Technology Integration within Our School into the CommunityBy: Darin Byrd

Types of technology usesExamples Benefits

1. School/classroom Wikis

2. School/classroom Blogs

3. Google docs

4. Google Calendar

5. Mail Merges

6. Online Surveys

7. Podcasting

1. Cooperative assignments that can be developed together in cyber spaces even across the curriculum

2. Assigning students out of class assignments the can be posted for discussion questions

3. Develop online word document, spreadsheet, PowerPoint, etc. that can be shared or changed by a group or groups of constituents

4. School or system calendar that can continuously updated or shared by the system and or the community

5. A way to combine a word document with a spreadsheet

6. A great way to survey a group of people within or outside the school system

7. A great way to differentiate instruction as well as providing info to staff members without face to face meetings.

Uses for wikis1. Develop an assignment that would consist of having each student

provide information to the same document by signing in and providing their input to a paper.

2. Devise a problem in math or science that requires research and multi-step procedures. Have students provide pieces of informational research to the wiki, and then solve the problem as a virtual group.

3. As an educational leader a wiki could be used as a means of having your staff offer information about a school related issue without requiring a faculty meeting.

4. A school district could make comments to a wiki about the establishment of a new policy that is being proposed.

5. As a lead teacher, one could utilize a wiki to provide crucial information and ask for suggestions from their department to plan for curricular strategies.

6. Compile a curriculum map across the curriculum.7. Student portfolios

Uses for Blogs

1. Facilitate Classroom discussion 2. Facilitate Classroom debates3. Link in communication for between

study groups4. Focus group activities5. Can be used for student portfolios6. Great for use outside the school to

incorporate different stakeholders

Uses for Google Docs

1. No downloaded software needed (save $)

2. Documents online that can be accessed by multiple groups/individuals and saved without backing up

3. Online spreadsheets of different inventory (textbooks, sports equipment, classroom inventories, etc.)

4. No more excuses of why a students project is not available.

Uses for Google Calendar1. School calendar2. Sports schedules3. School wide or

system wide daily procedures

4. Great to relay information that is changing continuously to the community

Uses for Mail Merges

Develop letters for: 1. Attendance2. Progress3. Potential Failure4. Summer School5. Suspension6. Field Trips7. Medical Issues8. After School Programs

Uses for Online Surveys

1. Online Assessments for students (teacher or student developed)

2. Voting for offices for student government3. Homecoming4. Division prospective on a particular topic5. Community input for division purposes

(SACS, textbooks, reading programs, etc.)6. Bullying surveys that could involve

students, parents and teachers in a way that could be tallied easily

Uses for Podcasting1. Notes for classroom

or assignment procedures

2. Audio notes for class3. Video for lab

procedures4. Differentiating

instruction for slow learners and students with disabilities

5. Multi-sensory learning

Vision for Implementing Technology