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 * nidhi ** joined the chat 37 seconds ago
 * nidhi **: hi
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 * Tenesha **: hello....last super saturday...yeah!!!!!!!!!​
 * nidhi **: yayy!
 * Chris ** joined the chat
 * mary tortual **: tell me about it!!!
 * Chris **: This is going well so far...
 * nidhi **: i changed my color
 * mary tortual **: you look much better in red...lol
 * nidhi **: thank :) lol
 * Chris **: Tenesha figured out the clicker...YEA!!!!
 * mary tortual **: lol
 * Tenesha **: i'm slow
 * nidhi **: it's saturday morning, it's ok
 * Chris **: No, you are "exceptional"
 * Tenesha **: there are some slower than me
 * mary tortual **: my students couldn't use this...none of them would pay attention...
 * Chris **: I'll get you some MODs, Tenesha
 * nidhi **: lol
 * Tenesha **: can i have them all....
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 * Chris **: Chase!
 * Tenesha **: hi chase...how's the baby
 * mary tortual ** changed name to ** mary **
 * chase **: hey tenesha, he's awesome! so much fun now
 * Tenesha **: these clickers are cool
 * Chris **: Does anyone else in here have a smartboard in their room?
 * mary **: I do...
 * nidhi **: that looks like my classroom
 * nidhi **: the "graveyard"
 * mary **: I took a class to use it, but I don't utilize it like i should...
 * Chris **: I have a hard time talking other teachers into trying to use theirs.
 * Chris **: If the teacher has been teaching for 10 or more years...they're pretty set in their ways
 * chase **: i'm sure if i was teaching I would love to use it
 * mary **: I use it everyday to put up the bell-ringer
 * mary **: and objectives...
 * nidhi **: i wish i had one! i don't even have a data projector all the time. i think i would use it a lot
 * mary **: I would use it more if I was more comfortable with it...I get frustrated too quickly and just move on
 * Tenesha **: not teaching yet...but i would like to take a crash course
 * mary **: I try to use the "shade" feature and I can't get it to work half the time..
 * Chris **: I teach math and it makes using Algebra tiles much easier
 * nidhi **: how often do u let your students come up to use it? ot is it mostly just you?
 * Chris **: everyday
 * nidhi **: yeah i can see it work well in a math classroom
 * Tenesha **: i need tutoring on the smartboard for math
 * Chris **: I am sitting right next to you...you could just ask
 * Tenesha **: off topic...is it just me or is it cold in here/
 * nidhi **: yess
 * Ryan **: it is
 * nidhi **: i was just going to say my fingers are ice cold
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 * mary **: I just got kicked out....:(
 * Chris **: you need a better fake id
 * mary **: .so I do let the students use it when we do vocabulary charades or jeopardy
 * nidhi **: oh that's a cool idea
 * mary **: I teach English and they are reading books more than needing to write on the board
 * mary **: lol @chris...
 * Chris **: Jeopardy is good, but I try not to use it much because it is sort of passive for the students. I want them to be up at the board and doing more than picking a category
 * mary **: I did learn that you have to have the "tools" bar open all the time in order for the board to work correctly
 * mary **: definitely...Vocabulary charades is the better use of it for them. Plus it keeps them engaged because the room is silent and they have to write their guess and
 * mary **: it corrrectly
 * mary **: spell it correctly...
 * nidhi **: so you give them the definition of a word and they have to write it out on the board?
 * mary **: I have also used it for interactive readings of some poems...
 * mary **: I give them slips of paper with the definitions and the word...groups of two. The students have to decide how they are going to act out the word as a group, without talking. they can write what they want to do, but no talking
 * mary **: Than each group presents their word, acting it out. they tell the class when they are done acting it out (by using a sign that they are done), then they choose a student to come up and write the word on the board
 * mary **: No talking...throughout the entire game
 * nidhi **: that's a great idea, i'm going to use that in my french class :)
 * mary **: I give 5 extra credit points for every correct answer
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 * mary **: I don't even speak once I tell them we are getting started...
 * mary **: I even write on their paper when they have questions...
 * mary **: I saw this at my New Teacher Orientation for Cumberland County Schools...It is pretty cool
 * Chris **: Presentations like this just make me want to tell the kids to bow down to our new Chinese and Indian overlord...may they be merciful
 * nidhi **: yes i do that when they are doing classwork, sometimes they are so lazy to write anything! they tell me i make them write more than any other class that they have
 * mary **: good for you!!
