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Google Earth for the Elementary Teacher

Posted in google earth, necc2008, tagged , , , , on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Susan Reeves & Laura Wing
Google Earth–Elementary
 
tw.neisd.net/webpages/sreeve/tcea2008.cfm
 
Some networks have problems with Google Earth working with IE. Use IE 7.
 
Check out their web site for resources and handouts and lesson worksheets.
 
Used as young as K more as demo than hands-on with kids. 
Showed flip book/mini book examples. 
 
Works best in terms of younger students working in small groups.
Need to [...]

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Report from the Policy Front: What’s in Store for Ed Tech in 2008

Posted in EETT, educational_technology, necc2008, professional_development, tagged , , , , on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hilary Goldman and others
Some major things are happening this year. Especially politics. Major elections.
$262,000,000 amount of money for EETT last year–first year was $700,000,000.
NCLB, ATTAIN, HEA: ATTAIN is the proposed replacement for EETT. Want to make sure technology is in renewal of NCLB. HEA is supposed to be replaced last session, this will be up [...]

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Empowering Diverse Learners and Special Education Students with Wikis

Posted in necc2008, special education, web_2.0, tagged , , , , on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Patrick Ledsma and Lara Long
Referred to Marzano’s book on building background knowledge to increase student achievement.
Lots of experience working with sped students.
How convince other people that a new technology that will improve teaching and learning?
* Research based
* Promotes student achievement
Remember focus is on standardized test results. SPED students can make the difference in school classification. [...]

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Google SketchUp Basics

Posted in educational_technology, necc2008, workshop, tagged , , , on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John Hendron, Goochland County Public Schools with Bea Cantor
Check out his blog, http://johnhendron.net/ for video tutorials and other information. Try http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/google-sketchup/ for SketchUp in particular.
SketchUp was designed for architects. Google bought the company because of Google Earth–use the program to build buildings and place them in Google Earth. Have people build the buildings.
Takes about [...]

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