MCPS SA-94

Tech Integration made easy as pie:

Great cache for cool tools. I really like wordia: a visual dictionary

Thanks for sharing this. Now, I have a few more new tips and tricks to share, as well.

Looking for a short video to introduce or reinforce a math concept. This site is great.

We are going on a field trip on 10/ 8. Each student will have a digital camera/video camera to take pictures on the trip. When they return they will need to answer three of the index cards and create their own glog with their own text/pictures and videos. Great way to followup a field trip!

Love this! I also love how kids will have cameras and be taking their own pictures. What kind of cameras are they using?

I have a class set of Bean Sprout and Cabinar camera's so each student has one to take digital pictures. I also have 13 GFM DV-150's which students pair up to take videos and digital pictures. The first field trip was quite a success using this assignment. My students were engaged and asked very pointed questions. The tour guide commented how well prepared they seemed, and how great their questions were. I plan on doing the same type of assignment when we go to the Natural History Museum next month.

This is an example of a traditional lesson that I added technology to very easily. The lesson plan is in the attachments. My class went through the writing process to create their New Year's resolutions. When they finished their traditional "stepping into New Year's" bulletin board activity, we then digitally captured their voices in Audacity. Students then created their own Resolution Page in Glogster.edu.

These tips about personlising with technology are really 10 ways to apply UDL concepts to your technology use. A good quick and dirty of how UDL and technology overlap.

"More important than the gadgets themselves, of course, is how the teachers use them to create personalized lessons and a productive environment where each child is engaged." I wish some of our staff development would focus on bringing all of the elements together the way that this article does. Sometimes we might lose sight of the bigger picture with so much technology available to us. This puts it all in perspective.

I am going to incorporate this tool into a few flipcharts.

Framework to match readers with texts. Use personally or teach students to use as well.

This site provides an array of virtual manipulative that you can use on your promethean and your students can use on their own as well. It provides resources for multiple grade levels.

This is a wonderful interactive online math dictionary. We use this website for MSA practice frequently at my school.

Discusses a strategy for getting started with web 2.0 tools and gives a list of the major categories to consider.

Another resource for Clicker is the Clicker ebooks that you can download from the Accessible Book Collection. This is a great website that has digital text in different formats available for download...there is a $50 subscription fee for the year but it is well worth it if you are trying to integrate digital text with instruction. You can see that Linda has played a large part in adding these Clicker 5 books to the collection! Posted by Kathryn Lee on Blackboard

Using Pebble Go with first graders.  Students worked in the lab and also in the classroom using a laptop cart.

Glog I created that has a great teacher focused 21st Classroom video

Includes online word magnets, equitable practice random selectors. Great tools for those who don't have Promethean Boards