The Instructional Tech Connection
Weekly News, Tricks, & Tips from ITF Joanna Crawford
Let's work together to meet your IT needs!
See my entire 1st 9 weeks calendar here!
- Monday: Holiday
- Tuesday: HHS9
- Wednesday: HHS
- Thursday: HHS
- Friday: DJCC (AM); Office (PM)
For days I am on your specific campus, email me crawfordj@lisd.net or tweet me@DigitalCrawford to set up a time we can work together. Please include your campus, room number, and preferred time.
How are teachers using the IT Facilitator?
Google Sites: Mrs. Castleberg
Mrs. Castleberg set up her Google Site during inservice week, and it's growing as her classes continue. It's an easy way to electronically deliver files to students.
Google Sites: Mrs. Cox
Mrs. Cox's Google Site for Hebron Physics is a work in progress, but it already has a wealth of information for her students along with forms to gather student info!
Google Sites: Your Name Here!
Want a Google Site for your classroom? They are easy to get going and make delivering materials electronically to students quick and painless? Tired of being stuck at the copy machine? This could be your solution!
With ThingLink students create an interactive image on any device (iPad app is free) by adding touchable "things" to an image. These "things" can be images, text, or videos. They can be found on the internet or created by students to capture their learning. When completed, students can share all of their interactive images in a teacher's channel to take a virtual gallery walk.
Check out a couple of examples below. How could you use ThingLink?
- Enhancing a map with country names, capitals, informative videos, and images of the terrain
- Labeling parts of a cell or dissected frog
- Capturing learning of full understanding of vocabulary words by demonstrating meaning in video
- Labeling parts of a room, body, anything(!) in a foreign language
- Sharing a math problem with a student-created video explaining how to find the solution plus linking to tutorial videos from YouTube and images of useful formulas or prior learning
- The sky's the limit!
What else can we work on together?
Your colleagues have been meeting with me about...
What are your instructional technology goals? I can help with those!
- Getting their classrooms' technology going
- Google Drive
- Google Classroom
- Moodle
- Smore.com
- Scannable
- iPad Apps
- Creating a Student Driven Open House
What are your instructional technology goals? I can help with those!