Multiple+computers

=What can I do with multiple computers in my classroom?=
 * 1) Watch United Streaming videos
 * 2) Use United Streaming writing prompts
 * 3) Do webquests
 * 4) Take test with examview
 * 5) Review for tests
 * 6) Do reinforcement activities
 * 7) Acrostic poems (with SmartNotebook or Word)
 * 8) Gaggle assignments
 * 9) Use Gaggle digital locker
 * 10) Classcape activities
 * 11) Orchard activities
 * 12) PowerPoint brochure for research or author report
 * 13) VoiceThread for reports
 * 14) Study Island activities
 * 15) Brainpop movies and activities
 * 16) Blog on a class wiki
 * 17) Curriculum websites (for example: http://leecountyschools.wikispaces.com/Math or http://del.icio.us/danitarussell/math change Math to your curriculum area for more activities)
 * 18) TeacherTube videos
 * 19) Podcasting of lesson or review
 * 20) Safe research with http://www.think.com
 * 21) Class notes added to class wiki
 * 22) Graphic organizer with SmartNotebook
 * 23) United Streaming assignments
 * 24) Virtual field trips
 * 25) Create presentations
 * 26) Write a wikibook - great for class review
 * 27) Create reader's guides to share their favorite books
 * 28) Class glossary
 * 29) Class encyclopedia
 * 30) Peer review compositions
 * 31) Develop student portfolios
 * 32) Vocabulary lists
 * 33) Students can share notes with other classmates
 * 34) Group authoring of story
 * 35) Create a timeline for social studies class
 * 36) Online literature circles
 * 37) Classroom FAQ's
 * 38) Classroom scrapbook
 * 39) Classroom newspaper
 * 40) Online Class Hall of Fame
 * 41) Design a school/classroom tour
 * 42) Use Google Docs to design and implement a survey
 * 43) Animoto class projects
 * 44) Thinking Maps or [|Gliffy]
 * 45) Create a class autobiography
 * 46) Search for answers to class questions
 * 47) Create a class website list
 * 48) Online games - Jeopardy, et all
 * 49) Practice computer skills (http://leecountyschools.wikispaces.com/Computer+Skills+Test)
 * 50) SmartBoard [|Activities]
 * 51) Use Paint to illustrate terms
 * 52) Watch online student news
 * 53) Create PowerPoint presentations from a novel/book read to be called a ‘rolling book report’.
 * 54) Track weather via the WeatherBug or another internet site devoted to local weather
 * 55) Online book reports
 * 56) Kids do absent work agenda
 * 57) Crossword puzzles
 * 58) Vocabulary Matching
 * 59) Student Created Tests
 * 60) Math tutorials
 * 61) ESL vocabulary with pictures
 * 62) Integrating units with science and language arts using United Streaming
 * 63) Science Fair research
 * 64) Interview professionals with Skype
 * 65) International Quiz (post a problem of the week and other kids from around the world solve it)
 * 66) Post a problem and make an intentional mistake. Students find the mistake and correct it in another color.
 * 67) Survey - how do I learn best
 * 68) Plot literary elements using www.readwritethink.org
 * 69) Do homework and email to teacher
 * 70) Post or embed worksheets and kids do work online
 * 71) SAS in schools
 * 72) Email a scientist
 * 73) Virtual dissection
 * 74) Camtasia or SmartBoard recorder and explain a lesson and post it
 * 75) Do a student news video
 * 76) Current events
 * 77) Post newspapers from around the world
 * 78) Lower grade class email your class with science questions
 * 79) All 7th grade students together and link up with South African students
 * 80) Teach math lessons to other countries in real time
 * 81) Digital picture record holders
 * 82) Research fitness websites
 * 83) Stations in class and keep nutrition journal
 * 84) Post ballgames on wiki
 * 85) Digital recording
 * 86) Access to artwork
 * 87) Research how instruments are made
 * 88) Virtual museum tours
 * 89) Download TiVo to laptop
 * 90) Compose music
 * 91) Design album/CD cover
 * 92) Design a new musical instrument
 * 93) Share art with foreign students
 * 94) [|www.quia.com] for lessons
 * 95) Interest inventories
 * 96) Cookbook online
 * 97) Video of behavior management
 * 98) Student news reports
 * 99) Video schedules
 * 100) Audacity with reader's theater ([|Deep River Wiki])
 * 101) Online template for science lab reports with embedding pictures
 * 102) Use audacity when studying sound
 * 103) MovieMaker for science reports
 * 104) Share websites and lessons that integrate character education into classrooms
 * 105) Online maps
 * 106) Google sketch-up for 3D figures and designs (blueprints)
 * 107) Story starters - move around after 5 minutes - great around holidays
 * 108) Team Bowl - one school develops questions and other schools answer
 * 109) Science Olympiad
 * 110) Science Fair narrations & video tape on YouTube
 * 111) Students develop their own games
 * 112) Students develop their own scavenger hunts or WebQuests

With Cinderella Lyon - December 2, 2008:
 * 1) Small groups of 8 or so in each group
 * 2) Gradual introduction of groups at beginning of year
 * 3) Outline:
 * 4) 25 - 30 minutes whole group
 * 5) Reinforce topics or introduce topics
 * 6) move to groups/rotations for about 25 minutes
 * 7) Grid on board that noted rotations - changed daily
 * 8) Group A - B - C
 * 9) Rotations 1 - 2 - 3
 * 10) Rotations could begin with rotation 2 or 3 not always with one to add variety
 * 11) Whole group for new skills
 * 12) Some type of figure (red cups) that sat on top of computer if there was a question
 * 13) Ask person on each side of you first before asking teacher
 * 14) Teacher led group, computer group, individual working group
 * 15) Switch papers with partner to grade computer work & individual work
 * 16) Failure is OKAY!
 * 17) Once a month had a class meeting - what did they enjoy and what they didn't

Ideas for time management
 Classroom Management [|Strategies] The easiest way I have found to know when students need help is using a **green and red plastic cup**. Green means "I'm doing great!" and red means "I need help". These cups are simply kept near each computer and placed on the monitor or CPU as needed. Generally, the green cup is always up. (If you want you can use only the red cup when help is needed.) If help is needed, the student places the red cup on top of the computer. Either a Student Technology Specialist or the teacher will know, without class interruption, that someone needs help. Most of the time, the student can continue to work on something else until help arrives.
 * Idea for when students need help from Information Services website of Travis Unified School District:

SmartBoard [|Lessons]

Ideas for [|Schedules], [|Rotations], [|Daily Routine], [|Planning for Integration], and [|Integration ideas] from [|Right In Class].

[|Strategies] for the multiple computer classroom for APEX