Teaching
Guide
LTHS Teacher Tablet Use
produced by
Jeremy Vrtis
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Introduction 
Aim
Rationale
General
Goals
Learner
Description
Prerequisites
Subject-Matter
Learning
Objectives
Instructional
Plan
Materials
Plan
for Assessment and Evaluation
Resources
The Tablet
PC has been an excellent educational tool with the ability to enhance teachers’
lessons. However, with the start of the
school year, Tablet training, and all of the beginning of the year
responsibilities it is difficult to remember all that the Tablet has to
offer. This sites goal is to assist
teachers with the resources they have available with the tablet. With both
campuses and the involvement of all staff it is sometimes difficult to get
everyone together for training sessions, with curriculum map will allow Tablets
users to come back to this site and gain familiarity with four aspects of the
tablet.
In
speaking with the Ed Tennant, or Director of Techonology, the aim of
this curriculum web is to provide teachers
with a resourse to will be able to use the major functions of the
Tablet Connecting with the Projector, the Snipping Tool, Annotated
Word, Journal,
and OneNote. This curriculum web will also be expanded to include
training on Gradequick, Edline, and Microsoft Outlook.
While
this curriculum web is designed for LTHS Tablet teachers, it can be
used by any teacher who has recently recieved a tablet to be used in
class. This curriculum web will work for any Tablet that has the Microsoft Tablet software package installed. This curriculum web will look at the major commonalities
between the systems, and provide teachers with recourse to assist the mastery
of the abilities of the Tablet.
This curriculum
web will assist teachers to move beyond just one aspect of the Tablet. Teachers will become comfortable with four
different aspect of Tablet use, and be able to work with their colleagues. Teachers
will be able to use
this curriculum web for connecting to projectors, Snipping Images,
Annotated Word for worksheets and assignments, Journal for notes
taking,
and OneNote that has some aspects of each of the previous programs.
This
curriculum web is designed for teachers who have recently received a Tablet.
Teachers
using this curriculum web should be able to do the following:
- Be Part of the Tablet PC
program
- Be familiar with Microsoft
Programs (Work, PowerPoint, Etc.)
- Be able to select a remote
printer (one not in your room)
Projector
- Is your projector connected to
the network?
- Finding your projector
- Using the password
Snipping Tool
- Screen capture
- Capturing small sections
- Saving images as jpg
Software
- Print to programs
- Selecting and moving objects
- Converting handwriting to text
- Adding space
- Organizing files
- Searching
Classroom Use
- Lessons
- Activities
- Assessments
Teachers participating
in the curriculum web will be able to:
- Make sure their projector is active with the
network
- Connect their projector
- Be able to find the projector ID
- Capture images using the snipping tool
- Save snipped images in a variety of form
- Save snipped images without boarders
- Print to programs, and not printers
- Annotated documents
- Change annotations
- Search files for annotations
- Create folders for organizations
- Annotate student work
- Provide audio feedback to student work
- Create notes that are searchable with key words
- Create lessons using images, annotations, and custom audio
This
curriculum web will have four different sections. Each part is progressive to the next section. Teachers
will be able to complete each sections independently moving at their own
pace. The goal is to have all four
sections completed by the first month of school, with the Tablet used as a
instructional tool during the first quarter of school.
Projector
- Teachers will be able to get
their projectors on-line with the school network, and connect remotely.
Snipping Tool
- Teachers will be able to capture
images, save in a variety of formats, and incorporate snipped images into
lessons.
Journal
- Teachers will use a variety of
annotations, set tool bars, convert handwriting, print to the program, and
search.
OneNote
- Teachers will be able to set up
files, record audio, make annotations, print to the program, and set up
organizations.
Tablet PC (Toshiba, ThinkPad, HP)
Epson
Projector
LTHS
Software Install
Plan for Assessment
and Evaluation
The first
section, teachers will assess their abilities ability to connect their
projector to the school’s network and connect to the projector remotely. After attempting both activities teachers
will fill out a self assessment form and submit it.
After
working on the Journal section teachers will print to the program, make
annotations and then send an e-mail containing the changes.
After working on OneNote teachers will send a request for a shared session to jvrtis@lths.net. Teachers will also e-mail a One-Note file containing a document printed to OneNote, annotated with audio comments of from the teacher on all four sections.
To evaluate
the curriculum web, users will be encouraged to fillout the feedback
form. The feedback form will also be used for users from LTHS to
seek out additonal training.
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