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How Do I Do That – May 2012

The BPS EdTech Team would like to invite all staff to the May sessions of our technology series. The How Do I Do That program provides opportunities for staff to learn about technology topics and devices. Staff members are encouraged to attend any sessions that interest them. All sessions run from 3 to 5:00pm – however – participants do not have to stay for the entire session. Please arrive and attend for as long as you are able to. Please remember that this year participants can bundle hours to earn Burlington Public Schools inservice credits. You must complete twenty total contact hours at sessions this year to earn two inservice credits.

There are three great sessions in May. Sessions feature iPads and Apps for Instruction, Google Docs, and a special session about the new interactive classrooms with Apple TVs that will soon be completed at Marshall Simonds Middle School.
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Elementary Math and Technology Nights

 

Carrie Fortunato, Burlington Public Schools K-5 Math Coach, recently organized math and technology nights held at each of Burlington’s elementary schools. Parents, teachers, and students were in attendance exploring school iPads, educational websites, and interactive whiteboards. Students were excited to show their parents what they do at school when learning about math. Families enjoyed the opportunity to learn together about new math applications.

Please check out the BPS EdTech Apps blog. We have just posted 24 math apps and now have over 50 math apps showcased that are currently being used in our classrooms. These math apps are great for the classroom or practice at home.

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Project Based Learning in French

Madame Price, a French instructor at Burlington High School has been creating some engaging lessons in her French IV and V classes. Her class is roughly 15 students in each class and every student has an iPad 2 at their disposal. Madame Price has been very active in creating project based learning experiences for her students. I was recently invited into her class to view the final projects that her French IV and V classes created. After viewing these short videos, I felt the need to share some of the videos as well as her lesson. She encourages anyone out there to steal this lesson and make it their own.
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The Living Facebook Project

Starting today, my digital literacy students will be living facebook.

“Wait…WHAT!” – Actual response from student

For the next five days, they will not be logging into the preeminent social network and instead, living out their daily interactions on Facebook in real life.

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How Do I Do That – April 2012

The BPS EdTech Team would like to invite all staff to the April sessions of our technology series. The How Do I Do That program provides opportunities for staff to learn about technology topics and devices. Staff members are encouraged to attend any sessions that interest them. All sessions run from 3 to 5:30pm – however – participants do not have to stay for the entire session. Please arrive and attend for as long as you are able to. Please remember that this year participants can bundle hours to earn Burlington Public Schools inservice credits. You must complete twenty total contact hours at sessions this year to earn two inservice credits.

April sessions feature Google Reader and Digital Health and Wellness. Read more »

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Mar

#NE121 Summit

Thank you to everyone who helped make the the first New England 1:1 Summit a success. The BPS EdTech team is grateful to all who participated and the generous sponsors who donated to the event. I truly hope that those in attendance enjoyed the day. The organizers from the BPS EdTech team and the students from the BHS Help Desk enjoyed having you visit us. We are definetly planning on doing this again next year.

The Summit started as a simple idea during the BHS student iPad roll out in August. We thought it would be a good idea to have an event later in the year – maybe a hundred or so educators – visiting to share ideas about iPads and 1:1 learning environments. I guess I always secretly wanted it to be a mega event with thousands of people but luckily our team keeps me in check. Quickly we realized there were a lot of people interested in what we are doing in Burlington and more importantly a lot of people who want to improve the environments in which they deliver content to students. In the end the Summit became much larger than many of us thought it would and we felt a great sense of pride that so many were interested in visiting. Read more »

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Getting Ready

The BPS EdTech Team and members of the BHS Student Helpdesk have been getting ready for the New England 1:1 Summit. The event now has over 500 educators from across the country scheduled to attend. The event is sold out but spots will be made available to Burlington teachers who would like to attend. Stay tuned to this blog for highlights from the Summit.

Thank you to everyone who has helped with the preparation of the event.

