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I hope you find this to be a useful resource for sharing, discussing, and archiving all of your well thought out and invaluable lesson plan ideas.
Whether it is a full plan with exact directions, grading ruburic, and suggestions for expansion, or simply a little idea you wanted to throw out there for others to own, this is your resource. It will become what you make it.
Feel free to explore, to enjoy, and most importantly to share with your fellow classroom teachers!
Michael T. Bendorf
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Brandon Elementary transformed by K12LTSP
Brandon Elementary transformed by K12LTSP
2006.07.19 16:00
Author Tina Gasperson
Two parent volunteers at an Atlanta district school have revolutionized technology use there by replacing Windows workstations with Linux on thin clients, using K12LTSP.
Daniel Howard and William Fragakis were spending too much time fixing "broken" computers at Brandon Elementary School. They were slow, frequently frozen, and "fraught with hardware, software, and malware issues. We would hear over and over again, 'our computer doesn't work anymore,'" Howard says, "and it takes hours to reinstall the operating system or figure out what driver got corrupted by what virus." Students weren't learning how to use the computers because frustrated teachers weren't including computer work in their lesson plans. "What we discovered is that teachers were really using [the computers] only for browsing and office applications." The school didn't have enough money to upgrade Windows 98 or aging hardware, and Howard and Fragakis were working many hours just to keep the school's technology afloat.
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Posted by ripperon Monday, July 24 @ 12:24:40 MST (30 reads)
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Sparking a Revolution in Teaching and Learning
Mr. Michael writes "
 How one of Ohio's lowest-performing elementary schools raised its third-grade reading test scores by a whopping 124 percent.
As a technology specialist, I'm supposed
to believe in the power of educational technology to change children's
lives. But when I saw one of our lowest-performing schools increase its
pass rate on the state reading test by 124 percent in one year, even I
was a little stunned.
About
two years ago, our school district, like many other districts
nationwide, was beginning to feel the first effects of the No Child
Left Behind Act (NCLB). Reading scores at many of our elementary
schools were unacceptably low, and one school in particular (Fairmount Park Elementary School) had been labeled as 'in need of improvement' by the Ohio Department of Education. Fairmount
was a challenged school in a depressed community. With a city-wide
unemployment rate of over 9 percent, two thirds of the students in the
district qualified for free and reduced lunches. Things were even more
challenging at Fairmount, as nearly 80 percent of its students came
from economically disadvantaged homes. For many of these K-5 students,
reading was not something that was valued in the home. Little wonder
that nearly two-thirds of them were unable to get a passing score on
the third-grade Ohio Achievement Test for Reading. We
tackled the district's reading problems with a broad approach that
included a new research-based curriculum, intensive staff development,
aggressive pre-testing, and daily after-school intervention programs.
Because of its low test scores, Fairmount qualified for an NCLB Title
II D: Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant. As the
district's curriculum specialist for instructional technology, I was
part of a team that formed and implemented a technology strategy that
would have a real and measurable impact on student learning. "
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Posted by ripperon Thursday, June 29 @ 05:55:36 MST (33 reads)
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Who Wants to be a Winner
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/misc/winnergame022500.html
Mark E. Damon originally shared his "Who Wants to be a Winner" game with
members of Teachnet's T2T mailing list.
Now, Mark has made available all of his entertaining creations so that
you may download them NOW for use in your classroom. These PowerPoint™
presentations can be modified with your own questions to create an
interactive review or test for your students.
Download Mark's games here
>Mark is offering these great PowerPoint tools for free. Please be sure to
write and tell him how much you enjoy his work!
Teachnet contributor,Kathie Anderson (1st grade teacher, Sioux City, Iowa)
wrote in to share how she hosts "Who Wants to be a Winner!" in her classroom:
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Posted by ripperon Wednesday, June 28 @ 22:21:15 MST (34 reads)
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Power to the Parents
Mr. Michael writes "http://edtech.texterity.com/article/20060607/21/
Power to the Parents
Online portals help parents become active participants in their children’s education.
By Bernard Percy and Mark Gura
THE DEFINITION OF EDUCATION in the 1828 edition of Webster’s Dictionary includes a section that’s as relevant today as it was when published: “To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important … and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.”
It has always been an immense responsibility for parents to be involved in school and classroom activities, extending the reach of the school into the home. This is especially true now, as the demands on students have increased, and influences and distractions are more diverse and omnipresent.
During the past several decades, educators have placed greater emphasis on establishing and maintaining parent-school relationships. “Parent involvement” has become an article of faith, a popularly sought-after source of support and assistance that all too often proves to be an unfulfilled hope.
Many approaches have been tried to improve parent participation — with limited success. Now, however, the advent of ubiquitous, affordable and easy-to-use technology promises to make a great difference, as we see an emergence of parent portals.
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Posted by ripperon Wednesday, June 28 @ 14:58:57 MST (25 reads)
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School technology to be streamlined
bendorfm writes "
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http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/06092006/maine/106953.htm
School technology
to be streamlined
YORK, Maine - York’s School
Committee has given the go-ahead to a kindergarten through Grade 12
technology system reorganization that would eventually mean no longer having
individual computer coordinators at each school.
