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Darcie Priester replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
Any ideas about how to keep the rest of the class engaged while one student is at the board? I've been told this is the major reason teachers in my building don't use the smartboard.
Apr 27, 2010
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Patti Yohe replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
John, My two personal laptops have XP and Win-7 (64 bit). The school desktop has XP and laptop is a Mac. I found the VGA on my Win-7. The graphics tablet does not have a name on it. The software is for the drivers, annotation software, etc. The…
Mar 5, 2010
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Dale Ehrhart replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
My Vista 64 bit touchscreen gives me all sorts of problems with slowdowns etc.
Mar 4, 2010
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Brandi replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
I appreciate the versatility of a document camera. Many teachers use them in our district and often prefer them to the Interactive white board. I think whatever you use, use it well. It's a blessing to have so many technologies to choose from.
Mar 4, 2010
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John J Caprice replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
Dear Patti, Most laptops have a VGA output, examine the XP loaded laptop a little more carefully, maybe it is hidden behind a cover. My old laptop has a cover over the connections. If you can return the tablet for a refund, it is probably a pretty…
Mar 4, 2010
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Patti Yohe replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
It is strange that it works with Windows 7 - 64 bit when it was made for Windows XP and Vista. I just can't get it to work with XP. The company said they can't find a new software disk to send me to fix it. They also said they don't…
Mar 4, 2010
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John J Caprice replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
Dear Patti, I am over 60 and still have a hard time writing like an adult....even with a regular pen and paper. I have found that Widows 64bit systems are not compatible with most educational software programs. The document camera operating…
Mar 3, 2010
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Patti Yohe replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
I forgot....it also has a plastic thing on top of the pad where you can put a picture underneath and trace it.
Mar 3, 2010

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OPUG meeting

Posted on January 8, 2008 at 8:03pm 0 Comments

Had a great meeting with the other Omaha Catholic technology teachers. I learned about a few new things and it was great to dialogue with the other teachers.

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At 5:53pm on July 13, 2009, Julie BairdJulie Baird said…
Definitely give her my email and I'll be happy to share with her some of the lessons I've put together for my students. I have 2 sample Notebook files with activities that I do with my students. I'm at an AP seminar this week and we have no wifi during the sessions. I might not be able to answer her quickly, but I will.
At 11:34am on April 24, 2009, JackJack said…
Hey Mike,

Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

Do you mind passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack
At 7:50pm on February 9, 2009, Mitch ColeyMitch Coley said…
Thanks for posting on the blog - you're one of my few customers. I'm glad you commented on that particular post for two reasons. First, as I reread the post I found some grammatical oversights and second, it is a worthy subject to heavily consider for many reasons.

I only wrote the blog after reading your post in the discussion forum. However, I have been talking all year to my fellow teachers- all of them have a smartboard in their classroom- in an attempt to figure out how Smart Technologies are have changed how we teach. I can't get any answers that are legitimate enough to justify the price tag.

Aside from that, let's share current ideas and work on developing new ones.
Check out this Edutopia article that sparked my search of better ways of using technology: http://www.edutopia.org/adopt-and-adapt
At 9:30pm on January 19, 2009, JackJack said…
That'd be fantastic, Mike! Thank you!
At 8:57am on January 17, 2009, JackJack said…
Hi Mike. I was wondering if you have any colleagues and students who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
At 12:45am on December 27, 2008, Andy PethanAndy Pethan said…
Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin students (near Boston) who is taking a year off to pursue our interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, bringing us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school", and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested. Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.

Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.

Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!

Thanks,
Andy Pethan
rockychat3@gmail.com
At 8:36am on October 1, 2008, Karen FasimpaurKaren Fasimpaur said…
Thanks for the input. I did find how to turn off certain widgets so I think we'll try that.
At 8:59am on September 30, 2008, Karen FasimpaurKaren Fasimpaur said…
Hi, Mike. I see that you've done some posting on running Google Apps under a school domain, and I thought I'd ask you a quick question. Do you know of any way to screen the available widgets to add to an iGoogle page? (There are some pretty objectionable ones we'd rather not have show up on a school page.)

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can lend.
At 2:01am on August 30, 2008, Patricia DonaghyPatricia Donaghy said…
Hello Mike
Was just enjoying reading your blog - Realizing Your Personal Legend - and was wondering if you would be interested in adding your blog details to the Edubloggers Directory at http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com?
Another place to share!
Patricia
At 1:11am on July 13, 2008, SigiSigi said…
Thanks a lot Mike- I must have been blind ot to see.this button.... I've put your blogin my blogroll :-) Take care
 
 
 

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