Web+2.0+Share-athon

**__Share-a-thon:__**

 * Please introduce yourself and tell us about one "success" and one "frustration" you're having at school this year:**
 * Laura - Teacher training & convincing them to come to computer lab are biggest obstacles. New site will provide brand-new space.
 * Sydney - Travels with cart to most grades. How to have time for new projects when teachers don't even come to computer lab.
 * Abigail - Getting teachers to catch up to kids is a challenge. Works with MS kids who are doing some great stuff with Web 2.0
 * Jim - 8th Grade videos have been a big success this year.
 * Tracy - Launching online version of student newspaper has been a big success. Also doing great stuff with digital photography.
 * Jason - Still looking for sound pedagogical reasons to use Web 2.0 in a K-8 setting. Getting teachers up & running is always a challenge. Spanish teacher starting to use voting system, adapting & adopting
 * Tatian - Going to 1:1 laptops in the Fall. Kids are going to use tools with or without us. Today was helpful because while tendency is to start everything from scratch, today had spark of inspiration for new tools. Haven't tapped into collaboration with these tools yet, but looking forward to it.
 * Lo - Comes from visual arts background -- this is an exciting time to be teaching with technology. Computers & cameras helped her to know she's a creative person
 * Rachel - Teaches Grades 9-10 computer applications classes. Experimenting with ELGG, podcasting, constantly looking for opportunities to support teachers & learning. Big digital divide in the faculty, partly by age. Inspiring teachers to integrate into curriculum is a challenge. Was an elementary school classroom teacher beforehand, so she knows how difficult integration can be.

__**IWB Best Practices**__
Tablets vs. Interactive Whiteboards? -- Check out http://classroompresenter.cs.washington.edu/


 * Board Placement**: For wall mount boards, place in lower traffic areas to avoid accidental damage from students scraping/puncturing surface with backpacks, etc..


 * For Increased Pen Precision (Smart Board)** - use Control Panel software (orientation/alignment settings) to increase the number of alignment points from the default 9 points to 20 points.
 * Briefly describe you familiarity and/or usage of interactive whiteboards?
 * What aspects of use and inclusion in classroom methodology and pedagogy are appealing?
 * What aspects are challenging?
 * In your educational setting, are there web sites you have discovered that work well with IWB integration?
 * In your educational setting, are there software titles you have discovered that work well with IWB integration?
 * If you utilize an IWB that ships with educational content, templates, and/or clip art galleries, do you utilize these? How?