Here are the notes I made for Novembers Meeting. If you attended and have
anything to add, please do!

Ed Tech is hoping to have all of the Lenovo (tablet thingies) to the
teachers by winter break. Classified won't be getting them. Training is
usually right after the devices arrive. It would be a good idea for us to
talk with our admins about being a part of that training.
There is a device called a wi-di that will allow the Lenovo's to talk
wirelessly to the projectors that will also be installed.

We were discussing MPShare vs Using MpsConnect accounts and googledrive.
Here at O'Connor I have started teaching the 6th grade to use their email
accounts so that we can upload and store things in drive to share with
their teachers. It's slow going.

At this time MPShare is used in high school, but not sure when it will be
ready for others. It has to be set up for individuals and classes etc.

Jason showed us that you can create a folder in drive as opposed to
documents - and share that folder with everyone from a class which allows
them to upload and download more freely within that class.

My plan is to utilize this with 6th grade at least, and start trying it out.

Jason mentioned and app called doctopus - although I haven't looked it up
yet and can't remember what it does :)

My plan is to utilize this with 6th grade at least, and start trying it
out. I haven't figured out a quick way to get all of the contacts into my
contacts, so my method was having each student in a class send me an email
with there first name and room # in the subject. I then took that and saved
them to contacts one at a time, then I added them all to a group with the
classroom # and used that "group" when I shared the folder. However, I
wasn't able to get it to share that way until I tried to send an email
message to the group first, for some reason it wouldn't save.

If your laptop desktop isn't fully using the screen, you can right click
and hit screen resolution and change it to the highest setting available
which will use the whole screen (but some were saying that the smartboard
sometimes doesn't work at that resolution).

I talked about Math Magician
http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html
I use this website along with some cards I created for 10 minutes of math
facts practice. Each student gets a card and when they pass a level I come
by and stamp it with a little stamp. As simple as it seems, the kids really
like this, and push themselves to get to the next fact levels.  I have been
doing this with 5th grade and just started a little with 4th graders too. I
will attach what my cards look like to this email. Feel free to take and
edit them to work for you :)

That is all I have written down. Again, if anyone else took better notes :)
Please share!

Jenn

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