Please visit the New England 1:1 Summit blog for more information.

Follow the event on Twitter this Saturday with the hashtag  #ne121

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Feb
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How Do I Do That – March 2012

The BPS EdTech Team would like to invite all staff to the March sessions of our technology series. The How Do I Do That program provides opportunities for staff to learn about technology topics and devices. Staff members are encouraged to attend any sessions that interest them. All sessions run from 3 to 5:30pm – however – participants do not have to stay for the entire session. Please arrive and attend for as long as you are able to. Please remember that this year participants can bundle hours to earn Burlington Public Schools inservice credits. You must complete twenty total contact hours at sessions this year to earn two inservice credits.

March sessions feature TouchIT Boards and teacher blogs. Read more »

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Feb

Tools You Can Use – Week of February 13, 2012

 

I was talking with a staff member about Tube Chop last week, so I thought I would share this great resource with everyone. Tube Chop allows you to take segments of You Tube videos and get right to the part that you want to share by giving you a link or an embed code so that you can share the highlighted clip with your audience.

So instead of showing a long You Tube video because you love a small portion of it, you can chop the part you want and get right to the good part. Read more »

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Feb

Tools You Can Use – Week of February 6, 2012

 

from livebinders.com

Livebinders is a tremendous FREE resource that can help you to find relevant resources and also organize your own.   Here are some of the best ways that Livebinders can help you stay organized:

Take Control of Information

  • View links like pages in a book instead of URLs on a page
  • Combine uploaded PDFs and Word docs with links in one binder
  • Go paperless one LiveBinder at a time

Save Time

  • Update information conveniently without having to resend links
  • Avoid layout issues - all documents are organized by tabs and subtabs
  • Edit LiveBinders anytime, any place

Livebinder Bookmark Tool

  • Allow you to save new bookmarks to Livebinders you’ve already created

Livebinder iPad App

  • Allows you to access and add to your Livebinders from your iPad

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Dr. Seuss with iPad Apps

Thank you to Burlington Library Assistant Rose Magliozzi for this post about iPad apps and Dr. Seuss:

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Birthday March 2, 2012 with iPad apps!

NEA’s Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2nd, the birthday of children’s author Theordor Seuss Geisel better known as Dr. Seuss. This year celebrate his birthday with one of his digital books on the iPad.

With the release of two new iPad apps, there are 28 of Dr. Seuss’s books available through the iTunes store. The most recent book apps added are And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street honoring the 75th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book published in 1937 and The Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #1, a set of five of Seuss’s well-known books. Read more »

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How Do I Do That – February 2012

The BPS EdTech Team would like to invite all staff to the February sessions of our technology series. The How Do I Do That program provides opportunities for staff to learn about technology topics and devices. Staff members are encouraged to attend any sessions that interest them. All sessions run from 3 to 5:30pm – however – participants do not have to stay for the entire session. Please arrive and attend for as long as you are able to. Please remember that this year participants can bundle hours to earn Burlington Public Schools inservice credits. You must complete twenty total contact hours at sessions this year to earn two inservice credits.

February sessions feature iPads for the Classroom and Digital Storytelling with members of the Pine Glen Library and Technology Center team. Read more »

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BHS Help Desk: Season 2

The BHS Student Help Desk is entering its second season and I wanted to share our course outline, pathways, and some of the opportunities we’ll be creating for Burlington high school faculty and staff.  Our student help desk is available six out of the seven periods a day and consists of students who have interest in educational technology. The technology competencies vary for each class and set of students, so students have opportunities to pursue a variety of pathways in this course.

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Tools You Can Use – Week of January 23, 2012 – Google Forms

If you aren’t aware of Tom Barrett and his “Interesting Ways” series, then you are missing out on a tremendous resource that is actually a crowd-sourced collection of examples on how you can utilize various technology tools in your classroom.

One that I stumbled across this weekend was a collection of examples on how you can use Google Forms in your classroom. Read more »

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