Summer Technology Program

The Angleton ISD Administration Technology Training Center was buzzing this summer with teachers learning new skills and activities to take back into their classroom.  Along with basic technology skills, activities to enhance and integrate the curriculum were demonstrated.  Two beginning computer camp, one intermediate computer camp, and twenty six individual in-services were held.  Student oriented activities were added to the summer program in hopes that students will learn and apply technology related skills in the classroom and in their lives.  The use of technology as a tool within the context of student based instruction focused on higher order thinking to prepare students for their future.

"I enjoyed all three workshops I attended.  They were all interactive.  I feel that I can take everything I did back to the class and use it right away.  I am always looking for ideas to integrate technology in my class.  I found several this summer!  I am very excited to get started using technology with my students."  Ms.Wiseman, Southside teacher  

"I attended several classes this summer---all of which I found extremely helpful and fun.  I can already find several classroom applications for things I learned this summer---especially time lines and the photo story in literature lessons.  In addition, I loved learning about mail merge.  What a time saver for teachers!"  Mrs. Groguhe, MEC teacher

"Hats off to Haiku" was an integration activity of writing a Haiku for a curriculum area and then folding the paper into a hat for a bulletin board. Mrs. Curtis and Ms. Wiseman show originality in their poetic form. After narrowing the description of their subject area down to three unrhymed lines, they printed and then folded it into a hat. 

Ms. Tiemann, Ms. McCoy, and Mrs. Butterfield try to wear their creations.  Their haiku paints a mental image of their subject area in the reader's mind with only seventeen syllables in three lines of poetry.

"I attended the Streaming Video and Label Making classes.  I can't say enough about both classes.  This year we are doing guided reading with our students.  Both of these classes will be helpful for planning my lessons.  This summer I have been working on literacy centers to use with my students.  I've used labels to make games and activities.  They make simple materials look so professionally done.  I'm using labels on file folders, to put names on bulletin board items, school supplies, for name tags, and more.  Also, the Unitedstreaming class opened a whole new world to me.  I'm planning to use this site for WebQuests, computer lab lessons to enrich classroom activities, to help build background for reading lessons, to extend my science and social studies lessons, and to work with children that need extra information for understanding.  I'm sure that after I've communicated with other teachers using the site, that we'll be able to share ideas and learn more ways to utilize it.  I would highly recommend both classes.  The more we learn about how advances in technology can help us in the classroom, the better off our students will be and the less anxious teachers will be to jump in and use what is offered."  Mrs. Turney, Southside teacher

Elementary teacher, Mrs. Willis, shows off the bookmark she created on a well known person for Black History Week.

Ms. Newton, Mrs. Swanzy, and Mrs. Rouse used MS Word to produce labels to use at the beginning of school at ECC as reminders and awards.

Technology savvy elementary teachers, Mrs. Janosky and Ms. Kerr get involved in their lesson.

"When I attended the Intel Teach to the Future in-service, I feel like I solidified my use of PowerPoint.  The class also opened up MS Publisher for me, and it helped me to organize my thoughts when it came to planning for a particular lesson.  I really enjoyed the Interactive Games class and came back with 3 games I can actually use in my classroom.  I use critical-thinking, hands-on games in class that require the students to really use their noggins.  The games I created on the computer will be great when I get ready to review their knowledge in both science and reading.  Mrs. Hill, Rancho teacher

At the culmination of the summer program, a drawing was held from the instructional teachers that participated, and four digital cameras were awarded for use in the classroom documenting student success for the coming year. The lucky winners were Ms. Newton at ECC, Ms. Lange at AIS, Mrs. Messec at Southside and Mrs. Smith at Frontier.