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
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