SPED Tech Expo
 

ActivInspire Overview
 

Feb. 5, 2013
 

Interactive Websites from Presentation:

1. Shepphard Software Pre-K/K
2. Shepphard Software Main Screen
3. Cool School
4. Utah Education Network Click on Interactives on the right hand side of the screen
5. Phet
6. NCTM Illuminations
7. Learner Interactives
8. Everyday Math Toolkit
9. PBS Kids
10. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
11. Kinder Site
12. Secondary Math Interactives
13. TeacherLed
14. Turtle Diary

Resources:

1. Livescribe TRT resource page
2. Templates found on:  Curriculum Drive > Staff > Elem/Middle/High > Instructional Tech > ActivInspire > Templates
3. PrometheanPlanet.com: search and download pre-made flipcharts
4. Sound Recorder
5. Color Tricks

Survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6YHWHLK

SPED Tech Expo
 

Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013
 

LiveScribe Pen

Examples:

1. Pencasting in Secondary Math Class: Laila Watkins at OMS
2. Talking Word Wall
3. Audio Study Guide
4. Talking Test
5. Talking Flashcards
6. Communication Board
7. Talking Story Book

Resources:

• FCPS TRT Livescribe Help Page
• Livescribe home page

Need additional help?

• Contact your school assigned TRT.  They are listed by school here.

Flip Video Camera

Examples:

• Social Stories
• Video Modeling
• Alt-MSA evidence
• Student work/performance

Resources:

• Flip Cam Overview
• Connecting the Flip to the Computer
• Downloading the Flip
• Importing Clips into MovieMaker

Need additional help?

• Contact your school assigned TRT.  They are listed by school here.

WFMS Technology For Feedback
 

Monday, January 28, 2013

Agenda:

• Socrative
• Polleverywhere
• Edmodo
• CPS clickers

Need additional help? Have questions?  Please email amy.boehman@fcps.org

Rock Creek School

Promethean Tips and Tricks

January 23, 2013

Agenda:

• Adding images
• Adding sound effects
• Adding media
• Embedding YouTube videos
• Using the spotlight
• Using the sound recorder
• Using the camera tool
• Adding links to webpages

FLIPCHART

Need additional help? Contact Amy Boehman-Pollitt at amy.boehman@fcps.org

Livescribe for World Languages

January 23, 2013

Tuscarora High School

Presented by: Amy Boehman-Pollitt, Teacher Specialist for Instructional Technology, amy.boehman@fcps.org

What's in the box?

• Pen (4G or 8G) - Echo or Pulse
• Starter notebook
• Cord to charge and sync the pen (Echo)
• Cradle to charge and sync the pen (Pulse)
• Stylus
• Extra ink tip
• Headphones/microphone
   

What is a Livescribe (smart) pen?

• Video Introduction
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Setting Up the Pen:

• Have the technology coordinator at your school download the Livescribe Desktop software to a computer in your classroom.
• Register your pen to your FCPS email address.
• Turn on your pen.
• Tap the sticker on the outside of the notebook with the tip of the pen.
• Open the front cover of the notebook and use the icons to:
  • Set the date and time
  • Set right-hand, left-hand settings
  • Check the battery life.
     

Short Demo of the Pen

Curriculum Connections

• Using the Pen in Spanish Class
  
  
• Talking Flashcards for Spanish Class
• Talking Word Wall
• Talking Test
• Use your Livescribe pen/paper under document camera to record pencasts

Resources

• FCPS TRT Livescribe Help Page
• Livescribe home page

 
Need additional help?

• Contact your school assigned Technology Resource Teacher.  They are listed by school here.

Resources and Links:

• TRT CPS resource page
• eInstruction Home Page

Questions or need additional help? Contact me at amy.boehman@fcps.org

Resources and Links:
 

• Remind101
• Edmodo
• Polleverywhere
• Evernote
• Socrative
• Quizlet
• Twitter
• TRT Cellphones in the Classroom resource page

Questions or need additional help?  Contact me at amy.boehman@fcps.org

West Frederick Middle School training

Magic Ink and Containers 

Resources:

• Containers Made Easy resource pack (import into "My Resources" of ActivInspire)
• Magic Revealers resource pack 
• Magic Ink practice flipchart

 Thinglink.com is a web 2.0 site that allows the user to upload an image and add features to make it interactive, such as: text, questions, audio, video, sound, music, links and more.  Students can collaborate on one image or work on their own. Teachers can use Thinglink to link to a variety of materials in one spot.  Example Thinglink images:

 Tuscarora High School science teacher example

Civil War Thinglink

Thinglink can be used for many curricular connections:

• Create an interactive author study
• Create electronic student portfolios
• Practice vocabulary and pronunciation for foreign language and ELL students
• Create a webquest with questions and links to websites
• Collaborate on projects
• Create study units

With Thansgiving just around the corner, take a look at some Thanksgiving resources to use in your classroom:

• Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian - Investigate what happened at the first Thanksgiving in 1621
• Scholastic: The First Thanksgiving; virtual field trip - Scholastic delivers a virtual field trip to discover more about Plimoth Plantation
• Learn to Talk like a Pilgrim
• Journey of the Mayflower: interactive timeline of how the pilgrims arrived to America
• Thanksgiving on Promethean Planet: variety of Thanksgiving resource packs and flipcharts 
• Turkey with Starfall.com