Olga LaPlante

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techgintegration

It’s a wonderful tool to have, but how do you make it a seamless part of the lesson? Where does technology belong in your classroom?

Some ideas for you come from the technology uses (per Grappling’s spectrum).

Please review the PDF and decide where each of the flashlight activities belongs on the spectrum.

We’ll discuss some resources - and please feel free to add as you are a community of professionals where you learn as much by yourself as from one another.

techintegrationpart2

Some ideas may be:

A Maths Dictionary For Kids

Tons of resources by Jim Burke

Create a message to call for compassion and how that is important and make it sound as powerful as you can. Please submit your messages as comments on this blog.

Here are some photos from our training today. We spent so much time on learning how to troubleshoot, recorded a sample podcast, created online bookmarking account, watched a video, or two, talked about tech integration… Very busy!

Here is the proof:

Please review the video and post your comments here.

Lincoln Dome

Today we’ll focus on evaluating how teachers use technology in the classroom. What makes good use of technology? For some of you, it may be the SAMR model, and the TPCK diagram. We’ll take up Grappling’s spectrum as our baseline, and we’ll walk around and get ideas from examples of other people using technology. Where are you? Where would you like to go?

We’ll set a technology use goal for the rest of the year.

We’ll also brush up some of the forgotten skills, on a number of titles. (individual help, during worktime).

Very inspiring - Read and watch the keynote presentation from MAINEducation Conference 2008.

Watch this video on project-based learning from Edutopia.

We all have a varying degree of experience with social networking websites. However, teenagers and younger generation tend to be there more frequently than older adults. Whatever your preference, you have certainly heard of kids (and adults, actually!) getting into trouble over something they posted on their page, or some site.

So, here are some ways to explore this contraversial topic.

Please go to this WebQuest and explore all about social networking and its place in school (or not).

Sharing Web 2.0 Tools

To find blogs about your subject, you can do a search. Go to Google Blog Search and type in the type of subject-related topic you would like to read about. Please find and write about a blog that you would like to investigate. Include the URL in your post. If you’re not sure how to make the link active, read this article, “How To Make A Link Active”.

If you feel like you lost your grip on certain things with this new interface, here is a little tip: to add files to your posts, use the ADD MEDIA option on your toolbar. Here:

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To learn about the proposed syllabus go the wiki page here.

Here is a simple way to create a meaningful podcast, that you can use immediately with your community, if you publish it online.

Check out this water conservation site that offers dozens of tips on how to save water. Some of them will definitely apply to you and your area. Find 3 tips you like most or find most appropriate. (Remember that change starts with you!).

Then quickly make a search to find pictures/photos or use your own original work to illustrate your message.

Open GarageBand (if you have it!), and record your wise tips, using a Male or a Female Voice Track. Once you recorded your voice (narration), add some background music or a jingle to make your recording more expressive. This article may be helpful. Also, don’t forget to use your own Learning Center on your MLTI computers.

Bring in your pictures, to create a video podcast. Time them to transition from one to another in sinc with your narration.

Helpful Tip: Make sure that you don’t leave gaps between pictures. Pictures are easily “stretched” to take up all the room available.

Finally, show/play your podcast to a colleague to make an impression. Share it using iTunes, or send it as a file to your desktop. Enjoy your learning as you are helping raise awareness of water-wasting habits in your community!

Post it to your Edline account as a file or an assignment. (For Westbrook Teachers only).