Ms. Lisa Allen
School: Dumas Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It involves and excites students. There's a certain type of mystery behind technology that is intriguing not only to myself, but to students as well.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Movie Maker because it's a great way for students assess and present the work they've done.
E-Mail: lmallen@cps.edu
Project Link: Black History Museum
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It involves and excites students. There's a certain type of mystery behind technology that is intriguing not only to myself, but to students as well.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Movie Maker because it's a great way for students assess and present the work they've done.
E-Mail: lmallen@cps.edu
Project Link: Black History Museum
Ms. Glenda Banks
School: Canter Middle
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: Students discovering the things that they can do with technology. Students discover that technology is not just typing a paper. I also enjoy students seeing their completed work and being proud of what they accomplished.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: banks.cuipblogs.org - I can use my blog for my classes, to place assignments and links.
wikispaces.com - I began using this with my after school program. Very user friendly.
E-Mail: gdbanks@cps.edu
Project Link: Famous African American Who Made Significant Contributions To Society
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: Students discovering the things that they can do with technology. Students discover that technology is not just typing a paper. I also enjoy students seeing their completed work and being proud of what they accomplished.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: banks.cuipblogs.org - I can use my blog for my classes, to place assignments and links.
wikispaces.com - I began using this with my after school program. Very user friendly.
E-Mail: gdbanks@cps.edu
Project Link: Famous African American Who Made Significant Contributions To Society
Ms. Shalanda Cook
School: Dunne Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is the convenience, accessibility, and how it makes teaching easier.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: My favorite technology tool is the projector because it allows me to show my instructional PowerPoint Presentations for class viewing. My students like the PowerPoint Presentations better than reading the information from the text. They enjoy the sounds and animations that I add to the presentations.
I love the web resource Brain Pop. This web site enhances my instruction. Students can always log on to review concepts taught in class.
E-Mail: SRcook@cps.edu
Project Link: The Digital Autobiography
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is the convenience, accessibility, and how it makes teaching easier.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: My favorite technology tool is the projector because it allows me to show my instructional PowerPoint Presentations for class viewing. My students like the PowerPoint Presentations better than reading the information from the text. They enjoy the sounds and animations that I add to the presentations.
I love the web resource Brain Pop. This web site enhances my instruction. Students can always log on to review concepts taught in class.
E-Mail: SRcook@cps.edu
Project Link: The Digital Autobiography
Mr. Jim Davis
School: Dvorak Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: I appreciate how technology engages students, how it simplifies some types of data collection and analysis, and how it helps produce shareable outcomes.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Email is probably the one tech resource I use consistently and rely on.
E-Mail: jidavis1@cps.edu
Project Link: Math Skill Builder Activity Finder for Teachers
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: I appreciate how technology engages students, how it simplifies some types of data collection and analysis, and how it helps produce shareable outcomes.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Email is probably the one tech resource I use consistently and rely on.
E-Mail: jidavis1@cps.edu
Project Link: Math Skill Builder Activity Finder for Teachers
Ms. Linda Herron
School: Price Elementary School
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: I enjoy it because the kids enjoy it. They like looking for information.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Video and Podcasting because the technology helps bring everything together, and the kids love to see/hear themselves.
Email: lkherron@cps.edu
Project Link: Folktales Around the World
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: I enjoy it because the kids enjoy it. They like looking for information.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Video and Podcasting because the technology helps bring everything together, and the kids love to see/hear themselves.
Email: lkherron@cps.edu
Project Link: Folktales Around the World
Ms. Carisa Johnson
School: Woodlawn Community School
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is incorporating digital video/photography into web design.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Wordpress Blogging software and the Wikispaces web site are excellent tools giving teachers and students a place to post ideas and lessons. It allows individuals to access their work from any computer with internet access
E-Mail: crbryant@cps.edu
Project Link: Rites Of Passage Wiki
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is incorporating digital video/photography into web design.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Wordpress Blogging software and the Wikispaces web site are excellent tools giving teachers and students a place to post ideas and lessons. It allows individuals to access their work from any computer with internet access
E-Mail: crbryant@cps.edu
Project Link: Rites Of Passage Wiki
Mrs. Lindsay Johnson
School: Dumas Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It's fun, different and exciting. It's preparing students for what they will experience in high school, college and the workforce.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Document camera, because it helps students share and learn from one another.
