Welcome to techteacher.ca.
A place for Sourthern Alberta teachers to share ideas, resources, and SMART Notebook lesson files.
Click the folder icon above to access the file share.
Most of the Thursday Webinar Series use SMART Bridgit Software.
If you are new to Bridgit, download a printable step by step guide by clicking here.
2009-2010 Webinars begin October 15th.
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Professional Learning Series Information | |
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Session 15 Missed the session? Click HERE for the screencast. Dave Blemmings discusses the use of Web 2.0 tools (free software on the internet) for teachers and students. Many of which are ideal for use on interactive whiteboards. All the sites he discusses and more can be found at http://delicious.com/beyond_games. | |
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Session 14 Missed the session? Click HERE for the recorded screencast. Shawn LeBleu, Coordinator of Technology with Holy Spirit Schools will guide you through creating an interactive SMART Notebook file that you can use to take daily attendance. Simple to create with themes for every month, your K-4 students will love marking themselves present each day using your SMARTboard. Session & Connection information: | |
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Session 13 - Read & Write Gold
This week, Rocky Wilson, IT Integration Specialist for Palliser
Regional Schools, will look at using the new assistive software – Read & Write Gold.
This is truly a very powerful program that is starting to take hold in many
school jurisdictions. To properly demonstrate all of the capabilities of
this program would require ‘many’ hours. During the webinar, Rocky
will showcase “some” of the features which will include – the RWG menu bar,
using RWG to have information read to a student and the many options available
here; speak and spell as you type; word prediction as you type; and the
research tools to help students to create their assignments. Pending
time, other potential features to be shared include homophones, audible
dictionary, and the calculator capability.
There will be only ONE session at 3:45 this week (the session will go 30 minutes), through Bridgit. Please test your connection in advance. In Internet Explorer, type in: http://neptune.pallisersd.ab.ca:81, or alternately (especially for some districts outside of Palliser’s' Network), http://199.216.196.244:81 | |
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Session 12 - Animations with SMART Notebook 10
Missed the session? Catch the screen cast by clicking here.
This week, Todd Diakow,
IT Integration Specialist for Palliser Regional Schools, will look at using the
new Animation feature in Smart Notebook 10.
This enables teachers to use features such as Fade In, Fade Out, Flip and
Rotate within their Smart Lessons, much like a Powerpoint presentation.
There will be only ONE session at 3:45 this week, through
Bridgit. Please test your connection in advance. In Internet
Explorer, type in http://neptune.pallisersd.ab.ca:81,
or alternately (especially for some districts outside of Pallisers' Network), http://199.216.196.244:81. Click on
Download Software and then 'run' twice to ensure that you are able to load the
Bridgit software. Make sure you download the Bridgit from this site. Do NOT use an existing copy of Bridgit saved on your computer. This will insure you connect to the Palliser server.
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Session 11 - SMARTboards in Division One Classrooms
Hosted by
Pat Hrynczuk and Amy Kerr (Jennie Emery Elementary School – Coaldale) from the
Palliser Regional School Division. Pat and Amy will be show casing how
they have integrated the Smartboard technology into their classrooms.
Connection to this
session will be through Video Conference AND
Bridgit. To VC, please dial the meeting room at 2008@199.216.149.3 . For
the Bridgit session, we will be using the 2Learn Bridgit. To access the Bridgit, go to http://www.2learn.ca:8080 . Once installed and running, you will have to type in the word ‘program’
to access the Bridgit session (which we will call "Div One Presentation"). Should you have trouble connecting with the
Bridgit software, accommodations can be made to see past this issue. (We will
use the rear camera to display the image on the Smartboard)
There will be ‘one’
session which will occur Thursday May 14th at 3:30pm. Session will last
about 30 minutes. A few minutes at the end have been left for questions.
For those of you who are
using a PVX setup, it’s a lot for a computer to run both the VC (Polycom) software and Bridgit at the same
time. The recommendation is that you run
the two programs on different computer to cut down on the processing demands.
