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Inside this issue:
T HE G REAT F RAME U P – One of the best investments for your classroom is a simple digital camera. Teachers are able to record student events and upload pictures to other formats. Parents like to see their children in the classroom. The pictures can be placed on the teacher’s website, into a movie, or printed. Students love to include photos in their projects whether it is a picture of themselves dressed like a character, or working in the science lab.
design that has good resolution such as a point and shoot camera. Students should have instruction on how to use and care for the camera. It is important to review what is an appropriate picture with your student!
Example of an activity: Social Studies: Students can upload pictures of famous places and locations for a unit on geography then combine it with
Be a Movie Producer Free movie-making software Techie tipPassword Security
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More ideas for the classroom SMARTBoard
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Amimoto-makes video making easy and fun! Students and teachers alike will love the ease of taking their pictures, mixing it with music and letting Animoto provide an entertaining video. Students can take their digital photos and combine them with their favorite music selections to provide a culminating activity for a unit of instruction.
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When buying a camera, look for a simple
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The Great Frame Up! Your digital camera
Enjoy sharing special times with your students! Frame your favorites!
Students can also take part in taking pictures. A fun weekly job for a student is to take 10 meaningful pictures throughout the week. Imagine the great year book that can be published!
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some country music to create awareness of physical characteristics of a given area in a fun, interactive activity. Teachers : sign up today as an educator for a free 30-day trial. Capture the interest of your students when you start a new unit or showcase their work. http://animoto.com/projects/ P0P5MCvNcTuVAfBT7AyFXA/ images#project-start
Writing slates
On the Calendar: Professional development Topic– Wireless slates August 26th @ 3pm
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KWL’s. Math teachers can easily find geometric shapes, and so on.
Password Security: Guidelines •
Use numbers, symbols, letters in upper case and lower
passwords for
Hooray! The overhead projectors have been placed in storage! Now that our classrooms have SMART Boards it will be useful to fine tune the features and discover applications than enrich our classrooms.
different types of
Did you know that :
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Your SMART Board has a tab called ” Essentials for Educators” that is loaded with images specific to your content area. Language Arts teachers can access their reading charts such as
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Create a very unique secure password for financial account.
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Another tip that may be useful is your lesson can be captured for future use. For instance, an absent student would benefit from a print out the lesson . Smart Technologies , the manufacturer of the SMART Board offers lessons resources and activities on their website. There are over 300 math specific lessons that can be accessed. http://education.smarttech.com/ ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/ Be sure to access the edublog to add new tips and ideas or to ask for help.
Change your passwords 6-12 months depending on the security level of the account.
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to jog your memory If you write your password,
file it in
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Pick an interest to build passwords and
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Example: ALTA4tennis$
(Password Tricks, courtesy of David Millians, UGS ETC Geek)
Be on hand to learn how to use your new wireless slate in your classroom. Bring your slate, pen and mouse to the media center and learn how to connect your device without a hitch.
August 26th at 3:00pm in the Media Center
You will learn how to enhance your instruction, and monitor student progress from anywhere in your room. Your students will love to use the wireless slate to show their work. Activities will include using the SMART Board and slate as interactive tools for you and your students. A jobaid will be published on our share drive for future reference. The steps for connecting your slate, and activities will be available to you. Support from our technology team will be on
hand and further questions can be posted on our techlink. This class will help make your teaching year successful and fun!