Monday, August 6, 2012

Star Reading Enterprise

August 6 - web based training session on a reading assessment tool - Star Reading Enterprise. Reading assessment will be on-going throughout the year. We look forward to using this new tool to enhance learning!
See Training Center and Star Assessments then Report Tour, Instructional Grouping and Class Instructional Planning
at Star Reading Enterprise

iPad Training

August 6,  teachers participated in iPad presentations.

  • Near Pod and Socrative - see Notes from CS (pdf download)
  • Religion APPs - see page - iPad APPs
  • Math - see iPad APPs
  • Productivity and Educational Tools - see iPad APPs

Writing Collaboration Workshop

August 6 - Teachers discussed expectations, journals, pre-writing, portfolios, across curriculum, as well as web based Writing A to Z.
Writing Technique

  • What?
  • So what?
  • What now?

HSTI

on June 19-21 Hot Springs Technology Institute presented two days of presentations including topics such as Digital Textbooks, Building PLNs, Google Docs, Excel 2010, WordPress, Mobile Moviemaking, BYOD, and much more. Teachers - see ArkansasIdeas.org

Technology Workshop

on June 19, eight CLS teachers enjoyed a day of technology presented by John Kuglin. We participated in CoveritLive, Socrative, and much more. His resources are available on his wiki found at kuglinlive.wikispaces.com