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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