1. Smartboards take white and chalk boards to the next level. You write and draw on it like a white board, but you can also save what you write/draw, go online, and play videos without leaving the board. The Smartboard is controlled by your touch.
2. Senteo Student Response System is a remote control like device that eliminates paper and pencil test taking. The questions can be projected on the wall, handed out, or written on the board and the students enter their answers into the Senteo devices. When the student has completed the test, he/she gets their grade immediately and the grade is recorded on the teacher's computer. Senteo's can be used for yes and no, true and false, multiple choice, multiple answer, survey, and math questions. It cannot be used for essay or open ended questions. The presenter said that his students enjoy test taking more when they use the Senteo devices.
3. Free and Open Education Resources are informational texts that can be edited, changed, or manipulated. An example of a Free and Open Education Resource is Wikipedia.
4. GeoGebra is a program that helps students with math subjects like fractions and measuring. It is free and you can download it to your computer. www.geogebra.org
5. Jing is a program that allows you to captures and shared images and video. You can download it to your computer for free. www.jingproject.com
6. www.spellingcity.com is an online spelling test. You can create your own spelling test or take one that already exists. The site has Test Me, Teach Me, and Play A Game options to better help the students with the words.
7. www.magneticpoetry.com is the online version of creating sentences or stories on the fridge with the magnetic words. Students can click and drag words from the word bank to the picture of a fridge.
8. SketchUp is a software program where you can create 3-D models of buildings and structures. The presenter gave an example of a project one class did useing SketchUp where the students created 3-D models of historic buildings in their town. http://sketchup.google.com/
9. Place-Based Technology Projects are community based projects using technologies like GIS ans GPS. North Haven Community School is located in a clamming town, so students did a project where they used GIS (Geographic Information System) to map out how many people live on the island during different seasons.
10. Overall Reaction to the Day: I enjoyed myself and learned about some new and interesting programs. I also recieved a huge list of websites that will most likely come in good use when I have my own classroom. Two of the four sessions I attended were very useful, and the preseters were up beat and interesting. The other two presentations had some good information/ideas/programs for the classroom, but the presenter was boring and didn't captivate the audience.
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I totally agree with you. The smartboard and the sentio are probably the coolest thing I found while at the conference. I also really liked the links that you posted. Most excellent!
Bri, I am glad to hear that you learned some new information and have some new tools to play with now. It seems like from this post you saw a lot of things that would benefit students. In a few places I would like to have heard a little bit more about your perception, not just what the technology was.
Jo
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