Tech+Tools+Notes+-+July+22,+2011

=Tech Tools Notes= July 22, 2011

The designated note-taker will add notes to the this page as we progress through the workshop. Feel free to add to them at breaks.

1st took poll of knowledge and then grade levels 2nd study of wiki 3rd post videos & documents, etc. but its a website (use in classroom) steps to pg. on left are tools, click wkshop, click today's date Help kids have a real world education, everyday have kids take class notes and post on line Another website [] called a back channel (this is a way to talk between tables, conferences, teachers) after a designated amount of time you can take it off It works best (example) to monitor the students note taking its FREE!!! Next we made a new window and entered Typewith.me Now start a new document(click) and invite others to join you(click) and either send an email to them by typing in their email address or they type this code: Typewith.me/BrDnkSie3a This allows you to share info back and forth We shared favorite books back and forth READ UNLOCKED BY KAREN KINGSBURY table shares what makes a great book, then narrow down to 5 for the whole table. good words, excitement, relate, vivid scenes, imagery, learn from it, real life tie, emotions, content appropriate for grade level More specific to make it more special for a gifted child: complex humor, problem solving, identifiable characters, thinking beyond the tex,t, it needs to be written on their age appropriateness but yet not inappropriate text Blogger.com is a great place to have multiple pposts In to web.page is Weebly.com All of these are listed in link s listed in look up word bibliotherapy -very interesting - reading a book for diffeerent needs Anytime you want to limit search type in google search bar type the word __site: and then to limit to universities type edu after the :__ __Discussion time on different types of web pages__ We posted on our wiki pages Teach kids like you do athletics Asynchronous Development how a Gifter child has so many different developmental stages It does make them hard to find friends Kids are always forced to be with their age But as you becomes adults then you have various age friend __True to Form__ by Elizabeth Berg (series of books by this author for adults) __Mysterious Benedict Society__ by Trenton Lee Stewart (4 kids solving 4 different puzzles-upper level elementary) Gifted kids have IQ of 130 below 70 is cognitive disable 85-115 is average __Some Day Angeline__ by Louis Sachar ( a young girl who gets to skip a grade) Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee (very gifted girl who goes to college)