No Meeting on 12/14

This will probably not come as a surprise to you that we will not be meeting on Monday, December 14th. Work sessions over the past three weeks have been productive and informative, and it's time to tend to this busy time of year. Let's plan to meet again in person on Monday, January 4th.

Please keep in mind: We will be making a presentation to The Board on January 26th and our work in January will be dedicated to making a strong point that all teachers should have a laptop and projector to begin to teach our children in a 21st Century Learning Environment.

Until then, feel free to publish and share with me. Over the next few weeks I will work on using some new tools to publish the work some of you have been doing.

Please don't forget to contribute to the work identified in the sidebar of the blog. Good luck with those excited children this week!

Printing Report Cards from Laptop

Just a heads up reported at the work session last night. It's possible you could have difficulty printing report cards from your laptop. If that's the case, you should report this to the Helpdesk and try printing them from your classroom machine.


Update:
Three Digital Leaders reported having difficulty printing report cards from your laptops. Anyone experiencing this problem should make sure to submit a Helpdesk ticket to resolve the issue. As always, mention your DL Laptop in the ticket.

Printing Report Cards from Laptop

Just a heads up reported at the work session last night. It's possible you could have difficulty printing report cards from your laptop. If that's the case, you should report this to the Helpdesk and try printing them from your classroom machine.

Work Session: Monday, December 7th

Here is the agenda for the Digital Leaders work session on Monday, December 7th at CO:

• Discussion of the Apple event showcasing the accomplishments of the 1:1 laptop initiative at Washington Middle School in Kenosha, WI.
• Continued work on collaborative slideshow content for the board presentation on Jan. 26th
• Discussion of current projects
• Anyone want to try GoogleWave?

The session will start at 4:00 and end at 5:00. If you are unable to make it, please spend some time going over the collaboration and business sections of this blog.

VoiceThread for Collaboration

Want to join our VoiceThread and contribute to our discussion of using Pixie 2 for learning? Follow these steps:

Don't have a VoiceThread account? It's free for now, please don't pay anything.

1. Click on the link to take you to our VoiceThread. You will the screen pictured here.
2. Choose Sign In or Register from the bottom left-hand corner.
3. Register for your free education account. Suggestion: Use our op97.org username and password so you don't forget it.
4. After you have registered, please upload your avatar. If you don't have one, you might want to try BuildYourWildSelf.com or DoppleMe.
5. Once your avatar is uploaded, you can easily record your voice and comment on any page.
6. When you are ready to share a sample of student work for discussion, please let me know and I'll help you get it in to VoiceThread the first time.

Already have a VoiceThread Account?
You should be able to comment on this VoiceThread by clicking on the link.  You should be able to find it again under My Voice. Please let me know if you have trouble accessing it.

• Do you have a sample of student work to share and discuss here?
• Are you able to upload it as a new slide within the VoiceThread?
• If so, please upload it and discuss the work your students have done.
• If not, please let me know and we'll walk through it.

Caution: Pixie 2 images should be Exported, not saved within the Pixie program in order to turn the files into jpgs. Snapshots work, but they are more blurry and if there is an export option, it's always best to choose it.