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Lower School Technology Integration Wiki
This Wiki will be our collection point for links and information as we explore our tech integration topics. **
 * Welcome!

Here is the full list of tech wonders to explore this year and who is responsible for each:


 * Tablets
 * Interactive Whiteboards
 * NetBooks = miniNotes = BABabies
 * digital Flip, digital cameras, iPods
 * software - new and existing
 * Web 2.0 tools
 * Digital Storytelling

[|Link to Gail Lovely's webinar:] Technology for Not Yet Readers, about 50 minutes long


 * WHY TECHNOLOGY IN LOWER SCHOOL GRADES? our main points:**
 * we have responsibility to teach 'tool mentality', use tech tools for learning.
 * [|National Technology Standards for Students]
 * students must learn 21st Century Skills
 * technology must be connected to curriculum, so not all of it can happen in the lab

a Why Technology? [|blog entry] that is interesting, comparing using technology to basketball shoes ((!!??) Check it out!


 * BEST FIT TECHNOLOGY ! consider these points**
 * enhances and improves learning
 * promotes creativity and thinking
 * fits a grade level, teaching style, or topic appropriately
 * interface that is clean, simple, and reliable
 * curriculum-rich and encourages thinkability - higher thinking

Look up any new Web tool for review and classroom ideas: []
 * GENERAL LINKS**

Terry Minihan: trying out projector, a few mininotes, digital cameras Amy Criswell: studying Interactive Whiteboards Kelly Martin - projector, tablet, digital cameras. Using Blog or wiki with interns and language course. Chris QT - exploring tools for writing/book reporting - blogs? wikis? CrazyTalk? Richard - I know you have missed the background on this - we'll talk or see Joel Kelly and Alice - using a tablet with K? I may have a few older ones you can use in the classroom if you think that is something you want to try. also you asked for a projector. other ideas? Roz and Mark - smaller projector carts, let's get those set up permanently. I'd like to come into your classroom and do the prep (instructions and demos) for our projects, so the lab time is ALL lab time on the computers - whadyathink? I'd like to try CrazyTalk, blogs, PhotoStory, and some other ideas with Imageblender that I got from a course I took in DC. Let's meet in September for sure! I think you need some classroom computers too - don't you? your grade level can be pretty independent with projects, once they get the idea during lab time, they can work on them in the classroom, especially if we are good about connecting to your curriculum topics, yes? - the little mininotes so they don't take up room? Matthew: updating the circuitry in his bionic arm.
 * WHO IS DOING WHAT 2009-2010**