Document Camera and Interactive Whiteboard

Here at Gattis Elementary, teachers use technology everyday! Here we see a student showing how to solve a math problem using the interactive software on the Promethean board, while the problem is projected from the Document Camera. No longer are teachers using transparencies and overhead projectors.

 

Time on the Computer

Telling time can be a challenge.  Converting from Analog to Digital and calculating elasped time.  Luckily there are some fun ways to practice on the computer.  Check out these online resources some of our students enjoy!

• Basic Clock face http://www.teacherled.com/resources/clockspin/clockspinload.html
• Elasped, digital, analog, words http://www.mrmyers.org/Math_Mania/Math_Games/Jude_e-Clock/clock.htm
• Great options, clock face, digital and words  http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/503/clock.swf

4th Grade Build Presentations

4th Grade students work collaboratively to research and build multimedia PowerPoint presentations on the Water Cycle.

3rd Grade Researches Solar System

All of our awesome Third Grade teachers worked in the lab or with the netbooks in their classrooms to have students research the Solar System.  Students were given a set of questions to look for on a specific planet and sites to find the information on.  They then compliled their research into a report.  To see the sites they used to research, check out http://goo.gl/4a5QU

Art goes Online

Ms. L'Eplattenier, one of our Visual Arts Specialist here at Gattis uses all sorts of online resources with her students! She uses Google art project to look at Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Uffizi in Florence, The Louvre in Paris and several other major art museums throughout the world. Students have used our Library Research Resources such as, Gale info bits Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book Online to research artists such as Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein Grandma Moses, Keith Haring, Norman Rockwell, Georgia Okeefe and the Renaissance masters.  What do you want to know about art?

Artsonia

Congratulations to Donna Staten for being selected to present to elementary visual art teachers from across the state regarding her work with students and the web gallery Artsonia at the Texas Art Education Association Conference – Artistic Foundations in November in Dallas, Texas. She was featured in the RRISD Close-Up Publication. Check out our student artwork at  posted by our Art Teachers Ms Staten and Ms L'Eplattenier at http://www.artsonia.com/

 

Literacy with Document Cameras

First Grade teachers Ms. Drews and Mrs. Slavin both used the document camera or flipcam with students to make video presentation of their research projects. Students were able to research a topic, and create a visual aide for it.  This is a great way to take something on paper and digitize it, add narration and share it with peers, parents, or keep for a future measurement of growth. Watch these videos created by students in both classes.

• To See more from Ms. Drew's Class see her Research Project page on her teacher website at http://teacherweb.com/TX/GattisElementary/MsDrewsClass/apt2.aspx 
• To see more from Mrs. Slavin's Class visit her Research Project/Proyectos de Investigación page at http://slavinduallanguage.blogspot.com/2012/11/research-projects-round-2-proyectos-de.html