Gaggle+in+Elementary

 Session: Gaggle in the Elementary Classroom Presenter: Jamie Hade Pangborn Elementary 4th Grade  Teacher – V (MTLS)  Students – 4.A.1.a  To inform teachers about Gaggle.net in order to enhance their classroom use of technology  ·  Create an e-mail account for each of your students that is easily monitored by teachers ·  See how you can use Gaggle.net in your classroom in all subjects o  Books studies using message boards o  Sending homework via e-mail o  Have students e-mail you their BCR’s, High Level Question(using the question rings), Discussion Questions, etc <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;"> E-mail your students cool links to math, reading, social studies, and science sites where they are easily accessible anytime anywhere with an internet connection, <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;"> Attach a document to be completed by your students and lessen your time at the crowded copy machine, <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;"> Keep up to date with research projects that your students are completing independently or in a group by having them store it in the digital locker or e-mail it to you <span style="font-family: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> See how communication with your students is taken to a higher level using gaggle.net <span style="font-family: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> See how easy it is to grade BCR’s and send an instant reply with corrections using Microsoft Word and Gaggle.net <span style="font-family: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> Explore differentiation possibilities using message boards in your classroom <span style="font-family: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> Email process charts to all students that you create using your interwrite pad, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc...
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 * Description: **<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Participants will explore Gaggle, a communications website that provides safe email access to students. <span style="font-family: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Activities will include creation of email accounts for students and discussion of how to integrate use of email into daily instruction.

Resources: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <span style="font-size: 10.8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;">See how to use Gaggle.net if you have a lot of computers in your classroom, only have a few, or you go to the computer lab once a week <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">