I'm very excited to share with you the many tools that are available to enhance your instruction and allow students to continue growing as learners (even after they leave your room). My goal is to provide you with an opportunity to experience hardware, digital tools, and electronic resources that will not only get your students excited to collaborate and share in an electronic format, but get you excited to learn more about what is available and how it fits into the amazing teaching that you are already doing. Technology, as amazing as it is, is only effective if driven by best practices. The outline below gives you a basic overview of what I plan to cover. This (much like technology) is subject to change throughout my planning, to insure you leave excited to implement technology back in your own classroom!
I'm very excited to share with you the many tools that are available to enhance your instruction and allow students to continue growing as learners (even after they leave your room). My goal is to provide you with an opportunity to experience hardware, digital tools, and electronic resources that will not only get your students excited to collaborate and share in an electronic format, but get you excited to learn more about what is available and how it fits into the amazing teaching that you are already doing. Technology, as amazing as it is, is only effective if driven by best practices. The outline below gives you a basic overview of what I plan to cover. This (much like technology) is subject to change throughout my planning, to insure you leave excited to implement technology back in your own classroom!
Ryan P. Berardi
4th Grade Teacher
Smoketown Elementary
Mr. Berardi's Wiki Nest
1. Activotes
2. Desktop Tools
3. Incorporating Video Into your Lessons
1. Screencasts (tools, creation, and embedding)
2. Delicious Pages
3. Blogs
4. Ustream
5. Skype
6. Wiki
7. Glogster
8. Tinyurl
1. Ning
2. freetech4teachers.com (educational technology blog)
3. dropbox.com (keep multiple machines updated)
4. surveymonkey.com
5. docs.google.com