Technology in the Classroom

AIMA Annual Conference

SuperTech — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:40:13 +0000

Thanks to all of you that attended my sessions today at AIMA’s Annual Conference at Spain Park High School. I hope that you got some information that you can use at your school with your teachers and students. We talked today about using digital photography and other digital content in your curriculum. I hope that as you collaborate with classroom teachers, you create some great opportunities for your students to demonstrate what they have learned. I have added the links and handouts that you requested. Let me know if you have any other questions. If your students create something great or you develop a lesson that goes well, please let me know. I love to hear when things work for you! Enjoy. Let me know what you would like to learn about next year!

Handouts: photographic-scavenger-hunt delightfully_digital photo_story_handout

Links: AIMA website Janet Taylor’s Site ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education)

Teaching with Digital Images: Acquire, Analyze, Create, Communicate

by Lynn Bell, Editor & Glen L. Bull, Editor

Product Code: digima179 pages
ISTE, 2005
ISBN 978-1-56484-219-0
CD-ROM included

NETS•S 3,4,5

NETS•T I,II,III

www.nga.gov

Art Museum Image Consortium: www.amico.org -This site offers convenient access to images made available to schools for educational use through a common license

Library of Congress American Memories Collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem -This site includes photos available in the public domain.

Center for Digital Storytelling: www.storycenter.org

TopoZone: http://topozone.com -A repository of topographic maps.

http://www.archives.gov/ National Archives provides a range of U.S. history primary sources along with additional resources for teaching history in the social studies. Within this site are various lesson plans along with document analysis sheets as a means for deconstructing primary sources. www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/photo.html

Rubistar: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php - Rubistar is a free rubric making tool.

National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/onestop -On National Geographic’s One-Stop Research page, search for maps, pictures, articles, video, and more by topic.

Hubble Site Gallery: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/ -The official site of the Hubble Space Telescope includes images of deep space objects and space shuttles.

National Space Science Data Center Photo Gallery: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-spacecraft.html - This site hosts images of various NASA and other agency spacecraft.

Pics4Learning: www.pics4learning.com - Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.

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School is Cool!

SuperTech — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:37:16 +0000

School is Cool at Hueytown High. Today we talked about many ways to integrate technology in the classroom. If you heard an idea that you liked and need more information, let me know. If you need other ideas in a specific content area, I can provide you with other resources and links to some great lesson plans and rubrics. Thanks for letting me share information with you today! What else do you need? What other resources can we provide to help you deliver quality instruction for your students?

I have attached a couple of files that you might find useful.

Blogs, Wikis - Links

Your library/media specialist has copies of the templates and samples that we talked about in the session today. Ask her for a copy!

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Alabama NBCT Network

SuperTech — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:22:14 +0000

Welcome to all my Alabama NBCT Network friends. I hope that you find my session on Technology Integration useful. I provided several samples and templates on a cd. Listed below is the link to the handout about blogs. If you have questions, please email me or leave a comment here. Good Luck!

Blogs in the Classroom

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Podcasting for All?

SuperTech — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:16:07 +0000

Have you tried to create a podcast yet? For your students? With your students? I am in a workshop today about podcasting. I would love to try and do some professional development sessions for teachers so they could listen on their iPod or other mp3 player whenever they have time. What do you think? Would you listen? If you created a podcast to review material for your students, do you think they would download and listen? Some students are creating their own podcasts to share what they have learned about a topic. What do you want to try to do? There are some principals out there that are doing podcasts for their school communities on various topics. Do you think this is a good idea? Share your ideas about podcasting. What do you want to try first? What PD sessions would you like to see in a podcast format?

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Laptops for All!

SuperTech — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:54:00 +0000

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the AETA Fall Symposium. It was a great conference with plenty of helpful information. One of the sessions that I found interesting was on the 1:1 initiative. Several school districts have already taken this step. They chose a grade level to start with and gave each teacher and student a laptop. We discussed how you prepare to take this major step — funding, maintenance, professional development, parental involvment, student training, etc… I can see how it would be great in the classroom. What could you do if every student in your class/school had a laptop? What would you worry about?

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What Would You Want?

SuperTech — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:16:14 +0000

When planning for new classrooms, there is always the great debate, laptop or desktop. We always provide a computer for each teacher, but should it be a laptop or desktop? There are many pros for laptops. They are more mobile, provide greater flexibility. Teachers can move them around the room, take them to meetings, take them to professional devlopment activities, and take them home when they need to. There are cons. Security is a problem. Some teachers may worry about students taking them. Who will be liable if the laptop is damaged? What would you rather have? Why?

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Blogs For the Classroom

SuperTech — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:26:51 +0000

Several people are attending a workshop today on using Blogs in their classroom. I have talked to several teachers that have already used blogs with their students with success! These teachers tell me that students that would not write or respond in their journals participate more on the blog. Students are interested to see what their classmates write and they enjoy using the technology. Is this not what our goal is? We want the students engaged in the learning. Use the tools available to you! You can set up a blog for free and get your students sharing what they learn with a global audience. Have you used a blog in your classroom? Did you have success? Any problems? What are some things to think about? Privacy? Are you planning to start a blog? Send me the links…

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Back to School…

SuperTech — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:15:07 +0000

It is back to school for all of you. I hope that you had a great summer and got lots of rest. The fun begins again this year. I have been busy reading tech plans all summer and we have a lot of work to do. We are all in this together, so we will get them all straightened out. Please try and plan your technology professional development early so teachers can make good use of the information that you provide for them. The training calendar will be coming soon. It has grown quite a bit and I am still reserving rooms and securing dates. The local schools will have to pay for most of the subs, so be prepared for that. Most of you put that item in your budget.

My focus for this year is going to be Technology Integration…. sound familiar? I would be happy to come to your school and do an inservice with your staff — takes about 45 minutes to an hour. It is an introduction and I show them some practical samples done with minimal equipment. It is the session that I taught at the back to school conferences. Let me know if you are interested and I will put you on the calendar.

If there is anything we need to discuss here, just let me know and I can post things to get the discussion started!

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AIMA Conference

SuperTech — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:42:42 +0000

The Alabama Instructional Media Association held their annual conference on Monday, June 11th. To those of you that were there, thanks for coming and I hoped you got some great information to take back with you. To those library/media specialists that were not there, you really missed out. The guest speakers were very good and the concurrent sessions were informative.

I would like to thank all of you that attended my sessions. If you have any questions about the ideas and lessons that I shared, please do not hesitate to email me. I will be posting some additional lessons on my website in the future, so check back and look for those when you get a chance. Let me know if you use any of the ideas with your students. I would love to see some student work samples and find out if you had success with the activities.

Please let me know what topics you would like presented at next year’s conference. You know that we are already planning….

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Technology Curriculum Documentation

SuperTech — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:39:45 +0000

Soon teachers will have in their hands a great new curriculum guide for integrating the required technology standards in grades K-8. We have to document when the standards are taught and what the students are learning. The standards should be integrated into the regular curriculum. We are going to provide simple and great ideas about how to do that! The question is… how can we document the great work we will be doing with our students? a checklist for each student, a spreadsheet for each class, online through Career Cruising? Do you have an idea? I know I speak for all when I say we don’t want any more paperwork! Give us your thoughts and ideas about the best way to document. What will be the easiest for you as a classroom teacher?

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