Know Your New Mac: Feel the Power

Bill Vader demonstrated many features of the teacher (Mac) computers that are being placed in elementary classrooms. High levels of learning and fun was had by all.






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Many Tools, Applications and Ideas

Greg King and Bill Vader demonstrated many technology tools and technology integration possibilities. The possibilities are truly endless.



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Educator Access Gives Teachers Many Communications Options

A number of elementary teachers explored the various communication options and the new grade book with Steve Lebert and Dave Paschke. After some demonstrations teachers worked in teams to set up initial grade book and communications options for their grade levels.






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Advanced SMART Training

(Michelle)^2 [Michelle Traetow and Michelle Baker] set up a number of activities that helped elementary teachers explore the SMART board and the SMART Notebook software. Many exciting ideas were shared concerning using these technologies to help students learn!

Notes from the SMART workshops are posted in the share files at each site:
Budd TDATA
Intermediate TDATA
Look for folder named "SMART Summer Workshops"



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Intro SMART Training Was A Big Success

On Monday afternoon about 25 participants learned how to use the SMART presentation software and SMART interactive white board. Michelle Traetow, Michelle Baker and Brad Haugen led the group through a number of activities that helped teachers understand how to use many of the key features of this technology. http://smarttech.com/

The SMART presentation software is a great tool for any classroom teacher that has a projector even if they don't have a SMART board. Please email Bill Vader bvader@fairmont.k12.mn.us if you would like this software installed on your computer.

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August Tech Workshops 8/11 - 8/13 2008

The introductory tech workshop was attended by 35 teachers Monday morning. Participants are encouraged to take a look at the "Google Tools for Educators site which was not working well on our network Monday morning. The Thinkfinity and Atomic Learning sites are also excellent resources for teachers at all levels.

Following is a link to the notes for this workshop:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d87qzrj_20ctrtjhcs

You might recall that I asked each participant to enter their birth date on the spreadsheet. Even though there are 365 or 366 different possible birth dates there is a very high probability that at least two birthdays will match any time there are 30 or more people surveyed. Please look at our birthday list after it was sorted. Our group did have a match!!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pDaw4zKkTlJme4ZMjI7KXcw&hl=en


Special thanks to Michelle Traetow, Michelle Baker, Greg King, Bill Vader and Brad Haugen for helping put on this morning workshop.

Teachers who attended this workshop are invited to post their comments on this Blog.