Amy Reiseck
Merryhill School, Stockton California
Merryhill School
1035
Stockton, Ca.
Amy Reiseck
First Grade Teacher
Vanguard Lead
K-4 Lead Teacher
Our job is to teach the students we have,
Not the ones we would like to have,
Not the ones we used to have,
Those we have right now,
All of them.
Dr. Kevin Maxwell
Not the ones we would like to have,
Not the ones we used to have,
Those we have right now,
All of them.
Dr. Kevin Maxwell
Technology Integration in My Classroom
Link to my class S'more: All Things First Grade
"Believing you can't integrate technology into your classroom until you become a techie is like believing you can't drive a car until you become a mechanic."
Thinglink
Character Counts - Responsibility
Thinglink
- Thanksgiving Class Presentation
- Pictures and video
Remind 101
Remind 101
Class and Staff group message examples.
Remind 101
"Learning is creation, not consumption. Knowledge is not something a learner absorbs, but something a learner creates."
Reading Street app
I am able to project all student text materials from our Language Arts curriculum, including audio.
Technology Buddies
The 7th graders partnered with our 1st grade class for various acitvities.
7th graders took video of th 1st grade Reading Street play. Then, at the next class, they collaborated and each group redinfined the play and made various alterations to the video in iMovie to enhance the performance.
i-Movie
STEM Project, 1st Grade
i-Movie
5th - 8th Graders are interviewed about their i-Pad use in Middle School.
Keynote
Back To School Night Presentation
Keynote
Staff Professional Deelopment: How to use Keynote with video how-to slides.
Keynote
Presentation created for monthly Staff Professional Development.
"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."
Technology Process Board
Teachers were asked to create mini-process boards on an app they use in their class. The mini-process boards highlight how the app functions and an example of how the appw as used with the assignment/activity/task.
SpellingCity.com, Thinglink, Padlet, TimeForKids, iMovie
Keynote, Schoology, Skitch,
iBrainstorm, i-Ready
Link to the Staff Professional Development Smore
This smore includes both Vanguard and Literacy Professional Development as well as upcoming events and reminders.
Thinklink
Art Show, K-8
- video of students describing their art
- pictures of individual art
- text about the event
Technology Integration in Other Classrooms
Kindergarten - Mrs. Terrell & Mrs. Lennier
Technology Kindergarten uses in the classroom without an iPad.
- ELMO Projector
- i-Ready.com
- SpellingCity.com
- Listening Centers
- Pandora
ELMO Projector
SpellingCity.com
Mini-Process Board
i-Ready.com
Mini-Process Board
1st Grade - Ms. Reiseck
- Vanguard Lead Teacher
- K-4 Lead Teacher
- Scroll to top of this S'more for classroom evidence.
2nd Grade - Mrs. Baker
- Pages
- Research
3rd Grade - Mrs. Biedermann
- YouTube
- FlashCards
- TimeForKids
4th Grade - Mrs. Lopez
- Spelling City
- YouTube
- Padlet
- List Selector
- PicCollage
- Keynote
- Pages
Middle School
5th Grade Homeroom - Mr. Sousa
- Spanish
Dictionary app., Flashcard app, research
6th Grade Homeroom - Mrs. Macedo
- Math
- 6th Grade Science
YouTube, Whiteboard app, Flashcard
7th Grade Homeroom - Mrs. D'Sousa
- Social Studies
- 5th and 8th Grade Science
iBrainstorm, iMovie, WordClouds, Supernotes,
5th Grade Social Studies
Research on the internet.
iBrainstorm
Mini-Process Board
8th Grade Homeroom - Mrs. Johnston
- Language Arts
- 7th Grade Science
- Literacy Lead Teacher
- 5-8th Grade Lead Teacher
Edmodo, Wordly Wise app, airdrop
Technology Class - Mrs. Teravaskis
Our technology teacher has K-4th grades twice a week and 5-8th grades once a week, all for 45 minute sessions.
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Looking Forward - Technology Goals
Media Center
iPad Classes
- Create a "google", or "Starbucks" type space in the Library for students to collaborate and use their devices.
- iPad classes will also be held in this room.
iPad Classes
- 5-8th grades, one 45 minute session per week (in addition to Tech. Lab time).
- The goal is to teach iPad functions, app discoveries, etc.
Professional Development
- In addition to monthly meetings and S'more Professional Development I will conduct Mini-PD's.
- Examples of Mini-PD's include: How-To Create a QR Code, How-To create a Flyer on Pages, How-To use Numbers, How to use the app Skitch, etc.
Paperless Challenge
- We will be working with various ways to use our iPad rather than paper.
- We are hoping Schoology will fulfill many of these needs.
Schoology
- This summer we will be exploring Schoology.
- We are hoping this site will serve many uses.
- Blogging, Library of resources, grading, quizzes, polls
- Paperless - agenda, forms, newsletters, flyers, rubrics, upcoming events
My Best Practices As A Vanguard Trainer
- Padlet discussion boards worked well this year during Staff Meetings. A Padlet was frequently our "Bell Activity" at the beginnig of meetings. As we waited for everyone to arrive staff could reflect on the Padlet questions.
- S'more, S'more, S'more... I love S'more! The staff PD Sm'ore I created each month with resources from the Vanguard S'more was like by our staff. I also discovered that I should keep one PD S'more going and not erase previous resources so they may refer back to previous PD information at any time.