This blog is my attempt to share information with faculty, introducing new apps, websites, or other snippets of information that may be of use to faculty. I am also using it to keep track of projects I'm working on that might be good to reference in the future.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

First Contest

My first 'contest' prize give-away. A winner will be drawn randomly from all entries posted by Aug 13th. Winner will be given their prize at our faculty meetings on the 14th. Open to Upper and Middle School Faculty.

Prize: Software "Wheel of Fame For Interactive Whiteboards". Value $29.95 single user license.
Basically it is a Wheel of Fortune type game that you type in the puzzle/answer to and 3 teams compete against each other.
This software will still work even if you don't have a SMART board, but it's not as interactive for the kids.

Leave me a comment on this blog entry letting me know what type of short and quick tech training sessions you would like to see this year. Maybe it's how to use TurnItIn.com, or AtomicLearning.com, or how to do blogging, anything you want technology related. It could be something we can cover in 5-10 minutes at a Divisional Meeting, or a 30-45 minute training session we can do during lunch or after school. I'm looking for ideas of what you want to learn about.

Be sure to leave me your first name on the post so I know who to credit for the drawing :-)
The winner will also receive free tech support from me to get it installed and up and running!!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Louis,

this is Louis (the other one) and I get to be the first to respond. I really like this and what you are doing. One of my goals this year is to get much more tech savy. Would you be willing to be my mentor on that?

Lou

Louis T said...

Sure thing Lou!

Anonymous said...

Hi Louis, so in my technosavy way, I somehow sent you an email instead of responding here. Let me re-iterate. I want to podcast. I REALLY want to podcast for honors and AP bio. How cool will that be?! Can you help me with that?
Kate

Anonymous said...

OK Louis....this is absolutely FABULOUS!
Marsha

Anonymous said...

Pod Casting! I SO want to do that with both honors and AP bio this year. How fun would that be? AND i have to come up with a week plus of curriculum that does not require my presence, so maybe this would do it.
Kate

Louis T said...

Hi Louis,
Nice blog. Is it wordpress? We have (had) a blog on our engineering web site that looks similar.
martin

Anonymous said...

Hi Louis,
I tried leaving a message in your blog two times, but was unsuccessful. Anyway, I just purchased from Turning Technologies, a turning point response system. Are you familiar with this? I could certainly use some help. There was a scheduled on line training for first users, unfortunately I missed it.

Evelyn