Preparing for Tech Camp

This week has been tiring. We have our diocese teacher tech camp next week. It is a wonderful program started last year to introduce the teachers in our diocese to different technology tools and how to integrate them in their classrooms. I am one of the lead teachers and will be helping to present 4 tools. I will be helping with Prezi, VoiceThread, Edmodo and Audacity. I have spent many hours this week preparing and I am beat. I have a habit of putting in far too much time when I prepare a presentation because I am never satisfied with it. At some point you have to stop. For me it is usually when my head hits the keyboard.

My ISTE magazine Learning & Leading came in the mail yesterday. Among the great things in there was an article by Adam Salignam and Leah Armelagos called Conquer the Blank Page in the Classroom. They shared a site called Piclits. This is a web 2.0 tool that gives students prompts for writing. It supplies you with a picture and a word bank to pull in words. The site does, however, require registration to share, save or email.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com