Developing 21st Century Partnerships

Make-Up Session for April 2009 Hot Topics at KMHS

View the digital video of the April 2009 Hot Topics on Integrating Technology in the Classroom.

After you have viewed the video of the presentation, visit the following link to view the video entitled A Vision of K-12 Students Today.

http://mfrosty5.edublogs.org/

After watching the above video, take the KMHS Survey.

 If you have any questions, email maureen.friese@cobbk12.org

Video Ideas

Download Photo Story Agenda

Submit an idea for a video project that would be applicable for your teaching assignment.

Websites for Creating Rubrics

Here is a great website for creating rubrics.

Rubistar

Accommodations for Learners

Here are a list of links that can be used for making accommodations for learners.

http://www.ldanatl.org/aboutld/teachers/understanding/accommodations.asp

http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/accomm_ld.html

http://www.adapts.gatech.edu/faculty_guide/teach.htm

http://codi.buffalo.edu/archives/colleges/.gasouth/.accommodating.htm

http://www.gpat.org/

Using Google Docs to Post Presentations

It is nice and easy to create presentations and embed them in your blog for parents and students to view.

Here is an example for you.

MIT 3 Resources

Description and Accommodations for Disabilities

Accommodation Examples

Interdisciplinary Learning

Using the Picasa Uploader to Post Slideshows to Your Blog

After you create a Google Account, you will have available Picasa Web Albums. 

Click this link to open Google's Picasa.

Here are the simple directions for setting up your 1st slideshow.

Download Google Picasa

Light Editor

If your actions on Typepad are slow, turn on the light editor.  Movie will follow.

Viewing Teacher Tube Videos

You can copy the html code on a Teacher Tube video to your blog.  It is called the embedable code next to each video.

Using Google Applications

Google Calendar
It is great to create a Google Calendar to post assignments, due dates, test dates, etc. and embed that calendar on a page on your Typepad blog. 

Download Embedding a Google Calendar on Your Typepad Blog

Google Calendar Help

Picasa Web Albums
You can store and share albums of pictures as simple slideshows using Picasa Web Albums Uploader.

Get Started Using Picasa

Google Docs
You can share slideshows of your PowerPoint presentations using Google Documents.

Get Started Using Google Documents