Tech Happenings @ LvHS

New! Our Louisville students can now click into Blogger without setting up an account! When entering via My Louisville, it creates the account automatically, no password required. They can get in and get out quickly and conveniently, streamlining its use for writing assignments and projects. • Blogs are like journals, keeping entries sorted by date. • Blogs can be public OR set to private and shared only with the teacher. • Each student can setup multiple blogs for different classes, like Spanish and English. • Blogs are great for daily or weekly writing assignments that you want kept in once place in date order. • They can be illustrated! • Creative projects! Mock journal of famous person experiencing moment in history • Impersonate historical figures. Require research-based content. • Monday blog, daily short write, weekly dilemma, prayer/reflection • Journalism blogs, photojournalism, reflect on own artwork I’ll be introducing this to all Freshmen this week in their English clas...

Louisville provides access from your computer to current educational relief maps, political maps, interactive historical maps, gov and econ charts, outline maps of everything you can think of, and a digital desk atlas. StrataLogica’s maps/charts project beautifully, and your students can access them from home. Visit http://www.stratalogica.com and sign in with any of the usernames/passwords below. What can it do? The relief and historical maps all use a 3D global format with Google Earth interface. Students enjoy manipulating the maps and the familiar Google Earth feel. StrataLogica allows you to move from the political map to Google Earth view, open two maps side by side, and pull down a 2D map on top of them. You can also print or display outline maps, organize creative quizzes, use for review, etc. 2011-2012: I have created usernames and passwords for you and your students to access appropriate maps, charts and atlas. Each username can be shared by all of your students, and you as...

We now have two carts of laptops available for juniors and seniors to use! Feel free to schedule regular days all semester! · The large cart of 30 HP laptops is housed in room 6. Patty Schewe is keeper of the key. · A smaller cart of 26 Lenovo laptops is now kept in room 1. It has a combo lock. I’ll tell you the combo as needed. Feel free to reserve, move and return the cart yourself! I will “train you” the first time. And the second if you want. You can always email me whenever you need help moving a cart, especially if you are not in the Freshman Wing! Sign out the carts using the TECHNOLOGY calendar on My Louisville. Here’s how: o Use the VIEW dropdown on the Calendar to select Technology calendar. o Click on the little box next to any calendar entry to ADD a new entry. o Indicate the PERIOD, TEACHER, AND SMALL OR BIG CART as the description. o Use the smaller cart if possible in case a larger class needs the big one. · Please don’t disrupt rooms 1 and...

Freshmen teachers, Please schedule me to visit your classes in the next few weeks. Together we will get them up to speed on a specific skill or tool they will use this semester. I suggest for starters: o History: Stratalogica, Google Earth o English: File backups; Word editing tools, margins, page numbers, etc. o Math/Science: Gizmos, Quia, Kahn Academy o Language: SuperSite with VoiceBoards o Any: Google Docs for collaboration; how to use the DROP BOX on My Louisville; TimeToast for Timelines; Wordle for word/content analysis Jody is already doing a Quia intro on Monday the 22nd of August. See me anytime for suggestions or planning. Be sure to view the Learning Resources and Creative Tools on My Louisville’s Academics page to see if any are a good fit.