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Small Town Tech: November 2008
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Friday, November 21, 2008. The Wordle part of this lesson is one that I picked up from someone on Plurk. I apologize for not paying attention to whom it was and giving proper credit. We began our primary lesson (k-2) by watching a movie about Thanksgiving. On brainpopjr. (It is listed as one of their free resources this month.) We also visited Scholastic's First Thanksgiving website. My third graders used Microsoft PowerPoint to displ...
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Small Town Tech: October 2008
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Halloween Lesson Plan: Shrunken Heads. Reading through the student worksheet. Will give you an idea of how this lesson works as I have not typed up a lesson plan for this activity yet. I think it is wonderful to be able to post student work to the web. I know my students love to view their work online! I thought I would go ahead and share the form my district uses as the Permission to Post document. The co...
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Small Town Tech: November 2009
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Sunday, November 15, 2009. SMART notebook Lesson: Verbs. My new district is a SMART district. Let me clarify. We solely use SMART products such as interactive whiteboards, Airliners and Response systems. When I go in to a classroom to model a lesson for teacher training, I have been trying to create resource files that apply to the curriculum my teachers are currently teaching their students. So, perhaps a few of you can.
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Small Town Tech: December 2008
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Thursday, December 18, 2008. First graders participated in a Polycom distance collaboration project with South Street Elementary. In Vermilion, Ohio on December 11th called, "Where's Prancer? This activity was posted on CAPSpace. Website by Heidi Boone. To begin the activity, students read the book, "Where's Prancer? I created a PowerPoint template for this project. The PowerPoint. I also added a stamp from Stamps.com. The Buffaloes (...
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Small Town Tech: August 2009
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Goodbye Summer: A VoiceThread Activity. Need a Back to School writing activity? Perhaps your class can send Summer a farewall? Have your students write "Goodbye Summer" poems. Once the poetry is complete, students can illustrate the program using an program like TuxPaint. Then, you can combine all the poems in a class VoiceThread. Or PowerPoint and share with parents at the back to school night. My summer w...
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Small Town Tech: August 2010
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Thursday, August 12, 2010. DailyBooth for the Classroom? The idea of taking an image of a student daily, weekly or monthly is actually a neat way to capture the changes in your students throughout a school year. This is not an new idea but many school filters do not allow access to social websites like Dailybooth. So, how can we do something similar to Dailybooth. By using the tools available on your computer and school. Or, have stud...
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Small Town Tech: May 2009
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Thursday, May 7, 2009. Travel Buddy exchange with the UK! Dyane Smokorowski has one of the best descriptions of travel buddies on her blog, Making Teachers Nerdy. The Honeybees and our third graders. Were able to partner with schools this year to participate in the travel buddy program. Billy is a travel bear. We mailed Burrton Bear over to visit the primary students in UK. Then on May 6th, the Honeybees telaconferenced via Polycom.
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Small Town Tech: DailyBooth for the Classroom?
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Thursday, August 12, 2010. DailyBooth for the Classroom? The idea of taking an image of a student daily, weekly or monthly is actually a neat way to capture the changes in your students throughout a school year. This is not an new idea but many school filters do not allow access to social websites like Dailybooth. So, how can we do something similar to Dailybooth. By using the tools available on your computer and school. Or, have stud...
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Small Town Tech: February 2010
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Ideas for integrating technology into elementary education classrooms. Friday, February 12, 2010. Have you Filled a Bucket Today? Today's lesson is one in making others feel good about themselves and will fit well into your character education curriculum. After reading the book, "Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids,. After editing sentences, students design their own bucket in a paint/draw program. The images for this particular project were created in Pixie. With Valentin...