Overview: Read some very creative ideas in using a digital camera in the classroom

“Squeaking” by with “Spritely” Building Blocks of Learning via Scratch
Diana Solomon, Media Specialist/Computer Teacher

Overview: Learn about a free program out of MIT called Scratch.  Teachers will enjoy the availability of resources, and students will enjoy the creativity they can exercise while employing critical thinking skills to make their own programs.

GALILEO: Georgia’s “Pot of Gold”
 Marsha Murray, Media Specialist, Oglethorpe County Elementary School, Lexington, Georgia

Overview: Read about a very useful Georgia resource written by an experienced user

If Computer Lab = Alien Place, Than Alien Place = a GREAT Place to Learn! 
Tess Keller, East Fayette Elementary School, Fayette County, GA

Overview: New computer lab teachers and seasoned computer teachers looking for refreshment…Read about several great ideas that can be utilized to liven up instruction and motivate students within your computer lab. 

Seeing Stars at GaETC
Margaret Eves, Library Media Director, Atlanta Girls'  School, Atlanta, GA

Overview: Take a look at an organized and well-planned conference yielded for one Georgia educator.

Save Time with GeorgiaStandards.org
Jill Adams, Jonesville Middle School, Bowdon, GA

Overview: Have a Georgia teaching certificate?  Need help finding teaching ideas for the new Georgia standards?  The award-winning GeorgiaStandards.org website could be the last stop in your search.

A Few of My Favorite Things
Renee Kitchens, Media Specialist, Jones County High School, Gray, Georgia

Overview: Read about some interesting technology products that may be of use to you in your school.

Expanding Our Horizons: How Technology Can Inspire and Challenge
Tina Cusker, St John’s International School, Waterloo, Belgium

Overview: A multitude of good instructional ideas working at an elementary school. Read how someone is pulling it all together.

Internet Filters: Helping Students Use the Internet Responsibly
Willard Ray Leatherman, The Heiskell School, Atlanta GA

Overview: Think your Internet Filter is working well? You might want to read this article to see what one educator is doing in his school.

Googlebots
Pat Duffy

Overview: Take a look at some of the special features useful to education from Google

Using Presentation Software for Digital Imagery in Every Classroom
Mary O. Lawson, Effingham County High School

Overview: Add Photostory to PowerPoint for your students to illustrate their academic technology projects.

My Seat-mate lives in China
Kathryn Woody , Dalton State College-ETTC

Overview: An international Internet project introduces students to the cultural  diversity of other nationalities. Students began to learn and understand the acceptable ways to interact with students of such different cultures. See what one reviewer has to say.

Implementing Moodle in the 21st Century Classroom
Kristy Patterson, Troup County Schools, LaGrange, GA

Overview: Ideas coming from the experience of implementing a system-wide application to serve teachers.

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2006 Conference Articles

Maintaining a Student-Based Website Using New Tools
Maggie Smith, Bleckley County High School

Overview: Using a school-based website for your school? Consider some additional products for your "arsenal" of applications that may help you achieve success.

Terrific Technology Ideas to Use in the Classroom or Media Center
Christina Badowski, New Mountain Hill Elementary, Fortson, GA

Overview: This Media Specialist shares ideas she gained from attending workshops covering SketchUp, MovieMaker and the interactive white board.

Keeping Georgia on Our Minds
Jacqueline W. Jordan, W.L. Parks Middle School, Atlanta, Georgia

Overview: Online Encyclopedias offer a rich collection of instructional resources. See what's happening in Geogia in this area.

Switching From Defense To Offense In The Fight Against Cyberbullies
Michael Rhodes, High Meadows School, Roswell, Georgia

Overview: Take action and become more proactive in helping prepare your students for the cyber neighborhoods that are bound to become just a way of life.  Many schools go on defense, as they should, to protect there students and themselves from websites like MySpace, FrontPAge, etc.  But students are many more times likely to use these sites outside of school even if they were not being filtered and blocked from within school walls. The following article looks at one idea on how to guide students through the cyber neighborhoods and how to not be abused by or become a cyber bully.

Why and How to Take Great Digital Photos: An Enlightening Hour with Leslie Fisher
Sallye Martin, East Fayette Elementary School, Fayetteville, Georgia

Overview: Some excellent suggestions on using photography with a digital camera for your consideration

Geometry, Google Sketchup, and Family Math Night
Heather Kloer, Computer Teacher, St. Thomas More School, Decatur, GA

Overview: Google Sketchup is a powerful, flexible, and free program which can adapted to use with math students studying geometry from the primary through middle school grades.

Using CSI to Teach Map Skills
Alisande Mayer, Media Specialist, Moulton-Branch Elementary, Valdosta, GA. 

Overview: With the rise in popularity of crime scene investigation, teachers have the perfect tool to use to help teach and expand their students’ understanding of the use of maps and map skills to locate information. Learn how one media specialist created a lesson to expand knowledge of map skills using this latest entertainment trend.

Updating Copyright Information
Jolaine Sims, Media Specialist, Buchanan Elementary School, Buchanan, Georgia

Overview: A media specialist tells how a copyright session at GaETC helped her keep herself and the faculty and staff at her school updated.

Photo Story Is Worth A Thousand Words
Tonia Clark, Media Specialist, Atlanta Public Schools

Overview: Photo Story is a fun, simple, and cost effective way for students and teachers to create multimedia projects with digital images.

Using Technology in the Media Center
Donna Jo Austin, Library Media Specialist, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, Atlanta, Georgia

Overview: Looking for simple ways to use technology in your media center or classroom?  Try a couple of these ideas for fun projects!

MP3 Simplified For the Every Teacher
Bonnie Furnanz, Savannah Christian Middle School, Savannah, Ga.

Overview: Some ideas on what to do with MP3 files in classrooms. Well worth a 'look-see' if you are considering adding additional technology resources to your classroom activities.

Tablet PC – in My Classroom?  How Will That Work?
Linda Fidler, Savannah Christian Preparatory School, Savannah, Georgia

Overview: Consider an interesting alternative to a standard computer for your classroom.

The Perfect Recipe
Martyne Rea, Savannah Christian Preparatory School, Savannah, Georgia

Overview: Incorporating interactive technology into the classroom can increase student achievement, stimulate student learning, and provide the teacher with an alternative when presenting new concepts or reviewing old.

The FREEloader's Session on Educational Software
Brenda Wade, Miller County Middle/High School

Overview: Sometimes you get what you pay for--sometimes more. Check out a description of what happens when someone punches the 'free button' and applies the resources in school.

Creating Professional Looking Multimedia Presentations
Willard Ray Leatherman, The Heiskell School, Atlanta, GA

Overview: Looking for some neat software for yourself or your students? See what one teacher has to say about Media 8.

Digging into Georgia History with the Digital Library of Georgia
Jill Adams, Jonesville Middle School, Bowdon, GA

Overview: Having a hard time finding supplementary materials for Georgia History classes?  The Digital Library of Georgia could be the end of that search.

Advantages of a Centralized Catalog for School Media Centers
Kristy S. Patterson, Troup County Schools

Overview: Excellent background on decision-making for district-wide media center cataloging process

There are additional Instructional Articles for you to read in the Archived Section