After a departmental meeting announcement asking teachers to notify us if they could not make it in, it is full and busy in the library (that, and since TAKS has been over)! Finding and citing sources, writing source cards, researching using print and non-print sources, and outline writing is happening at Kimball HS.
Also, I found a couple of interesting articles in TechEdge, Volume 28, No. 3: "Are You Smarter Than A Whiteboard?: 10 Tips for IWBs in the Classroom," by John Rice, which suggests using educator blogs to provide "...the latest news, information, products, and tips." Those blogs are: smartboards.typepad.com, getting smarterwithsmartboards.blogspot.com, and www.whiteboardblog.co.uk.
TechEdge also reports they received a grant "...to continue to raise awareness and train teachers to use the free educational resources available on Thinkfinity.org." They are going to offer free "Train-the trainer" sessions to educators. They list one date in May (18th and 19th, in Wichita Falls), and two in June (13th-14th, in Austin, and 25th-26th, in Kilgore). Oh, how I want to go! But have problems with all of those dates...
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