tools.
I am collaborating with a 5th grade teacher to create google lit trips for our kindergarteners and first graders. We will use a variety of picture books. The students will create markers in Google Earth with text and pictures about the different events in each book and their locations.
We are going to create Classroom Online Forum discussions in Turn It In in order for students to have online discussions with a core teacher to review for the AP exams.
I implemented "Photographer of the Day" at my pk-4th campus. The lucky student comes to me at the beginning of the day and he/she takes our inexpensive/sturdy Disney camera. Through out the day he/she takes pictures of whatever their teacher asks for of whatever they want.
At the end of the day, they bring the camera back to me and I assist as they upload the photos and create a Photostory. In Photostory, they add a title, record a short narration and choose background music. We then burn it to a CD for them to keep. The kids LOVE IT! The teachers are seeing how easy it can be to let kids use digital cameras.
David Psolka Yuma High School Yuma, AZ dpsolka@yumaed.org
I am collecting ideas and techniques that I can share with our staff development coordinator to assist with both classified training and certificated training in the district.
I have already collected some skills to assist MENTOR teachers in their efforts to collaborate on topics and instruction.
TechSmith (Camtasia) will assist with video tutorials
We're creating podcast lessons using PowerPoints and United Streaming video clips and uploading them to a class set of iPods. We only show 1 lesson at a time.
We are implementing a one-to-one program at one of our schools. Every student and teacher will use a laptop during the day. We are currently training the teachers to integrate technology into their curriculum.
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I use my Smartboard to teach all subjects and my students create their own presentations for the Smartboard.
I am using Blackboard discussion groups once a week for homework with my 4th grade class.
Bill Donovan
Jamestown Elementary
Developing GIS kits to teach history.
a group of students is making a glog (online poster) on the topic of film genres - to include definitions and film clips
Melissa Techman, Albemarle County
A sixth grade social studies class is using wikis to explore and analyze Columbus's journey.
Elizabeth
Henley Middle
Albemarle Co.
We are using a web-based test preperation site to help our students prepare for the SOL's at home as well as in the classroom. The site is USATestprep.com.
M. Ketron
Botetourt County Public Schools
Lord Botetourt High School
Mae Tennant
Beth Costas
Monticello High School
We're brainstorming ways to connect 3 high schools together to help English teachers create a healthy relationship with Technology.
Students are using a wiki to collaboratively write scripts for a digital story.
For Geography Week, we posted a student video on the Internet each day called "Where in the World is Our Wildcat?" The student reported from a different "location" each day and other students had to guess based on clues.
We are using Turnitin.com for blogging within the school community. Although the site is often used for monitoring student writing, there is also a discussion component that can be used very effectively.
Margaret
kaminsky
Manassas City
We use Voice Thread for problem solving. No neeed to type. Kids can "talk" out their solutions.
Creating podcasts in Grades 1-5 on subjects from American symbols, to China, to booktalks. Students write a "script" draw or take pictures and put them together.
Engineering projects like...create a race car that can crash test and not break a raw egg given recyclable materials.
Albemarle County, Fredrick County
I have started a superintendent's blog in my county.
I am using a flip camera as an interview tool with teachers and students about their learning work-you get a youtube vid feel and these can be emailed or put on a share drive for job embedded development reflections
Pam
We are placing interactive whiteboards in all classrooms and moving away from purchasing textbooks for each student.
Our collaborates with the local utility company through technology and practical experience to qualify students for future employment in the industry.
Michael Thompson
Tenoroc High School
Polk County, Florida
We have an Adobe Connect Server and are using it to link outside resources to the classroom. Last year we had a class connect to a class outside of Paris. Their teachers work with ours on french development skills while our teachers worked on english skills with her students.
Bruce - Louis Riel School Division
Using Polycom video conferencing equipment to "meet" students all over the world. Roberta, American Nicaraguan School, Managua Nicaragua
I use Camtasia Studio to screen capture and record video tutorials on different software applications to share with other teachers in my districts. Cheryl, NY - BOCES
I use a Smart Sympodium and eInstruction to continually modify my teaching style and content to meet the needs of my students.
Jason Young
Woodside Middle School
Southwest Allen County Schools
Fort Wayne, IN
Having 4th grade students make recruitment movies for the school using photos, clips, audio and created music.
Karen Zilhaver
Saint Paul's School Clearwater
Our district is installing, retrofitting for older schools, with smartboards, projectors and lightspeed.
