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WHAT? |
WHEN? |
HOW? |
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O'Neill Public School's 2nd Annual "Technology
Institute" |
August 1, 2005 |
PowerPoint presentation for "Handhelds
in the Classroom" |
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One-day training with Mike Curtis to
get us started! |
September 7, 2005 |
Look at all
we learned! |
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A half-day of support to implement
student handheld projects |
September 8, 2005 |
We watched PAAM
in action, made an ebook with the 5th graders, (Download
Plant Riddles here) and a PicoMap with Sketchy attached with the 6th
graders. Our 6th grade "Tech
Support Team" was established and trained. |
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OCTOBER Training Night
5-7th teachers initiating Palm integration in
their classrooms |
October 5, 2005 |
How
to introduce Palms to your students: suggested instructional sequence |
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JANUARY Training with Mike Curtis |
January 2-4, 2006 |
Mike generously spent another 2 1/2
days in O'Neill helping us advance our integration project goals and
smooth several technical glitches we have encountered. |
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Frustration with Palm! |
All year long--
After hours and hours of communication (and long
periods of non-communication) with Palm, we finally received recognition
and results in MAY (just several weeks before school is out for the year!) |
We FINALLY got Palm, Inc. to admit
that something was drastically wrong with our batch of handhelds and are
replacing any units with the malfunctioning beam and beam receive. |
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Sketchy Animation Contest Winners!
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Announced April 2006 |
Congratulations to O'Neill
Elementary's 2006 Sketchy Animation Contest Winners!
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Survey Results: Year One |
Survey of
Teachers, Students, and Parents involved
with handhelds |
Year One |
Click
here to read the highlights of the results |
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NECC 2006 San Diego |
July 5-7, 2006 |
Kevin, Katie, Kathy, Kelly, and Bill
enjoyed learning and being immersed in the "best of the best" for handheld
integration and beyond. |
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Loads of Learning: Activities for Handhelds
Second-year implementation training with
Tony
Vincent
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August
10, 2006 |
Handhelds are a great tool to teach concepts in every curriculum area!
Tony demonstrates samples activities for state capitals, math problem
solving, parts of speech, and planets. Within these lessons, teachers
will use fantastic freeware applications that they can use to teach
many more concepts than just the samples ones presented. It will be a
day of hands-on learning and fun!
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