DIGITAL LEARNING DAY

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Webb Bridge Middle School

As part of Digital Learning Day, all Webb Bridge Middle School students received a flyer during their advisement period outlining online resources for research, multimedia projects, and additional study (http://sdrv.ms/105aJvz). A response survey on these resources, along with links to the sites, was posted on the Webb Bridge Media Center wiki at http://webbbmsmediacenter.wikispaces.com/Digital+Learning+Day+2013.

To qualify for the prizes for participation in the contest, students were asked to visit online resources and give meaningful responses to the survey questions. To allow time for this, the survey was active until Tuesday, February 12th. The advisement class with the highest participation (Mrs. Nora Manganelli’s 6^th grade math class) won a donut party and Target gift card prizes were awarded to an individual student at each grade level (selected randomly) as well.

Pictured are 6^th grade students from Mrs. Katie Jenkins’s computer applications class viewing the websites and completing the survey.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Mimosa Elementary School

Digital Learning Day was a huge success for Mimosa Elementary as teachers integrated technology such as Activotes, Brightlinks Interactive Projectors, and iPads to enhance student learning. In the media center, students in Kindergarten used the Brightlinks to sequence pictures and learn about hibernation, and fourth graders used one of the school’s two iPad carts to conduct research on the Revolutionary War using information from Galileo.

Hembree Springs Elementary School

Hembree Springs loves to use technology & we celebrated Digital Learning Day throughout the entire building! Kindergarteners got a lesson in how to use the catalog in the Media Center. Second graders worked in the Media Center as “helpers”, and used our software to check in and check out books to other students. ActivBoards were utilized in many classrooms -- first grade used them during math, and third grade used them during science. Our fourth grade students spent a block in the computer lab learning typing skills, and fifth graders utilized ActiVotes for a fun classroom activity. Although technology is a big part of every day here at Hembree Springs, we enjoyed having a special day to recognize how important (and fun!) it is to use technology.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Birmingham Falls Elementary

We are displaying pictures of students using technology at www.birminghamfalls.com. We will also be highlighting several technology projects completed in the media center and in the classrooms on our morning news program. Some of the projects we have been working on include: creating a Blabberize character that discusses the character’s viewpoint on the American Revolution, writing a book review and converting it to a QR code, setting up a QR code scanning station in the Media Center, creating and videotaping commercials trying to persuade the audience to buy a product, and writing and performing a song about the different types of rocks.

A technology workshop for teachers on how to use GALILEO and NetTrekker will be offered by the media specialist.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Campbell Elementary

Students record paper slides on The American Revolution using a FLIP camera

Students use an iPad research station and take notes in preparation for a project on Georgia Habitats

A group uses ActivVotes student response systems with Study Island on their interactive whiteboard

Alpharetta High School

Digital Learning Day!

App and Appetizers

Wednesday February 6th

11:30am-1:30pm

Media Center

Come check out the NEW Ipads

Educational app’s

A Great Opportunity to

Increase Technology Integration

Differentiation Instruction

Banneker High School

At Banneker, we signed up students for Destiny Accounts and showed them how to access the e-book catalog in or outside of the school. We also played with the various features available on Folletshelf, such as word search, highlighting, and note taking. I also touted AFPLS tutor.com.

Centennial High School

Students participated in a scavenger hunt which required them to make use of e-books, databases, read QR codes, and use of other Web 2.0 tools.

Students from science classes came to the media center for a demonstration on building apps. After the demonstration the students worked on building apps for their genetic disorder research projects.

Renaissance Middle School

Renaissance Middle School TAG and ESOL students participated in Digital Learning Day with Destiny username/password creations, checking out ebooks to read in the media center and reserving books using Destiny. Ebook introduction to students and teachers went extremely well today with no glitches.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Langston Hughes High School

Thanks to the teachers who shared their students with me today!

Here at Langston Hughes, I sponsored Writing Across the Curriculum. The students were given a story starter, “Darkness surrounded us like a coalmine during a blackout. Rain slashed at tree limbs, slicing through leaves and sending them fluttering toward the earth. We were no longer sure where we were.”

From this story starter students began writing the first Langston Hughes High School short story. If you would like to read some of the entries, go to http://webonwheels.simplesite.com

I will be editing these entries into one or two stories.

Crabapple Crossing Elementary School

CCES is doing a video and slide show on the hallway tvs all day :-)

Cogburn Woods Elementary School

All of our 4^th and 5^th grade students have created their individual “workspace” on Britannica Elementary (part of GALILEO Database)and are using this database and their workspace to research and store topics such as World War II, volcanoes, forces and motion, and the American Revolution at school and at home. They are using the note-taking feature on this database to summarize what they are learning as well.

