Bville Students Participate in National Hour of Code

Over 120, 10th-grade students at Baker High School learned or practiced coding during the
Hour of Code.
They were in good company as over 57 million others were coding along with them!
Here a short video of some Kindergartners from Elden Elementary School coding to!

29 iPad Resources, Tutorials and Guides Every Teacher Should Know About

Educate Yourself on-line. For Free!

Tons of free on-line courses on a variety of topics!

3x3 links- A great way to point students to your favorite web pages!

Great Team Building Strategies!

Joelle Fiorini's, Kevin Krause's, Michelle Klasen's, and Jackie Campbell's  6th Grade Classes participated in team activities to help build their 21 Century Skills:  Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking and Collaboration!

The students worked together on these activities and then debriefed after each session.  At the end of the fourth activity they filled out Peer Evaluation Rubrics on how each team member collaborated in their groups. They rated individuals on these three areas: 1. Takes Responsibility for Oneself 2. Helps the Team. 3.  Respects Others on the Team.

Nice Job Everyone!

Web Tools for Project Based Learning

Effective technology integration supports learning goals while amplifying student learning through active engagement, collaboration, frequent feedback, and connection to real-world resources. Explore Web 2.0 tools to design, assess, and manage a project for both teachers and students.  Web Tools 

Edudemic - Connecting Education & Technology

4 Powerful Formative Assessment Tools for the Classroom

Top 10 Time-Saving Tech Tips

Padlet

Padlet is an online bulletin board where students can display information, collaborate, brainstorm, or plan a project. Teachers can use padlet as an informal assessment tool, to communicate new information in chunks, to facilitate a brainstorming session...the possibilities are endless.

Technology Integration Matrix

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The matrix incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed, authentic, and collaborative with five levels of technology integration: entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation. Use this matrix as a framework for integrating technology effectively.


http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/matrix.php

10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Google Docs

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Instructional Videos

LOOK!  We've added instructional videos to our District Technology web page!

Reading in the Summer Gives You Somewhere to Go

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26 Tips for Teaching with
Google Apps

Ms. Kuraszewicz's 10th Grade Project

"Call To Action" Project for 10th Grade Students

This was a Project Based Learning assignment in Ms. Kuraszewicz's 7th Period English 10R class. Students chose an issue they felt strongly about, researched the problem and were challenged to brainstorm and share solutions with classmates and the larger community. These students shared their research about Mistreated Women and Views of Women in Society. 

Baker Drama Club

Baker Drama Club/8th Period Stage and Screen Class Presents...

The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet

Transforming the classroom with Technology Integration

Baldwinsville Technology Update 2014

BaiBoard iPad App

Check out BaiBoard HD iPAD app!

This Free app is downloaded on the iPAD carts already at Baker High School.  We can have it downloaded in other buildings through the library media specialists.  This app turns all of the iPADs into a collaborative meeting space.  Students can work on the same project, problem, question, etc. Students can work on separate pages within the project and then share.  There are many cool possibilities.  Check out this youtube link to learn about it....Google it!!

BaiBoard Youtube

LearnZillion

LearnZillion is a free website dedicated to championing teachers and supporting their ongoing professional development. Teachers develop expertise and insights while working with students, and have exceptional ideas for how to improve classroom learning. LearnZillion.com offers a free and growing set of Math and English Language resources for grades 2-12 that have been developed by expert teachers directly from the Common 
Core State Standards. 

Click the following link: LearnZillion

Xtra Math

XtraMath is a free math fact fluency program designed to help kids master their math facts.  This website is a great tool for students to practice their math facts in the classroom during small group time, in a center, or at home.

Google Hangouts

Use Google Hangouts to Connect with Others

Kathryn DeBarbieri and Gennaro D'agostino's  Participation in Government/Economics class used Google Hangout to connect to a Financial Planner at AXA.  Check it out for your Classroom!

Turn any Hangout into a live video call with up to 10 people or simply search for a contact to start a voice call from a computer, iPad, iPhone, or Android device.

Learning Code

Every student should learn code!

WWW.CODE.ORG

EdPuzzle

Customize your Video lesson by cropping just what you need, adding your voice, and adding formative quiz questions.  Check out the link above.  When creating your own video use Teachertube as an alternate to Youtube.

Turn your Gmail Inbox into a To Do List

Awesome Biography with QR Codes!

Awesome Biography project in Mrs. Phillips class 

at Ray Middle School! 

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Baldwinsville Technology Integration and Instruction

Why (And How) Students Are Learning To Code

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Time to make the Shift from Blackboard to Schoology!

What is Schoology? It's a learning management system that allows Teachers to create, manage, and share academic content via the internet. Similar to Blackboard and Edmodo. You are probably wondering, "why would I use Schoology, when I already use Blackboard, and/or Edmodo"?  

Let me explain...  

