See Learning.com at NECC
We're excited to meet you in person at NECC, set for June 30-July 2 in San Antonio. Stop by our booth 6254 to see demonstrations of our award-winning products, EasyTech, TechLiteracy Assessment and Aha!Math. We'll be giving everyone who watches a demo a scratch-off card to win one of our great prizes:
* 2go™PC laptops
* Flash Drives
* Starter Kits for EasyTech and Aha!Math
* T-Shirts and more!
See us at the ISTE Lounge
We also invite you to come by the ISTE Lounge from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 1 for a presentation on how EasyTech helps teachers integrate technology into instruction.
Attend Panel on Tech Assessment, ISTE NETS
Learning.com will be part of an expert panel at 11 a.m. Monday, June 30 to highlight approaches to assessing technology literacy and ISTE's standards. Join us to learn current information on reporting requirements, and current issues in assessing technology literacy.
Organize Your Lessons with My Curriculum
Summer is a great time to organize your lessons and activities for the next school year. Learning.com offers an easy and effective way to write your own lessons, keep all your resources and related materials together, and even assign and monitor those lessons – all through Learning.com's Digital Learning Environment.
As a Learning.com customer, you have access to the My Curriculum feature whenever you log in. Just click on the My Curriculum icon and walk through the simple steps to create activities, save Web links for those activities, and when the new school year begins, assign the lessons, track and grade students' progress. You can even create your own "EasySet" – a scope and sequence that lets you integrate your lessons with Learning.com content to truly individualize instruction for your students.
Technology Interation Tip
"At our school we have 10 computer labs. Four are used for check-out by our academic teachers and non-IT teachers. The remaining six labs are used by the IT Team. As an IT Team, we teach the 'how and why' of using the technology so when the academic teachers use the labs they can concentrate on the content used within the technology. The teachers are trained in using the labs as well as the software so they can concentrate on their subject rather than the technology tools. This has helped in integrating more technology-based learning with the students."
This tip was submitted by Cheryl Anne Watford of Discovery Academy in Polk County, Florida. She received a gift from Learning.com for submitting her idea. Share your tip for integrating technology or for using one of our products, and if we use it, we'll send you a gift, too!
July Classroom Project Ideas for Grades K-8
We've created projects appropriate for grades K-2, 3-5 and 6-8. Each of these activities meets a variety of state and national standards for technology and core subject areas.
Independence Day
Help students discover the history, the science, and the culture behind the fun and fireworks of the 4th of July.
Diaries
Help students document their summers, and hone their technology skills, by keeping diaries.
Funding Source — Teaching Tolerance Grants
Teaching Tolerance offers grants of $500 to $2,500 to preK-12 classroom teachers for projects designed to reduce prejudice among youth, improve inter-group relations in schools and/or support educator professional development in these areas. (No deadline.)
