April+10,+2008+Meeting


 * Cindy Johnson
 * Carole Chappell
 * Donette O'Neal
 * Donna Cauthen
 * Gretchen Hamilton
 * Melissa Brewer
 * James Ray
 * Cindy Quiggle
 * Danita Russell
 * Debra Evans
 * Donna Bean
 * Sally Williams
 * Lisa Foushee

Classroom Management with computers in the classroom

 * Classscape - copy & paste the directions onto a word document and kids take them to the computer lab (Cindy Quiggle)
 * Reading Groups - can sign up to do Timez Attack for 10 minutes. Students have a clock and they can stay for 10 minutes. (Donetta O'Neal)
 * Math - seat work or finished early can use scanner to practice multiplication tables with a partner (James Ray)
 * AlphaSmart - small computers that students can use to do AR, writing, and other programs. Can "shoot" the final product to the classroom computer for a final copy (Cindy Quiggle)
 * Carole asked that any teacher interested in getting a cart of Alpha Smarts to let her know
 * Choose a few students to be designated tutors to catch up students that had been at the computers. Tutors were chosen if they had an A on their last 3 tests. (Cindy Johnson)
 * iPods to make podcasts of lessons and book reviews (Sally Williams)
 * Willow Web Radio
 * www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio
 * Gaggle - students had to answer the teacher's Gaggle before they can Gaggle their friends (Sally Williams)

Fraction Families
 * 1/2, 1/3, & 1/5,
 * don't have to teach common denominator, LCM, GCF
 * http://www.digitz.info