Technology Tuesday 11/16

Teaching Activity: ABC Soup

List the ABC's on poster paper, a sheet of paper, or in a google doc. The students have to come up with a word or phrase that begins with each letter of the alphabet. The topic can be an introduction to see what they know about a subject, a review to see what they learned, or something as simple as things they are thankful for as the Thanksgiving season is here.

Discussion of iPhones/ iPod Touch software, tips, and tricks - with many more to come.

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Technology Tuesday 11/9

Today's topic was two teaching ideas using Google Docs and Google Presentations.
1. Stick Figure activity is where the student or a group of students tell what they see (know), hear or say, and the strengths of a topic on a stick figure of a person. This could be used as a google Doc with one group doing the "see", one group doing the "hear", and one group doing the "strengths or facts".
This also could be done with the Airliners or the new Averpens. A hard copy will also work. The stick figure was drawn with the drawing tools in Google docs.

2.  Three Facts and a Fib is where there are four statements about a topic. Three of the statements are true and one is false. The students have to choose which is the Fib (false). This could be used as an introduction to a class, a closure activity, or review for a test.

Tech Tuesday 11/2/11

Technology Tuesday

The main topic today was presentations in Google docs and how to create them. Presentations is a "lite" version of PowerPoint. The main advantage is it online; therefore, it is always accessible to you wherever you are.

Technology Tuesday

I also encouraged teachers to add their favorite Apps to the worksheet that I created last week.

Cool iPod/iPhone Apps