PLC TECHNOLOGY TIPS

PLC Tech Ideas - Discussions and tips that came out of our Professional Learning Community on Technology.


HOW TO PLACE A WORD DOCUMENT ON YOUR HOMEWORK HELPLINE BLOG in order to post a doc you need to get your document a url or web address. We do this with Google Documents.

1. Upload Word Document or PPT. (ppt. must be saved as 97-2003 version) to Google Documents. You can upload docx. or 2007 version docs but not pptx. Go to Google.com>click the more link > and click on documents.
2. At Google Documents, click on the UPLOAD button. Next, hit the select file button and browse or find your file and hit open button.
3. Word Documents (Spelling lists, Vocabulary, Study Guides upload quickly)
4. Look for the Back to Google Docs Button and click it.
5. Click on your document name and it will open up.
6. Now you can copy the url at the top of the ribbon and do a right click/copy.

Go to your Blog and hit the new post link.

1. Type the name you wish to call your document
2. Highlight it
3. Click the hyperlink icon and
4. Paste the url into the hyperlink box and hit the OK button.
5. Your document is now linked to your post.

The Holidays are coming and the big guy with the red suit needs to know his geography. Do You?

Here are some good resources for having fun with locating places:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
Map puzzles of U.S. and the World
Free Poverty

There are really cool and colorful map games at this site:
Map Games

If you think you are really good at locating places, try this site.
Test Your Geography Knowledge

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Vision of K-12 Education Today?

November 11th B Day - November 17th F day

Professional Learning Communities PLC Tech Period Professional Training: Making Promethean Flipcharts, SmartBoard Slides, or Power Point Slides

• All staff with Promethean Boards will make "Flipcharts.”
• All staff with SmartBoards will make "Notebook Slides."
• All other staff members will use "PowerPoint."
  

Our 1st activity:

• Make 2 or 3 slides
• 1st page should be a title page and include a picture or colored background with a title.
• 2nd page (and 3rd page if necessary) should include and insertion of a google pic (copy and paste) or a pic from a file, insertion of video(s), insertion of a link to a document etc.
• Completed project that demonstrates your tech skill should be placed on your subject area wiki page. Your name will be checked off that those skills were acquired.
• Bring your laptops. We will help each other complete our activity.
• You will receive an email from the facilitator through Wikispaces to join this wiki. Please click on the link that is in the email.
• This 2 or 3 page project should be done and downloaded by November 24th.
  
  

Tech Period B Day Nov.3 - F Day Nov. 9

Tuesday (B day)- Promethean Workshop (***Eventually all rooms will be equipped with Promethean Boards or Smartboards. Promethean Board training will be helpful now or in the future. )

• ActivInspire - Before Next Monday, November 9th all CFF teachers need to update their ActivInspire software. When the ActivInspire icon is double clicked, the dashboard will come up first. Please click on the Configure command and then click "Check for Updates." Follow commands.
• Tuesday we will use our time to go over the ActivInspire Flipchart and tools.
• Teachers review, add new tools, and learn new Main Menu Box Tools.
• Teachers learn how to use the Marquis select tools.
• Teachers will learn ways to bring Word Documents into Flipcharts by way of "Import PDF from the File Tab.
• Time for questions.

Where are we going next during our tech periods? We will use time on our tech days to answer the tech questions that arise as we create and use Web 2.0 skills.

• Google docs - We all must have a google account. (We all have one since we have a "Homework Helpline" blog account.) This allows us to upload our files, word docs, power points etc. and then hyperlink them to our blogs. This gives our students a chance to keep up with the classwork when they are out of class for an extended period of time.

Check out this Google form/spreadsheet link titled Disease Research and see how this Google App can be used in any class, club, sport, honor society, voting for officers, a test or quiz, a project such as Disease Research form.

• Wikispaces.com - We will all make a wikispaces for the purpose of uploading powerpoints, notes from word documents in one easy step to our wikispace. Your wikispace link will be placed on your blog site.

• Software that is already on our laptops like Inspiration 8, Google Earth, audacity, photostory, moviemaker.

F- day October 30, 2009

Promethean Training - ActivInspire Updates. CFF teachers go to the ActivInspire Dashboard and go to the configure tab and click on the "Check for update" button. Next follow the download commands. after this all CFF teachers will have the update or patch that allows for the importing of PDF documents. This is important because all resources from Pearson, Prentice Hall, Scott Foresman etc. are in pdf form. Also all word documents can be saved as a pdf and then imported into an ActivInspire Flipchart.

Learn the functions of the tools in the Main Menu toolbox, the Marquis Object tools, and the Tool Box Option Menu. Introduction to Flipcharts and their purposes will be discussed. Customizing the tool box from the View tab in the menu bar. Plaing important tools like reveal, clock, tickertape, magic pen, camera, handwriting, shape tool and line tool etc.