Jim Kelly's Page

An annoyance - and one I wish I would have emphasized more at the beginning - was saving with the students. They need to make sure all of their elements  for the tour are in their folder, and then they need to save it to a flash drive (or a network folder) every time. We have been sending kids back to their original computers to re-save. A positive note - The recording feature works very well with GE version 6.0. We have not encountered any issues with that, even with the students not having…See More

In this group, feel free to share those technology lessons that went well, not so well that could be improved upon, and those that just didn't work. Hopefully we can learn from one another and improve them for the future. Technology can't fix a bad lesson, but it can improve a good one...usually.See More

I came across this idea at one of our schools this year. In a nutshell, the students are each given a budget and have to book a trip to Europe, though it could be anywhere. You can make this as involved as you like.They have to use Internet resources to "book" a flight, lodgings, places they will visit, eat, etc. and record their expenses and collect images from the internet. Once it is complete, the studnets present their trip to the class in the form of a Prezi (since they can edit together);…See More