February DEAL:

1. Fliqz new video upload resource for teachers --Handout (Uploader is located on Teacher Resource Webpage.) (Review of MBE SchoolTube--for student video projects.)
2. APT Learn 360 access to free resources for teachers--Handout (Review of Discovery Streaming) Remember Discovery Streaming MBE passcode is in R/Staff/Teacher Help Sheets/Discovery Streaming since we can't post our passcode out there for the world.
3. Wiki professional learning—have you all logged in? What can you use this for? http://mbe.wiki.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/ Be looking for a post from Admins this coming week to which you will need to respond on the wiki.
4. Learning Moment: Voki—creating an online avatar to play your recording of your voice or read text you type. http://www.voki.com/ See example Voki and handout here: http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/cms/Voki+/11565.html 
5. How can I help you more? What are your needs? Please remember that you can ask for my help and for me to meet with your grade level at other times than just DEAL meetings.

• 2^nd: iPad cart, mini cart, or laptop cart discussion.  iPad apps list and how to use in classroom with just one. Symbaloo.
• 3^rd: iPad cart, mini cart, or laptop cart discussion. Research tools, see research webpage from student resources webpage; Symbaloo as a way to organize online resource sites
• K, 1^st: Promethean learning moment. Activities and Templates folder/Adding Resource packs from promethean planet and importing from shared drive, making containers flipchart from district training: iPad app list and how to use in one iPad classroom. Symbaloo with 1st only.
• 4^th: New  wireless document camera discussion. Symbaloo. Interwrite learning moment: online search for already created Interwrite lessons for 4th grade curriculum--you can just open and use or modify and use. The document camera tool, where you can have image under document camear and use Interwrite to capture it right then and right on it--even save it to pdf and post to webpage for absent kids. Also the camera tool where you can snag a picture of anything on your computer. Consider taking pictures ahead of time and putting in flip chart and adding powerpoint, weblinks, graphics--anything you need for that lesson. The cool thing is that it is then ready for you to use for next year or to share with other teachers, etc. Don't forget Interwite as a great tool that will do most of the things that the new Promethean boards will do. Also showed link to this summer's 3 hour Interwrite workshops with modules that Chad covered.
• 5th: Symbaloo --We will meet next week to create QR codes for your students' My World projects.
• 6th: Google Sites--Discussed student logins to Google through Portal and resources there: Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentation, Forms and Googe Sites and the way students can use at home or school without use of pin drives or having to have a certain program at home--also the collaborative features of google docs in that students can invite other students to share documents and create collaboratively. Even the Google Sites--which is a web page can be for individual students or for a collaborative group project. (See handout from November DEAL 5th grade below.)

November DEAL:

• First: PowerPoint PhotoAlbum/Global Holiday Card Project/Type to Learn/Kidpix, Kidspiration, Edmark: Math Carnival Countdown, Millie's, Bailey's, Sammy's, Trudy's
• Kindergarten and Second: iPads
• Third:Wiki AND Fractured Fairy Tales
• Fourth and Sixth: Discovery Streaming AND YouTubeCapture (other handouts and resources in R/staff/teacher helps/discovery streaming)
• Fifth: Google Docs, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and Form plus Google Sites

September DEAL Grades K-6:

1. Tech Policy and Tech User Form

2. Tech Curriculum and Project Documentation--save as to S/MBE

3. Laptops--See Begin Year link off of Teacher Resources. Things Students Should Know. 2nd-3rd     4th-6th

4. Curriculum Resources:

-Disovery Streaming--video resources

-Education City (k-2 icon on destkop)

-English--Harcourt (icon on staff and student desktop--teacher must create class and pick students from a school roster)

-Math--SuccessNet (icon on staff and student desktop--teacher must create class and pick students from a school roster)

-Social Sudies--SF Digital Learning (icon on student desktop--student types his/her name and clicks away--no setup)

-Interwrite--Gallery Tools/Interactive Sims for LA, Science, Math, SS

Quality Short Video Tutorials to learn interwrite: http://legacy.einstruction.com/support_downloads/training/workspace.html#

-Exam View--remember we have ExamView on our network (test question banks for different curriculum). We have a scanner in LMC to do scantrons that will grade exam view tests. ExamView tests can be placed on network so students can take exams via the computer.

-(5-6th)-Moodle Moment--adding a discussion forum and a quiz. Log in. Turn on editing. Click Add activity/forum. Go through and save. Click back on the activity and add your topic and save. Click Add activity/quiz. Go through and save. Click back on the quiz and click edit quiz to add questions and save.

6. Collaborative Tools:

- Voicthread-MBE 3 B's: http://mbe.ed.voicethread.com/share/2227152/ 

Other examples of voicethread by curriculum: http://mbe.ed.voicethread.com/about/library/

- Wiki--Collaboration: http://collaboration.wiki.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/

-Google Calendar (computer lab) and Google Presentation--Click here to add to our Google Presentation about 21st Century Classroom Learning--https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcfvgnf6_0fnq695cd

7. Other information:

MBE TechTalk Newsletter--be sure to review for September.

Type to Learn--grades 2-3 TTL 3, grades 4-6 TTL 4, Teacher Instructions and Guides on r/staff/keyboarding.

MovieMaker Live (two versions on your computers this year) Check out MovieMaker Live webpage off of our MBE Technology Page.

iPad/iPod touch--if you get a school owned device, make an appointment with Paula to help you set it up so that it syncs to the correct library, to help you set up an itunes account tied to your school email, discuss app  purchasing. Remember to add to your inventory.

Poll Anywhere-free online polling site--responses sent via text on cell phone

General windows 7 information--tasbar, searching for programs, computer name, outlook web--communication thread

Webpage--websites you want your students to access, homework, upcoming events--is it a place your parents can go for information that they need?

Castnet--Local TV channel 10 for MountainBrook. Send me anything interesting going on in your classroom, winners, special projects, etc. --just a picture with a title--email it to me--easy, easy

If your grade level has a technology professional development need, if you have some common time, does not have to be DEAL time, please let me know the day/time and what you need so that I can meet with you. For example, some grade levels may want t mini session on voicethread or photostory or interwrite, etc. I am available, but you have to schedule me. I can even do a 30 min before or after school session if that works better for your grade level.