Dear Teachers,
I've been invited to a brainstorming session regarding GALA - Wendi is looking for our input for auction items that would impact your classrooms. She would like for the item(s) to be something that could work for any grade level.
At the lunch table today - a few ideas were tossed around:
1. TIME - aka professional development for you. Maybe parents would be willing to purchase substitute teachers so that classroom teachers could attend more learning sessions on the products we already have????
2. Laptop lab on a cart with wireless Internet (one for each lower school building???) I'm pretty sure we could find something appropriate for young learners
3. SMART Senteo classroom responders: http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/Senteo/default.htm
4. SMART Document Camera http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Document+Camera/default.htm
5. SMART Table (for young students) http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Table/default.htm
FYI:Last year, a number of SMART Boards were purchased as auction items. People liked to bid on cool techie stuff. They were amazed at the SMART Board's capabiities and eagerly held their paddles high to be the first to purchase. The bidding was wild! Lower School received 4 of the 9 (?) boards that attendees "purchased" at the Gala.
Think about it - look at the links - add a comment to the blog.
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While I would love to have Time, I don't think parents would be lifting their paddles as fast as for cool techie stuff. I think we should ask for laptop labs and Senteos. These are items that the parents would probably go wild over. We could use other funds???? for training.
Smart Doc cameras are great.
I love the TIME idea!
Totally WISHING..I would like to have some type of rechargeable PalmPilot, one set per classroom. I would also like to talk with a teacher who uses them to see other ways of using them in this "electronic" world! Thanks! CD
I think I've mentioned this before, but I love having the scanner in my room. A printer/scanner on every grade level might be an easy and relatively inexpensive item.
In some schools, teachers have a microphone that amplifies their voices for the class. This is very helpful for students with add/adhd and it helps the teacher save her voice! And it would benefit all students not just the ones with attention issues
Another idea for Gala monies: Phones that match the lower school office phones with intercom and voicemail capabilities in every classroom. These could also be used for conference calling with Derenne counterparts and conferencing with parents who are unable to attend a face to face conference. I have experienced teaching with a classroom phone and know the usefulness of having one in the classroom :)
I would LOVE to have more classroom computers. Maybe 4/5 to use as a center for my kids. We are using the SMARTboard as a group center. I just think the individual computers could really help enrich the curriculum on each student's ability level.
I am using my Smart Board and (used) the Smart Doc Camera to create line by Line drawing lessons for substitutes to use. Mary Kelley did a great job using this all day in the Art room. Melissa Pelkey was able to be an emergency sub in my room and use the Smart Board all afternoon to run Art History Bingo. (I had Smart Doc Camera captured the Art Bingo call cards.) Drop by anytime I have a planning period to see how well it turned out.
More Smart Doc Cams would be great, the Art room could use its own laser printer to print out masterpieces that I laminate for the students to draw/paint in class under my instruction.(I am looking to the Arts Council for this.) I have thought that if a very user friendly program could be attached through teacher web, I could have parent volunteers capture or scan student work to see online. I have not had time to research this and am not exactly sure what I need.
Gloria mentioned that it would be great for the whole school to have an online library system. Maybe Follett software could demo the capabilities at the Gala????
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