It has been a great week for technology training at the Marion School District. I am so pumped that so many teachers have come to learn new skills and create new activities for their students. I want to give two special shout-outs to my "Rock Stars".
MHS French teacher, Amanda Rich, has done some outstanding work! Look for "how-to" videos to be posted on Safari Montage and notebooks to be uploaded to SMARTExchange. Her work has such a professional touch to it.
My other Rock Stars are the MES teachers who have come ready to work. They sat by grade level so they could collaborate on the work. They had a plan of topics for the notebooks that needed to be designed and were ready and willing to listen and learn. Great job teachers!
Next week is another full slate ranging from ADMIN Tech to Web 2.0 and Janice Cook's Favorite Things! It should be fun, hope to see you there.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Exciting New Territory
I am so excited that today is finally here! I could not sleep last night and I don't know it that is a good thing or a bad thing. I do work better with a good night's rest.
Why am I so excited? My district level administrators are beginning to utilize SMART Technology! Today, Deputy Superintendent Jeff Altemus is going totally digital with his Tier II training! I am so excited! Way to go Mr. Altemus!
I have collaborated with him to create a Tier II Live Binder rather than duplicate pages and pages of information. Everyone will be given the URL to the binder and they may then access it at any time. Think of the trees we are saving.
In addition, we have created a SMARTNotebook file with SMARTResponse questions about the days presentations!
Our presentation skills may not be too coordinated as we are both very busy at this time of year and have not practiced much, but I am very optimistic that everything will go great.
Next, today begins our 5th year of summer technology workshops for our faculty. I believe I have a record number of teachers registered to attend! Yay!
Today I will be presenting a SMART Content Creation session using color to create hide/reveal or slide activities. The plan if for the teachers to create activities using the techniques they learn. Then I have a surprise for them. We are going to create a video of them describing how they created the activities and post to YouTube and/or TeacherTube and Safari Montage.
This is due to an iPad presentation I attended earlier this spring at our educational co-op. The presenter from Apple challenged everyone to not only be a Content Consumer, but to also be a Content Contributor! Powerful! I hope I can get my teachers to accept this and begin to share not just locally, but nationally and internationally, many of the great lessons they have created.
Why am I so excited? My district level administrators are beginning to utilize SMART Technology! Today, Deputy Superintendent Jeff Altemus is going totally digital with his Tier II training! I am so excited! Way to go Mr. Altemus!
I have collaborated with him to create a Tier II Live Binder rather than duplicate pages and pages of information. Everyone will be given the URL to the binder and they may then access it at any time. Think of the trees we are saving.
In addition, we have created a SMARTNotebook file with SMARTResponse questions about the days presentations!
Our presentation skills may not be too coordinated as we are both very busy at this time of year and have not practiced much, but I am very optimistic that everything will go great.
Next, today begins our 5th year of summer technology workshops for our faculty. I believe I have a record number of teachers registered to attend! Yay!
Today I will be presenting a SMART Content Creation session using color to create hide/reveal or slide activities. The plan if for the teachers to create activities using the techniques they learn. Then I have a surprise for them. We are going to create a video of them describing how they created the activities and post to YouTube and/or TeacherTube and Safari Montage.
This is due to an iPad presentation I attended earlier this spring at our educational co-op. The presenter from Apple challenged everyone to not only be a Content Consumer, but to also be a Content Contributor! Powerful! I hope I can get my teachers to accept this and begin to share not just locally, but nationally and internationally, many of the great lessons they have created.
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