Dayna Wells has set up a webcam in Sherri Shupe’s room at Andrew Lewis Middle School 
to capture Monarch butterflies emerging from their chrysalis. Click here to see! There is also a link to the webcam page on the ALMS home page.
Handout Notebooks
I am placing a notebook in the computer lab of each school that contains handouts for most of the programs installed in the lab and on the carts. These handouts were created by the ITRTs for you to use. Feel free to copy and share, but please leave the notebook and all it’s pages in the lab so that others can find and use it too.
You can also find handouts in the blue box on the right-hand column of this blog. Feel free to download, print, and share them! If there is one that you need that’s not there, let me know!
In the near future, we plan on adding links to these handouts on the ITRT site as well, and I’ll let you know when that happens!
One Laptop Per Child
Check out this video “What If Every Child Had a Laptop?” about the One Laptop Per Child Initiative from CBS. Very interesting! Want to learn more? You can take a look at the One Laptop Per Child Website too!
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Ever had your students write about this topic? I couldn’t resist sharing a couple of my experiences this summer, but thought it might be nice to do it digitally.
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Monterey, California
I love to travel, and I had never been to Monterey before. I was able to see a California Mission, drive up the coast to Big Sur, drive down the coast to San Franciso to tour Alcatraz, and take a helicopter flight over the coast. It was an awesome trip!
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Kings Dominion
Yep, to ride roller coasters. Since I grew up in Richmond, I spent tons of time at Kings Dominion as a kid. Boy, things have changed since then. I hadn’t been back in about 10 years, so it was a blast to ride all the new rides. The Volcano was my favorite, maybe because of the new video technology I observed. Check out the video above, and yes, I’m the one screaming her head off.
And that’s what I did on my summer vacation.
Numbers instead of a Seating Chart
Next week I’ll be passing out the handouts to make seating charts. This year, I want you to assign the students number that go with the seating chart. Those numbers will be used in the computer lab and with the laptop carts, and will make keeping up with which students use which computers much easier. I’ll be making copies of these and putting them in notebooks on top of each cart. Between the online schedule and the assigned numbers, we will be able to tell which students used which computers each day. Thanks for your help with following this!
You can find a blank copy of the seating chart on the G drive (G:eastStudent Computer Numbers or G:gwcStudent Computer Numbers).
Image Citation: Old Shoe Woman, “Reading Skills in the Computer Lab.” Flickr. 09/23/2005. 6 Sep 2007 <http://www.flickr.com/photos/83955435@N00/45972699>.
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