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School / Group: Martin Luther King Jr. Early College

Attendees: Katy Morten, Amy Denning, Katie Law Balding

We're on our way to TIE and we hope to learn:new technologies to use in the classroom, which include promethean boards, document cameras, social studies skills, using ipod touch in the classroom, and any other great ways to teach with technology! At TIE, we attended sessions on computer science program, in a different platform. || specifically: [] || in the Clasroom || How to communicate with staff using google docs rather than email creating shared documents to support building activities and communication. Supports using technology to help make our school more effective. || engage students in their world, supports adding resources to our curriculum to engage students, in order to meet academic needs. || Struggling Learners || Used ILife 08, IPods and Smart Board technologies to help learners who are reluctant and struggling in school. Helped with ideas for websites such as Read Write Think, YoYo Brain, and Wordle to keep students interested in learning. Supports using technology to help our students who are not motivated to learn. || Instruction That Works Promethean/Activ Boards - Basics and Up || Our school has purchased and been given fourteen promethean boards, so as the School Tech, I attended these sessions to review my skills learn new skills, and see how other teachers created flipcharts to use in the classroom. ||
 * MEMBER || SESSION || How it influences / changes / supports proposed TIE student project ||
 * Katy M || Alice.org || Beginning Programming,Supports adding more technology to our
 * Amy D || Wonderful World of Wikis || Created a class wiki for Social Studies/Civics http://www.missdenning.wikispaces.com ||
 * Katie L || PhET Science || I have incorporated the PhET interactive website that was taught in a session at TIE
 * Katy M || Google Aps
 * Katy M || IPod Touch: || Using IPod Touches to teach applications online in order to
 * Katy M || Tech Tools for
 * Katy M || Promethean

Our classroom learning project for students is: As a school, we decided to learn how to implement the latest technology that was available to us, in order to engage learners in the classroom. This is why we attended a variety of classes, and then chose the best "fit" for our school when it came to needs of students, hardware, software and priorities of the professional learning community. Our primary goal was to learn how to use these technologies, so that we could present staff development at our retreat in August and show other teachers how to use all the new equipment. vvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Our timeline for implementation of our plan is: School Year 2009-2010.

**Below are posted the projects we developed and used as a result of attending TIE:**

Promethean Science Flipchart Computer Science Flipchart for Microsoft Office 2007

Wikispace:http://katielawscience.wikispaces.com