Mahomet-Seymour Instructional Technology

Ideas and Supplies

Throughout the course of the semester I am working on projects big and small with educators across our district. Please check out the list below for some ideas of things we have done, that may spark your interest. Also, see the pictures of the supplies that I can provide to enhance your project.

Google Classroom Set-up: I can come help you set up your Google Classroom Space and co-teach the first few lessons on how to use this site.
Google Forms: I can show you how to turn a Google Form into a quiz. It's easy!
Google Slides: Turn Google Slides into picture book presentations. This is great for younger elementary students.
Hour of Code: We can work together to teach your kids how to code. It's easy and fun!
Podcasting: I have a professional microphone and recording software. We can create podcasts or just professional sounding audio files for student projects, portfolios or to lay over student pictures or slide shows.
Green screen videography: We have a green screen rooms at the High School and Lincoln Trail....and we know how to use them!
iPad Pro and stand for recording projects both in front of the green screen or in your classroom.
Distance learning from experts: You can bring your class to the High School or MPE. From that space, you can co-teach a lesson with a friend in another district or talk to an author or expert anywhere in the world. We have the classroom for that!
Use Symbaloo to create an organized workspace or set your classroom Chromebooks to your Symbaloo homepage. I'll do it for you.
Have an App or Website that you use and want to see if it can work on the Chromebook? I can add it to the district's Chrome Apps from the Chrome Web Store or find one there that is similar. We've done this with Molview and Stellarium at the High School and Junior High.
STEM collaborations at the Junior High and Sangamon, this year have been sweet. Plan and/or Co-teach STEM related lessons in your classroom.
Google Cardboard! Take your class on a virtual tour of The Louvre in Paris or a Pig Farm in Bolivia. I've done both! Can you guess which one was for an Ag Class at the High School?

Google Cardboard is here!! I have two classroom sets (15 VR goggles). These have been used from French Class to Science to Ag! Look me up and we can set up a time to collaborate or you can just borrow them. I highly recommend using spotters for this activity though. Not all students should be on goggles at once.

This Blue Snowball is perfect for professional sounding projects. Plan a project, or co-plan with me and we can use this amazing microphone to record your students' voices.

With this iPad stand, we can video your student presentations from a stable mount. No need to have a shaky video. You can use it with my assistance or borrow it if you would like to as well. We can use iMovie to edit the video, or upload them to any website editor that you choose, such as WeVideo.

This Belkin iPad stand is for displaying content on a Smartboard or other projection screen in the classroom setting. It is meant to take the place of a document camera and can be used in conjunction with Apple TV or hard wired. I have two and access to two Apple TV's.

This is a Padcaster! It is a professional grade camera lense for an iPad that we can use to transform your video projects. This is the ideal set-up for our Green Screen Room in our Maker-Space at the High School and now at Lincoln Trail. It also comes with an attachable teleprompter. Students can have their lines scrolling and projecting towards them so that they don't have to create posters or memorize long speeches. That is, unless you want them to. This is professional grade equipment, so it is be better suited for some classrooms rather than others. Ours does not have the hand-held microphone, but we have a shotgun microphone like the one in this picture.

WANHAO Duplicator 6

Lauren Ochs, the High School Librarian, and I won an ICE (Illinois Computing Educators) Grant last Fall for a 3D Printer and plenty of spools. If you have a small project or item that you would like to collaborate with me on, just let me know. The machine will stay in the High School Maker Space, but you can send me your file or speak to me about your project or idea and we'll see how we can make it work for you.

JmGO View Smart Portable Theater

Want to take your class or lesson to an area of the school or grounds that does not have projection? Would you love to project with good quality image AND sound? We can do that.

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