Oct 23 2009
http://schools.roundrockisd.org/XeniaVoigt/Voigt%20newspaper.htm
Through Xenia Voigt Elementary’s new online newspaper, students have an opportunity to communicate with a wider audience for information, views, and ideas.
Oct 21 2009
Students in Grades 1&2 spent the afternoon in Mo Willems’ studio via a live simulcast in the library. Mo Willems has written the Pigeon books and the Elephant and Piggie series. Purple Sage was one of just 200 schools across the whole country to have this privilege. We were the only school in Austin and Round Rock, Texas to participate.
Apr 05 2009
Edwin Flecha at Round Rock High School uses video from School Tube to teach factoring quadratics. You can review your own “factoring” skills by watching this video.
http://www.teacherweb.com/TX/RoundRockHighSchool/MrFlecha/apt5.stm
Apr 05 2009
Charla Newlon of Teravista uses a blog to present math challenges, share resources about Martin Luther King, Jr., and to gather reader responses. Check it out at:
http://teacherweb.com/Blog/TX/TeravistaElementarySchool/CharlaNewlon/1/default.aspx
Apr 05 2009
The 3rd grade team at Wells Branch Elementary uses their interactive whiteboard tools to annotate math problems from the Pearson-Envision textbook site. After a brief demonstration by the campus Instructional Technology Specialist all third grade teachers had the site pulled up with annotations all over their virtual textbooks.
Mar 22 2009
Math teachers at Ridgeview Middle School are using document cameras to record how they solve problems. Natalie Ortega has gone one step further and created her own channel on Youtube to help keep her videos organized and accessible. Read more and watch the video at http://www.robinstechtips.com/?p=254 .
Mar 22 2009
Sixty Bluebonnet fifth graders participated in a live video conference with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History on Friday, March 13, 2009. In the program “Icy Science” they join in hands-on explorations investigating ice that helps them understand important properties of matter concepts – changes of states, freezing point, and molecular structures.
Feb 15 2009
In a pilot program with Teachermate first grade students at Bluebonnet reinforce their language arts and math skills using the Teachermate.
Feb 15 2009
Students in Mrs Fatke’s seventh grade science classes created visual presentations identifying weathering, erosion, deposition, and man’s actions on the Grisham MS neighborhood. Their presentations incorporated the MYP technology design cycle and the science TEKS.
Feb 15 2009
Third grade students practice the Big 6 Information Skills while getting information for their Living Museum project.
