Author Archives: Julie Smith

Today Mrs. Shaffer’s 3rd graders practiced descriptive writing in a festive way! We used the website Cameroid and chose the “Elf” scene. Students snapped their picture and downloaded it to their desktop. Next, we used a shared collaborative Google presentation in which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Third graders at Highland Springs Elementary have been learning about area and perimeter in math. Today we worked with the apps Geoboard and Educreations to solve a task card problem that the students were assigned. We gave each child one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Each of Mrs. McKeon’s 2nd graders created their very own Magic Tree House as a book report project! Mrs. McKeon wanted to take pictures of her students with their projects and display them for all to see. She took their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Fourth grade students in Ms. Smith’s class at HSES worked on summarizing using Bitstrip today. They had to summarize each paragraph in a passage entitled “The Moon”. Check out their awesome work: Created with Padlet Continue reading →

This past Sunday and Monday several Elementary ITRT’s traveled to Virginia Beach to attend the 2014 Virginia Society for Technology in Education’s Annual Conference. While there participants were given the opportunity to sit in on various concurrent sessions, listen to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Ives, and I tried out a comic making tool called, Bitstrip. We wanted the students to make comics that included information and vocabulary about Space, Earth, Moon and/or Sun. We only had an hour to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Everything is Cool When You’re Part of a Team! Jessica Robinson, and Matt Caratachea visited me at Glen Allen Elementary to do a couple of lessons! First we worked in a first grade classroom using the iPads and then in a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ever since Tech Takeout posted about our fun day with kindergarten, many teachers have asked about more information regarding the Plickers student response system…YAY! Here is a quick little SnapGuide to help you set up an account. Feel free to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Check out the Tech Takeout Crew’s segment on HCPS-TV’s School Matters. This was from our trip to Trevvett and Fair Oaks Elementary. Our segment starts about 40 seconds in. http://henrico.k12.va.us/hcpstv/2014-15/SM/sm-111914-3.html Continue reading →

Check out the Tech Takeout Crew’s segment on HCPS-TV’s School Matters. This was from our trip to Trevvett and Fair Oaks Elementary. Our segment starts about 40 seconds in. http://henrico.k12.va.us/hcpstv/2014-15/SM/sm-111914-3.html Continue reading →