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Tech Integration Camp
For Tablet PCs
  • Klein ISD
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Welcome
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Introductions
  • Ladd M. Skelly
    • Harcourt Connected Learning
      • ladd.skelly@harcourt.com

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Your Camp Counselors
  •  Who are your camp counselors?
    • Peter Scott
    • Gloria Pearce
    • Denise Phillips
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Good News
  • You’re no longer attached…
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Bad News
  • These are your new tablets…
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Amish Tablet PC
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Introducing the Tablet PC!
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Camp’s Goal
  • The primary goal of Tech Integration Camp is to help improve instruction through the:
    • Integration of Tablet PCs and learning technologies into the curriculum;
    • Improvement of instructional practices; and
    • Improved student achievement in the standards-led curriculum.
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Camp Topics
  • Day 1:
    • Tech Integration and Your Tablet PC
  • Day 2:
    • Project-based Learning via Your Tablet PC
  • Day 3:
    • Creating  an Online Project


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Camp Tasks
  • To create a WebQuest
    • Promoting higher thinking skills
    • Promoting use of Tablet PCs
  • To create an online teacher resource bank.
    • Supporting the project





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How Will These Be Achieved?
  •  Activities
  •  Templates
  •  Best Practices
  •  Online Resources
  •  Online tools
  •  Collaboration
  •  And more…
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Camp Tools
  • WebQuest template
    • For project development
  • netTrekker
    • For harvesting online resources
  • netStartClass
    • For posting project



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Student Activities
  • Two hands-on, collaborative experiences
    • “The Civil War Letters”
    •  “A WebQuest About WebQuests”
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What are some benefits?
  • Accessibility


  • Collaboration


  • Productivity




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Accessibility
    • Truly portable
    • Simulates a notebook
    • Tablets can be used in all subjects areas
    • Universal monitor screen
      • No barrier between student and teacher
    • Teachers and students like the pen over a mouse and keyboard
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Collaboration
    • Design promotes collaboration
    • Computer is truly portable - easier to use and navigate within a group
    • Increases opportunities for critical thinking
    • Promotes communication
      • E-mail, chats, discussion boards, learning communities
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Productivity
    • Facilitates different learning styles
    • Note taking and organizational software            (comments and tracking)
    • Can eliminate paper
    • Resources can be made available online
    • Receive and return assignments electronically



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Tablet PC Uses
    • Put course material online
    • Receive and return coursework electronically
    • Provide online practice quizzes and tests
    • Focus lessons on interaction
    • Use multimedia to illustrate concepts
    • Allow students to represent information in
      different formats
    • Use collaborative problem solving projects
    • Encourage students to communicate
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Challenges
  • Distractions – Internet, email, chat, games
  • Teacher position in room
  • Battery life
  • Losing pen
  • Integrity of tests


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"“…before tablet implementation"
  • “…before tablet implementation, students in an introductory chemistry course were scoring in the 53rd percentile in the nation on a standardized chemistry exam. This course is now taught using the one-tablet model and students score in the 70th percentile and report that this instructional model promotes teaching effectiveness and student learning.”


  • Dr. Ricky Cox  Murray State University, in Murray, Kentucky
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So Many Choices
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The Internet is a great way to get on the Net.
--Bob Dole
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Your Online Resource
  • Personalized websites
    • Home Site: http://twi.classroom.com/workshops/kleinisd
    • Camp Site: http://twi.classroom.com/workshops/klein_tic
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Curriculum Resources
  • PBS TeacherSource http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
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Curriculum Resources
  • Microsoft Lesson Plans
    • http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx

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Teacher Tools
  • 4teachers.org
    • Teachers’ resources and tools site
    • URL: http://4teachers.org/
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Online Resources
  • Refdesk.com
    • http://www.refdesk.com
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Online Resources
  • Adobe’s Digital Kids Club
    • http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/main.html
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Online Tools for Students
  •   Interactive Mathematics
    • http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
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Top Ten Signs You May Be
Technology “Challenged”
  • 1) If you still have a VCR and it is still blinking 12 o'clock...
  • 2) If you use your CD-ROM tray as a cup holder...
  • 3) If you think broad band is the elastic in your underwear...
  • 4) If you think a “blog” is something that clogs your toilet...
  • 5) If you think WWW stands for the World Wide Wrestling association...
  • 6) If it takes you more than 10 minutes to turn on your computer...
  • 7) If you think a PDA is your local podiatrist...
  • 8) If you think "uploading" is pumping your septic tank...
  • 9) If you think MySpace is an outside storage service…
  • 10) If you're still mastering the Apple IIe...
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Have fun!