Mrs. Casleton and I established this space as a place for enhancing "technology conversations" among the faculty and staff at North Columbus Elementary School. Ideally this will include the sharing of information relevant to upcoming professional development sessions, our collective ideas about technology integration, and our related successes and challenges. I believe we learn as much, perhaps more sometimes, from challenges as we work through them.
We will have our first professional development session on Tuesday, September 16, at which time we will begin working with netTrekker. What technology classes are you most interested in during first semester training? Early Birds, would you prefer to begin at 7:30 or 7:45? Who else among you is already blogging? If you are blogging, please share here about some of your experiences.
Special invitation to all!! If you don't already have a gmail account, consider going ahead and setting up a free account now. This does not mean that you will need to, or even choose to, use Google email for your email. It will just makes access a bit more fluid as we begin to explore a number of Google Apps in the future.
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6 comments:
What a novel idea! Are other schools doing this? I haven't heard about it. Hey, has anyone read the comments about NCES on the Great Schools Website?
Hi Merle,
If there are other schools (in our district) doing something similar to our blog, I am unaware of them. I hope others will let us know if they are. If so, I certainly welcome the opportunity for us to learn from what they are doing too. I think this is a great way for us to keep in touch between face to face meetings and share ALL of our ideas/successes/challenges in a venue where we all have virtual access all of the time.
I have not read about NCES on the Great Schools website, but I will be going there to check it out! Thanks for pointing that out to folks like me who have not seen it!
BJ
Does anyone have suggestions for quick classroom tech activities? We don't get to the lab as often as I'd like. We are on a crunch time in 5th grade. I'm looking for 15 minute lessons to rotate students through.
I hope we can use this as it's designed! If you haven't checked out NetTrekker yet, please do. It's really a great place for music ideas, so I know regular classroom teachers will get a wealth of ideas from it. Please let me know if you run across any great tech lessons for music in any of your searches! I can use the help in planning tech music lessons!!
Wow! If you haven't been through Nettrekker, you need to go. It helps weed out unnecessary searching and really narrows it down for the students! I'm going to try a class blog. I'll let you know how it goes.
Our blog is up and running! The kids really got into it and are responding to the questions. I hope to start using it as a community circle also.
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