E-Mail: ljohnson8@cps.edu
Project Links: Word of the Week Blog Profile
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It's fun, different and exciting. It's preparing students for what they will experience in high school, college and the workforce.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Document camera, because it helps students share and learn from one another.
E-Mail: ljohnson8@cps.edu
Project Links: Word of the Week Blog Profile
Ms. Rana Khan
School: A.O. Sexton Elementary School
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology has to be the excitement that's built into it. You don't have to work to get the kids revved up about it. They're already there with you and many times they're ahead of you. There are things that you can learn from them as well as them learning things from you. So many times when we're in the lab, I'll be doing things the "old fashioned way" and the kids will know a shortcut, so it's nice for them to see that they're teaching you something.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Other than the blog, my LCD Projector. My cousin's friend donated one to my classroom and I am so thankful to him. I was borrowing the one from the office, but there was always the fear that someone else would need it. Having one in the classroom cuts down on the amount of paper we use. Every time the kids see the screen up, they know we're going to watch something together or explore something together and there's just a natural excitement for that. If something's moving, you're a lot more likely to have their attention than if they're looking at something still.
E-Mail: rkhan@cps.edu
Project Links: Hollaback Blog Profile
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology has to be the excitement that's built into it. You don't have to work to get the kids revved up about it. They're already there with you and many times they're ahead of you. There are things that you can learn from them as well as them learning things from you. So many times when we're in the lab, I'll be doing things the "old fashioned way" and the kids will know a shortcut, so it's nice for them to see that they're teaching you something.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Other than the blog, my LCD Projector. My cousin's friend donated one to my classroom and I am so thankful to him. I was borrowing the one from the office, but there was always the fear that someone else would need it. Having one in the classroom cuts down on the amount of paper we use. Every time the kids see the screen up, they know we're going to watch something together or explore something together and there's just a natural excitement for that. If something's moving, you're a lot more likely to have their attention than if they're looking at something still.
E-Mail: rkhan@cps.edu
Project Links: Hollaback Blog Profile
Ms. Laura Knox
School: John Fiske Elementary School
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: The students are always engaged.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: The use of Google Docs to create forms to be used as surveys, and the ability to compile these surveys. I don't think I will ever make a paper survey again!
E-Mail: lkknox@cps.edu
Project Link: Cross-Community Project
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: The students are always engaged.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: The use of Google Docs to create forms to be used as surveys, and the ability to compile these surveys. I don't think I will ever make a paper survey again!
E-Mail: lkknox@cps.edu
Project Link: Cross-Community Project
Mr. Wilbert Miller
School: John Fiske Elementary School
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: The interest and the enthusiasm of the students in using technology, provides teachers with the opportunities that cannot be matched with any other instruction tools.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Adobe Premiere Software
E-Mail: wmiller1@cps.edu
Project Link: Through Our Eyes
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: The interest and the enthusiasm of the students in using technology, provides teachers with the opportunities that cannot be matched with any other instruction tools.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Adobe Premiere Software
E-Mail: wmiller1@cps.edu
Project Link: Through Our Eyes
Mrs. Stella Norman
School: Spencer Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is the immediate response, results, feedback that students and teachers get from software and online resources. Students can create artifacts and documents in a matter of minutes and refine them over time as well as having a world of information at their fingertips and accessible within seconds.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: My favorite tech tool is Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) because it is an educational tool for students that will prepare them for communication in the 21st century. It can be used with all grade levels and abilities to create and produce artifacts that students can use for education and entertainment.
E-Mail: srnorman@cps.edu
Project Link: Decision 2008
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is the immediate response, results, feedback that students and teachers get from software and online resources. Students can create artifacts and documents in a matter of minutes and refine them over time as well as having a world of information at their fingertips and accessible within seconds.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: My favorite tech tool is Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) because it is an educational tool for students that will prepare them for communication in the 21st century. It can be used with all grade levels and abilities to create and produce artifacts that students can use for education and entertainment.
