Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tech Survey for a Date

It looks like from our survey that there are some teachers that would like the three hours of your choice of training. Now I would like several dates to offer to the teachers. If you have a preference, type me in a date.




What is a good date for after school technology for comp time?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Tuesday Technology 1/18

Today, I have a survey for you to complete on Technology inservices to come this spring. Also I have an activity with Word and Post-it notes. You know how I love "post-y notes". I also reviewed the reader used while surfing the web. The time today will be spent with you perusing a website with a plethora of activities.



Link to survey
Link to Ideas to Inspire website

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Technology Tuesday 1/5

Welcome 2011


I am looking forward to 2011.  Each year it seems that it brings new, exciting technologies for us. I cannot wait to see what this year has in store for us.



Monday, December 13, 2010

iPod Touch training

The last three Tech Tuesdays have been devoted to training on the iPod Touches.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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.

Technology Tuesday

For making a comment by Friday at 2:30 your name will be entered into a drawing for a prize. You can make a comment about anything related to technology - good or bad.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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.



Tuesday, November 2, 2010

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