More websites

These are the websites we learned about in today's meeting:

http://aviary.com/   You can make your own sound tracks and voice overs on this site.  Very cool!

http://www.tagxedo.com/   This site lets you make word clouds and when you mouse over the words they get really big on the screne.

ELMO document cameras

Seven teachers at our school were awarded a $5,000 grant for ELMO document cameras!!!!  More technology for Nichols-Lawson Middle School! Yea!

More websites

Today at our meeting, we learned about these websites:
http://4teachers.org/
http://www.wallwisher.com/
http://www.commoncraft.com/
http://download.cnet.com/Cool-Timer/3000-2350_4-10062255.html

websites

Check out these websites:

http://www.schooltube.com/video/e9bd79d29b4d0e6a2345/Gotta-Keep-Reading-Ocoee-Middle-School

http://www.aptv.org/aptplus/

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

http://www.mywebspiration.com/

http://discoveryeducation.com/

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/

Literacy Resources

I attended a conference on literacy.  Here is a wonderful website that has lots of literacy resources for the content-area teacher.   http://sites.google.com/site/literacresources

Website Bio's

We have all met- either during our tech mentoring meeting or individually - to learn how to complete our bio's, experience, and education on the website.  As of today, we have all completed our information on our individual webpages. Yea for us!

School Website

Our school website is up and running.  The official launch date is set for January 26.  Our next meeting, Thursday, Jan. 21, will be devoted to us adding information to our personal page on the school website.  You can go to Mrs. Hall's or to Mrs. Courson's page for examples.

Clickers

Today Mr. Littleton showed us all how to use Clickers in our classrooms.  Every grade level has two sets of Clickers.  The seventh grade has three sets.  So, all of us have access to them.  Let's try to each use them at least one time before the end of the school year.

Insertion of Animoto video

Sweet Ruthie Animoto Video

Exam on googledocs

Coley typed her semester exam entirely on googledocs.  She said that this was the first year she was able to actually type every math symbol she needed without having to draw any of it in herself. 

Animoto and Elf Yourself

     I showed my husband the Animoto video that I made in class yesterday.  He immediately joined Animoto for the entire year.  He has already made three long videos for our church.  He loves it! 
     Plus, I showed him the elfyourself website from Office Max http://www.elfyourself.com/, and he now has our family dancing and singing as elves on Facebook.  :)

Animoto

I was able to view my video last night and really enjoyed the memories. Our meeting yesterday was so helpful. I would like to collect pictures of math activities throughout the year and show the video next year to our incoming six grade students.

aptplus

Check out this website!    aptplus    Our school code is 39E2-B14A.

email

How to check school email when we are away from our school computer: If we are inside the system (at another school or at the central office) type 10.30.50.10 in the address line. If we are outside the school system (at home) type mail.sylacauga.k12.al.us in the address line.

Correcting blog error

I sent a blog today, I spelled a word incorrectly. How do you go back and correct a blog that has already been posted?

Animoto - Sign Up

I signed up today so that I would be prepared for the Dec. 3rd class. Thanks Leigh for the information - this was a great idea.

Info learned at our PLC2 meeting

Our school system has a new website and so do each of the schools. The websites will be updated daily. Every teacher in the system will have her/his own webpage and will be expected to keep it updated daily. By January the new sites should be ready. We could work on our websites together in our after school meetings.

Downloading pictures to Laptop

I downloaded my pictures off my camera to my laptop computer at home. I then made a slide show as a screen saver. I bet you can't guess which pictures I have on my computer -
GRAYSON!!! The most adorable person in my life!! My husband and I have both enjoyed the pictures.

Interactive Graphic Organizer

I showed this website on my dry-erase board, using the Infocus machine. Together as a class, we filled in the Free Form Web with information we have been learning in reading about quality of life. I sat at the computer and typed what the students called out. By the end of class,we had a completely filled in graphic organizer that the students copied into their notebooks. It was a great review for our week-long class discussions. The only problem was that since my Infocus machine is close to my board, we couldn't get the entire graphic organizer on the screen at one time. That was a little frustrating. I've got to move my Infocus back some.

Animoto

Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Hall are going to teach us all how to make an Animoto video at our Dec. 3 meeting. So, we all need to bring several digital pictures with us - either in our cameras or on a jump drive. We will meet in Mrs. Hall's room.