Hopewell Middle School

Here is the video we showed today, student produced. Yesterday we showed a video from Random House. Both of course were on Morning Announcements. Today, the principal spoke before the video was shown.

Today is Happy Safer Internet Day, the county has lots of resources located here: https://employees.fultonschools.org/Technology/InstructionalTechnology/Pages/InternetSafetyTrainingResources.aspx. One resource is the WSB special, Social Media and Your Kids, certainly worth taking a look at.

Tomorrow is Digital Learning Day -, a time for teachers and students to try something new in the area of Technology.

Edutopia, has a lot of great resources for you to investigate at this link, http://www.edutopia.org/digital-learning-technology-resources?gclid=CPD5svq7n7UCFdOHMgodZ2EAaA.

If this is too much for you, I have created a Symbaloo (bookmarks in a graphic format) with a lot of direct links to Web 2.O sites, such as Tagzedo, Screen Cast-O-Matic, Drop Box, Toki-toki Timelines, Easy Bib, Tiny Url and many more. Please take a look, you might find a great new site for you and your students. The Symbaloo is located on the School Website/Students/Media Center/Destiny/Symbaloo.

We are slowly getting our EBook collection together for you and your students to use. Teachers already have a Destiny Account, the user name is your last name and first initial. Your pw is your Barcode/SAP #. To access ebooks, go to Destiny, click on Log in and use your user name and pw.

Students will have to create an account in Destiny. I have created a Screen Cast-O-Matic with Directions for students to do just that. It can be found at the School Website/Students/Media Center/ Destiny/Screen Cast-O-Matic. We also have step by step instructions in PDF format to check ebooks in or out, Using your IPad/Android Device for ebooks, these documents are available on the School Website/Students/Media Center.

Try something new with technology or share a great technology find with your co-workers. Have a great day!

Digital Learning Day at Ridgeview Charter Middle School

The following digital learning activities are taking place in the Media Center today!

In conjunction with our Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History exhibit, Looking at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era, I am working with 8th grade Social Studies classes on analyzing current political cartoons using digital issues of Junior Scholastic Magazine. Students analyzed the cartoons using five questions and then looked for artists' tools such as analogy, hyperbole, irony, and symbolism used in the cartoon.

I also presented at the PTA Lunch and Learn on digital resources available to parents, teachers, and students, such as GALILEO, World Book Online, CultureGrams, NetTrekker, and GALE.

In sixth grade, we streamed a video introduction from Jackie Robinson's daughter, Sharon Robinson, to the Breaking Barriers essay contest. Students then begain brainstorming about their own barriers for the essay.

Renaissance Elementary School

Celebrate Digital Learning Day by utilizing technology to stream interactive sites through Discovery Education and NetTrekker.

Dolvin Elementary School

Dolvin Elementary Media Center

We are proud to say that

everyday at Dolvin is a Digital Learning Day!

As you go from class to class, teachers are employing a wealth of resources to meet the needs of their students.

In the Media Center we will be spotlighting the ebook resources available on the Follett shelf.

We will be mixing fiction and nonfiction. WE will shine the spotlight on the wealth of resources available for centers, and teacher instruction.

Ebooks bring the fables, tall tales and poetry to life in a different format which correlates to the Common Core!

The Dolvin Media Center will be “ebook central” on Digital Learning Day 2013!

Independence High School

Come one, come all! We have been working hard to put on a Big Show for you tomorrow. See the great lineup we have and be ready to be dazzled by the technology-rich learning being done here at Independence HS!

Group A

Departments CTE, ELA and Social Studies

1. CTE: Kuehl: Stranger Danger “xtranormal” video by Cecelia Guevara and Stacy Zuniga

2. CTE: Robinson: Advanced Website Design “Dream Team” by Tiree Robertson and Antoine Adkins

3. ELA: Wells: The Kite Runner “Glogster” by Camila Gordenko-Miner

4. ELA: Legros: Women’s Rights Timeline by Taylor Dickerson

5. ELA: Legros: The Victorian Period “Prezi” by Ben Winkler

6. Social Studies: Jester: Interactive website on the Federal Reserve demonstrated by Rolando Carter

7. Social Studies: Dayton/Atkinson: Interactive website on interactive maps demonstrated by Percia Jackson

8. Social Studies: Atkinson: Interactive website on Making a Bill demonstrated by David Allen

Group B

Departments Art, Math, Spanish, Science, and Health/PE

1. Art: Mr. Campbell: Instructional videos

2. Math: Rowe: Ms. Rowe’s website demonstrated by Francisco Cabrera and Francis Mercado

3. Math: Rowe: Ms. Rowe’s Activoting

4. Math: Rowe: TI Graphing Calculator Simulation Software

5. Spanish: Enriquez: Conjugating Verbs student-produced video by Berg Graham and Ron Hawkins

6. Science: Singh: Edmodo

Holcomb Bridge Middle School

Holcomb Bridge 7^th grade social studies students will be in the media center researching the physical features of Africa through videos and creating QR code posters for their classmates to scan and follow to learn all about Africa.

