Firstclass

Mr. Bartels taught a one-student class of utilizing the RCDS Firstclass e-mail system
















~Scott

One-to-One Sessions

Today, various faculty members were able to meet with Rachel Jeanty and Ellen Cartwright one-on-one. Some faculty members who are using the smartboard for the first time, were able to walk through the basics of how to set up their SMARTboards with their laptops, how to orient the boards, and how to use the basics tools of the SMARTnotebook. Cao Hong, was able to set up Audacity, an audio editor and recorder, and created .mp3 files of chinese sounds that she later imported to her smartnotebook lesson. Additionally, veteran users were able to try out new techniques to enhance their lessons whether it was improving a vocab or math lesson. There seems to be a great need for the one-to-one sessions, so we look forward to providing more opportunities to support the specifc needs of our SMARTboard users!

Summary: Smartboard Workshops

Yesterday's workshops included: Smartboards: Taking it to the Next Level, led by Ellen Cartwright and Rachel Jeanty a Smart educator, and Smartboards for teachers and coaches led by David Melgard.
Both workshops taught about the gallery and other applications within the Smart Notebook.
Here are a few pictures:















Mr. Melgard workin' hard

More Pictures (Day Two)

Day two kicked off with Mairin Mara teaching powerpoint and a combined effort by Ellen Cartwright and Rachel Jeanty on Smartboard- taking it to the next level.










































~Scott

Summary: Wikis 101

Led by Ellen Cartwright: Ginny Hearon, Carol Lichtenfeld, Jennifer De Vito, Anne Alexander, Cao Hong, and Peter Coulianos learned the ropes of how to use a wiki page.
A wiki is a collaborative web page in which members can edit and comment. In Hawaiian, the word wiki literally means "really quick." A wiki page is a "really quick" way to access and change informational webpages. an example of a popular wiki would be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia open to the public where members of the site have created and can edit their own entries to enlighten the public with (although the public must be aware and cautious of incorrect information).
Today, each of the attending faculty members learned how to create, edit, and link to and from pages using EditMe wikis and are already dreaming up creative lesson plans. Here are a few examples:
As seen in this screenshot, the "students" learned about adding images and color to spruce up their web pages. Also, they learned how to incorporate tables to help with formatting.

More Wikis:
The RCDS Wiki
WikiHow
Wiktionary (Similar to Wikipedia)

Faculty who attended today's session: Please feel free to comment and let other faculty members know what you thought of the session.

Others who are curious about wikis: Please feel free to comment with questions! We would be delighted to help you.

~Kristi

Picures 2 (Day One)

iMovie with Rich Knazik














EasyGradePro with Ellen Cartwright














~Scott

Pictures (Day One)

Pictures from each session are going to be posted each day

Wikis with Ellen Cartwright

iPhoto with Mairin Mara














iTunes with Mairin Mara














Blogs with Laurie Bartels














~Scott

WELCOME

Welcome to the 2007 Digital Wave Blog


Right now, Kristi, Scott, and I are inviting the other teachers from the other courses to write synopses of their classes as we progress through Digital Wave Week '07.

Please make the title of each post about each class, for example "BLOGS (June 11, 2007)"

Feel free to comment on all posts!

-Andrew