Technology+Training

April 5, 2011
[|Arkive]- Awesome fair use animal pictures [|Pics4learning]- Use pictures or contribute to this great picture website. [|Picnik]- Edit your photos without software. [|Psykopaint]- Make masterpieces from your photos. [|Voice Thread]- Record words to go with pictures [|Example] [|My Example] [|Animoto]- Make slideshows online. [|Animoto Education] [|PhotoPeach] - Make slideshows online. [|Little Bird Tales] -Where kids tell their own stories!

[|Slideboom]- Host your Power Point presentations online [|Linoit]- Take your sticky notes anywhere you go!
 * Extras**

March 1, 2011
Today we will be focusing on how to hook the SMART board up to your computer, how to use the SMART Notebook software, and how to operate the SMART Board.

[|Download SMART Notebook Software]* *Make sure to select SMART Notebook collaborative software for Windows.
 * Activitaion Code/Product Key:** NB-AECA8-D2H3N-J6ETR-F8ASM

[|SMART Exchange Pre-K Lessons]

SMART Notebook lessons Kidspiration Microsoft Paint E-books Modeling computer games/activities
 * SMARTboard Ideas:**


 * Set up/Operate the SMART Board**
 * Hook up projector and board to laptop
 * Turning on projector
 * Attaching writing utensils
 * Orienting the SMART Board
 * Using the pens and eraser


 * Use SMART Notebook Software**
 * Set background
 * Add text, shapes, lines, and images
 * Locking items
 * Making the document full screen

**Technology Training: Delicious.com** March 31

Delicious is a social bookmarking website. Social bookmarking allows you to keep all of your website bookmarks in one place. It also allows you to share these bookmarks with your friends, family, and colleagues. This is an excellent tool to use as a teacher, but also just in everyday life.

[|Social Bookmarking in Plain English by CommonCraft]


 * Create a [|Delicious Account]
 * Add the [|Delicious toolbar]
 * Add your friends
 * Add your bookmarks
 * Tag your bookmarks
 * Share your bookmarks
 * Access your bookmarks from anywhere!

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** Technology Training: SMART Boards ** November 4

SMART Boards are a great way to increase student participation in classroom lessons. Because of the interactive nature of SMART Boards, students often listen more closely and pay better attention because they want to be chosen to manipulate the SMART Board. These can be used in whole group lessons, small group lessons, or even as a workstation. There are TONS of ways to use these tools in your classroom. Today we will be focusing on how to hook the SMART board up to your computer, how to use the SMART Notebook software, and how to operate the SMART Board.

[|Download SMART Notebook Software]* *Make sure to select SMART Notebook 10 software for Windows.
 * Activitaion Code/Product Key:** NB-AECA8-D2H3N-J6ETR-F8ASM **(Please let me know if this doesn't work.)**

**Today's Training:**
 * Set up/Operate the SMART Board**
 * Hooking up projector and board to laptop
 * Turning on projector
 * Attaching writing utensils
 * Orienting the SMART Board
 * Using the pens and eraser


 * Use SMART Notebook Software**
 * Set background
 * Add text, shapes, lines, and images
 * Locking items
 * Making the document full screen


 * Other uses for the SMART Board**
 * e-books
 * Search and find
 * Problem Solving
 * Patterns
 * What else can we use the SMART Board for?

[|SMART Educator Resources]

Technology Training: Online Instructional Tools October 21 & 22 Online tools are a great way to engage kids in learning by doing something different in the classroom. Through e-books, videos, and interactive websites, students are learning while having fun! The tools below can be used in a variety of ways- workstations/centers, small groups, large group, with SMARTboards, and any other way you can imagine!

[|StoryPlace]

[|International Children's Digital Library]

[|TumbleBooks]

[|Follett E-books (Irving ISD)]

[|Britannica Learning Zone]

[|BrainPop Jr]

[|Discovery Education] Suggested videos: Peep and the Big Wide World (Science) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Chrysanthemum Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type The Night Before Christmas How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? ISpy The Little Red Hen Too Many Tamales and TONS more!