Randolph Elementary

One thing we are doing for Digital Learning Day….

The WAPR team is creating a power point that will run every morning. Your students may submit a one page biography (with pics, transitions, etc) and the WAPR team will keep adding to the powerpoint daily. I have flash drives if they need to use to transfer the page to WAPR. The show starts tom. with a few of our talented students’ work. Be sure to tune in.

P>S> Instead, you could also do one page as a classroom. It might be a good way to show the kids some cool things that Power point can do.

Frank McClarin High School

Frank McClarin High School

Digital Learning Day Activities 2013

Debra-Ann Rufolo - ELA

On digital learning day my students (all four classes) will be using the computer to access articles of interest from the npr.org website (Story Corps). They will complete analysis and main idea questions and write a summary paragraph on the computer.

Mrs. Charlotte Mitchell - CTE

My banking students will be creating a muti-flow map using prezi.

My entrepreneurial ventures students are creating a voki to explain the relevance of ROI.

My investment students are purchasing stocks at www.smartstocks.com via Nasdaq indices.

Ms. Debra Robinson - CTE

BVP 1 students will use Photoshop to create storyboards. They will use Prezi for their Mass Media projects.

BVP 2 students will use Final Cut Pro to edit.

Both classes use schoology.com (rubrics, handouts, bell ringers & posts).

Ms. Carolyn Rooks – Social Studies

Thursday (2/7/13)

4^th period: PowerPoint Presentations on topics related to the origins and spread of Islam

Friday (2/8/13)

2^nd and 3^rd periods: Powerpoint Presentations and Research on Shaka Zulu and Menelik II

Mrs. Belinda Bullock – Social Studies

They must find out where they are going and do currency conversions using an online currency calculator.

On a separate sheet of paper/answer sheet, the students should write down the name of each country associated with the clue number, together with the country’s currency and the dollar amount spent in that country. Each student will be evaluated on their answers and on their group interaction.

Ms. Ellis – CTE

My students will be visiting these sites several websites listed on food packages to test their knowledge of nutrition by playing interactive games and completing on line assessments.

http://www.ncagr.gov/cyber/kidswrld/nutrition/nutritionQuiz.html

http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078774497/student_view0/chapter4/online_quizzes.html

http://www.umass.edu/nibble/quizzes/quizlist.htm

Brainpop.com

Fuelup360.com

Mr. Leon Fowler – ELA

I’m going to do the Wallwisher activity with my students.

Mr. Joshua Skiver – Science

Tuesday (2/5/13)

My students will be using the laptops to research high and low pressure weather systems.

Ms Aliyah Johnson – Science

Physical Science A and B: virtual lab

Website : phet.colorado.edu

Ms. Grant – Science

- Students are making ecology videos using Animoto.

- Other classes are doing research on Bloom’s Taxonomy on Genetics using the

Internet and compiling their findings using Prexi and Microsoft Office Word

and PowerPoint.

Ms. Green – Science

Internet research

Interactive on-line trivia games.(tentative)

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Elkins Pointe Middle School

We have 6th grade classes coming in to the media center for an eBook Extravaganza! Our ESOL students will go online to look at our Capstone Digital Library in which the books can be read to the student to help increase English language skills and comprehension. Other students will be looking at our eBooks through Destiny, Destiny Quest, and Follett Shelf. We will be using the 16 desktop computers in the media center as well as the mobile laptop cart so that all visitors can create Destiny accounts and go online to explore our new eBooks!
We are also doing a school wide QR Code Treasure Hunt. Nine different QR Codes have been placed in random spots around the building for students who have BYOD permission to scan and visit pre-selected sites. Students who scan, find, and note at least 6 different sites can come to the media center for a treat.
I also found a Periodical Table that has QR codes on each of the elements. Our science teacher is going to allow BYOD students to scan elements and find out new information about them.
Finally, we are using our "Student Voice Wall" to allow students to share apps with each other. The wall is titled "Have a 'Appy Week" and students are drawing the icons of their favorite apps on the wall to share with other students. Photo to follow!