The
committee voted unanimously Wednesday night that Gregg Martin, the school
system’s director of information technology services, can begin working with
the district’s administrative and technical teams to establish a systemwide
technology program to replace the current school-based model.
Currently, there is a technology coordinator and an educational technician
at each school - Village Elementary School, Coastal Ridge Elementary School,
York Middle School and York High School.
The K-12
technology department calls for one director, one network administrator, one
systemwide database administrator, three technicians and three integration
specialists.
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Posted by ripperon Tuesday, June 27 @ 12:22:58 MST (14 reads)
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Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success
bendorfm writes "
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http://www.thejournal.com/articles/18654
Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success
by Victor Rivero
Foremost leaders in education technology provide five
lessons on using today’s tools to engage students, recharge teachers, and in
some cases, change the world.
THIS DOESN’T SEEM to be the place to come to
discover the secrets of teaching with technology. Between drab warehouses to the
left and lonesome train tracks to the right, Alan Kay’s office is in a
nondescript building set in the concrete fringes of Los Angeles. But its
interior puts the exterior to shame. It is swank and cavernous—a good place to
hide, as Kay, nowhere to be seen, appears to be doing.
“Can I get you a drink?” asks Kim Rose, a cognitive scientist
who works with teachers and students in various schools and community learning
centers, applying Kay’s ideas. Alan Kay, one of the earliest pioneers in
educational technology, is—as he should be—busy. Busy not like the rest of us
are busy. Busy plotting-thereinvention- of-the-world busy.
Over in the corner, a British-style red phone booth adds to
the room’s allure and catches the eye. “When that phone rings,” Rose says, “pick
it up and say the password.” Just then, the black receiver begins to vibrate
with a faint jingle. With that, Rose is gone. Speaking the magic word into the
receiver appears to activate a hydraulic mechanism. The booth’s back begins to
fall away. A short corridor off to the right leads to a threshold.
What happens next is not transmissible. Certainly not right
now. A smiling receptionist had made sure of it with a float of legal papers
just minutes before. What can be said is that the mouse arrow you move on your
screen and those little adjustable boxes that open and close, the icons that you
click, the very idea of a laptop computer—for all of this you can, in part, give
thanks to Alan Kay. And without knowing it, in the midst of a search to uncover
ways to teach with technology that can transform classroom instruction, I had
just stepped into his office. But more on that later. Here are the revelations
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Posted by ripperon Tuesday, June 27 @ 12:22:31 MST (13 reads)
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Technology to play an integral role in redesigning education
bendorfm writes "
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http://www.leadercall.com/opinion/local_story_160101021.html?keyword=secondarystory
Technology to play an integral role in redesigning education
Columnist Hank Bounds
The draft plan for redesigning education for
today’s workforce that I discussed in my last column is a comprehensive strategy
that will impact all facets of education. Rosetta Richard, chair of the
Mississippi Board of Education, has appointed three board members, including
Sondra Caillavet, Rebecca Harris and Charles McClelland, to serve with her on a
board committee to study the plan, which is pending approval by the Mississippi
Board of Education and funding.
Schools serve as a mirror of the society around them. Just as technology has
played an increasingly important role in the way our businesses operate and how
we live our everyday lives, it has become an important tool in the classroom.
Technology will play an integral role in the implementation of this plan.
Because technology helps us to manage, store and retrieve information that is
essential to our jobs and our lives, children must acquire these skills in
school today to be prepared for an even more tech-savvy world in the future. In
addition to learning about technology, students also utilize technology in
learning all other subjects.
Technology plays an important role in the classroom and beyond the classroom. In
addition to facilitating the teaching and learning process, technology also
enables schools to efficiently and effectively manage student and staff
information. In addition, it is an important professional development tool for
teachers and administrators.
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Posted by ripperon Tuesday, June 27 @ 12:22:04 MST (18 reads)
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Williamsburg uses 21st-century technology as link to 18th century
bendorfm writes "
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http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8I4RL6O0.html
Williamsburg uses 21st-century technology as link
to 18th century
06/12/2006
By SONJA
BARISIC / Associated Press
Thomas Jefferson isn't about
to start listening to an iPod, with telltale earbud wires dangling from beneath
his three-cornered hat as he walks the streets of Colonial Williamsburg.
But people far from the
restored 18th-century capital of Virginia can use their portable audio players
to hear Bill Barker talk about the almost around-the-clock commitment it takes
to portray Jefferson.
The world's largest living
history museum long has utilized modern media to share its stories with
audiences far beyond its 301-acre Historic Area, dating back to before World War
II when it produced an educational film for schools.
That tradition continues
with something that didn't even exist a couple years ago but that most any
teenager today is familiar with: podcasts. |
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Posted by ripperon Tuesday, June 27 @ 12:21:32 MST (19 reads)
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