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Kindergartners and Laptops
This year, we have two teachers working collaboratively with their Kindergarten classes. This enables them to provide more flexibility in grouping and differentiation. They wanted to keep the group together for their tech integration activities, but the labs could not accommodate such a large group.
What a perfect use for our mobile labs! We have [...]
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Taking pictures with our Macs
After a quick hour and half drive from Austin to SA, we arrived at Janice’s room, she is watching the UStream from the Bloggers Cafe.
We all decided to learn how to take photos with our macs..It’s so easy, just open PhotoBooth from our Applications folder in our Mac Hard Drive, aim and click the red [...]
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Off to NECC
Just fixin’ to get in the car and pick up Debbie and Linda, 2 CTCs from our district, and drive on down the road to NECC.
I read Janice’s Texas Malahini blog, and love the idea of taking pictures with our Macs!!
Our district will be adding Macs to the PCs the students are using, in order [...]
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K5Tech Podcasts
Today I am in an exciting workshop presented by Janice Friesen and Debbie Smith on podcasting. We have learned to create podcasts and post them. We are working on pcs (not macs)..so we are having to do some fancy footwork, but it is working.
We got a nice treat for attending! All of us received [...]
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The Art Teacher From the Black Lagoon
At the beginning of school, we read The Teacher from the Black Lagoonby Mike Thaler. The children enjoyed the book so much that we also read The Nurse from the Black Lagoon, The Principal from the Black Lagoon, The Librarian from the Black Lagoon, The Lunch Lady from the Black Lagoon and The Gym Teacher [...]
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Creating Google Maps with 5th Graders
Well.. we (Valley View 5th Grade Students, Nancy Darling, 5th grade teacher, and I) did it. It took a little longer than we planned, but the end product is a Google Earth map with detail or marker boxes about the world’s biomes, created by these 5th graders.
We all learned quite a bit in the process. [...]
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