Thank you Jenn. On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Jennifer Heckel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MPS-LABTECHS list, click the following link: > http://netpals.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-NETPALS.exe?SUBED1=MPS-LABTECHS&A=1 > -- Ivy Morrow Falcon Hill Elementary 472-8629 ############################ To unsubscribe from the MPS-LABTECHS list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://netpals.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-NETPALS.exe?SUBED1=MPS-LABTECHS&A=1