• Schoology is user-friendly.  
• Schoology is partnering up with Schooltool in the future. This would streamline assignments, quiz grades, and tests from one platform to another.  
• Schoology offers accounts to school districts for a nominal fee - the login for Schoology would be the same as Schooltool and the School network. One username and password for all.
• Blackboard users can export their account into Schoology.
• Looks like facebook.
• 24 hours a day, 7 days a week access from any device.
• Schoology is available as an App from iTunes for the iPad and iPhone. It's also available for Droid users from Google Play.

Check out the video below, this might be what you have been looking for to streamline your classes.

Tips and Tools to Help Integrate Technology

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Students Yearn for Creativity, Not Tests- Eric Sheninger

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Mr. Galvin's Glider Project

Students in Mr. Galvin's Technology class create Gliders based on a NASA Scientists design.  Mr. Galvin points out that careful measurement and engineering need to go into their work in order to maximize success of their flight.  During the project students learn the four forces of flight:  Thrust, Drag, Weight, and Lift.  Understanding these principles combined with precision in the building phase of the project allows the students to master/maximize the flight of their glider.  Galvin also added that they put a personal twist on their own glider giving the project added creativity.  Nice Job!!

Turtle Diary

Games and activities that provide a fun and easy way for kids to develop a comprehensive understanding of concepts in Math, Science, Language, Social Studies, Creativity and Logic, helping them excel in all walks of life. In our extensive range of online kids educational games, you can find skill building games, puzzle games, animated lesson plans, printable worksheets, interactive storybooks, art and craft activities, and various other remarkable learning options.

Click on the Picture to access the Turtle Diary Website

Google Apps Training Resource-Awesome!

Click me to go to Google Gooru!

High Techpectations-Get Googley in Education

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Conflicting Gmail Accounts

21st Century Skills - Creativity & Innovation

Project Based Learning Methodology

Largest classroom in the Building

Collaboration

Baker High School Library is where students gather to utilize technology, collaborate on projects, perform research, read a novel, browse the magazine selection, play educational games, or work on creative projects. The library is the largest classroom in the building. 

Research

Technology

Collaboration Tools

Learning to collaborate with others and connect through technology are essential skills for the 21st Century.

1. Screencast-O-Matic – Is a free online screen recorder program. It’s an easy way to make an instant screen capture with audio of your computer desktop and share with students. "It’s useful if a student is struggling with an assignment and needs a reteach,” “or if you need to collaborate with a colleague on a project or lesson."

2. Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) - Google’s free online document creation and editing app or web tool is popular among business professionals, colleagues, teachers, instructors and students that want to collaborate “real time” online. Google Drive is a great way to share and edit documents online inside and outside of the classroom.

3. Google+ Hangouts - This free app or web tool lets users connect with friends, students, professors, and others who want to “hang out” online. The app’s video chat and group chat allows you to collaborate with one person or several people at once. Great for collaboration for co-teaching, lesson planning, or just a convenient way to host a virtual meeting.

TED Talks ‏@TEDTalks Feb 16 "Math makes sense of the world." How we can teach it more effectively:

Ms. Dotterer's Body Systems Project

Ms. Dotterer's Living Environment Class is learning about Human Body Systems. The students have been working in Collaborative groups to create a presentation using the Explain Everything app on the iPad.  The app allows them to Screencast (Record) slides that they create with pictures, text, video, and other illustration.

Try it out in Your Class!!

Mrs. Kenna's My Dream Job Project

Mrs. Kenna's Life Skills English Class created iBooks using the Book Creator app on the iPads. The project was to create a book to explain about  a real attainable Dream Job that they would like to get hired for when they graduate from Baker High School.  We used Barb, our NAO Robot to introduce the project to them and then the students took pictures, saved pictures from Google images, added text, and voiced in sound using the app on the iPad. Some of the students then used AssisstiveWare called Proloquo so that they could communicate with the class their Dream Job project.  

Mrs. Formoza's Photostory Project

Students in Mrs. Formoza's class and students on team 6-6 at Ray Middle School were randomly assigned an Egypt topic. After researching the topic using library books, websites and databases, each student created a digital photostory as well as created a project (map, diorama, recreation, costume, model, diagram, etc . . . ). In order to create the digital photostory, students selected pictures to go along with their researched sub topics and then orally narrated each picture. Students added the finishing touches: title and bibliography page, music, and transitions from slide to slide then students presented their creations in front of the class!

Twas the Night Before Xmas - NAO Robot

Mrs. Nahorney's 4th grade class participated in a summarization lesson of Twas the Night Before Christmas.  It was excellent!  Barb our NAO Robot introduced herself to the class, demonstrated the poem by acting it out, and then recited back the summaries of each stanza that the students wrote.  The students were partnered up to summarize one of the stanzas in the poem.  We then had the students type in their summaries, with the help of Mrs. Nahorney, into the Choregraph software that is used to program the Robot.  The students were so excited and the learning was incredible.

Watch Know Learn for APK or Flipped Classroom

Click here Watch Know Learn to check out free age appropriate educational videos for your classroom.  A great resource to Access your students Prior Knowledge on a topic or to Flip your Classroom.

Enjoy!

Video in the classroom - 21st Century