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March 2014

AFTER SCHOOL TRAINING Test Prep

3/13 - USA Test Prep (HHIE) Create your own online Jeopardy At superteachertools.net you can Classroomtools.net is another game using jeopardylabs.com. make several review games from free online test prep activity 3/13 - USA Test Prep (DESC) This easy to use website allows Hang Man to Who Wants to Be a creator. The arcade game 3/20 - Edmodo/Google Docs (HHIE) you to custom make jeopardy Millionaire. The site is FREE and maker creates arcade style test prep games to match your easy to use. Activities can be made reviews from shoot outs to 3/20 - Edmodo/Google Docs (DESC) standards. Have fun coming up using review material from text- Mario style games. Here is a with categories, i.e. Starts with books or PASS prep books. Com- fourth grade Astronomy vo- 3/27 - Windows 8/Dell Training (HHIE) “E”, “Conductor or Insulator?”, pleted games can be linked to cabulary review created using 3/27 - Windows 8/Dell Training (DESC) “Weather Words”, “Vocabulary” teacher webpages for play at the site - CLICK HERE. home. 4/11 - SAMR (HHIE) 4/11 - SAMR (DESC)

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March Ideas Getting the wiggles out can be fun with this TECH CONFERENCE YouTube video from the Despicable Me 2 Soundtrack. First grade teacher Suzi This month’s videos - Brain Pop Jr. Prekop is using it with her class to intro- ETV is hosting a FREE Tech- duce and reinforce the word “because” as Dr. Seuss– Early March (2nd) / Spring - Late March (21st) nology Conference at the a vocabulary word. ETV Studios in Columbia, July http://www.youtube.com/watch? 29, 30 and 31. Use your YouTube downloader to play Green Eggs v=fvmS13cUDeQ and Ham read by Tim Tebow. Click HERE for link. They are currently seeking

presenters. To submit a presentation, go to https:// Projects by Jen is hosting their yearly St. Patrick’s scetved.wufoo.com/forms/ Day Project. Join pre-school through third grade students all over the world as they use the contents etv-technology-conference- of Lucky Charms to reinforce math skills. Project presenter-proposal/. They dates are March 13-19. Registration is now open! will be accepting proposals until March 21. Use this free hat and ear template and take pictures of your students wear- ing them. Have children complete the writing activity below and put up as a For more information con- hallway display for the month of March. tact Debbie Jarrett at: Free Template [email protected] http://www.freekidscrafts.com/leprechaun_hat_with_pointed_ears-e290.html

Free Writing Prompt https://sites.google.com/site/mrsheatonsfiles/st-patricks-day iPad How To

CONTACT The district iPads can not be connected to your laptops to share files, nor can you print, so the question is how do I get files off one device and on to INFORMATION another?

There are several ways to move items, like pictures and videos, off your iPad. One way is to email them using the “share icon” - simply click on the Click on the following icon for tech icon and you will get “mail” as an option. This is good for very short staff pictures, email and phone videos or, at most, emailing five pictures at a time. contacts.

Another way is to upload your files to a third party site like your Edmodo library, Google Drive, or Dropbox (all free apps). You can then access these files from your laptop from those websites.

There are a couple of transfer apps that are available through the app store. Check out the website Simple Transfer is a free download with some limitations. Wireless Transfer calendar of the month on App can be purchased for $2.99 that will also allow you to share your photos and videos between multiple devices with an easy touch of button with no Tia Cooper’s website! limitations on file sizes or number of photos.

Tech Odds and Ends ?

Spell Checking a Text Box: Use the select (arrow) tool, select the text

box. Click on the Object Edit Menu - select “Spellcheck Text”.

How To… Spell Check the Whole Flipchart - Go to “tools”, “more tools”, SPELL CHECK “spellcheck flipchart” (short cut key F7).

Try a group reading project using Google Document’s comment feature. This allows students to discuss articles online. This idea came from Rich- ard Byrne on his site “Free Technology for Teachers” (click to link). On the site he gives a video demonstration of how it would work with stu- dents. While demonstrated at a high school level it could easily be adapted to work with elementary school students.

Researching with emerging or strug- Use QR codes in the classroom to manage your classroom library. Simp- gling readers can be difficult. To ly create a form using google docs and create a QR code that links to the help, the above sites, through SC Discus Kids, offers text to speech form. Students then fill out the information whenever checking out or in options on a majority of their arti- a book from your classroom library. To read more about this idea go to cles. Students can follow along and listen as the text is read to them the following blog - making research a bit easier. http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/qrcodesroutines/

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