We have smartboards in most of our classrooms, we have a pod squad with 2-5 grade students, 4 & 5 grade students create yearbook digitally. Gloria The Master's Academy
I established a program in the middles school called ISB Tech. This stands for Integrated Solutions Block. It involves taking the core curriculum and infusing it with technology, project based learning, and 21st century skills. The final goal is a curriculum that is relevant, reaches across curriculums, and has connections with the real world.
Mike Gorman
Southwest Allen County Schools
Fort Wayne, IN
mgorman@sacs.k12.in.us
The technology innnovation at our school is limited at best, though I have started using the Moodle CMS for our web design class. Right now the activities are similar to non technical ones such as compleing scanned PDFs and submitting to a drop box. Ultimately I would like to create tutorial based lessons with periodic checks that have the students use class learned knowledge, internet resources, and collaboration to answer.
I am using a flip camera to document our FutureCity, a project based learning unit.
laura smith
woodside middle school
southwest allen county schools
We are training 10 teachers and students to be Promethean Trainers.
Donna Swainson-Robinson - Bermuda
We are using Garage Band/Audacity with our Reading intervention students to practice fluency. We are also using Smart Boards in our 1st grade classrooms to have students be more interactive with the reading program. Another tool my teachers are using is a voice thread to publish poems and allow others to comment on them.
Hamilton Elementary
My school is unfortunately not doing enough to motivate and engage students with technology. Our district is on the verge of spending a great deal of money on bringing our schools up to speed with technology. We will be training teachers on the latest 21st Century Tools and that is why I'm here at FETC.
Judy Polk County: We are equiping all third and fourt grade classroom with Smartboadsand LigtSpeed sound systems.
I am creating a Music technology program for grades1 to 3.I am using midi keyboards with Children's Music Journey.
D.Thuot-MacDonald
Winnipeg School Division (Canada)
Now have Tegrity on campus - benefits students in that they can review classes/lectures at any time.
Bonnie Coats
We are currently using simple interactive website tools, use the school network for online tests, webquests, Google Earth. Hope to expand our exposure to technology tools.
As a school, we use a program called PD360 for online staff development opportunities. I use a site called quia.com for assesments, it allows mw to post video clips and pictures to assesments.
Sam Kimbrel
Legacy Middle School
Orlando,FL
Cynthia Clements
Taking a Web 2.0 workshop over 10 weeks. I hope to use some of the tools in my computer classroom and with the teachers.
Melissa
My students are able to view what I am doing on my lap top via screen, so we do research together
Anju Taneja
Used whiteboard in my physics class to provide an immersion experience into the physical world.
Developing ingeractive holocaust education activities.
Sandra Carroll
Individual high school teachers are creating class forums for students to use to communicate with one another about the class content and complete specific assignments.
Randy Weigum
hmmmmmmm......some teachers are in the beginning phases as we have just received an E2T2 Grant. Mimio boards, laptop carts, some slide shows and Audacity for fluency.
Hutto - We are adding to our technology. We hope to put mimios in all of the K classrooms.
In my district, all 5th through 8th graders have laptops. I invite sutdents to learn more about using their laptops for more than just word processing and note-taking, like podcasting and animation.
Debbie Needham - Waxahachie ISD
We are integrating instructional carts (wireless computer, document camera and projector)in every teacher's room.
We have two wikis - a class wiki that I and another teacher use to post all of our assignments, links to tutorials, tips, tricks, etc.
We also have student wikis where they post their work, engage in peer editing, give each other constructive criticism, etc.
JoAnne Hibbard
We love using Interactive Video Conferencing with our teachers...classroom to another district classroom, classroom to other district classrooms, and content providers (like museums, etc.).
Sandra McCubbin
Fort Bend ISD
I've created an Online Literature Circles project for all of the GT eighth graders across the district. I'm using ITS, Librarians and ELA teachers to moderate these blogs.
Kids across our district discuss novels read during the course of the summer.
This year we had amost 2000 kids talking to each other.
Amazing.
I've also launched a 5 picture story (we call it visual storytelling) initiative.
Kids are creating 5 picture stories and we're linking the curriculum to that through all subject areas.
We have an Intranet where we post these and kids get to discuss them, very much like Flickr, but in a more protected environment.
Jill Darter
We are equipping some of our classrooms with wireless student response "clickers" and the teachers are getting Mobi interactive chalkboards to use in the classroom.
Karen Brown
Arkansas Press Association Statewide Newspapers in Education Director
Little Rock, AR.
We are working with educators on ways to incorporate technology and newspapers into their curriculum. Newspapers are still an excellent resource to learn about their community, state, world and universe.
