MyTCEANotes2-9-11

TCEA notes 2-9-11 __ 21st Century Learning __ Used [|www.polleverywhere.com] to take a poll of the room. Slides will be posted Penultimate -- 99c app for writing notes, saves the pages in a notebook. Pogosketch; $16 stylus that works the best... Sundrynotes -- integrates applications into a note taker, whiteboard, audio, pictures. There is a suite of sundry stuff Dragon dictation. Voice cards. Makes voice flash cards. Drop box Fliq notes Box.net Documents -- iPad only app creates a google doc on your iPad. Google docs lite edits a google doc. Adobe ideas -- can draw, use as a whiteboard. Icard -- sort index cards on a table that you sort. Popplet -- a brainstorming tool 123 writing numbers Doodleishious Quick graph -- math teacher high school graphs equations in 3d Using am Elmo and an iPad, move in and out of camera view to reset the brightness settings. MathBoard Addition -- step problem solving. Wikihood -- pulls up your surrounding area. Deggo sharing -- links to information. Can use as a management tool. Skype on the iPad doesn't have video, just audio. Zootube -- kid friendly search for YouTube. Zoodles. iMathmatics -- for older students, tells you the definition, and shows graphical repesentation. History tools:  History maps __ No Limits to Learning: Timeless Technology Integration __ Lisa Basile Jennifer Engels Lori Lambert Will have a link to share materials on project share. Using google earth to calculate using the ruler tools.  [] __ Why we opened FaceBook to our teachers at Westlake High School __ Teacher is the center of the universe __vs__ everything is brought in to the classroom Opening up collaboration. Do we want to reinvent the wheel? Meetings had ground rules - teachers created a //professional// account - use the school initials at the first of our names - staff and student training - helps with the "professional" aspect - how do you handle inappropriate activity Voluntary effort, FB was unlocked for the ones who attended training. Focused on acceptable use policy, showed some wrong uses They had to offer student training as well, to show them how to use the privacy setting, to avoid the "creepiness" factor, it became a one-sided conversation. Opted for the privacy settings. Inappropriate stuff was handled as a training session. They feel like this provides a service to students about proper use, I.e., it wouldn't be appropriate for your employer to see this... Needed technical support, the filter, administrator support. Put in best practices and good conduct use procedures and ground rules. Experimented with "groups" at first, teachers can create a group, and it eliminates the necessity to "friend"' can't see private data or pictures. Everyone can participate. Groups took off.  Instruction. -- tutorials, Tips, latest information. __ Supercomputing in Plain English __ Raymond Rose Bonnie Sutton Henry Neeman High-performance computer High end computing The fastest computer today is in China The limiting factors Storage hierarchy Parallel tasking OSCER (Oklahoma State University) TeraGrid 11 sites from coast to coast Weather forecasting High energy physics Chemical engineering They have a free videoconference link, anyone can use it. Clusters are linked nodes with software driving Condor pool - allows idle PCs to be used for number crunching. I wonder I there is a way to make our school computer lab into a supercomputer? Why bother with HPC? It puts you ahead of the curve. moore'S law So what's in HPC today will be on desktops, cell phones, laptops tomorrow. Graphics cards can do what supercomputers did a few years ago. CSI shows are unrealistic, $$ Data mining  Will Moore'S law hit the wall? Not for a while. __ DYK: A discussion of Online Safety __ [|www.humbleisd.net/tcea2011] The TASB policy people will come out? And do training for us; re: Policy and Internet safety. Super log off, white walling, clean up their status, FaceBook tips. Social steganography -- code behind the code, hiding things behind their status updates, when you are their "parent friend".  __ Title IID Connections Grant Meeting __ 2-9-2011 5:00 PM Austin Convention Center Kathy Ferguson and Tammy Torres Outreach portion of the program Dublin ISD [] Post one way they are integrating technology Using project Share internally They would like to connect with CSCOPE users Brownwood ISD Modified their cell phone policy (we need to have this discussion) To use the cell phone polling website IDEA!!! Use the polling website to develop my TAKS administration training!!! [] Arp ISD Digital videos of teachers working the problems, most parents can't help their kids above the 4th grade on math or science. Students Working to Assist Technology Helpers for teachers -- SWAT teams. iTunes at tea.state.TX.us how we can put our videos on iTunes U.