HS TangiTech Institutes Day 5

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	Morning Routines and Procedures: Daily Journal writing and sharing Question of the Day This Year in History
	TPSS Blackboard - High School TangiTech From the article you read last night, post a response to this question: "McKenzie thinks teachers are encouraging ‘Death by PowerPoint’ by accepting flash over ideas. Do you agree? What are two or three tips in the article that you can use in your own classroom?" Please attach your final PowerPoint for your classmates to view.
	Day Five Journal: Reflect on your four days of High School TangiTech and your experiences in two areas: understanding technology integration and improving technical skills. How have you grown in these two areas? Journal Writing in Microsoft WORD. Click for Journal Template (Word)
	Question of the Day: On August 24, 1957, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway , the longest overwater highway bridge in the world finally opened. How long is it?
	This Year In History: "1957" Using all four digits of the given year and any combination of mathematical operations, you are to build a mathematical expression whose value is a whole number between 1 and 100, inclusive.
	Teacher Tube Video: Shake it Up
	A-Google-A-Day: Google Educator: Here, you’ll find a teacher’s guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom. And to spark your imagination, you'll find examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom. Google Labs: Google labs showcases a few of Google's favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time. Goog 411: Search for local businesses using your voice, from any phone, for free. Dial 1-800-GOOG-411.
	Technology Connected Lesson Plan Louisiana Festival Brochure TCLP Participants will use online resources to gather information on festivals held in Louisiana to design a brochure highlighting events of a particular festival.
	PowerPoint for all Times Louisiana Jeopardy Game (ppt) is a perfect review at the end of your unit on Louisiana. Here are some more Jeopardy games for you to use with your students: Blank Jeopardy Template - fill in your own questions and answers. Baton Rouge Jeopardy game Jeopardy Template (28 questions & answers) Jeopardy Quiz Time Template (15 questions & answers) Jeopardy Quiz Time Template (25 questions & answers) What a Wonderful World Music Book (ppt) is an example of what we call a "Music Book"... Take a favorite song, and give each child a line of the lyrics to illustrate. Students then scan their drawings and import into a PowerPoint presentation and set to music. The slides of artwork "flip" as the song plays and the students sing. Petit Rouge Riding Hood by Mike Artell is one of my favorite Louisiana stories. Use PowerPoint to "read the book" to the class. Louisiana Show - photographic scenes from the Bayou State.
	PowerPoint Tutorials PowerPoint Tutorials on the Internet at http://www.vickiblackwell.com/ppt.html or http://www.vickiblackwell.com/ppt1.html or http://www.vickiblackwell.com/ppt2.html PowerPoint Basic skills directions
	Create a Looping PowerPoint ("All About Me") & LA PowerPoint PowerPoint can be used for many things in their classroom and can easily be integrated into all subject areas. Looping PowerPoint presentations are great techniques for visual posting in the classroom. Participants will create a Louisiana PowerPoint summarizing what they have learned over the past five days of Tangi Tech High School. This Louisiana PowerPoint should have the following components: - Six slides with facts or information about Louisiana - Use the PowerPoint skills you've learned earlier in TangiTech - Slides should have transitions - At least one Word Art - At least one graphic per slide from TangiTech CD or MS clipart
	TrackStar Activity You will use the five websites you have found and put into your First Draft Worksheet for Trackstar...to create a “Track Star” on your specific topic or subject. Click here for step-by-step directions. (word) Techie Time with WORD, copy and paste from the Internet to Word and from Word to the Internet. Spell check your Word document before entering the information into the TrackStar. Don’t forget to E-mail me your Track when it is completed. I will put it on the TPSS website “TrackStar by Tangi Teachers.”
	Technology Connected Lesson Plan (Word) Use the Lesson Plan template (Word) on the TangiTech CD to create your three Technology Connected Lesson Plans for TangiTech. Use copy and paste skills to insert Content Standards and Technology Standards (word) (pdf) into TC Lesson Plan. Discuss the steps to planning of the TC Lesson: 1. What is my lesson? 2. What are my objectives? 3. What is the student activity? 4. What materials are needed? 5. What is the technology connection? 6. What assessment strategies will be used? 7. What are the procedures? Louisiana Content GLEs (web) K12 Educational Technology Standards (Word) (pdf)
	Thinkfinity: Thinkfinity provides the highest quality educational resources to teachers and students. You will be find a wealth of standard based lessons plans, student materials, reviewed Web resources and interactive activities that will grab your students’ attention.
	World Book Advanced More than 1.3 million pages of primary source documents—books, documents, selections—fully integrated with the encyclopedia content. Research and teaching tools include timelines, citation builder, and saved research.
	Teacher Tube Video: Think Before You Post
	Housekeeping Make sure one copy of all printed work is filed in folder box and you have checked off completed activities on the clipboard by the file box. Collect supplies, and bring computers back to desktops. Complete Online Evaluation "Graduation Ceremony" ................................................ This page was last updated on November 02, 2009.