"Training definitely will be crucial. I was the teacher technologist at our public all girls' school its first two years. All girls had laptops and teachers were thrown into this with no training, the "technology" training the…"
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Becky Ernsberger replied to Brad Bahns's discussion Technology Standards for Teachers"Actually, it comes down to the building administration and the support of the district. Do they care about technology use/skills enough to monitor it? I'm blessed at my school. In our Campus Improvement Plan this past year technology was…"
Becky Ernsberger replied to Brad Bahns's discussion Technology Standards for Teachers"In Texas we have the Texas StarChart: http://starchart.esc12.net/docs/TxTSC.pdf
This pdf is the Teacher Star Chart. Hope this helps."
Becky Ernsberger replied to Catherine's discussion This is so old school, but ... do schools use Office 2003 or 2007?"We use Office 2003 but we're getting new computer labs probably before second semester next year and we'll make the switch to 2007. This ought to be interesting since we wrote the curriculum last year for 2003.:>)"
Becky Ernsberger replied to Peter Lane's discussion Middle School Technology Course Outline/Syllabus"I have my students one semester, every day for 45 minutes. Next year we're cutting the number of periods down from 8 to 7 so I'll have them for a longer time, one semester."
Becky Ernsberger replied to Peter Lane's discussion Middle School Technology Course Outline/Syllabus"Our 5th graders took a pilot technology exam and several of my friends that teach at the elementary level said they had 1-2 students pass it. Students at the elementary level sometimes attend computer classes 1 week out of every 10. A technology…"
Becky Ernsberger replied to Peter Lane's discussion Middle School Technology Course Outline/Syllabus"I teach technology to 6-8 graders in Texas. We have definite standards called TA TEKS that can be found here: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/.
In Dallas ISD our 6th and 7th grade courses are basic computer skills classes and are a semester…"
Becky Ernsberger replied to Marie Swift's discussion Best Wiki tool for users without email addresses"I use PBWiki. It allows you to create student usernames/passwords without e-mail accounts."
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- I teach technology applications to 6th -8th graders and I enjoy finding new ways to teach technology to kids. I do some consulting with our local ESC Region and the Technology Applications Teacher Network. During the summer I create and teach a summer camp to students at our all girls' school in the district.
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- At 4:12pm on April 14, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Becky,
With your work in Technology Integration, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.
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