Fisher

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On November 1st I had visitors from Alden and Depew, giving me the opportunity to show off my limited, but developing tech skills. In Regents Writing the students used ipads to quiz one another on vocabulary imbedded in power point linked to a teacher website. My co-teacher, Mr. I, gets credit for that one. Then students worked on web quizzes also linked to his website. In English 11 students researched aphorisms related to the novel Twisted. Yes, they could do this using a laptop, but they can search much faster on the ipads. In English 9 Credit Recovery students completed an iPad quest using wikipanion, Google Earth, and Dictionary apps. I hope that my visitors got some ideas from their visit. I enjoyed batting around ideas with them. I was also surprised to learn that at that point not everyone had access to their ipads. That situation was resolved by today when Kathy Williamson and I visited Alden and Depew. What a great opportunity! I will not share the details, because Kathy is journaling about them. P.S. Ian could not come with us because he is "Capturing Kids Hearts" in Salamanca.

12/15/10 Today we are at iPad training in Depew. One of the main topics is using a flip camera to film students using iPads or talking about use of iPads. I have recently experienced frustration with filming and attempting to post the video to the wiki. Kathy W did a great job of filming one of my lessons, and Erik M. Was kind enough to help me TRY to post the video clip. For some reason only he can understand, even Erik could not get this to work. He did figure it out today though, and my clip should be up soon. Another frustration I have recently experienced is with Dropbox. My Regents Writing students created essays in Quickoffice, but apparently saved them in Dropbox incorrectly. When they attempted to work on the essays at home, they could not access them. Today Jen I got me on the right track, so I will give it a try once again. Thank goodness for these tech oriented people!

12/16/10 Here are the clips mentioned in journal entry above- media type="custom" key="7868489" media type="custom" key="7868507"