Teacher TV website

I am constantly looking for ideas of ways that I can use technology as a part of my instruction - whether I use it to present my objectives or students use it to present their assignments. A website that I found tonight is Teachers TV at http://www.teachers.tv/. The particular video that I ran across can be found by clicking on ICT on the left sidebar then, under Better Learning with ICT click on Online Communities in the Classroom. Let me know what you think about this site.

Foldables and Blogging

Hello everyone,
Taught mult/division of integers by using a foldable with my students. We folded the paper in fourths. On one half of the paper, we wrote rules for "same sign" and the other half, we wrote rules for "diff. signs (1 negative). The students took the foldable home for homework and made up their own problems on the back. The next day, we reviewed by working problems from math-drills.com. The students were given 5 minutes to complete each mult. integer column (approx. 20 integer problems) They were awesome! When I called out an answer, they would in unison say "Yeah!" That came from their own creation! Fun class!!!!!!!! Good times! Good times! How's that for Diff. Instruction and "Blogging" in the same day???? LOL!
Jamie
7th grade

Vote

I added a question to the bottom right of our blog that requires an answer from each of you. It will help us as mentors know what you are most interested in learning about during our meetings together. Thanks!

Forever Learning!

Learned to create folders - wow! It has made it easier to find my materials.

Made a test - sent it as an attachment to Jamie so that she could make it work for our students. She did a great job with the test and organizing it to meet the needs of our students.

Learned to send attachments via e-mail. Sent all my pictures of Grayson to my home computer and my husbands computer - it is nice to view these at home. Made a slide show.

Trying to practice doing these things daily or I will forget.

Thanks to my wonderful peers for having the patience and taking the time to teach! It has been fun and interesting. I hate I didn't get involved earlier than I did - however, its not to late!
Have a great weeked.
Gay-Sol 6:3

Making Progress

As we learn new skills for ourselves we share them with each other. What a great way for us to learn about ways to use technology for instruction and to be able to help our students learn in different ways. It feels so good to see our progress in our use of technology. Let's keep it up.

Bookmark

i added a bookmark for this blog on my Google homepage. This is neat. Thanks, Leigh.

We're blogging

We are all signed on to the blog now. Today we all either posted a blog entry or commented on someone else's blog entry. We are on our way to becoming tech savvy teachers! I added our favorite websites to our blog. Take time to visit as many of them as you can. Start figuring out what you are willing to try in your classroom from what we are learning.

Google Docs & Power Point

I did a lesson plan on my igoogle account this weekend at home. Then I shared it with Jamie so that she could adjust it to meet the needs of her students. This worked out very well - the most excited I have been about technology in a long time!!!!
Today I did my first power point in class!!! This is a HUGE step for me - I loved it!! I am using it for our journal writing - it keeps me from using board space that I need to teach.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!Can you tell I am having fun?

bubbl and catpin

Today I gave a test on sentence structure and used scantron forms that I printed off of the website www.catpin.com. This is the second time I have tried this, and it is working well.
Earlier this week, I used the website bubbl.us in class. I used the Infocus machine to shine the website onto my dry-erase board. Together the students and I made and filled in the graphic organizer bubbles. I messed up a few times, but I figured it out and corrected it. The students loved seeing the bubbles appear, get larger, and change color at the click of a button. We used this activity to review all the types and elements of poetry. Fun, entertaining, useful!!

first mentoring meeting

Three teachers met together on Tuesday, October 20 for our first mentoring meeting. We met in the school math lab so we could all sit at computers together. First, we went to our igoogle accounts that we set up at our inservice before school started. Then, we chose themes for our igoogle home pages and put gadgets on there, as well. After that, we set up gmail accounts and tested them out. Lastly, we visited google docs and discussed the benefits of using it. For homework, the teachers are going to practice using gmail, writing and sharing google docs, and are checking out the following websites: catpin, bubbl, thinkfinity, and intel.