SMART Board Lesson Resources

Every now and then I search the web for resources that I think might be helpful for our teachers. The list below has the sites from this morning's search. Check out the last one on the list. It's an on-line generator for Jeopardy style classroom games.

• http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/etipslesson1.html
• http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/resources.htm
• http://www.gateschili.org/bbs/teachers.cfm?subpage=19898
• http://www.sblceastconn.org/smartboard.htm
• http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=363
• http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/SmartBoard/smartlarts.htm
• http://www.coderedsupport.com/jeopardy/

More Bloggers at PESD

Every now and then I check out the school web sites to see who the new bloggers are. Each time we do a blogging professional development activity, we hope to have teachers create classroom blogs and send us the URL's for posting. Since June we have done at least four professional development activies that include blogging. As you can see from the list below, the number of bloggers is growing.

PESD Blogs to check out:

http://whatsupmrroper.blogspot.com/
http://msshores.blogspot.com/
http://msalfaro.blogspot.com/
http://basnettsbusybees.blogspot.com/
http://tiffanigambino.blogspot.com/
http://msstewarts1stgrade.blogspot.com/
http://mrsjones20.blogspot.com/
http://guzzettasgems.blogspot.com/
http://www.mrquicksclass.blogspot.com/
http://faithnorthnews.blogspot.com/
http://violetpurplepink.blogspot.com/
http://pesdteacher.blogspot.com/
http://www.wrightmontessori.blogspot.com/
http://mracedosclass.blogspot.com/
http://mrscastro.blogspot.com/
http://mshillsroom.blogspot.com/
http://maestra-cole.blogspot.com/
http://herreradance.blogspot.com/
http://mrsgillamskenclasses.blogspot.com/
http://woodrumsroom.blogspot.com/
http://mrsbernalsclass.blogspot.com/
http://mrsprieto1grade.blogspot.com/
http://pesdalps.blogspot.com/
http://msrentzsclass.blogspot.com/
http://davidromanalps.blogspot.com/
http://pesdalps.blogspot.com/
http://prepcoyotetracks.blogspot.com/
http://coyotetalesfromtheprep.blogspot.com/
http://theroboticcoyote.blogspot.com/
http://msfranksclass.blogspot.com/
http://lacyslearners.blogspot.com/
http://mrsniederhauser.blogspot.com/
http://mrsnunezsclass.blogspot.com/
http://misspettitt.blogspot.com/
http://mrsramirez.weebly.com/
http://thomaswildcats.blogspot.com/
http://whittiermath.blogspot.com/
http://www.pesdsportsdesk.blogspot.com/
http://pesd-librariesalive.blogspot.com/
http://herreralibrary.blogspot.com/
http://lowellmediacenter.blogspot.com/
http://mtmediacenter.blogspot.com/
http://pesdtechnology.blogspot.com/
http://alpskids.blogspot.com/
http://techcamp08.blogspot.com/
http://pesdtechnostuff.blogspot.com/
http://pesdshawmediacenter.blogspot.com/

Olympics Research Project

The 3rd grade ALPS students at Monterey Park School have been using their research skills to learn all about the Olympic Games and Olympians. On Monday, they presented their Power Point Presentations and then participated in their own Olympic events. Enjoy the video of their activities below.

Newly Discovered Resources

Can you believe November is almost here and the first Trimester ends next week. While looking for a Microsoft Excel template recently, I stumbled on a really cool area for teachers on the Microsoft web site: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/school/FX102781641033.aspx. I also want to remind everyone that Microsoft provides many really helpful template downloads at this URL: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/FX100595491033.aspx?pid=CL100632981033.

Noreen found and passed along a web link that I find to be very interesting. The speaker talks about the "real" 21st Century skills that our children need to have. Here's the link: http://www.schoolchange.org/videos/the_global_achievement_gap_video.html. When you open the site, the video will begin. The video is fairly long and extremely interesting.

Final Mini Camp Day

At the request of members of the Mini Technology Camp group, I have compiled a list of blogs that are being maintained by PESD staff. Just click on the links below to see each blog.

http://whatsupmrroper.blogspot.com/
http://msshores.blogspot.com/
http://msstewarts1stgrade.blogspot.com/
http://msfranksclass.blogspot.com/
http://lacyslearners.blogspot.com/
http://mrscastro.blogspot.com/
http://herreradance.blogspot.com/
http://maestra-cole.blogspot.com/
http://mrsbernalsclass.blogspot.com/
http://pesdalps.blogspot.com/
http://coyotetalesfromtheprep.blogspot.com/
http://pesd-librariesalive.blogspot.com/
http://lowellmediacenter.blogspot.com
http://mtmediacenter.blogspot.com/
http://mrsnunezsclass.blogspot.com/
http://misspettitt.blogspot.com/
http://mrsramirez.weebly.com/
http://thomaswildcats.blogspot.com/
http://whittiermath.blogspot.com/
http://www.pesdsportsdesk.blogspot.com/
http://pesdtechnology.blogspot.com/

These blogs are all linked to the PESD web site.

PESD staff who wish to link blogs to the district web site can contact Noreen Strehlow. Those needing help with their blogs or who want to create a blog can contact John, Linda, or Noreen for assistance.

Beginning Blogging Part 2

This is my second post today. The afternoon class is learning to use blogger.

Learning to Blog

This is an example of the photo composite that we created with Power Point this morning.