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Spanish at PJHS

Amber Walker's 7th & 8th grade Spanish students at Ponchatoula Jr. High use laptops in the classroom to access information regarding the Spanish-speaking countries and various games related to conjugations of verbs. Students used the website related to the textbook to gain information about the countries. Kailie Robbins uses her headphones to listen about the Spanish-speaking countries

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Digital PIcture project

Patricia Milton's first grade students at Spring Creek Elementary display their wonderful digital picture projects with the nursery rhyme "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater."  Perfect for the fall season.

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TangiTech 1 teacher

Markisha Askins of Hammond Eastside Magnet completes an "Apptivity" during our October session of TangiTech 1.  Using The Weather Channel App, participants collect data and track weather patterns for local areas, as well as various cities across the country.  The Tech department received a new cart of iPads for training purposes this school year.  Integrating technology into the curriculum is a key point to enhancing classroom lessons and incorporating materials beyond school curriculum texts.

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Dot Day activities on iPod Touch

Students at Amite Elementary Magnet School celebrated International Dot Day by reading the book The Dot and then using the "Art of Glow App" on the iPod Touch to create their own Dot Art.  They are certainly making their mark on the world at AEMS, thanks to Communication Magnet Specialist India Binner and Librarian Sandy Daniels.

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Microsoft Office 2013

Create and Edit PDF Files

Office has toyed around with PDF files in past versions, but this time around Microsoft got serious. In the past you could save as PDF, but now you can actually edit. The new Word 2013 allows you to open PDF files, edit them there, and then save them as either DocX files or PDFs.

To save a file as PDF simply click “Save” and then use the dropdown menu to choose the .PDF option. It is one of the many file types you can choose here.

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QR Codes in Janet Haydel's classroom

Adam Ledet in Janet Haydel’s 4thgrade classroom at D.C. Reeves is using iPod Touches and iPads to work on his Energy QR Code Scavenger Hunt.  Students have been given 10 minutes of class time for the next five days and all the time they want at home to complete their projects. Click here to see more pictures. Mrs. Haydel is participating in an online Blackboard Class called "Crack the Code" where teachers learn about this new technology tool and how it can be incorporated into the teaching and learning process. As you can tell, 100% student engagement happens when Common Core State Standards are addressed with technology tools. To learn more about QR codes check it out here..

Ponchatoula Jr. High Spanish class

Ms. Amber Walker's 7th & 8th grade Spanish students at Ponchatoula Junior High School use laptops in the classroom to access information regarding the Spanish-speaking countries and various games related to conjugations of verbs. Students used the website related to the textbook to gain information about the countries.

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Natalbany Elementary students, Logan St. Romain, Jaylon Stanley, and Pablo Barrera, working on FasttMath.

Woodland Park Pre-Kindergarteners using iPads

Woodland Park Elementary Magnet School recently purchased iPad carts to be used in their classrooms. Teachers can check out the iPads to use in centers or in whole group instruction. Attached is a picture of Leah Sanders, Dustin Moore, Josie Garcia, Jaydn Holliday and Ryleigh Olah using the new iPad center in Ms. April Smith's PreK classroom.

 

Sumner Middle Students using laptops

 
Sumner Middle School sixth graders in Estelle Bahm's class have learned about three world religions this week and are using the netbooks to take notes and save in My Documents.  Ms. Bahm states that whenever the students use the computers there is 100% engagement on task.

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  • Blackboard
    Blackboard classes for educators are offered all throughout the year and there are a few reminders for those participating in Technology Professional Development classes in Bb.  All Blackboard work and assignments should be done BEFORE 8:00 a.m. and AFTER 3:00 p.m. You should not be working on your Bb class during the teaching day.
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  • Child Photographer When taking pictures for websites or the newspaper, make sure your camera is set on a high resolution so that you will get good high quality photographs.  Close-up action pictures are much more interesting than lines of children standing at attention against a wall. Send your picture attachment in an email to your  webmaster or newspaper contact along with a paragraph explaining what the photograph is about.  Photo Release Forms should be signed and on file for all the students in the pictures.
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Technology Spotlight
 
Sumner High programs with ALICE
The Introduction to Computer Science class at Jewel M. Sumner HighSchool has been Learning to Program with Alice.. Alice is a free program designed by Carnegie Mellon University that teaches object-oriented computing in three-dimensions via animations. The Alice system is great for teaching to a generation raised on video games and Pixar's films. They use "storyboarding" for learning computer program design and terminology. Freddie Moreno is featured teaching Reven Elzie as Mrs. Karley Cooper, Business Teacher, monitors their progress. This semester, two students in the class, Matthew Lewis and Roger Leon, are dual enrolled with Southeastern Louisiana University under the instruction of Allanagh Sewell, Department of Computer Science and InformationTechnology. Mrs. Cooper attended a two and a half day training last summer to provide this opportunity to the students.  See more pictures below.
 

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Flip Flop PD

Flip Flop PD

Saturday, May 18th
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tangi Tech is flipping the instruction for a fun day of learning this May. 
Follow the Flip Flops to learn more!

featured websites

Google World Wonders Project

 
The World Wonders Project is a valuable resource for students and teachers who can now virtually discover some of the most famous sites on earth. The project offers an innovative way to teach history and geography to students of primary and secondary schools all over the world.
 

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FTP Site

How do I .... access the ftp site?
The FTP site is an internal storage server where all TPSS employees can access files of all types and download to their computers. Click here for directions for accessing the FTP site.

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iPad Signature Changes

Does everyone need to know you just sent that email from your iPad? Probably not. Use the following link to find out how to remove the “Sent from my iPad” signature and replace it with your own (or none): www.simplehelp.net/2010/04/03/how-to-remove-the-sent-from-my-ipad-signature-from-outgoing-email-on-your-ipad/

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Amite Elementary Students using the iPod Touch

Second graders in Faye Givens' class at Amite Elementary Magnet School are working together on the one of the  iPod Touches in their class "Tech Box."

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Tangi Teachers GeoCaching

TPSS teachers Amber Perrin, Sarah Garcia, April Slaven, Kay Peltier, and Colette Ruffin attending TangiTech Social Studies learn how to use Geocaching apps on the iPod Touch to determine latitude and longitude of hidden geocaches.

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Melissa working on SMART Response Systems

Melissa Hebert, 4th grade teacher at D.C. Reeves Elementary is just one of the many teachers who attended Technology Professional Development during Summer 2012.  Melissa is learning how to use SMART Response System "clickers" with her students.