Mrs. Hudson

Any suggestions for New Magazines?

It's that time of the year! We are ordering magazines for the Media Center for the 2008-2009 school year.  If you have a favorite magazine that other students would enjoy, please come by the media center and give the title to one of the media specialists so we can take a look at it.

Notes from Georgia Council of Media Organizations

Great sessions this year at COMO......

• GeorgiaStandards.org  website provides a dynamic, interative, online resource that enhances and supports teaching and learning in Georgia.  This website offers teachers immediate access to state standards, model instruction units, performance tasks, samples of student work, and teacher commentary, best practices vidos, professional learning materials, and instructional web resources aligned to the standards.

          Great free teacher tools are available.  Take a look at......

• Rubistar
• Webquest Generator
• Easy Test Maker
• Puzzlemaker
• Flashcard and Worksheet Maker
• Certificate Maker

   

   

Media Center Technology Update

Thank you SPLOST (local option sales tax) for the new laptop computers in the media center.  This was our first week to use thirty two brand new Dell laptop computers.  Today Pope's Health/Personal Fitness classes researched the ideal school lunch menu and worked on a Powerpoint presentation for class.  We look forward to the replacement of the thirty two desktop computers in October.   It's great to be able to have so many students engaged in research in the media center.

An additional ninety-six laptop computers were replaced in science, social studies, foreign language, and health.

Notes from National Education Computing Conference

The NECC conference, the world's largest educational technology conference for teachers and technology coordinators, was held in Atlanta in June.  The future of technology in the classroom is mind boggling.  Here are some of the "aha's" of the conference.

Second Life-secondlife.com is a virtual reality web site- an entire world.  To be a part of Second Life you create your own avatar who will live in the Second Life world. Everything that happens there that happens in the real world.  The currency of the world is Linden Dollars, named after the owner of the site.  For a good explanation of Second Life, see Wikipedia.  Corporate companies are already looking at this as a financial endeavor. Take a look at this CNN article.  So why are we looking at this in the education world?  Already this site is being used by innovative instructors to deliver class content. How can this work?  A National Science Foundation Grant is making this possible for one group of students. This article from The Journal explains what's coming our way.