FCPS TRT

Let's make our own 3D videos

More talk about Kahn

Imagine stepping inside the human body to learn about the systems. Now we can!

Sal Khan has been teaching via YouTube for over two years and has Bill and Melinda Gates helping him run his Academy.  This is a great model for instruction which frees up teachers to be me.  Students at  Bullis are watching the videos in advance of class to learn the skill, then come to class to practice.  The teacher spends his time coaching and helping. Advanced students work ahead and do enrichment.

Office 2010 Update Support - Training Courses, Interactive Guide (Where did it go?) Features, quick tips

Click on a screen image of 2003 program and get directions on how to do it in 2010

interactive flash based virtual hip replacement, stem cell transplant, design a cell phone, etc.

Finally, an article about how to teach with clickers, not just as an assessment tool.

This article would be effective to sharevwith groups during ActivExpression or CPS workshops. Especially Middle Schools

Lesson plans and ideas to use LiveScribe in the classroom

Now that Flip is gone and we are not ready to adopt tablet and mobile devices, we should look at these.

Tammy Worcester list of cool tools for interactive whiteboard

is a new service that is best described as a blog platform that offers rich multimedia commenting. If you've ever tried Tumblr, Web Doc will initial look familiar to you. Web Doc makes it easy to create a new post full of multiple media formats. Web Doc provides templates for changing the visual background of each post, widgets for all kinds of purposes (calendar, games, etc), and of course lots of options for video and image display. What makes Web Doc unique is that people who visit your Web Doc can reply with Web Docs of their own. In other words, the comments written in reply to your Web Doc can contain all of the rich multimedia elements that a Web Doc started from scratch can contain. This takes commenting to a new level compared to "traditional" blog platforms that only allow hyperlinks to be inserted into a comment.

This series chronicles one school's journey to implement mobile devices in the school. They have the same concerns FCPS has. It will be interesting to follow their progress to see how they overcome the issues. Granted, this is one school and we are many, but the issues are similar.

A great opportunity for students to learn more about the career of Cyber Security.

This should be on our webpage

Video explaining Geocaching

50 Digital Story Telling tools.

A fusion of art and technology is the answer to realizing the NETS. This potent combination naturally creates opportunities for creativity, innovation, communication, higher-order thinking, differentiation, and tech literacy. This is the adventures of a middle school teacher in a real-world classroom implementing this fusion. Posts include successes, challenges, failures, model lessons, student work, tech tool reviews and tutorials.

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