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2010 NAIS Annual Conference at Moscone Convention Center
February 24, 2010 at 9am to February 26, 2010 at 7pm
Adapt, Survive, and Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within
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Our teachers:
Have kids double-space EVERYTHING
Some:
- Have kids convert to Journal
- Have kids embed into OneNote
- Have kids print to OneNote
- Use Ink annotation (Better in Office 2007)
- Use traditional annotation
And a few will probably alway…
We are in year 2 of a 1:1 tablet program. Two of my 3 English teachers want to go back to paper for essays because they are not happy with either MS Word comments or using a stylus to grade in ink (Word or Journal). Has any one had any success with…
Hey Cheryl! How's life at EFS??
You know we use Edline. This year my faculty tech development focus is on Google. Since I have to "walk my talk" I am going to put all of the resources and notes on Google Sites. So far it's pretty simple. I'll keep…
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- Buffalo Seminary
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- Technology Coordinator
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- http://buffaloseminary.org
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- At 8:23am on March 5, 2009,
Jim Foley said… - Wednesday's good for me, Beth, so let's set it. I'm free from 11:00-12:30 that day. I was going to ask you the same question about conferencing... I'm a complete novice on that topic, never had an occasion to use any before! I'll check out Yugma, and also ask my IT director if she recommends anything.
Jim
- At 2:17pm on March 4, 2009,
Jim Foley said…
- All good questions, Beth, and I'll try to answer them briefly for you, but of course it'll be better to talk in real time. My school does a rotating schedule, so I frequently have days when I'm free between 11:30-12:30. One such day is this Friday... if you want we can try for that one.
There are a lot of ways you could use the shared notebooks depending on how you prefer to run your class, but I'll run you briefly through my setup. Your tech people need to set up a shared folder on a server somewhere for your teachers and students to access. I create a new shared notebook for each unit (Chapter 3, Ch. 5, etc.), and have separate places on it for notes, for individual students' classwork, etc.) Students can see what one another do, which is one of the nice enhancements it offers ("how did Susie do that one?"), but it's true they have to be careful about erasing one another's work (or yours). It happens sometime, but I keep a separate notebook of my own for planning purposes which is essentially a blank template for the unit, so if something accidentally gets lost I can always copy/paste it back in.
I do use a regular textbook, but I make much more use of the accompanying resource files (in pdf form) than the actual paper copy. I usually screen-clip then paste individual or groups of problems I want the kids to work on - do you have the MS Snipping Tool installed?
My kids take tests & quizzes in OneNote, too. Each student creates a separate "Assessments" notebook, which is NOT shared, and where they take them & store them after corrections & grades. They email the tests to me, I correct them and email them back.
There's lots of other ways to make it work, too - you can password-protect individual sections, e.g.
Let me know about Friday, and if not, I'll take a look at next week's schedule and see wht I have available. I'm heading into spring break the week of March 15th, so I'll have 2 weeks of a pretty open schedule at that point too.
Best,
jim
- At 5:28pm on March 2, 2009,
Jim Foley said…
- Beth, I'd be happy to. From what you're describing, I'd guess there are a few quick adjustments your teachers could make that would instantly leave them feeling at least less frustrated and more favorably disposed to tablets... let me know what kind of time frame you're looking for.
- At 11:26am on May 23, 2008,
Demetri Orlando said… - I would suggest that you start a new discussion topic for that in that group, and then use the "Send Message to Group" feature to tell people that the discussion topic is there. You should probably include the URL of that discussion page so that people can easily click into it. You might also consider sending an email to the ISED-L list-serv that asks the same question and included the link back to the Tablet PC discussion page. Hope that helps!
Demetri
ps. I evaluated a ton of cases and ultimately decided that the InfoCase Classmate TL-12 was the best case. If you start a discussion I'll add my comments on it there. :)
- At 11:41am on December 30, 2007,
Peg said… - How did you get to this network? It is very informational - if for no other reason we now have a list of tablet PC schools and contacts to query.
Let's show Jody this on Thurs as well.
Peg
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Hi, Curt
We've been interesting in purchasing space to use in the Google Web Albums, but I've been concened because the Terms of Service suggests that there will not be warnings before changes in Service. If I'm reading the terms correctly, they co…
One of the changes I made in my current laptop program was to discontinue insurance coverage on the laptops. We have the three-year Apple Warranties on the Macbooks, but we don't have insurance on accidental breakage or theft.
One reason we did thi…
A video taken during a recent visit to Singapore ... a Christmas Carol played on an unusual instrument.
Orchard Road with a backdrop of the Christmas lights
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2010 NAIS Annual Conference at Moscone Convention Center
February 24, 2010 at 9am to February 26, 2010 at 7pm
Adapt, Survive, and Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within
"The 2010 NAIS Annual Conference is designed to support interests expressed by independent school leaders - all of whom face intrinsically difficult issues within their unique positions.…
Discuss which technology skills are essential to the job of an educator and how to measure and improve teachers’ capabilities for productivity and classroom integration through the use of technology standards or proficiencies.
I know that many of you use Flickr with your classes. Others of you use Flickr for other purposes like archiving school photos for promotional, development, and such.
Flickr's Community Guidelines clearly state that the service is for personal use…
Online School for Girls Adds Four More Member Schools
A nationwide consortium of four independent all-girls’ schools that created in June 2009 the first-ever online school dedicated to secondary education for girls this past fall has expanded its m…
Let me know what you think of this project and if you've tried something similar. I'm happy to share details.
Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S. History Class.
Please view a short (3 minute) interview about my recent History project: Using Facebook as a teaching tool.
Processing (processing.org) is a Java-based language that allows you to do some exciting visual effects and at a much more advanced level link realtime data to algorithms to present data in visual formats. Digital artists use it for that creative el…
Nice one, Fred. As a digital enthusiast, I'd happily stick to the task of enumerating the real skills we can identify our students may need for the future, so long as someone doesn't then make them mandatory, stick them in a list to provide a checkb…
James,
How does this fit with the following famous quote attributed to Socrates?
"Worship the gods if you wish, but first, know thyself."
Fred
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