 * nidhi **: go India!
 * Chris **: I like naan and cashew chicken...I'm good for the future
 * mary **: lol
 * nidhi **: lol
 * chase **: forget the chinese we'll be taken over by AI soon
 * nidhi **: i was JUST going to say that chase
 * Tenesha **: @nidhi...keep doing what you are doing. I've noticed a lot of kids want instant gratification
 * Tenesha **: what was here question?
 * Tenesha **: 'her"
 * Ryan **: What do you think about that (was the ?)
 * Chris **: Ryan! How are the cockroaches?
 * Ryan **: Breeding
 * mary **: lol
 * nidhi **: eww
 * Chris **: Thank you for that creepy thought
 * Ryan **: anytime
 * Chris **: how many of you have students without access to computers?
 * mary **: wow...I thought there was more English than that..
 * Ryan **: Several of mine do not have a computer at home.
 * Ryan **: Most do though.
 * mary **: there were printed books long before computers
 * nidhi **: many of mine do
 * nidhi **: many of mine do not* have computers either
 * mary **: Exactly Ryan...I'm having a hard enough time getting them to access computers to write research papers
 * nidhi **: my students that do use the internet for projects list "google" as their source
 * Ryan **: I have found out from a parent that at least one student that claimed not to have a computer at home was lying, though.
 * nidhi **: they have never been taught how to cite sources
 * mary **: have students "edit" Wikipedia...that's a great idea...
 * nidhi **: don't get me started on plagiarism
 * Ryan **: Most college students have no clue how to correctly cite sources (in my experience), much less high school students.
 * mary **: That is what we are doing...their Junior project...
 * mary **: It's a research paper...they are supposed to have citations...I have reviewed how multiple times, and they are still not doing it
 * Tenesha **: that's a shame...it seems like a lot of things we were taught are either not being or taught or there is no time in the curriculum to teach
 * mary **: It's not that they are not being taught...they are just too lazy to actually do it correctly
 * nidhi **: i don't understand where they are picking up these bad habits from. remember the old MLA handbooks we had? Uggh I hated bibliography but it's something that is ingrained in my mind
 * mary **: exactly...and now there are programs that will do the works cited for them. Remeber footnotes? they don't have to do that at all...
 * nidhi **: mary- is that not part of the scos anymore?
 * Tenesha **: they're not made sit down and do the work and really understand what they are doing
 * mary **: For the MLA, they cite just paranthetically...they don't have to footnote like we had to back in the day
 * nidhi **: I feel like they expect to be entertained more than to be educated
 * Tenesha **: i still my MLA book from college
 * mary **: same here
 * nidhi **: me too
 * Tenesha **: @ nidhi...that's a good point
 * nidhi **: ugggh i'm fighting for a smartboard in my classroom!
 * mary **: I wish they would put my SmartBoard projector in the ceiling...the kids constantly bump the cart and I constantly have to recalibrate it...
 * mary **: but I'm not complaining too much...at least I have onne
 * nidhi **: our school got 20 from a grant, and of course foreign language also gets the shaft :-/
 * nidhi **: always* not also
 * mary **: awwww...that stinks...
 * mary **: I took an online professional development course on a Moodle
 * nidhi **: oh cool
 * nidhi **: did you like it?
 * mary **: where they come up with these names is crazy
 * mary **: I did...it seemed more intricate than the wiki I have seen
 * mary **: there you go...Moodle
 * nidhi **: i hate the word moodle
 * nidhi **: I don't know why
 * mary **: lol
 * mary **: exactly...I have teachers that have been there for years and don't want to hear anything new
 * nidhi **: same here
 * Tenesha **: good question Chris
 * nidhi **: one of my friends works at the Friday Institute, it's a cool building
 * Tenesha **: i'm listening to Bethany say name the counties in NC that are 1:1, most of them are smaller counties. i've not heard her mention any of the larger counties or school systems
 * nidhi **: mr. mac
 * mary **: because it would cost too much
 * mary **: most one to one schools are private or there are only a few schools in that county
 * mary **: glad she is done in here...my battery is done...lol
 * nidhi **: that makes sense, it's easier to start with smaller counties I suppose
 * Tenesha **: so is mine
 * Ryan **: Large school systems usually have far too many administrative costs, etc. to allocate a large portion of their budget to any one thing that is not absolutely necessary.
 * nidhi **: bon appetit!