GEHS June Workshop

Take a minute to blog your reflections of the first day. What thoughts do you have on possible technology connections to either your teaching or for your students? What project ideas do you want to tackle for either yourself or students?

Movie Maker Tutorials

There are tons of sites available on the web to support the use of Movie Maker. If you are a visual "show me" type of learner, check out Atomic Learning at http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2 to learn specific elements of working with this software.

If you want a more step-by-step approach, these sites might be better for you:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/nisa/moviemaker.htm

Differentiating Instruction with Technology Tools

How might you begin to utilize technology in your own instruction to help support differentiation for student learning?

WMS Tech Ready Workshop Needs

Please take a few minutes to blog what you want/need to learn more about on Day 2 of our time together. Topics might include:
Blogs/Wikis
Publisher
PowerPoint
Excel
PhotoStory
MovieMaker
Inspiration
Other???

Happy Blogging!
z

PRMS Tech Ready Workshop - What do you want to learn?

Please take a few minutes to Blog what you need/want to learn more about. Your responses will be used to help shape our Day 2 break out sessions FOR YOU!

Topics might include:
-Blogs and Wiki's
-PowerPoint
-Excel
-Digital Storytelling with MovieMaker & PhotoStory
-Writing projects with Inspiration & Publisher
-Others???

Tech Ready Workshop - Moonlight Day 2

Please take a few minutes to let us know what you'd like to learn more about. Ideas might include:
-Spending time setting up a Class Blog and/or Wiki
-Setting up a student project with PhotoStory
-Setting up a student project with Publisher
-Setting up a student project with MovieMaker
-Setting up a student WebQuest

If there are other topics of interest, please let us know. We'll try our best to accomodate the majority of wants/needs.

To Wiki or Not To Wiki? That is the Question.

Please take a few moments to blog (yes, you will now be considered a blogger!) your thoughts on how you might utilize a wiki. This may not be your cup of tea but and that is ok. Please let us know what you are thinking!

Tuesday Reflections

Tomorrow we will have time to continue working on student samples while also collaborating on the development of formative and summative student assessments. We will also begin the morning with a look at an Intel tool for getting at deeper levels of thinking across grades and curriculum. Take a few moments at the end of today to reflect on your personal progress.
Question 1. Are you on track? You should have made progress on the following:
A. Unit Plan
B. Publication sample for students
C. Presentation to introduce the unit to students and gauge student needs
D. An additional student project sample (a presentation, sample wiki, blog, or multimedia project)
E. Assessments to accompany each student product

If you have not made progress on these components, we still have time to tackle this in the next 2 days together.

Question 2. At this point, what student samples have you identified for your project?

Question 3. What individual assistance do you need to reach your goal of completion of the unit plan, student samples and assessments?

How are we doing?

Please post your Day 1 reflections. Let me know what you learned today that will be useful in the classroom as well as provide feedback on what needs to be different (pace of information, more details, less details, etc.) for Tuesday.

cz

Teaching with Projects

You will learn through out the Intel Essentials Workshop, the importance (and research) behind incorporating Project Based Learning into the curriculum. Take a minute to post your reflections on experiences you have had (be they extensive or slim) with PBL in the classroom.

How can blogging impact students?

How can blogs be useful in supporting the curriculum in our elementary, middle and high schools?

Welcome to My K12 Technology Integration Blog!

This is my very first blog! It is my hope that we can begin exploring our interest and abilities to integrate technology across our prek-12 curriculum. There is a great deal of research already gathered on the impact of technology in instruction. We know that integration is a desired activity at all grade levels. Through this blog we can explore our ideas, fears, difficulties and support each other with potential support and solutions.

Blog-on!
cz