Integrating Technology into the Classroom - Professional Development Day!

It is Professional Development Share Out Day! Each teacher at your school is asked to create a 15 minute lesson about your favorite, effective, technology driven classroom activity and share your activity with teachers at your school. Provide a brief description, material list, links, hardware/software/app and a brief plan for the lesson. After adding your lesson, visit two other lessons and leave a comment. PD Lesson is due by Saturday and replies are due by Tuesday. Have fun with this - Be creative - Share the gist! We look forward to your Share Out!

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Permalink Reply by Juliana Sheehan on June 16, 2013 at 8:04pm

Karesa - I.love.pinterest. I find so many great resources on it....for decorating, cooking, and fashion! I haven't really used it as a tool for education, but your lesson plan shines a new light on the whole website. What a good idea to present - especially for how many of us are using Pinterest!

Permalink Reply by Courtney Kendall on June 18, 2013 at 7:38pm

Karesa,

I love that you chose to talk about Pinterest. I think it has so many clever resources for teachers. Just recently, I learned how to pin instead of just looking at everything and liking it all. It is much better now being able to categorize everything that I like or pin.

Permalink Reply by Courtney Kendall on June 18, 2013 at 7:36pm

The professional development that I have prepared and shared is actually a PD session that I just administered for about 15 physical education teachers in my district about two weeks ago. I created my slideshow for the presentation using Prezi. For this assignment, I used Jing to take a screencast of each slide in my Prezi presentation, which I then included in the following attached document. The PD introduced fellow PE teachers to iPads, how to use iPads in the gym, a multitude of apps, and ways other PE teachers have incorporated iPads into their lessons and curriculum. The Prezi presentation is a great tool to use to present information because the teachers were able to follow along the slideshow in real time as I presented it. They were also then able to either download the presentation later or use the link to access it at another time.

Attachments:

EDT6020-PDslidehandout-C.Kendall.doc, 995 KB
EDT6020-PDAgenda-C.Kendall.doc, 19 KB

Permalink Reply by Edna Shaw-Williamson on June 19, 2013 at 9:26pm

My lesson is about how to use twitter in your classroom. First, I would make sure that everyone had access to either a laptop, iPad, or smartphone. The iPads will already have the twitter app downloaded. Also, I would need access to a Smart Board, or at least a projector, to walk the staff through how to use twitter. I would show how to assign articles to read and discuss about any topic and how to use hash-tags to be able to search for what students are discussing. The following links will be shared with my staff for their own knowledge.

http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom

http://www.slideshare.net/travelinlibrarian/twenty-five-interesting...

www.twitter.com