E-Mail: srnorman@cps.edu
Project Link: Decision 2008
Ms. Lizzy Onuselogu
School: Dunne Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is being able to learn new things and implement them in my classroom. Also, I am able to plan my lesson with technology integration.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: My favorite technology tool is my projector. Since most of my students are visual learners, it provides them with visual support in the classroom. They learn more when they see things.
E-Mail: lnonuselogu@cps.edu
Project Link: Our School, A Digital Story
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: My favorite thing about teaching with technology is being able to learn new things and implement them in my classroom. Also, I am able to plan my lesson with technology integration.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: My favorite technology tool is my projector. Since most of my students are visual learners, it provides them with visual support in the classroom. They learn more when they see things.
E-Mail: lnonuselogu@cps.edu
Project Link: Our School, A Digital Story
Ms. Bonnie Shepard
School: Price Elementary School
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It gives my students the opportunity to get away from books, pencils and paper. They can go on the computer and have all of the things they need, then just print it out their work if they need to.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: My favorite tech tool is the internet, especially search engines.
E-Mail: bcshepard@cps.edu
Project Link: Disease PowerPoints
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It gives my students the opportunity to get away from books, pencils and paper. They can go on the computer and have all of the things they need, then just print it out their work if they need to.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: My favorite tech tool is the internet, especially search engines.
E-Mail: bcshepard@cps.edu
Project Link: Disease PowerPoints
Ms. Cynthia Townsend
School: Spencer Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: The access it gives others to the projects we are working on in the classroom.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Google Docs- it enabled me to complete an idea that I had years ago and CUIP because they are able to give teachers the time they need to work on projects that you can't get in a workshop.
E-Mail: ctownsend@cps.edu
Project Link: Spencer Online Holiday Store
Project Link: Decision 2008
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: The access it gives others to the projects we are working on in the classroom.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: Google Docs- it enabled me to complete an idea that I had years ago and CUIP because they are able to give teachers the time they need to work on projects that you can't get in a workshop.
E-Mail: ctownsend@cps.edu
Project Link: Spencer Online Holiday Store
Project Link: Decision 2008
Ms. Charlene Whiteside
School: Dvorak Technology Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It allows me to broaden my knowledge as well as the children's knowledge.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Kidspiration.
E-Mail: cewhiteside@cps.edu
Project Link: The Bully
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: It allows me to broaden my knowledge as well as the children's knowledge.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Web Site: Kidspiration.
E-Mail: cewhiteside@cps.edu
Project Link: The Bully
Mrs. Jelena Zivko
School: Kozminski Community Academy
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: Teaching with technology is very rewarding. Students are very excited to learn. A student may not enjoy math class in the homeroom, but when they come to computer class and, through collaboration with the homeroom teacher, they visit the same topics in an interactive online activity or program, the student will begin to grasp the concept and carry that excitement to learn into the homeroom and their everyday lives.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: My favorite ‘tech tools’ are Kid Pix and Pixie2 programs. These programs enhance students’ interest to learn about the topics studied and students’ creativity levels to demonstrate their understanding.
E-Mail: JBZivko@cps.edu
Project Link: Rural vs. Urban areas with Kid Pix
Favorite Thing About Teaching With Technology: Teaching with technology is very rewarding. Students are very excited to learn. A student may not enjoy math class in the homeroom, but when they come to computer class and, through collaboration with the homeroom teacher, they visit the same topics in an interactive online activity or program, the student will begin to grasp the concept and carry that excitement to learn into the homeroom and their everyday lives.
Favorite Technology Tool Or Website: My favorite ‘tech tools’ are Kid Pix and Pixie2 programs. These programs enhance students’ interest to learn about the topics studied and students’ creativity levels to demonstrate their understanding.
E-Mail: JBZivko@cps.edu
Project Link: Rural vs. Urban areas with Kid Pix
