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Dianne Harris Beall Elementary Allegany County BOE Maryland

Grade 3 All I am a third grade teacher at Beall Elementary. I have been teaching since December 1978. I live outside of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. I have a wonderful, supportive husband and two adult children that live with me. I enjoy being outside swimming, gardening, playing sports, and hiking.

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July 9, 2012 Dianne Croyle presented great information on Web 2.0. She shared many interesting websites including blogspot.com, Dropbox, scoopit.com, indiegogo.com (for fundraising), and batchgeo.com. She gave insight on how hard it is to write a book about technology as fast as technology changes. Till you get something written, the programs change, and you need to rewrite and photograph screenshots again. Jason Huber presented many interesting options that you can do with My Big Campus. The best thing for teachers in Allegany County is that it will allow us to play YouTube videos without being access denied. There are many useful websites in the library. I found many items to use with the Treasures Reading Series we use in Allegany County. I found a website that will read the stories without having to log in with username and password.

The work time in the afternoon was beneficial in creating Wikis. I would like to use Wikis in the classroom, but they are not allowed through the firewall. Sometimes you can bypass the firewall by using Moodle with the Wiki.

**July 10, 2012**
Jim Lerman presented interesting information on technology and the essential skills for the 21st century. He presented interesting stories about Martha in Scotland and how her blogs helped raise money for the lunches in Africa. It also showed the power of the internet and the amount of people that you can reach across the world. His story about the teachers that share ideas and classes from Australia to San Diego demonstrated how technology has changed how we can access the world. I liked the fact that he shared his powerpoint with us so we did not have to take notes, but could focus on the speaker.

Steve Schawalder Steve presented many interesting websites and how to use them in the classroom with students. I really liked his Top Ten Tech Tool List. I have used some of the websites. My students really like to use Google Earth. They really liked finding their homes and walking around Frostburg.

The afternoon was very informative with the presentation of Chuck Troutwein. He presented Google and Google sites with interesting activities. It was neat to watch the changes happening with Google Docs. I would like to try it with my students, letting them all on at once and using the SMART board with it.

Dr Ladores presented many ideas for IGoogle and YouTube. It was interesting embedding the calendar and video on my Wiki. I hope it works on another computer, because mine said that internet explorer page could not be found.

**July 11, 2012**
Eddie Hampton Eddie presented many interesting websites to use with students. I liked all the things that edmodo can do. I liked the other sites that where bookmarked on edmodo like Spelling City, Manga High, SokiKom, 3 ring for portfolios, and study jams. I liked how everything was organized. I also like how all the grades are imported automatically. I also liked how the other websites were programmed to transfer the grades directly into edmodo. Aspen does not have that feature. I wish Aspen had that feature so individual grades would not have to be done. I like how he could use Discovery Education in the classroom. That is a program we will look into at Beall.

Dr. Jennifer Rankin

Dr. Rankin had many interesting websites to use with students. I like the This is Sand website. It would be great for kids to try. I loved the Flocabulary raps. I think my students will love to use Fakebook. I have used Classtools before, but not Fakebook. I was really interested in Smithsonian education. I liked the Teachers domain website also for short videos.

Tara Mattingly

Tara had a great presentation of the SMART technology available. I liked how we rotated through the five activities. My favorite activity was the 3D. It would be great to do with the Smart Document Camera. I liked the way she showed the different types of technology available. I have the board, responders, state, and other document camera in my classroom. We have had the SMART table demonstrated at Beall twice and have one in the primary levels to share. I like how 8 people can use the table at the same time .

July 12, 2012
I liked the YouTube video introducing Ipads. I liked the comparison to netbooks and how the words fell apart, like the computers. I have a netbook that I think is extremely slow.

Michelle Saville presented many forms of technology to use with pre –k and kindergarten. I showed the many ways to use visual symbols in the classroom. I use the Boardmaker symbols with schedules, rules, books, and more. I also use adaptive books in the classroom. The Baltimore City School website has 756 books that are adapted with Boardmaker that can be accessed from a computer with the Boardmaker software. With autistic students, visual prompts are very important. I also use the Scholastic Teacher website. I use the Super Science Magazine from Scholastic. I also use all of the attachments that go along with magazine at the website. There are many valuable tools on the website. Starfall is a great website for beginning reading skills.

Dianne Scott presented many interesting Apps on the Ipad. She remarked how a student in her class had never been able to be accessed in spelling and could take a test using the Ipad. She was very knowledgeable about the uses of apps and where to find them. Afternoon. The presenters showed participants many various uses of the Ipad. Each presenter showed a variety of uses of the Ipad for the different levels. The Kindle would be great to use in the classroom. Some of my students began to read more, because their parents were allowing them to read on a Kindle. I think that my students would read more if they could use the Kindle. I also liked the instant definition that the Kindle could provide to students unsure of words in the read. The Dropbox would be useful to use. I like that the website could add the document to all devices that you have it downloaded on. The younger students would enjoy the websites that Dr. Milleson, Danielle, and Dr. Welch demonstrated. It seems that most of the presenters use Pinterest.

July 13, 2012
I loved the story, //It's a Book// by Lane Smith. I know my class will love the book also. media type="custom" key="20371444" Theresa Norris I really liked the use of digital stories. The samples of student work were very intereting. it is great that this medium is exciting to students on all levels.

Nick Glass Teachingbooks.net is a fantastic website to introduce your class to authors and books. I really like the activities that are listed there. I already found information for the first two stories of our Treasures Reading Series. I think the students will be more interested in the story if they get to meet the author and listen to him or her tell the story why the book was written. There are many sources listed to engage students.

Deena Kelly Ms Kelly was very interesting to listen to. I started playing with a Glogster for the first book, First Day Jitters. I am not too sure of how I can use this site, because it is blocked by the firewall. I think I would like to use it, but I am not to sure how.

Eddie Hampton Eddie was very informative of how to set up edmodo and use it as a classroom teacher. There are so many different features available on edmodo. I spent time loading favorite sites in the Library of edmodo. I am looking forward to having Spelling CIty give the 5 different spelling tests in my room each week and checking the test and placing the grades in edmodo. YEAH :-).

Where I am Going With My Technology and My Classroom I started with computers when I was in college in 1976. I taught students to write programs using cards and feeding them in order into the computer. I remember dialing the computer and placing the receiver into the holder so the mainframe could read the codes on the cards. It was a lot of work to do a simple activity. We were writing in Basic, not the Cobalt program. I have always liked to use technology in the classroom. I remember when I worked with the Head start program, how much the students loved to use the programs and touch screens that we had on the monitors. When I taught kindergarten, my class had two classroom computers that they loved to work with. They were always asking to use the programs. I wrote activities to use with the Intellitools Programs. I have always used technology in the classroom with students. I teach keyboarding with programs like Learn to Type and Mario loves Typing. There are also keyboarding sites on the web. I use ideas from Fifty Quick and Easy PowerPoint Activities, by Tammy Worcester, to teach students to use the Word programs. They are able to use Word Art, Text boxes, tables, different Font and sizes of letters, and many more things till the end of third grade. They create PowerPoint’s that I post on our Moodle Site so they can share them with their parents. I try to make them tech savvy. I have a SMART board in my classroom that I use daily. I have created games, lessons, and activities. I show video clips, webcams, podcasts, etc to engage my students in learning. You can check out what my students create on our Beall Third Grade site on []

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I created a Prezi using a Powerpoint I use with my class to introduce Vocabulary in Unit 1. media type="custom" key="20371588"