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School Pilots “YouTube for Schools”
YouTube is often a dirty word for schools. While there is a ton of great content relevant to education, there’s also enough content that makes educators and administrators cringe. Enter “YouTube for Schools.” By adding a setting on our web filter, we can take advantage of education partners like the Smithsonian, TED, Steve Spangler Science, [...]
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Cletus Doodles
SC students used their creativity and photo editing skills to manipulate the Cletus logo, similar to the Google Doodle concept. Check out their submissions! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.284822401584447.66361.100001700693213&type=1&l=b2b40ba5f4
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What Does It Mean To Teach Technology?
Times have certainly changed since my computer class with Mrs. Galanti in the 80s and early 90s. Oregon Trail and Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego still seem cool, but today, games are only one small piece to educating students with technology. At the elemenatary school level, I see technology education in two ways. [...]
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School Pilots BYOD
It was just another school day… until students brought out their cell phones and other wifi-enabled devices! Students in 7th grade got the opportunity to bring/use their personal device in class to show what they learned in mythology. Guided by Ms. Wollensak, students one-by-one logged in to a special student response system website to provide [...]
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Archdiocese Tech Conference Attendees (PowerPoint)
Thanks for attending the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) seminar. BYOD is new for many schools, but do a few Google searches and you’ll actually see quite a bit of buzz. I’d love to hear your feedback on the presentation and how your school chooses to embrace BYOD. Find my presentation below: > BYOD PowerPoint
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Presentation
Today, I’ll be presenting an interesting topic, “Bring Your Own Device”, at the Chicago Archdiocese Best Practices in School Technology conference. What if students could bring in their own devices like cell phones, mp3 players, netbooks, and laptops? How would those work in the classroom? Just the questions I’ll address today… and on my blog [...]
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Receive Classroom Updates by Email
Looking to receive classroom updates by email? The Tech Committee provides a link to a free website to subscribe to your desired content. > First, visit the classroom newsletter of your choice. Copy the URL (We’ll use 4th grade as an example: http://www.stcletusschool.com/news/category/4th-grade/4th-newsletters/) > Next, visit www.tabbloid.com. Click ”Create Tabbloid.” Paste the newsletter URL into the [...]
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New Document Cameras to be Deployed
The document camera is a fairly simple technology. Take a camera, mount it to an arm and allow the feed of the camera to project onto a board or other surface. We’re more than doubling the total number of these devices for the 11-12 school year. They are useful for not only transparencies, but books, [...]
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Looking Ahead