Laura Allen
Our district is training teachers for distance learning.
Harold Fisher
Spring I.S.D. Virtual School
We teach high school students within an interactive online environment. We use Moodle as well as other web authoring tools, along with chats, discussion boards, instant messaging, videos, dim dim, eluminate, wiki, just to name a few.
I am not sure how innovative this is but a local company donates their old machines to the school. The machines have not operating system and some of the machines do not work.
Our 5th grade students completely take apart the computer down to the empty case. They learn about how each component operates as they do this project. They reconstruct the machines and replace any non-functioning component. They then install the operating system.
Thus far, 3 years in, we have had 100% success rate with all of the machines working and they have been placed into service.
They love it!
We have used One True Media to present a Montage about who we are called "We are Indian Ridge" to show to the community as an intro to a meeting about adding 6th graders to our school.
Rick Benitez
Indian Ridge Middle School
Ysleta ISD, El Paso, TX
Smartboards are being used in several MS in the district. The teachers and students love the boards!
Mary
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD
Chuck Proffer
Sam Houston State Universtity
We are using blogs for students to do peer evaluations and questions to the instructor.
Learning and sharing
I use a web-based test center for all quizzes and tests we do. Saves paper and time.
We have a classroom blog that is our hub. Students post assignments themselves, we share our photostories, give opinions on certain topics, etc. Also, I have a group of students who are creating a blog for our community.
We have purchased tablets and projectors for teachers. We will have a complete wireless network by August 1 along with a fiber backbone between schools. Next year K-2 will get tablets, projectors and interactive whiteboards. Along with that, lots of staff development!
Melissa
Huntsville ISD
Our district has inundated all campuses with Promethean Boards (interactive white boards). Most of the teachers that have them use them religiously, and do a terrific job with them. The students are getting to the point where they expect the technology now instead of seeing it as something unusual, so it more than any other technology in recent years (at least in our district) has begun to be seamless in its integration.
I am using Wikis to allow students to collaborate with other students from other states.
Some of the teachers in our district use a discussion board feature within our electronic community to help students with reflective writing. I have created a blog that offers technology integration tips for the teachers in our district. However, blogs are also blocked in our district, so I was only able to post three items. We are hoping to get that changed soon.
Veronica Garcia
United ISD
Laredo, TX
Mike Safago
Racine Unified School District
Racine, Wisconsin
Smartboard
Senteo
Podcasting
Make Movies
United Streaming Videos
Slide Shows
Riverdeep
Brain Pop
Study Island
Atomic Learning
Digital Photos
Carmen A. Escamilla, United ISD Laredo, Texas
I am becoming versed in Web 2.0 tools so that I can implement these tools and use them in my high school library such as preparing/using wikis for a reference trivia hunt to teach library reference tools.
Podcasting students doing book reviews and book talks in the library.
I am collaborating with a 5th grade teacher to create google lit trips for our kindergarteners and first graders. We will use a variety of picture books. The students will create markers in Google Earth with text and pictures about the different events in each book and their locations.
Margie Brown
Valley View Elementary
Eanes ISD
We are going to create Classroom Online Forum discussions in Turn It In in order for students to have online discussions with a core teacher to review for the AP exams.
Developed a blog for technology teachers to collabrate on various technology issues.
I implemented "Photographer of the Day" at my pk-4th campus. The lucky student comes to me at the beginning of the day and he/she takes our inexpensive/sturdy Disney camera. Through out the day he/she takes pictures of whatever their teacher asks for of whatever they want.
At the end of the day, they bring the camera back to me and I assist as they upload the photos and create a Photostory. In Photostory, they add a title, record a short narration and choose background music. We then burn it to a CD for them to keep. The kids LOVE IT! The teachers are seeing how easy it can be to let kids use digital cameras.
We give students cameras to document a story.
David Psolka Yuma High School Yuma, AZ dpsolka@yumaed.org
I am collecting ideas and techniques that I can share with our staff development coordinator to assist with both classified training and certificated training in the district.
I have already collected some skills to assist MENTOR teachers in their efforts to collaborate on topics and instruction.
TechSmith (Camtasia) will assist with video tutorials
We're creating podcast lessons using PowerPoints and United Streaming video clips and uploading them to a class set of iPods. We only show 1 lesson at a time.
Danny Galeana McAllen ISD
We are implementing a one-to-one program at one of our schools. Every student and teacher will use a laptop during the day. We are currently training the teachers to integrate technology into their curriculum.
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