EC Sharing Session

Ideas from other teachers about what they are doing with technology:

ComicLife

• Animal Reports - Heredity and Survival - 5th grade
• Animal Reports - Predator/Prey - multiple pages - 9th grade
• Demonstrate patterns created with pattern blocks - work displayed on a ComicLife page - this was used as the consequence for his students fighting at recess - they had to learn to work together to create the patterns
  
• Class Newspaper - produced monthly
  

Movies

• Moon Movies - kids took photos of moon phases, then put them together into a movie - 6th grade
• Claymation Movies - students take still photos and put them together into a movie

Podcasts

• Non Fiction Book Reports - audio & still photos - created on GarageBand - 6th grade
  

Blogs

• Club Blog - for groups and clubs at the school
• Teacher Blog - teacher posts assignments and worksheets on the blog - links to google docs - so if the students lose their copy they have to go online and print themselves a new one - they could even submit online

Office

• Use Excel to create graphs - to avoid problems with different versions of Excel, SaveAs the older version
  

Wikis

• Posting assignments online

My UEN

• Notes to parents about what is going on at school and in the class
• Links
• Calendar

Ideas From Bonnie
Picnik
Jing Project
ScreenCast
Wee World
PhotoFlex
Screen Capture - Shift Apple 4
Lulu
Plasq
Skitch
Digital Teaching Tools
Export entire albums from iPhoto to Picasa
Create a Podcast using the document camera - See Kelly's Podcast to learn how:

• http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4
• Go to "T4 Tips Podcasts"
• Go to "T4 Tips Podcast #40 - AverVision 300 AF+ Document Camera"

Create a movie using the document camera

• Plug in a USB port from the document camera to your computer
• The AVerVision screen will pop up
• Click the record (the movie reel)

By the way, there is an anti-glare screen for the document camera!