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"Those that don't make the move to "the cloud" will find themselves marginalized"

"If first base is current thinking and second base is extraordinary thinking, you can't steal second base without taking your foot off first", Steve Rosenthal, CEO of GAP.

New KCLS Series: The Teacher’s Hour: Response to Instruction and Intervention

ANNOUNCING the NEW KLCS SERIES!

The Teacher’s Hour: Response to Instruction and Intervention

The first broadcast is tomorrow night, Wednesday, February 24, 2010,
beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Tune in to your local KLCS station to view best practices happening all
over LAUSD!

This Wednesday’s show features Cienega ES, Van Nuys MS, South Gate HS
and how they are addressing students’ needs through [...]

Document Cameras & Projectors: Cool Use #9 “Jigsaw Notes”

JIGSAW NOTES ———————————————————————————–

CONTENT AREA: ANY

GRADE LEVELS: MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

Students can work together to write the complete notes for any given topic. Rather

than only giving a report verbally, a document camera allows students to

collaboratively produce valuable notes for the class.

For any Subject or Content Area

MATERIALS

- Document camera

- Projector

- Paper with subtopic headings listed and [...]

Document Cameras & Projectors: Cool Use #8 “Proofreading Analysis”

PROOFREADING ANALYSIS ————————————————-

CONTENT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE

GRADE LEVELS: MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL

Evaluation requires a high level of cognitive processing. The following activity can be used to teach a specific grammar skill, as a review activity, or to reinforce the value of proofreading.

MATERIALS

- Document camera

- Projector

- List of sentences with mistakes to proofread

- [...]

Classroom 2.0 Seminar for L.A. School Principals

How do teachers integrate 21st Century technology into a seamless learning and teaching environment?  …  including interactive whiteboards, document cameras, student responders and countless other tools?

Register to attend an intriguing and informative presentation in the Los Angeles area March 23.

It’s easy to see the benefits of many of the 21st Century learning tools & techniques, but having [...]

What is XGA, SXGA, WXGA etc?

Understanding screen resolutions can be confusing at first.  When you are selecting a new laptop/netbook, and document camera or a new projector/monitor, pay attention to the native screen resolution of your unit.  The most inexpensive models may be a smaller native resolution like SVGA, which as time passes, will be utilized less and less.  On the other hand, [...]

Linked Learning: Better way to prepare H.S. students for real life w/ Multiple Pathways

Whats the big deal?  This effort helps High School Students prepare for real life, both additional schooling afer high school and vocational readiness.  This is opposed to simply delineating between college bound and career worker students, and hopes to utilize small learning communities to grow overall life skills for all students.

What is the Linked Learning [...]

Document Cameras & Projectors: Cool Use #6 “TimeLine”

TIMELINE      ————————————————————————

CONTENT AREA: HISTORY

GRADE LEVELS: MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL

A knowledge of chronological order of events is essential for students when

discussing complex causes and events in history. A document camera can provide an

excellent way to interactively practice timelines.

MATERIALS

- Document camera

- Projector

- Drawing of a timeline of the target era with no events listed

- Whiteboard or large [...]

Quality Education Projector for under $500

Wow.  Projectors just keep getting better and less expensive. I remember the days of three gun projectors that cost $12000 and more. Well, here is  a new model from Hitachi, long considered one of the high quality leaders in 3LCD projectors, much better than those older $12K projectors, that sells in the $400-$500 range to education [...]

Take Advantage of Inexpensive Tech Training with ITO Workshops at LACOE

Los Angeles County Office of Education offers some very cost effective workshops to help teachers and administrators ride the technology wave.  With everything from specific software and hardware products like Inspiration or iTell to Technology Integration Academy, there is a wealth of resources.  This can be a great way to keep aligned with the bigger [...]

U.S. is Still #1 in Manufacturing & Needs Well Educated Students

The recent fear-laden joke is: “Wow, we don’t make anything in America anymore … what are we going to do for jobs, sell hamburgers to each other?”  But you may be surprised to learn that the U.S. still maintains the largest, most important manufacturing base of any nation in the world.  The U.S.’s manufacturing base is over twice the size of [...]

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