Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2009
Here is the RCA Small Wonder camera you will be receiving at 8:30am when you check in on Saturday November 14 at 8:30am.
You will also get a 2GB micro SD memory chip to use with the camera.
All of the conference sessions will engage you with the camera to develop learning activities you can use with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2009
The National Council for Teachers of English has declared Tuesday October 20th, as National Writing Day. This is a way for ELA teachers to explore new ways to stimulate their students to write. There are contest and activities for all content areas. Enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2009
Vicki Phillips, Oconee County Math Specialist, is our math support conference presenter and she has been reviewing the math resource and game site called Manga High. It has very challenging and interactive math games for students, teachers, and parents. Math teachers and any other teachers who support math students will find this site very helpful to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2009
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… Is an excellent resource for a variety of digital literacy resources. Larry has an ESOL/ELL background and you will enjoy Larry’s descriptions of the reources.
We have new registrants that are now recieving this blog prior to the digital literacy conference on 11/14, now only 5 weeks away. You will be hearing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2009
The Library of Congress has built a web resource called Primary Access. The site allows students to access primary sources in the Library of Congress data base. The best part is that there is an easy to use multi-media presentation creator built into the site and students can drag and drop the primary sources to assemble, save and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2009
Dawn Neely, the principal at James H Hendrix Elementary in Spartanburg, SC wrote a wonderful article for the Carolina TESOL web site about an exchange program with educators from Japan. Read more…. We look forward to working and learning with the James H. Hendrix teachers at our conference on 11/14.
More thoughts for today…
There are many different opinions [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2009
All conference participants will receive a certificate for 8 hours of professional development recertification credit with technology hours included. The certificates will be distributed at the end of the day November 14.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2009
In the last year I have had the wonderful opportunity to work and learn with Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her team at Curriculum Designers. I have the opportunity to present with Heidi at the Curriculum Designers Regional Conference being held in conjunction with New Jersey ASCD, December 2-4 in New Jersey. In the Curriculum Designers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2009
Last week some teachers that I was working with discovered a wonderful writing tool called Storybird. It takes art work for story books and allows you to write anything you want about the images and art. There is excellent student work already posted there to give you ideas on writing. I see this as an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2009
We are only 8 weeks away from the Southeastern Conference for Literacy in the Digital Classroom on November 14 in Greenville, South Carolina. When you visit this blog you will find that Bill will be sharing a new and fun digital literacy tool on the blog. This weeks resource is a site called XtraNormal. Do [...]
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