Activeboards part 2 December 10, 2007
Posted by Dottie Black in : Rogers-Herr Middle School, Teacher Resources, Technology , add a commentI happened to stop into Ms. Steven’s 7th grade social studies class while she was using her new activeboard. I shot a short video of her teaching.
Activeboards Rock November 5, 2007
Posted by Dottie Black in : Lakewood Elementary School, Schools, Teacher Resources, Technology , add a commentI met with Robin Franklin, the technology mentor from Lakewood elementary school last week. She has a new activeboard in her classroom. She talked about the way this wonderful tool has challenged her teaching techniques. She told me how she had used it to show her students how to search for books from the Durham Public Library.
As she was teaching the lesson, she wasn’t sure how to do something so she picked up her personal communication device (cell phone) and called a librarian. As the librarian explained the process to her over the phone, she was relaying that to the class and showing them how to do it with the Activeboard. When they were finished, the kids applauded and she held the phone up so the librarian could hear them.
The students learned about databases, they learned how to search and reserve books. They also learned who to talk to when they need help at the library. Ms. Franklin’s next project for her students is to find out where the bookmobile stops and then have them write letters to request stops in their neighborhoods.
Road Trip to South Carolina November 1, 2007
Posted by Dottie Black in : Events, Teacher Resources, Uncategorized , add a comment
The Rogers-Herr middle school mentor and mentees attended the South Carolina Association for Educational Technology Conference in Myrtle Beach last week. The theme of the conference was Back to the Future. (Yes, that is a DeLorean)
Rubrics,Rubrics October 9, 2007
Posted by Dottie Black in : Teacher Resources, Technology, Uncategorized , add a commentKathy Shrock is a K-12 Technology dynamo. She has been helping the K-12 community with technology for years. She has an email newsletter you can subscribe to and also a fantastic website.
This weeks email highlighted her rubrics page.
Social Networking for Kids October 1, 2007
Posted by Dottie Black in : Teacher Resources, Technology , add a commentLast year one of my teacher friends discovered that there was a “trash site” about her teaching team on Bebo.com. She went to look at it and found that many of her students had profiles on Bebo. Some of them had posted photos of themselves and information like where they went to school, where they lived, and even some phone numbers. Since then, we have had many discussions about how to teach students to use social networking in a responsible way.
A fellow instructional technologist shared imbee.com with me last week so I checked it out.
A teacher can set up a class to use this tool like other social networking sites but with the added security that it is monitored by the teacher and is only open to people the teacher approves. There are imbee sponsored groups the participants can join or they can start their own groups all with the teacher’s supervision. Social networking is everywhere and this is an opportunity to help students understand how to use these tools effectively and ethically.
