June 4, 2009
SMART Board Group 1) Reviewing New Equipment -Document Camera -Airliner -Showing media on SMART Boards (CD/DVDs/streaming video, etc) 2) Floating Tools vs Notebook Software 3) Ideas for Using SMART Board "How to Integrate a SMART Board into Your Teaching," Allisyn Levy "Ideas for the SMART Board in the K-5 Classroom" -Ideas we have for using it with our classes 4) SMART Tutorials & Help -SMART Educator's Site (a) 2-minute Tutorials (b) Teachers' Hub -Teachers Love SMART Boards -Tutorials & Help 5) Manipulatives, Lessons & the Notebook Gallery -SMART Lesson Activities -Tequipment's collection of interactives & lessons -Great Sites for the Classroom -Manipulatives & Interactive Sites -Exploring the Content in the Gallery & Adding to "My Content": Find something you would use for your classroom Early Childhood Group 1) Integrating Technology into the Early Childhood Classroom -What we're doing now -Ideas of what we'd like to be doing -Sample classroom management style: teacher video - CD -Lesson Plans & Ideas 2) A Taste of Podcasting -What is podcasting? -Examples from classrooms: (a) The Neighborhood School (pre-K) (b) Radio Willow Web (1st grade) (c) Small Voices (kindergarten) (d) Miss Kelly's Podcasts: Rules of the Class (kindergarten) - iTunes -Using podomatic.com as a simple solution: creating a podcast on the fly 3) Using Google Earth with Students -Google Earth interface -Recording a quick tour |