We’ll be together for four hours today so we should really get to know one another. But we don’t like icebreakers either. So you can take your own photo using Photo Booth, or make an avatar of yourself using ClayYourself. Once you are done upload your photo to Yogile (password is t3… can you guess why?). Now we’ll all be able to see everyone’s photos! See? That was painless!
One of the cool things about keeping your calendar online is that you can embed it on your website or blog. Then whenever you make changes on your calendar, it is automatically updated on your website without you having to do anything at all! Here’s a sample calendar for today. Notice that you can change the view to Week or Month.
Below you will see a summary of the first nine weeks’ curriculum for 3rd grade here in Henrico County. We’d like to help you develop ideas for incorporating 21st century learning and technology into your lessons right from the start. You can get many ideas from our blogs and the blogs of other 3rd grade teachers. Once you are on a blog site, you can type the subject in the search box or click on a tag to find all the related entries.
Henrico 21 Blog
David’s Website & David’s Blog
Julie’s Blog
Pinchbeck 3rd Grade Website & Blog
Please feel free to share your great ideas, ask questions, or make comments throughout our day together! There are two ways you can do this. One way is to click the Comment button for this post and add your comment. You can even comment on other people’s comments. Another way is to go to our Today’s Meet link and add to our discussion there.
We want today to be useful to YOU! If you already know about a program, we don’t want to waste your time teaching it again. So we are going to be democratic about this. Please vote on the programs that you MOST want to learn about today. You can vote more than once. You can either text in your vote or vote with a mobile device like an iPod using the directions below. Or you can go to this Poll Everywhere link.
Well, that didn’t go well so try this form. Hit the submit button when you are done.
Edmodo 3rd Grade Promethean Group passcode: lsr656 (lowercase L at the beginning)
Click here to download a zip file of other Helpful Tips!
To view the “You Can’t Be My Teacher” movie, click here.
To find out all you ever wanted to know about VoiceThread, click here.
FREE lesson plans, educational resources, online interactive activities can be found on Thinkfinity. Click here!
Tech4Learning (Pixie) Social Network – click here!
Tech4Learning (Pixie) Trading Post – Click here to access a wealth of Pixie templates made by teachers for teachers.
Blog Best Practice:
Blood on the River – novel study
It’s always good to have a backup plan, especially when you are using technology. So if our photo upload site doesn’t work or if it is blocked, then please click on this Google Doc link and add a slide to the slideshow which is embedded below. Upload your picture to your slide and write your name and the school where you will be teaching. (And the backup plan for the backup plan is Keepsy).
Here is our interactive seating chart. You can click this link to edit your name. When you refresh this page, your name will appear on the embedded document below.
