Comments on: Last Chance to Submit your Great Use of Ed Tech story … http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/03/last-chance-to-submit-your-great-use-of-ed-tech-story/ Engaging students and enhancing learning outcomes with Internet & Instructional Technologies Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 03-08-10 | Emerging Internet Technologies for Education http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/03/last-chance-to-submit-your-great-use-of-ed-tech-story/comment-page-1/#comment-10017 Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 03-08-10 | Emerging Internet Technologies for Education Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:48:17 +0000 http://www.emergingedtech.com/?p=3673#comment-10017 [...] Last Chance to Submit your Great Use of Ed Tech story … Reminder: Monday (the 15th) is the last day to submit those stories and earn a chance to be featured in a full length blog post here on EmergingEdTech.com! Please click on the link (or the picture) and submit a few sentences about the way you’ve used Ed Tech to engage students and improve learning outcomes. I’m looking forward to hearing about it. Thanks!  Print This Post [...] [...] Last Chance to Submit your Great Use of Ed Tech story … Reminder: Monday (the 15th) is the last day to submit those stories and earn a chance to be featured in a full length blog post here on EmergingEdTech.com! Please click on the link (or the picture) and submit a few sentences about the way you’ve used Ed Tech to engage students and improve learning outcomes. I’m looking forward to hearing about it. Thanks!  Print This Post [...]

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/03/last-chance-to-submit-your-great-use-of-ed-tech-story/comment-page-1/#comment-10012 Elizabeth Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:44:19 +0000 http://www.emergingedtech.com/?p=3673#comment-10012 Wow. That is a great story. It is sad that we as educators must depend on private contributions in order to bring technology to our classrooms. I believe this was a summer program. However, considering that it is a summer program, how did the school decide who was going to be a part of it(students)? I know that some teachers are as clueless as the students about technology, did the school make any attempts to educate the teachers? Wow. That is a great story.
It is sad that we as educators must depend on private contributions in order to bring technology to our classrooms.
I believe this was a summer program. However, considering that it is a summer program, how did the school decide who was going to be a part of it(students)?
I know that some teachers are as clueless as the students about technology, did the school make any attempts to educate the teachers?

]]> By: Dallas McPheeters http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/03/last-chance-to-submit-your-great-use-of-ed-tech-story/comment-page-1/#comment-10009 Dallas McPheeters Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:19:14 +0000 http://www.emergingedtech.com/?p=3673#comment-10009 K-5 Summer Technology Camp changes lives for low SES, dual-language learners with little or no previous computer access. The challenge was working with an elementary near the US/Mexico border where students came from poor households with no computers. Yet the principal wanted his 430 students to learn how to use cutting edge technologies and asked me to design a 4 week technology camp. Eight year old PCs running Windows 2000 on a slow network was another challenge. That's all the school had to offer. So I applied for Title 1 funds and secured a brand new computer lab boasting 13 iMacs. The summer lesson plans were beefy and demanding as you can see from my website I designed for the camp: http://gobears.uniques.com (click on the Tech Camp link top right). But the students rose to the challenge and produced webpages, podcasts, embedded animotos, made and edited movies, and created photo albums with slide shows. Each grade worked according to their themed Unit of study during their Summer School program. I am now looking for sponsorship of future tech camps for the underserved demographic. Any ideas to that end would be appreciated. Gracias! :-) K-5 Summer Technology Camp changes lives for low SES, dual-language learners with little or no previous computer access.

The challenge was working with an elementary near the US/Mexico border where students came from poor households with no computers. Yet the principal wanted his 430 students to learn how to use cutting edge technologies and asked me to design a 4 week technology camp.

Eight year old PCs running Windows 2000 on a slow network was another challenge. That’s all the school had to offer. So I applied for Title 1 funds and secured a brand new computer lab boasting 13 iMacs.

The summer lesson plans were beefy and demanding as you can see from my website I designed for the camp: http://gobears.uniques.com (click on the Tech Camp link top right).

But the students rose to the challenge and produced webpages, podcasts, embedded animotos, made and edited movies, and created photo albums with slide shows. Each grade worked according to their themed Unit of study during their Summer School program.

I am now looking for sponsorship of future tech camps for the underserved demographic. Any ideas to that end would be appreciated.

Gracias! :-)

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