1. How do you use technology in you classroom? Think Pair Share

2. Why Technology in the Classroom? Kids love it (wow factor) Connection opportunities –You with other educators –Kids with other kids Kids learn to learn –Doing something new Kids love it (wow factor) Connection opportunities –You with other educators –Kids with other kids Kids learn to learn –Doing something new

3. We hear a lot about this …and these.

4. So, what about…

5. A Home Page with links to class pages along with a daily calendar

6. A Class Page with links to handouts and daily PowerPoint presentations

7. Student Projects Student Review and Overview of A Brave New World

8. Student Discussion

9. A way for students to contact you, even if they have lost your email address (for the third time)

10. How can you begin? Consider what kind of access your students have. –Do they have home access? –Can you get time in the school computer lab? Consider what you want to accomplish. –Information dissemination? –Student discussion? –Student publication? Consider what kind of access your students have. –Do they have home access? –Can you get time in the school computer lab? Consider what you want to accomplish. –Information dissemination? –Student discussion? –Student publication?

11. Educators to Check Out Online Will Richardson’s Webblog-ed –The Web 2.0 guru –http://weblogg-ed.com/http://weblogg-ed.com/ Vicki Davis’ Cool Cat Teacher –Gives specific instructions for starting blogs, etc. and she is really on top of new technology as it becomes available –http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.comhttp://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com Scott Elias’ Dare I Disturb the Universe –An administrator who *gasp* questions his practices and tries to improve –http://blog.scottjelias.net/http://blog.scottjelias.net/ Epiphany in Baltimore –An East Coast Math Teacher who is getting his Master’s and trying to improve his teaching all the time: sound familiar? –http://epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com/http://epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com/ Will Richardson’s Webblog-ed –The Web 2.0 guru –http://weblogg-ed.com/http://weblogg-ed.com/ Vicki Davis’ Cool Cat Teacher –Gives specific instructions for starting blogs, etc. and she is really on top of new technology as it becomes available –http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.comhttp://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com Scott Elias’ Dare I Disturb the Universe –An administrator who *gasp* questions his practices and tries to improve –http://blog.scottjelias.net/http://blog.scottjelias.net/ Epiphany in Baltimore –An East Coast Math Teacher who is getting his Master’s and trying to improve his teaching all the time: sound familiar? –http://epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com/http://epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com/

12. Think Pair Share What might you do with technology in your classroom?