Posted on February 4, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Link: http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/commonsense/
and http://www.commonsensemedia.org/internet-safety
I saw a great public service announcement on the Disney Channel this evening starring Phneas and Ferb. They provided some great tips for kids to consider regarding internet safety and, well, common sense. I went to the site they recommended and learned that Disney has teamed with Common Sense Media to provide a series of video and learning activities to educate children about online safety.
(Sidebar comment: Common Sense Media is a terrific place to go if you want to find out the degree of offensive content in a movie before you view it or show it to your students and/or children. It rates movies in several categories including violence, drugs and alcohol use, language and even commercial product placement. It’s sort of surprising they would partner with Disney on a PSA due to future conflict of interests on reviews.)
Use the Common Sense materials as a jumping off point for discussing internet safety with your students.
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Note- This is for my JCPS Teachers only. Session will be presented by Amy and Liane from our team. I hope you can make it!
If you are interested in SMART Board/SMART Notebook training please see the two offerings below.
These trainings will be in Ed Tech Center at Roosevelt-Perry Elementary School, which is located downtown at 17th and Broadway. You do not need a SMART Board to attend this training. We will focus on SMART Notebook software and how to use this software effectively in your classroom. Please bring your tablet PC to this training.
If you do not have SMART Notebook version 10 installed on your computer, please follow this link and install it before attending training. You will want to install SMART Notebook 10.6. The installation process will ask you for a license key. Let your ETT know if you need the key.
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Source: Free Technology For Teachers
Site: Nourish Interactive
I enjoyed looking at this elementary friendly interactive site for learning about health and nutrition. I found the games to be engaging, the information to be credible and appreciate that the site is available in English and Spanish. I did not sign up for an account, but if I had, it would have opened up more of the site.
Accounts are free for teachers and students.
Use nourish interactive when teaching about the food pyramid, healthy choices and excersize. The Flash based browser games will be engaging when students access them on your tablet, your SMART Board or the classroom computers.
The printable activity logs and student agreements looked to be easily accessed and useful.
I have added Nourish Interactive to my list of sites for Art, Music and PE teachers. Enjoy!
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Posted on February 3, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Starting Thursday, Vote Here and Vote Often For Best Elementary School Crib
A WLKY crew visited Roosevelt Perry on Friday, January 29 to showcase the school’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programs. The WLKY crew arrived to Kindergarten through fifth grade student greetings during the school’s Morning Meeting, the Roosevelt Perry Star STEPPERS and the announcement of perfect attendance recognition for January. Following the assembly the WLKY film crew was escorted on a tour of the school by Roosevelt Perry Student Ambassadors. WLKY visited the twenty-first century classrooms, viewed first graders working on creating their robots, and observed fifth grade students teaching teachers after a lesson study. The fifth graders also explained their SMART data storage bracelets to the WLKY visitors.
Roosevelt Perry hopes to win the Coolest Crib Trophy, so please view the Roosevelt Perry segment of WLKY School Cribs, at http://www.wlky.com/school-index.html (or click here ) and vote often
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Posted on February 3, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Source: http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html
Google recently announced details of the new contest where students can design their own take on the Google logo. Teachers must register their school and be the one to actually submit the logo to the contest. (I found the write up about he history of the logo interesting, it might make a good motivator or informational reading piece for older students.) There are some great prizes being offered, including a special prize of 20 netbooks. To quote the site:
Extra Credit – Technology Booster Awards
This year, we are giving out eight (8) Technology Booster awards for schools who submit their doodles by March 10, 2010. The awards consist of 20 netbook computers for public or private schools or 2 netbook computers for homeschools who submit the maximum amount of doodles for their school by March 10, 2010 (doodles must be received by this date).
Schools who are eligible to win this award are those who submit either six (6) doodles if they are a public or private school or two (2) doodles if they are a homeschool. These schools must also have a student selected as one of the 400 State Finalists. We will also be looking at the highest cumulative quality scores of the State Finalists doodles as part of the awards criteria. Awards will be announced on March 17, 2010 when we post the 400 State Winners.
If you are interested in this contest be sure to read the full rules here and let me know if you need a hand scanning or uploading artwork.
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Posted on February 3, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Source: http://typing.weebly.com/typing-games.html
The author of the iLearn Technology has recently placed some of the very best keyboarding activities in one place. Each is kid friendly with little or no advertising and would be a great addition to your list of bookmarks on your classroom computers.
Enjoy!
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Posted on February 3, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Oscar Nominated Actor Jeremy Renner
The talented actor who shares my name was recently nominated for an Oscar for his performance in “The Hurt Locker.”
The Oscar buzz resulted into three times as many hits on Tablet Talk yesterday and about 15 disappointed new twitter followers.
Jeremy Renner, the actor, is about three years younger than me and has been on many TV shows such as House and CSI. The first time I saw his name he was in a movie called National Lampoon’s Senior Trip. I haven’t seen much of his work but I do have the Hurt Locker in my Netflix que.
So, congratulations to my name-twin, I hope you win! And if you are looking for information on him you might start here. If you want to learn more about me you can look here.
If you are a teacher who is using technology to increase the engagement level of your students, improve your productivity and generally make the best use of your computer and projector in your classroom, then you are at the right place. I research and report on different free online resources as I support elementary school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky where all the teachers have Tablet PCs, projectors and many have SMART Boards as well.
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Source: The Whiteboard Blog
Download 10.6 Here
Usually when you want to upgrade SMART Notebook you can simply choose Help/Check For Updates. This was not the case for me, I had to go to the above link. It treated it like a new install, but it did accept my old activation code. It will prompt you for an activation code, but if you already have an activated a previous version you can ignore that)
(When I downloaded the program I chose not to try the 30 Day Math Software because I wanted to make sure I made the best use of my 30 days and I didn’t want to fool with that right now)
There are several features which make this a worthwhile upgrade. I found the transparent tool to be absolutely awesome, I can’t wait to use it in my next presentation. (think: floating tool bars but with more than just a layer of ink… all the functionality of the notebook!)
For an in-depth and high quality overview of this tool, the ruler and the protractor that are new click here.
(It took about 35 minutes and a restart to upgrade, consider this before you start. You should not need an activation code, but if for some reason you do, JCPS folks can write to me or your ETT)
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by tablettalkblog
Source: Teachers Love SMART Boards
Line Rider
File this one under ‘little to no educational value’ but your kids will love it!
Actually if you recently had a wireless slate or SMART Board delivered this would be a good tool to get the kids comfortable using each of them.
Line rider is a simple yet addictive game. Essentially you draw a line and a little guy on a sled follows it down. (I guess we could stretch here and say we are working on some cause and effects, maybe some physics, but don’t tell the kids that. Just tell them it’s for fun).
You can draw with a different color pens, which makes the line rider accelerate or slow down. Challenge yourself to draw loops, jumps and to keep the line rider going without falling.
There is an excellent (and slightly humorous) tutorial video here but you could probably get started without it.
Enjoy!
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