This past week I had the privilege of working with pre-service teachers at Georgia Southern University through The Digital Wave project. I met with a group of 15 students one evening to show methods for incorporating Web 2.0 tools in the classroom through collaboration with a library media specialist. I showed the group how to [...]
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GSU Digital Wave Workshop: Web 2.0 Technologies for the Classroom
Posted in Media Lessons, Teacher Resources, Technology, tagged Collaboration, Georgia Southern University, Library Media Specialist, Web 2.0 Tools on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Using Cacoo to Create Collaborative Food Webs
Posted in Media Lessons, Teacher Resources, Technology, tagged Cacoo, collaboration teachers, Diagraming Tool, Mind Mapping, Web 2.0 on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
http://www.bigreboot.com/images/cacoo_logo.gif Cacoo is a free online diagramming tool which allows real-time collaboration. Teachers can sign up for a free Academic Plan which allows them to add student users. *Please note the Academic Plan is free through June 30, 2012 after which it will be half the price of the Team Plan. The Project: After studying [...]
9/11 Ten Years Later: America Remembers
Posted in Teacher Resources, tagged 2001, 9/11, September 11, Ten Year Anniversary 9/11, Terrorist Attacks on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when the tragic events of September 11, 2001 occurred? I was in the library shelving books when my principal hurried in the door and asked me to turn on the television. Over the course of the school day, I watched the horrifying reality of [...]
April is National Poetry Month
Posted in Teacher Resources, tagged April, National Poetry Month on April 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media—to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals. It was created to increase the visibility and availability of poetry [...]
Book Trailer Session for QUEST Teachers
Posted in Media Lessons, Teacher Resources, Technology, tagged Book Trailers on October 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Are you tired of your students turning in the same old projects for book reports year after year? Are you looking for something new incorporating technology? Bulloch County ‘s QUEST teachers are invited to this session to see how their students can create book trailers. A book trailer is a video advertisement for a book [...]
Saving Documents and Favorites
Posted in Teacher Resources, Technology, tagged Delicious, Dropbox on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Teachers will be receiving new laptops in January to replace the Dells we have been using for the past three years. I held sessions this week to help teachers begin the process of saving all their documents and Internet Favorites on their machines. Faculty created Dropbox and Delicious accounts and I showed them how to [...]
Liberty County Technology Conference
Posted in Teacher Resources, Technology, tagged Educational Software, Open Source Software, Technology on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I attended the technology conference today in Liberty County in Hinesville and wanted to share some of the highlights from the two sessions I attended. In Freeloader’s Guide to Educational Software Daniel Rivera shared wonderful Open Source software available on the web: Crayon Physics - Crayon Physics is a 2D physics game, in which solve puzzles with your artistic [...]
Bulloch County Technology Day
Posted in Teacher Resources, tagged Blog, blogging, Book Trailer, FLIP Video, GIMP, glogster, Photo Story, podcast, Windows Movie Maker on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I enjoyed the Bulloch County Technology Day held on January 4th at Southeast Bulloch High School and learned about so many great resources. Over 35 different sessions were held on topics such as podcasting, blogging, file management, computer maintenance, free educational software online, Photo Story 3, and Glogster. I taught the classes on What’s the [...]
New Staff Development Course
Posted in Media Lessons, Teacher Resources, tagged Blog, FirstClass, GIMP, Photo Story 3, Podcasting, PowerPoint, Staff Development, United Streaming, YouTube on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year I am offering a technology course for faculty and staff to earn one PLU credit. I took a survey to determine the topics of interest and developed a course to meet after school ten times during the year for a hour. Topics for the class include using United Streaming and YouTube in the [...]
New Classroom Novel Sets Added
Posted in Booktalks, Reading, Teacher Resources, tagged A Year Down Yonder, Anne Frank, Arrow Over the Door, Bearstone, Charlie's Raven, Come Sing Jimmy Jo, Diary of a Young Girl, Dipper of Copper Creek, Fair Weather, Flip-flop Girl, Gary Soto, Irene Hunt, Jacq, Jacqueline Woodson, Jane Yolen, Jean Craighead George, Joan Bauer, Joseph Bruchac, Julius Lester, Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Letters from Rifka, Long Journey Home, Lyddie, Mildred D. Taylor, Miracle's Boys, NerdLandia, No Promises in the Wind, Park's Quest, Richard Peck, River Between us, S.E. Hinton, Shark Beneath the Reef, Stand Tall, That Was Then This is Now, The Devil's Arithmetic, The Well, Will Hobbs, Zlata Filipovic, Zlata's Diary on July 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Along with their new language arts textbooks, teachers were able to choose from a selection of book titles to add more classroom novel sets to our inventory. I have cataloged and processed the sets and thought it would be a good idea to list them in a post and include helpful instructional information. New 6th [...]
Celebrate Earth Day – April 22nd
Posted in Holidays, Teacher Resources, tagged April 22, Conservation, Earth Day, Recycle on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Did you leave the water running while you were brushing your teeth this morning? Do you recycle your water or soda bottles? Did you turn off all the lights before you left the house this morning? Earth Day is celebrated today, April 22nd. It is a time to celebrate gains we have made and create [...]
April Fools’ Day
Posted in Holidays, Research, Teacher Resources, tagged April 1st, April Fools' Day, Holiday on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
April Fools’ Day falls on a Wednesday this year. Are you interested in the top 100 April Fools’ Day hoaxes of all time? Check out the links below and be careful not to get pranked. Museum of Hoaxes Origin and History Activites and Jokes
ELMO Document Camera
Posted in Teacher Resources, tagged document camera, ELMO, lessons, teaching on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The media center has just received a document camera for our teachers to use in their classroom. The document camera is a specialized video camera designed to display documents and 3-D objects through your projector onto your SMARTBoard. Below is a report from the Kennewick School District that lists 101 uses for a document camera and a great [...]
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