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The Project: Using Google Slides 3rd grade students will create a 13 slide presentation, one month at a time, over the entire school year. The Why? It is never too early to start building a digital portfolio and not every portfolio will look the same. But one great way to show true growth and progress…
Once again Mr. Casal will be talking Twitter during a Parent Coffee session. Last year was his first year at Heathcote and the first annual “Twitter @HeathcoteSchool Parent Coffee” was held. As a school community Heathcote has made amazing strides in using social media, Twitter in particular, to create a vibrant, transparent learning community that puts…
I am often asked about social media’s role in education, Twitter in particular. These questions are often brought about by parent concerns, which often mirror the initial concerns of teachers. When addressing parent concerns I approach it just as I do with teachers: concerns are normal I’m happy we are discussing concerns as…
I think it is important to promote, and celebrate colleagues. Especially when they step out of their comfort zone and embrace new challenges. When I joined the staff at Heathcote Elementary School last year only a handful of teachers had Twitter accounts. And those that had accounts used them mostly for tweeting a picture of the…
All 4th and 5th graders are given web spaces to create, and curate, their own digital portfolios. These sites are built, and maintained, by the students using Google Sites. These sites are initially only visible to the student and their teacher. The goal of student portfolio sites is to give students a space to develop…
Welcome parents! Tonight is Open House, feel free to stop by the Computer Lab and say hello. If we don’t get the chance to meet face-to-face, here is a quick over view of what we do with technology here at Heathcote… And a short introduction video you may remember from last year, but is still…
As the 2015-2016 school year rapidly approaches I realize I neglected to post a few things at the end of the year. The first being a Capstone recap, which I am working on. The second, a reflection. This is a quick look back on 2014-2015 as the sun sets on summer and dawn of a…
Every year the 1st Graders get eggs and learn about the process of chickens hatching. We are live streaming the eggs and the hatching process! Point of reference, some seem to have hatched a few days early, which is why some of these live feeds have more chicks then eggs, and others more eggs then…
It has been many moons since the HeathcoteTech blog has been updated. And that is a good thing! The lab has been cranking. Students are in most hours of the day. iPads are being checked out, MacBooks are being borrowed, Chromebooks are running full steam. It’s been a great few months, students learning and creating…
This post is a work in progress as students finish & tweak their animated books The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Mangan’s class: The third graders created Information Books as a part of our non-fiction reading and writing units. They started with an “expert” topic, one they already knew…