There's SNOW doubt about Technology
January 2017 Newsletter
Happy New Year from the Learning Technologies Department
The month of January brings many opportunities for integration with current events such as: The New Year, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Chinese New Year, Super Bowl, Winter, Ice and Snow Fun. We would like to share some January resources that help support teaching and learning.
Wintertime Magnetic Poetry
Life Cycle of a Snowman is Like....
"Choose Your Own Adventure"
Google Slides can be used to make interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories. Google Slides ability to link to specific slides allows you to build a non-linear slideshow that allows users to make choices and go to different slides depending on their choice.
Click here for resources: Help guide, sample interactive story and extras.
Make a Touchdown with Google Earth!
Martin Luther King's Dream
- Prezi: Social Studies regions, end of the year reflections, book reports
- Animoto: Field trip pictures, classroom events
- Voicethread: Biography poems, small research projects, author studies, poetry share
- Blabberize: Texas History research
New Year's Resolutions
Returning to school after winter break is a great time to discuss resolutions with your students, talk about the benefits of making long-term goals, and the advantages of planning and documenting them. Your students can create a google document to write down their behavior and academic goals for the remainder of the school year. Have the students sign and share the document with you. Use this document for reflection and noting progress made.
Educator Awards
TCEA's Annual Educator Awards recognize excellence in the integration of technology in schools. These awards, also known as Golden Apples, have been bestowed upon some of the most innovative and engaging educators. This year our very own Shirley Dalby, Library Media Specialist at Academy of Leadership and Technology at Mound Elementary is a Finalist for Library Media Specialist of the Year. This award will recognize a Texas certified librarian who actively promotes the integration of technology in the library media center and works collaboratively with administrators, teachers, and students to promote and support the integration of technology throughout the curriculum. Congratulations to Shirley on this honor. Awards are presented at a formal awards ceremony and reception during TCEA's Annual Convention & Exposition in February.
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated instruction is the way in which a teacher anticipates and responds to a variety of student needs in the classroom. To meet these needs, teachers differentiate by modifying...
- Content (what we plan to teach and what we want students to learn)
- Process (begins when students stop taking in information and begin to work actively with it)
- Product (ways that students show what they have come to know, understand, and be able to do as the result of study)
Resources on Ways to Differentiate with GOOGLE Apps
Class Bank - Google Sheets Add-On to Bank, Spend, or Raffle with ClassDojo!
Spring Z-Space Training
Tuesday, February 21st @4:30 - 7:30pm
Monday, March 20th @4:30 - 7:30pm
Tuesday, April 18th @4:30 - 7:30pm
Monday, May 22nd @4:30 - 7:30pm
Monday, Jan 23, 2017, 04:30 PM
Clinkscale Elementary School, Blayke Street, Burleson, TX, United States
Kim Estes - KMS, The REALM, BCHS, CHS
Lindsay Foster - Brock, Frazier, Hajek, Taylor
Matthew Kitchens - Academy @ Nola Dunn, Clinkscale, Norwood, CrHS & RTDC
Heather Sanders - STEAM MS, HMS, BHS
Teresa Sumrall - Academies at Bransom, Mound, and Stribling