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Session 10 - Differentiation in Elementary Schools
Missed the session? Here is the entire screencast:
http://moodle.westwind.ab.ca/file.php/1/PD_Screencasts/dixie_diff_May_7_09.mov
It
is 76.5 meg and about 25 minutes. This video contains some introduction,
the student video, and questions at the end.
If
you just want to watch the video showing students in their student led
committees, use the link below
http://moodle.westwind.ab.ca/file.php/1/PD_Screencasts/Dixie_Student_Movie.mov
This
12 minute video is 37.5 meg.
Differentiation in elementary schools is being hosted by Dixie Davis from Westwind School division. Dixie will be showing some short clips of the activities she uses to differentiate instruction for her students. She will also discuss some changes in class set up that can make differentiated instruction work efficiently.
Thursday May 7, at 7:45am and again at 3:30pm. Sessions will last about 15min. A few minutes at the end have been left for questions. | |
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Session 9 - Photo Editing with Picnik Shawn LeBleu, Coordinator of Technology with Holy Spirit Schools will show you how to use a great web 2.0 application called Picnik to edit your digital photos. With many great "Photoshop" type features, Picnik is easy, powerful, and best of all free. Learn how to edit photos and save them for emailing, printing, posting on the web, etc.. Students will love playing with the different effects that can easily be applied to any photo.
Missed the session? Watch the screencast by clicking here.
Thursday, April 30th 7:45 am
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Session 7 - Scratch! Missed the session? Watch the screencast here:
http://moodle.westwind.ab.ca/file.php/1/PD_Screencasts/Scratch_Screencast.mov
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Thursday, April 9th
Access is via http://bridgit.westwind.ab.ca/
If you would like, a test session for connection will run on Wednesday April 9 from 3-3:45.
The presenter will be Clinton Blackmore. Clinton is a Westwind tech who has previously worked as a game designer. Scratch is a simple, visual and free program that allows students to create their own interactive animations and games. The program can be downloaded at http://scratch.mit.edu/download . Sample scratch projects can be viewed at http://scratch.mit.edu/
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Session 6 - Using Flip Video and Movie Maker to Create your Lesson Plans Rocky will
take you through how he used the Flip Video to help cut down on the amount of time he spent lesson planning for his subs. He worked as a science teacher and found that recording the activity was a lot easier than explaining to sub what he wanted the students to do.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 7:45 am
This session will use both video conferencing and Bridgit.
For the video conferencing connection, please dial into the following:
If you can’t connect using the above, try one of the following:
139.142.188.3##2008 For the Bridgit, use the following:
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Session 5 - 5 Super Cool Websites for the Elementary Classroom Presented by: Shawn LeBleu Missed the session? Click HERE for the screencast. Thursday, February 26th, 2009 nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html 7:45 AM or 3:35 PM Join the webinar at 7:40 on Holy Spirit Bridgit Server located HERE. | |
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Session 4 - Blogging in the Classroom Presented by: Lorraine Beaudin, U of L Thursday, February 12th, 2009 7:45 AM or 3:30 PM Join the webinar at 7:40 on Holy Spirit Bridgit Server located HERE. | |
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Session 3 - Podcasting Thursday, February 5th, 2009 7:45 AM or 3:30 PM The URL to join in Palliser's Bridgit Server is:
http://neptune.pallisersd.ab.ca:81
If you want to ask questions you will need a mic, but otherwise a computer with speakers will do. Email Todd Diakow at todd.diakow@pallisersd.ab.ca if you are interested in attending and want the handouts in advance. Click Here for instructions on joining a Bridgit session. | |
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Session 2 - United Streaming Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 7:45 AM or 3:30 PM To join click this link:
http://www.2learn.ca:9900/Click Here for instructions on joining a Bridgit session.
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Session 1 - Atomic Learning; More than just videos Thursday, January 15th, 2009 3:35pm MST Presented by Atomic Learning |