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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Thursday - One to What? BYOD v. 1:1

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This presentation was a soapbox presentation by Michelle Luhtala who expressed her views in regards to BYOD.  Her district uses a MAC Addres...

Thursday - Transforming Classrooms with iPads

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The speakers for this session were using 1:1 classrooms with 1st and 5th graders.  They supplied quite a bit of the applications that they u...

Thursday - Tech and Translliteracy - Meet the Zombie Invasion

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This cleverly titled session was using zombies as an analogy of how students behave in the traditional classroom.  It was an apps session wh...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Flipped Classrooms

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Andrew Montgomery from Roycemore School presented how he manages a flipped classroom.  I think the one thing we should take away from his pr...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Board room remote control directions

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The remote control in the board room controls two projectors and the sound system.  Here are some basic directions for its operation. Conn...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Overview of Microsoft's new Office Web Apps

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D211 students will have access to many useful tools as part of the student e-mail system that will be in place with the start of the 2010-20...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Solving a teaching problem

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I found a website from Carnegie Mellon University's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence that helps teachers (not just new teachers) th...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Upcoming technology improvements

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Dear Staff Member: Next year District 211 will focus our efforts on improving your overall experience with technology.  In the coming summe...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Protect yourself by using privacy settings on Facebook

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S afety and privacy are big concerns for anyone who uses the Internet regardless of their age.  The more information you post on the Interne...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Electronic textbooks

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One significant barrier to adopting an all-electronic curriculum is the lack of support and resources provided by the textbook companies.  I...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Copyright and the classroom: showing video tapes in class

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Copyright laws are meant to protect people who create something and want to retain control over what they created.  Music and movies are oft...
Friday, January 22, 2010

How are kids affected by the use of media devices?

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There have been many studies about the effects of television on children, and those studies have expanded to include the use of cell phones,...
Monday, December 21, 2009

What is a word cloud?

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A word cloud is a bunch of words all lumped together, with the size of each word dependent on how many times it appears in the original docu...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Online safety

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The laws regarding privacy and protection on the Internet are rapidly changing, but the overall message is clear: we will protect our childr...