Professional+Development+Opportunities

Brainstorm ideas ahead of time on a wiki or Mindmeister map about tools and ways to integrate these computers into teaching and learning. These should be small, easy to use plans and tools as well as larger, project based plans.

Each teacher will bring one successful project or lesson to share with their colleagues.

Combine Language Arts and 1 to 1 Initiative. Shared writing: great wiki opportunity?

Grapher: Learn to graph points

Text to Speech: Use this as an editing tool. Students can hear what they wrote. Try this with poetry to help students with rhythm in poetry like limericks or haiku.

iTunes: Add text to a sound file (podcast) on iTunes go to Get Info. Then go across the menu tops to Lyrics and type in the lyrics.

Orator: free application. Copy and paste text into this application and it will speak the text.