This year will be great!

After visiting with each group and getting some ideas from you, I know that this year will be great! As promised, I will attempt to only send one mass email to everybody each week. Below is my Tech PD Schedule for next Friday. If you would like to join one of these meetings, but it is not your level or content area, feel free to let me know. 

Tech PD Schedule for Friday, August 24:

9:00 Meet with Elementary about email basics

9:30 to 10:30 Meet with HS English about Blogger in Mr. Gudmundson's Room

Here are some places to go check out this week: 

1) http://noredink.com/ No Red Ink is a site to improve grammar and writing skills and is aimed more MS/ HS. It is still very new right now, but you create a FREE account and have your students create a FREE account as well. The student selects their favorite hobbies and interests and creates practice grammar sentences based on their interests. If they get to higher levels, they can even link it with Facebook and put their friends' names in the sentences. If you are interested in trying this out, let me know and I will be glad to help!

2) http://www.sharemylesson.com/ I recently found this and although you have to create an account, and subsequently get emails from the site, it is full of resources for every level and every content area! You can download Common Core, Standards-based lessons in pdf form and some have supplemental materials and video links as well. 

3) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inkflow-think-visually!/id519524685?mt=8 Inkflow: Think Visually! is an app that allows you to draw and write with your fingers on the iPad and save a Snapshot, email, export to a jpeg or pdf, and save! I think this may have applications for you as a teacher trying to illustrate a concept or if you allow students to use it as well. 

4) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-kid/id465213584?mt=8 Math Kid  is a great app for quick math facts! It is more for lower elementary with just addition and subtraction problems. 

5) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-on-pdf-free/id468064548?mt=8 Type on PDF FREE is an app for when you receive a PDF on your iPad email and want to write on it. You will hold on the PDF icon in the email and select to 'Type on PDF'. You can then email that back to yourself. 

Below is a link to my first attempt at a tutorial. As I said, I have helped refresh a few people's memory on setting up group contact lists in webmail. This is a short video to help you out, but if you would like more help, let me know. 

http://screencast.com/t/k2G9HKZ5 

If you like the above tutorial's format, you can use this screen capture option too! Go to www.jingproject.com and download the program. You can do snapshots/ screen capture still frames or short (under 5 minute)  movies with this program. It is for Mac or Windows users. 

Have a great first week! 

Samantha