Originally published October 8, 2012
Who can’t resist something that is free? On Saturday, October 27 from 8 am to 4 pm TCEA Area 20 will be hosting a FREE Google Summit. Come to the summit to see Google in action and to learn from presenters about all aspects of Google and Google Apps.
Here is the link for more information: www.tinyurl.com/Area20GoogleSummit
The event will be held at Robert G. Cole High School at Ft. Sam and is come and leave as you need!
Robert G. Cole High School is located at 1900 Winans Rd. on the Fort Sam Houston Installation. You are strongly encouraged to access the high school by coming in the Winans Gate off of Harry Wurzbach (near Wurzbach and Rittiman). You will go through one guard gate at Winans and Nursery. Please be prepared to show a valid driver’s license. Also, be sure your vehicle registration tag and inspection sticker are up to date. Once through the guard gate, continue down Winans Road. Cole High School will be on your left hand side.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Looking for Tables and Enhanced Fonts in your NEISD edublog?
Originally published October 7, 2012
Go to your dashboard, click on PLUGINS. Activate the MCE Table Buttons and the Supreme Google Webfonts! When working on the Visual Editor tab while creating or editing a post you will have font and table creation tools similar to what you use in NEISD Teacher Web.
Post to your edublog from the iPad
Originally published October 6, 2012
Ready to start posting more frequently to your blog with photos and videos of classroom activities? Use your iPad and the app for edublogs. Posting and attaching photos/videos takes just a few minutes. Check out these directions for how to enable your blog account to accept mobile postings:
Ba-Da-Bing with 4th Graders!
Originally Published October 5, 2012
Over the last week I had the pleasure of working with two different fourth grade classes at Vineyard Ranch. Ms. Danielson and Ms. McManus invited me to introduce Popplet Lite to their students. I worked with small groups during the literacy block and we did a Ba-da-Bing! writing activity. We created our Poppels and added photos for where we were and what we saw related to the classroom memory we were writing about. Here are photos of the students hard at work.
Over the last week I had the pleasure of working with two different fourth grade classes at Vineyard Ranch. Ms. Danielson and Ms. McManus invited me to introduce Popplet Lite to their students. I worked with small groups during the literacy block and we did a Ba-da-Bing! writing activity. We created our Poppels and added photos for where we were and what we saw related to the classroom memory we were writing about. Here are photos of the students hard at work.
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iPads and Writing
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Seventh Grade Science Heart Rate Lab
Originally published October 4, 2012
Today I worked with Mrs. Horton and her 7th grade science students collecting data on student heart rates – resting, during exercise, and after recovery period. Data was collected using Vernier Lab Quest devices with the heart rate monitor. All student data was entered into a Google Form (with fields for subject’s initials, 3 data fields, class period and gender). The class will be able to revisit this data many times in the coming months. Mrs. Horton and I are preparing directions and would love to share our Google Form with you – if you’re interested contact one of us!
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Listening to Read on the iPad
Originally Published October 12, 2012
Yesterday I worked with Mr. Armstrong and Ms. Hayes’s 5th graders as they used their iPads to access Time For Kids, National Geographic for Kids, and Washington Post Kids to ‘Listen to Read’ during their Daily 5. Here they are hard at work!
To setup Speech on iPad: Settings / General / Accessibility / Turn speech selection on, then drag speaking rate down. Turn highlight words On. To access Safari, open website, select article, press down finger until you see magnifying glass. Lift finger, drag blue dots to highlight text, tap SPEAK at top of selected text. If magnifying glass does not appear, look in URL bar, if you see READER, tap on that to open, then select text and proceed.
Yesterday I worked with Mr. Armstrong and Ms. Hayes’s 5th graders as they used their iPads to access Time For Kids, National Geographic for Kids, and Washington Post Kids to ‘Listen to Read’ during their Daily 5. Here they are hard at work!
To setup Speech on iPad: Settings / General / Accessibility / Turn speech selection on, then drag speaking rate down. Turn highlight words On. To access Safari, open website, select article, press down finger until you see magnifying glass. Lift finger, drag blue dots to highlight text, tap SPEAK at top of selected text. If magnifying glass does not appear, look in URL bar, if you see READER, tap on that to open, then select text and proceed.
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Google Docs Research Tool
Originally Published May 17, 2012
Just when you thought Google Docs would stay unchanged for a while, a new research tool has now been integrated into Google Docs. The image tool will be helpful for all age of students. I would not necessarily recommend the other search tools for use with elementary age students (who for the most part do not have the sophistication to do broad Google searches and evaluate the reliability of search results), for middle, high school or adult users the Research tool will be a great enhancement to your Google Docs experience.
If you do NOT see the research tool box to the right of your open document, click on TOOLS, RESEARCH in order to view.
In the Quotes section if you begin to type part of a quote, possible results will immediately appear as you type. See the quote you want to include? Move to the bottom of the quote to automatically insert the full quote, and a footnote with source crediting, within your doc.
When performing an image search, simply drag the desired image onto your page – and the source crediting appears as a footnote within your doc.
Change your mind about the order of selected images or quotes? Simply cut and paste them into their appropriate positions – the crediting numbers for the footnotes adjust automatically!
A general search will give you a short summary of the subject searched, related images, and possible websites.
Google Docs Research Tool – give it a spin! Let me know what you think and how you might use it with students!
Dr. Helen Barrett's Electronic Portfolio Resources
Originally published May 16, 2012:
Interested in exploring the capabilities of Google and other potential Web 2.0 resources in creating student portfolios?
Be sure to check out this fantastic resource: http://electronicportfolios.org/ Don’t miss her subsites on ePortfolios and iOS Devices, Google Apps and EduBlogs.
Interested in exploring the capabilities of Google and other potential Web 2.0 resources in creating student portfolios?
Be sure to check out this fantastic resource: http://electronicportfolios.org/ Don’t miss her subsites on ePortfolios and iOS Devices, Google Apps and EduBlogs.
Google Docs (now Drive) Organization
Originally Posted May 16, 2012
Transferring to My Blogger Account
I have recently accepted a position at Education Service Center, Region 20 in San Antonio. My former blog at NEISD will be deactivated once I leave, and I don't want to lose those postings. I will be recreating them here.
Originally published 5/16/2012
I have been inspired by our Google Certified Teacher ‘Reboot’ sessions – and I need to get blogging. So now I am committing to share from this blog information and updates that I am receiving from fellow Google Certified Teachers around the world. Hopefully some of these resources will be useful to you in your classroom!
Originally published 5/16/2012
I have been inspired by our Google Certified Teacher ‘Reboot’ sessions – and I need to get blogging. So now I am committing to share from this blog information and updates that I am receiving from fellow Google Certified Teachers around the world. Hopefully some of these resources will be useful to you in your classroom!
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