Techapalooza + You = Awesome

Want to rock out your classroom with incredible technology instruction? Want to experience cool collaborative vibes with other amazing educators? Well tune up your axe, grab your glowsticks, and head to Techapalooza! Techapalooza will be THE place to get some funky fresh technology ideas to jam out to with your students. This is the perfect opportunity to start your year cranked up to the max. Be at Deep Run High School Thursday, August 11th from 8:30-3:00.

Register at http://ero.henrico.k12.va.us using your HCPS issued username and password. To access the registration system you will need be connected via Ethernet or HCPS staff wireless within any Henrico County building. Use the following information to help you locate the session when registering, SRN 20163092401

Don’t forget to consider presenting your knowledge of 21st century skills. Complete this lesson proposal by June 3rd.

Want to rock out your classroom with incredible technology instruction? Want to experience cool collaborative vibes with other amazing educators? Well tune up your axe, grab your glow sticks, and head to Techapalooza! Techapalooza will be THE place to get some funky fresh technology ideas to jam out to with your students. This is the perfect opportunity to start your year cranked up to the max. Be at Deep Run High School Thursday, August 11th from 8:30-3:00.

Register at http://ero.henrico.k12.va.us using your HCPS issued username and password. To access the registration system you will need be connected via Ethernet or HCPS staff wireless within any Henrico County building. Use the following information to help you locate the session when registering, SRN 20163092401

Don’t forget to consider presenting your knowledge of 21st century skills. Complete this lesson proposal by June 3rd.

Glen Lea

Mrs. Woolheater’s second graders created their H21 projects on China today. Students had a choice between Pixie, Movie Maker, ComicLife and Google Slides to present their research on the contribution they did chose to research. Students did a great job doing research in books and OneSearch!

https://drive.google.com/a/henrico.k12.va.us/file/d/0B4WXxNNguTv0bFpDVlZObEE2WW8/view?ts=57225531” target=”_blank”>Kite China Project

https://drive.google.com/a/henrico.k12.va.us/file/d/0B07EcJc-UNeMZDNYQVExYlliRmM/view?ts=57225381” target=”_blank”>Fireworks China’s Contribution

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Seven Pines

Mrs. Uzel’s class worked on their Virginia Studies H21 projects. Students researched a region in Virginia and then had to present it to the class. Students had a choice of Comic Life, Google Slides, Movie Maker, Power Point, or Pixie to use for their presentation. Students used OneSearch for their research

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Glen Lea

Today Mrs. Woolheater’s students began their China research for their H21 projects. Students researched contributions from China. Some students researched kites, bronze, compasses, and silk. Students had to determine why the contribution they chose was important and how things would be different without this contribution. imgres

Seven Pines Google Hangout

Today we setup Google Hangouts to use with Mrs. Marrazo’s fifth grade students. I was in one classroom with about ten students while she remained in her classroom. She gave directions for a math enrichment activity. The students I had worked on a math activity with partners to accomplish this activity via Google Hangouts. Students communicated with Mrs. Marrazo through the computer in real time. It was a success! The students loved “being on their own” while she watched “at afar” under my supervision. They also loved communicated through the computer with her. She could watch and hear all of their conversations as if she was right there with the students. What an amazing experience!

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Donahoe Google Hangout

Today I read a story to Mrs. Chalifoux’s first grade class with Google Hangout! I was sitting at Seven Pines and she projected my image on her Promethean Board. The students were amazed at how I could be in one place and see and hear me reading a story in real time to them while I was at a totally different school and they were in their classroom. To them it was like watching a movie. They were so excited. They asked questions and were so engaged with the story. What an awesome way to start the day!

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Seven Pines

Mrs. Uzel’s fourth graders worked on pre-fixes. Students read a passage called “Camping.” Each student pair had their own copy in Google Docs. Students were able to highlight all words with pre-fixes that they found. After finding all the words, using the help from a guide sheet, students then had to determine what the word meant. After defining the word, students typed their answers in Padlet.

Ms. Armstrong’s third grade class worked on prefixes and suffixes. Students worked in Popplet on the iPads to write their own words with prefixes and suffixes.  Students used a guide to help them.popplet


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Donahoe Tech Takeout

Today at Donahoe we focused on different math skills and had A BLAST! Stephanie Wright, the ITRT at Donahoe, met with the Title I math teacher to see which areas were in most need for 4th grade math. The Tech Takeout crew headed over to Donahoe to work on comparing numbers, rounding, graphing, fractions, and other great math concepts.

Stephanie kicked off the lesson with a Kahoot to get everyone’s math mind going! Kahoot is a great tool that teachers can easily integrate into their lessons because not only are Kahoots simple to make, but there are also a TON of teacher made Kahoots available to use!


Mr. Caratachea and Mrs. Green gave their groups a Google Slide template to compare numbers. They used a random number generator to choose two numbers to compare. Then the students used the snipping tool to take a snip of their numbers and put them on a slide. To show the inequalities the students took pictures within Google Slides using their arms to show which number was greaterl. Finally the students added some personalization to their slideshow with background colors and animations. The students did an amazing job!!


Mrs. Hues & Mrs. Robinson had their students make a copy of “On Target With Decimals” in Google Slides. Students logged into Google and made a copy of the presentation so they could edit it the slides to demonstrate their understanding of place value, rounding, comparing and ordering, and adding and subtracting decimals. The students were excited to see pictures of actual items on the shelves at Target!


Jim Covais and Julie Smith had their group use Scratch to program a sprite to move across a number line of decimals between 0 and 1. Students created their own background in which they had to generate their own number line with the drawing tools and divide it into fractional parts. They also were given a decimal card in which they had to correctly identify their decimal’s location on their number line and mark it with a hash mark. Students used the coding blocks to make their sprite move to different parts of the number line in which a recording of their voice saying the decimal’s name was included. Furthermore, students got practice typing the word form of their decimals into the speech bubble that they programmed to pop up. If you are interested in carrying out this same lesson with your students then click {HERE} for the step by step directions.

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Ms. Wright used the online collaborative tool, Padlet, to compare fractions! Students picked fractions that were prepared ahead of time and then went to http://www.abcya.com/fraction_percent_decimal_tiles.htm to work with digital manipulative fraction tiles. The students ordered the fractions so that they were easily compared. Once the students had everything in order they took a screenshot using the snipping tool and went to Padlet. Each student posted their fractions to share with their classmates. Check out some of their work below!