1. Technology in the Classroom
Wed. July 18/12
Technology in the Classroom

2. Agenda Gadget of the day: Today’s Meet “Did You Know”
Essential teacher accounts
Make seminar groups and assign articles
Activity: Teacher websites
Work Time

3. Did You Know? Respond to this video on TodaysMeet
One thing you already knew…
Two facts that surprised you…
1 implication for teachers…
2 responses to the comments of others

4. Essential Teacher Accounts

5. Why Google? Increasingly Integrated Widely used Intuitive interface
Free
Cloud computing
Google Docs
Apps for education

6. Why pbworks? Intuitive interface (Similar to MS Office)
Free account has few limitations
2GB of storage
Reliability
Allows for editing vs. chronological updates
“No fuss, no muss”

7. Why edmodo? Format emulates facebook
Creates a social network for students/parents
Extends the classroom
Gives students a sense of ownership
Replaces/supports “agenda books”
Provides a vast PD network
Edmodo at a glance

8. Why twitter?
Expand the scope and breadth of your Professional Development
Experience frequent ongoing Professional Development
Connect your classroom practices to your Professional Development

9. Why Khanacademy/readtheory?
Student Directed ‘modules’
Integrates tutorials and practice
Structured as a game
Provides LOTS of assessment data for teachers

10. Why Surveymonkey? Easy to create and edit surveys
Easy to embed surveys on your website
Easy to view response data
Fairly unlimited free account
Students seem to be very responsive to surveys.

11. Feedback…
After setting up your accounts for the ‘essential sites’, return to our “TodaysMeet” chat room and share which tool you are most interested in learning more about and experimenting with.

12. Seminar Groups
Signing up on google doc

13. Work Time…
Now that you have a pbworks account (or other), and you’ve started to think about the criteria for a good classroom website, start brainstorming/working on your own website homepage.
Begin reading your seminar article and thinking about a summary of main points and some thought provoking discussion questions

14. For next time…
Give some thought to possible topics for your lesson plan. Recall that the criteria requires the use of technology and that resources be available through your website whenever possible.