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Updates from Technology. Department of Instructional Technology. May 3 and 4, 2011. Summertime and the livin’ is easy. June 1 - 2: SMART Learner Conference June 8 - July 28 District SMART Board Certification Moodle Response and CPS - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
May 3 and 4, 2011
Updates from Technology
Department of Instructional Technology
Summertime and the livin’ is easy.
✤ June 1 - 2: SMART Learner Conference
✤ June 8 - July 28
✤ District SMART Board Certification
✤ Moodle
✤ Response and CPS
✤ SMART Notebook: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Content Creation
✤ WebQuests, Collaborative Tools, Movie Maker and Flip Cams
going the distance
✤ Where are we going?
✤ How will we get there?
✤ Tandberg
✤ MOVI
✤ Skype
its a BIG Universe
✤ 2099 eBooks
✤ read and CREATE! from phone, iPad, computer, iPod Touch
✤ Targets grades K - 8
✤ AR books available
✤ Thank you.....Title1
Student logins!!
✤ Student logins are available and must be in use by October 1.
✤ Lists of usernames and passwords generated by ITS
✤ lists available by September 1 on Sharepoint
✤ contact James McKinnis ([email protected])
✤ Schools will be responsible for maintaining up-to-date lists
We have iPads, now what?
✤ iPads must be set up to work with the MCPSS network by ITS
✤ Apps cannot be purchased with Title 1 funds
✤ The Apple Volume License Purchase Program
✤ There is a link with iPad app suggestions on the principal wiki
HELP!!
✤ Thank you for your support
✤ Calls taken from TST and Principal only, thank you
SMART things you should know
✤ Warranty
✤ SMART Board Install Check Sheet
✤ Cleanliness is next to Godliness
✤ Are you registered?
Enabled, Engaged and Empowered
✤ Survey says....the national Speak Up Survey
✤ 67% of parents would purchase a mobile device for schoolwork
✤ 53% of students said inability to use mobile device was largest obstacle when using technology in school
✤ 71% of HS students want us to allow greater access to digital content
✤ 33% of HS students report they are using online textbooks or online curriculum as part of their regular schoolwork.
what does it all mean??
✤ Conference, school and district discussion and policy trends:
✤ mobile learning
✤ online and blended learning
✤ e-textbooks
✤ Student vision: socially based, un-tethered, digitally rich learning
✤ Parents: support the student vision
the new 3 Es of Education
✤ Enabling students to reach their potential through increased access to educational resources and experts that extend learning beyond the capacities or limitations of their school or community.
✤ Engaging students in rich, compelling learning experiences that develop deeper knowledge and skill development especially the problem-solving, creativity and critical thinking skills so highly desired for our world today.
✤ Empowering students to take responsibility for their own educational destinies and to explore knowledge with an unfettered curiosity, thus creating a new generation of life long learners.
and, don’t forget IMPACT
✤ Have you taken your IMPACT yet?
✤ Open until May 18
✤ Request results from Michele White
next.....
✤ Hands-on SMART for Administrators June 7, 2011
✤ Robbins, Burns, Clark and Central Office
✤ BYOC / BYOL
✤ Technology’s answer to the Very Long Day
✤ July 18 - 21 at Clark
✤ 2 hours of....
Questions from the floor??