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Putting our educational technology tools to use in the language arts classroom is never a challenge when you use the Lesson Activity Toolkit in SMART Notebook! Robin Van Der Linda, a sixth grade language arts teacher at CMS, recently put together an entire review lesson using the Lesson Activity Toolkit in the Gallery tab. [...] How are we the same? How are we different? It’s easy to have that discussion among the students in our classes, but what are kids like outside Chatham? Sandy Kelly, Michelle Monahan, and Jennifer Lehotay-Taylor have regular visits with fellow third grade students in Illinois to find out. Using a webcam and Skype, a few students [...] With six more months of school, it’s time to think about updating your teacher website, but what can you do to make it more interesting to students and teachers while using your time effectively? How about incorporating student work into your website? While reading Helen Keller’s Miracle Worker, Lisa McTague had an interesting challenge on [...] If you’ve spent any time in an art museum, you know the term “mixed media,” but when it comes to technology, we don’t have oil paint, newsprint, and feather dusters glued to the monitor. Instead, we have digital art, video, and sound. In second grade at WAS, Sarah Gutierrez is working with her students as [...] Okay, so we’ll skip Tech Tip Tuesday today to recognize WAS teacher Sarah Gutierrez and her student teacher, Cathy Gomber, for teaching their second grade students how to narrate their fossil dig. The kids didn’t get to travel to the wilds of Montana to dig, but in science class they did get to be paleontologists for [...] We’ve seen Animoto here, and we’ve seen how to add video to your teacher web pages here, so how do you put those two together? Kay Grusenski in second grade at WAS did just that! Have a look at her website or go directly to her Animoto page. Fellow second grade teacher Sarah Gutierrez was [...] Parents love to see their children on screen, so why not entertain them with a classroom tour given by your students in ABC book style? Nancy Volker’s students made a list of items and areas in the classroom that began with each letter of the alphabet. Then the students posed with a sign (P is [...] Welcome back to school! With technology developments coming at us at breakneck speed, there are going to be so many ways to accomplish your dream lessons this year. Let’s begin with a quick look at some of the teachers who have inspired us with their technology achievements. Watch the short (30 second) video clip and [...] Writing an essay can be boring, but not when you’re in Mrs. Kopacz or Mr. Curcio’s class! Essay writing became an exercise in collaboration and videoconferencing when the third graders in Mrs. Kopacz’s SBS class participated in a writing exercise with the fifth grade students in Mr. Curcio’s LAF classroom. The students in one class began [...] Not exactly a storming of the Bastille, but on Thursday, March 12, Trish DeMallie’s eigth grade French students entered a classroom in Nimes, France, via videophone. Using a webcam, a SMART Board, and Skype, CMS students were able to speak with students their age in France. A few students would gather around the webcam at a time [...] |
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