If you are attending the meeting held on April 24, 2008 at Hermiston District Office, please click the link below to sign in and provide contact information.  This sign in is powered by Google Forms, which we'll talk about shortly.

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The Eastern Oregon regional State Ed Tech Grant Schools are Echo Elementary, McNary Heights Elementary from Umatilla, Baker Schools in Baker City, and Huntington Schools.

Twice a year participating teachers from these schools are to come together and share best practices, new supportive websites, and other technological resources being integrated into the classroom.

Agenda for November 30, 2007

• Introduction activity
• Sharing activity
• View a video

Online resources for this meeitng include:

• UMESD Lesson Plan Data Base
• UMESD Tech Links Home Page
• The Futures Channel
• Resources from Roger Taylor
• Education World Lesson Plans

Part 1: Resources for digital kits

• United Streaming
• TeacherTube - videos created by teachers for instruction
• Pics4learning - free collection of images
• Freeplaymusic - music to download and use within the classroom, can not use this music to put back on the Internet
• Kitzu Digital Kits - digital kits already created

Part 2: Resources for Blogs or Webpages

• Umatilla Morrow ESD Links for Teachers - teacher portal of many links
• Oslis - oregon
• Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia written by the people
• Educational blogs
• Quizlet - a vocabulary strengthening tool
• Slide - used to post online slide shows of photos, many ads
• spresent - used for online powerpoint presentations
• Sheppards Software for geography
• National Council Teachers of English NCTE
• National Council for the Social Studies NCSS

Part 3: Google resources

• Community Walk Maps
• Google Earth Lessons
• Google Earth lessons from juicy geography
• Google Notebook
• Google Scholar
• Google IG

Below are links for the Geocaching/GPS Session:

• GPS/GIS Resources from UMESD

Geocaching Information

• Geocaching Home Page
• Waymarking Home Page
• Letterboxing Home Page - or the Atlasquest version of letterboxing

GPS Information

• GPS Information.net
• Garmin User Manuals (manuals for GPS models you can check out at ESD)
       note - Select Outdoor, GPS Mapping, etrex Legend
  

• GPS Tutorial by Trimble
• Explanation of distances

Google Earth Information

• Google Earth Home Page

Lesson Plans and Ideas

• Lesson Plan - Intro to Longitude/Latitude by National Geographic
• Lesson Plan - Longitude/Latitude/Mapmaking by National Geographic
• Lesson Plan - GPS in Farming by Campsilos
• Lesson Plans - Google Earth Lessons
• Lesson Ideas: Google Earth in the Classroom and More by Juicygeography
• Lesson Ideas: GPS Field Exercises and Challenge Games

Miscellaneous Links - Articles, Lessons, Ideas

• Article: Geocaching with Kids by Annette Lamb
• Educational Resources from USGS
• GPS and Place Based Learning from Annette Lamb
• Podcacher - Geocaching information presented via podcasting

• Spanish Flashcards and other Interactives
• Spanish Grammer Exercises - from Colby College
• Spanish Language Exercises - from Trent University
• More Spanish Resources from 4teachers

• English - French Vocabulary Quizzes
• BBC Flash Animated French Activities
• FrenchTeacher.Net