iPads in Kindergarten!!!

The school year of the iPad has begun.  Kindergarten, First and Second grade have 30 ipads that they are sharing for classroom use.

Kathrina Weekes, kindergarten teacher, dazzled us at our faculty meeting last week.  Sharing 6 months of testing and research, Kat demonstrated numerous apps, iPad specific software, that enhanced teaching.  Magic School Bus was a multimedia extravaganza.  She and Melissa Gale, intern and alumna, evaluated and rated 35+ apps appropriate for K-3.  Kathrina truly impressed her colleagues.  She is also the envy of the Head-Royce faculty as she will be teaching next year with a shared class set of 20 iPads.

New Middle School Activities

This year the middle school faculty have taught a number of technology courses as middle school activities.  Molly Barrett and Pauline Huang taught Robotics for the second rotation.  Pauline is currently teaching Interactive Media Design, a class programming in Scratch.  

Technology Staff Development

Two successful series of 2-day workshops (10/13 & 11/15; 2/7 & 2/14)


Session 1
Screencast - digital recording of computer screen output containing your audio narration - Karen Bradley
Blogs- create an online journal - Holly Below
Google Docs and Google Applications, Dropbox.com & Finalsite Dropbox - Dave Levin, Corey Turoff & Stevie Kaplan
Movies- quick and easy videos with Flip cameras - Ray Louie
Movies- iMovie editing - Harry Muniz
Keynote, Powerpoint, and more - Saya McKenna & Mary Goglio
Excel spreadsheets - Owen von Kugelgen
Smartboards - Kenny Ewbanks
Websites- manage your HRS website - Molly Barrett
Photoshop- photo editing - Scott Clark

Session 2
Google Quizzes & Forms - Karen Bradley
Photo Editing - Scott Clark
Planetarium - Chris Harper
Presentation Tools - Saya McKenna & Mary Goglio
SMART Clickers- -Chris Davies
Smartboards - Kenny Ewbanks
Social Networking - Holly Below
Spreadsheets - Owen von Kugelgen
Video Editing - Harry Muniz
VoiceMail to Email - Ray Louie & Biwesh Pradhan
Word Track Changes - David Enelow