March 24, 2010
2nd and 3rd graders at Brookfield Elementary have been busy making movies and podcasts with Pixie. 2nd grade students learned how to use online databases to gather research about desert animals. The students drew pictures in Pixie and recorded their research. All of the pictures and recordings are being compiled for parents to view.
3rd graders wrote their own fairy tales and drew pictures to match their stories. Their artwork was scanned on a color scanner and uploaded into Pixie. The students recorderded their stories over their pictures.
All of the students had an awesome time recording their voices. The teachers were amazed at how little time the project actually took and are eager to share and try this again!
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January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 11 SBTS from Neighborhood H presented a SMARTboard conference for 220 teachers in Western Fairfax County at Greenbriar East Elementary School. The conference allowed teachers to register for up to 3 breakout sessions facilitated by teachers, SBTS, and representatives from AVI and SMART that integrated curriculum with SMARTboards and Notebook software. Topics included Reading in the Primary Grades, Elementary Math on the SMARTboard, and Daily Math and Science just to name a few.
Stacy Kirkpatrick, SBTS Deer Park ES, spearheaded this fantastic event. AVI and SMART were gracious enough to present sessions and donate door prizes including a SMARTboard with an integrated projector. A grant was also awarded by North Tier Consortium. The money from this grant was used to purchase a SMART wireless slate and document camera for door prizes in addition to SMARTboard for Dummies books that were given to all participants. Funds provided from the grant will also be used for more staff development opportunities for participants presented by the SBTS throughout the spring. Fairfax Education Association donated money for snacks and eLearnIT donated highlighters and notepads.
This event was a huge success and has been well received as evident from the comments that have already been collected: “Thank you so much for putting this workshop together, it was wonderful,” “Awesome!!! I think you did a great job!,” “Please make this a regular offering.”
The 11 SBTS that organized and facilitated this event are: Lori Purvis, Brookfield ES; Kimberly Perri, Bull Run; Pat Wilson, Centre Ridge; Nichole Plummer, Colin Powell; Jonathan Magwire, Cub Run; Stacy Kirkpatrick, Deer Park; Reggie Kopecky, Greenbriar East; Cathy McDonald, Greenbriar West; Rama Avadhanam, London Towne; Scott Thimons, Poplar Tree; Kathy Roberts, Virginia Run.
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December 3, 2009
Neighborhood H in Western Fairfax is holding a SMARTboard Users Conference for 200 participants. Registration is limited to the staff at Brookfield, Bull Run, Centre Ridge, Colin Powell, Cub Run, Deer Park, Greenbrier East, Greenbrier West, London Towne, Poplar Tree, and Virginia Run. The conference will be held at Greenbrier East January 11 from 2:00-5:00. Three 45 minute training sessions will be offered covering 14 topics from basic to advance use of SMART technologies. Door prizes including a SMARTboard with an integrated projector, document camera, and Airliner will be given away. Support for this event is provided by AVI, FEA and a grant from North Tier. Special thanks to Stacy Kirkpatrick, SBTS at Deer Park for leading this event!
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