Author Archives: ghbrowne

I had the opportunity to work with fellow ITRT Michael Price today.  He had a great idea of having students use Google Forms to create Choose Your Own Adventure stories.  We worked with a fifth grade class at Twin Hickory … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Students in Mrs. Chitman’s 3rd grade class created end of the year keepsake word clouds using Tagxedo. Tagxedo provides a wide variety of pictures to customize your word cloud. However, Mrs. Chitman wanted something more personal. Since her class is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today the #TechTakeout crew went over to Carver Elementary to work with some amazing kindergarten students and teachers! We had a blast working on some Math skills on both iPads and computers. As a group we made sure to focus … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tomorrow is the BIG day! Come join us at Glen Allen High School for the Student 21 Fair and Henrico 21 Awards Ceremony!

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I have been working with several first grade classes at Donahoe Elementary and a kindergarten class at Ashe Elementary on Mother’s Day videos. The teachers approached me and wanted a sweet video created with the kids saying why they love … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Students in Mrs. Proffitt’s first grade class have been learning about natural resources. As an extension activity, they created natural resource webs using a template in Pixie on the ipads. Working with a partner, the children learned how to add … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Shady Grove Elementary, Nuckols Farm Elementary, and Short Pump Elementary held their annual Book Celebration last Friday. It was hosted by the awesome librarians at these schools. The students came together to celebrate their accomplishments by playing fun games, creating … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Day 4 of our week long Tech Takeout extravaganza was AWESOME! We headed over to Arthur Ashe Elementary and focused on division, word problems, elapsed time, and line graphs in 5th grade. The students had a blast using a variety … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today was our third Tech Takeout this week! We are having a blast working with different schools and grade levels across the county. For our third adventure we trekked over to Highland Springs Elementary to work on word analysis skills. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Tech Takeout crew is continuing our 5 Schools, 5 Days week long extravaganza of fun! Today was day two and it was a blast! We headed over to Crestview Elementary and focused on fractions in third grade. Opening Activity: … Continue reading → Continue reading →