How's Your Technology Green Thumb?

It's more about planting seeds
than pulling weeds.

Wicomico County Elementary Professional Day
April 30, 2007 - 8:30-11:45
Chris Cuppett, Karen Engleman, Carla Hurchalla, Patti Weeg


Art by Danielle Hurchalla, 1998		 Landscaping: the big picture
Introductions and Agenda

Seed packets for Technology Literate Students

Directions and Care: Self-confident, beaming, hardy learners will blossom in full color for your delight. These rapid-growing perennials require good instructional soil and lots of encouraging sunlight. Water your seeds generously with technology infused lessons to ensure strong roots. Beware of weeds that strangle budding shoots such as "not enough time" and "too much trouble."

When to plant: Any time at all

Preparing the soil: the standards

  1. Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum
  2. Maryland Technology Literacy Standards for Students
  3. Wicomico County Pacing Charts - login and click on 06-07 Curriculum
Plant these emerging technology "seeds" and watch your students blossom!

D2L

The garden "shed" where you will find everything you need to help your students become perennial learners. Look in Desire2Learn for:

  1. Curriculum pacing charts
  2. Sample lesson plans as well as TurningPoint and PowerPoint templates
  3. Online courses
Video Camera
  1. How to create a PowerPoint presentation and insert video clips
  2. Digital Video in the Classroom
  3. Explorer Interviews - Tony Vincent's 5th grade students
  4. Movie Making for Kids
Document Camera
  1. Setting up a document camera
  2. AverVision Document Camera 300P
  3. User Manual
  4. 100 ways to use a document camera
  5. Uses for a document camera - forum messages
  6. Virtual projector - identifies ports and appropriate cables for your projector.
Palm handhelds
  1. Palm applications for Pre-K, K and 1st grade
  2. Palm Programs with links to application downloads - by Chris
  3. Math programs for Palms with screen pictures
  4. Language Arts programs for Palms with screen pictures
  5. Palm Software Tony Vincent
  6. Using TapSmart Handshare to project your Palm screen on the wall screen
  7. Tony Vincent's website
  8. List of Palm applications
  9. Link to Palm applications written by Dale Ehrhart - descriptions included
  10. Using Palms at Delmar
  11. How to make eBooks for Palms
TurningPoint
  1. TurningPoint Set Up
  2. Creating slides in TurningPoint
  3. Creating a Participant List in TurningPoint
  4. Generating TurningPoint Reports
  5. TurningPoint Quick Start
  6. Third grade students using TurningPoint
  7. How can TurningPoint improve my lessons?
  8. TurningPoint's Classroom Impact
  9. TurningPoint templates in D2L - Login required
Interwrite and eBeam
  1. Setting up eBeam and Interwrite
  2. Westside's Whiteboard Links by Dave Harris
  3. eBeam in Education
  4. Interwrite lesson plans - GTCO CalComp's Resource Center
  5. Interwrite images - GTCO CalComp
  6. Interwrite background image library - GTCO CalComp
  7. Interwrite Tutorials - GTCO CalComp
Interactive whiteboard-friendly sites:
  1. Primary Math Whiteboard Resources
  2. Primary Interactive Whiteboard Resources
  3. Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Numeracy
  4. Interactive sites - whiteboards
  5. i-Board
  6. ICT Games - Numeracy
  7. Interactive Resources Click Key Stage 1 and 2 at the top
  8. eChalk Interactive Resources
  9. Smartboard Resources
  10. Whiteboard Resources
  11. PlayKidsGames.com
Wrap Up

W e ' r e   B l o o m i n '   N o w !

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Patti Weeg
pweeg@wcboe.org
Title 1 Technology Integration Professional Developer/Coach
Wicomico County Public Schools
Maryland
April 20, 2007