Olympic Express is the first Olympic Games “e-journal” for young people from all over the world. It’s interactive, contains a wide range of animated features and provides all the information from the Olympics. There is even a widget to download for updates.
And for some Gold Medal Activities for your students that include timelines , creating graphs, writing biographies of famous olympians and much more click on picture below:
This is a great site for teens looking for full and part time employment”teens can search the site for local job postings, employment resources, and resume tips - all for free. It is also done by state, so teens in a particular region can search for employment in their area.
This is a great site for students looking for current events it is called Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages feature makes the front pages of almost 600 newspapers from around the U.S. and around the world available daily. The pages are also available in readable PDF form. In addition, there is an archive of front pages from dates of some significant world events, beginning with 9/11/2001. A brief analysis of selected news stories is also available each day. This site makes it easy to compare what different areas of the country or the world see as important on any given day and it’s all located on Nettrekker.
Tech Camp on Day 2 was really great!! The information shared was very useful . One word Scott Holcomb he gave excellent info on digital photography and other web resources . Check out his web for more info. Some of the things shared were:
All of the information was wonderful and I am sure the participants brains are bursting with information , I know mine is. Stay tune for day 3.
This is the first day of Tech Camp , we have 12 participants that are eager to learn new and exciting things about technology. Some of the highlights this morning was blogging, wiki, Google docs and Zoho show and writer which are excellent tools that are right out there on the web. I am learning a lot and the participants are going to be so tech savvy. Who knows what new an interesting things they will learn this evening . Stay tune for more info after the second half of the day.
At the beginning of the week I attended Principal’s Academy at Hope Presbyterian church. I was appointed the resident photographer using the High Powered Pentax camera. I was very nervous about this at first because I was accustom to using my Cannon camera which is must smaller , and does not have as much power. My colleague Scott Holcomb helped me to make this transition. The one thing that I could not get use to was the use of the auto flash and no flash button. In darker areas I was required to use the no flash zone to force the camera to produce more light. In a lighted area I still needed to use the no flash zone. The auto flash did not work as well indoors and that was surprising to me because my Cannon camera does really well in auto flash mode.
Memphis in May is right around the corner and this is a good time to plan lesson activities that surround the event. This year the festival will honor the country Turkey. Memphis in May provides curriculum guides that will help you with lesson ideas. Click here for the curriculum guide. Also check out my colleague Cindy Putnam’s blog www.cindy.edtechteachers.com for more lesson ideas. Stay tune to a Live Media Site presentation that will focus on United Streaming and Nettrekker lesson ideas as well. Check the Teaching and Learning site for the dates.
Being a techie can be challenging and exciting all at the same time. Learning something new is always exciting. Today , my colleague and friend Jason Parrish taught me how to insert a widget into my blog page. He first started out saying that it was going to be a breeze, well it wasn’t quite the breeze he anticipated but we got it done. To define a widget it is a standardized on-screen representation of a control that may be manipulated by the user. Scroll bars ,buttons and text boxes are all examples of widgets and blidgets, so check out my new blidget on the side bar of my blog. To create your own widget or blidget go to widgebox.com. And get busy.
Scott Holcomb my colleague and friend has found a great Homework site for High School students check it out at www.scott.edtechteachers.com
Today, a session for teachers using EPIC for Social studies was conducted here at the TLA. Representatives from EPIC , Monica Gonzales and Lezlie Bridgewater were here to offer help with basic navigation skills and Marilyn Taylor, our Social Studies content coordinator provided a lesson that the teachers could use in their classrooms. This session was very enlightening . Tommorrow the EPIC team will do training sessions for BTW and Oakhaven at the Board Auditorium.
