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**Karen "Kay" Butler**
Mathematics and Pre-Engineering Teacher **Patrick F Taylor Science & Technology Academy **

Voki I added Aug 5 2011 media type="custom" key="10137435" I took up painting this summer! I also attended several seminars / workshops / training sessions (whatever you want to call them!). || I thoroughly enjoyed my TI-Nspire CX training. . . Look who decided to join us for this technology BootCamp!
 * [[image:Kay_w_Streetcar_for_Tech_BootCamp.png width="396" height="218"]] || I like to pursue new hobbies, so . ..
 * With respect to professional development in technology,
 * HEY! **
 * It's Slim CX! ** || [[image:Slim.png width="150" height="246"]] ||

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**<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿ ** <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I don't have a blog yet. . . multiple and new preps during the past few years have kept me a little too busy to blog. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Although I am way behind most people participating in this Tech BootCamp, I plan to catch up before the end of Week #5!

=__<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">** ﻿ ﻿ Week #1: WORDLES from my presentation "NAGC - Technology: Potential 2011-12 Professional Development Opportunities for JPPSS Teachers"** __= = = =<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Project and Presentation Wordles** = <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Wordles were used to introduce projects to my students as well as to serve as transition slides in a PowerPoint used to present ideas for integrating technology in the classroom to teachers in our school district last spring. Wordles were also used by my students to provide a unique visual to display vocabulary words at the end of a unit (I don’t have any samples of those).



<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The pictures above show how Wordles can be used to provide transition slides when changing <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">from one topic or concept to another within a PowerPoint or FlipChart.

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 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tootsie Pop Project Wordle **

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 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Parabolas in the Real World Project Wordle **

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Project Wordles (additional notes):** <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Key words from the project Wordle are used for a whole class discussion in which students express their current understandings. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">From here we move to the entry document, and then students brainstorm their "Need to Know" list for the project. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">(These discussions provide me with information needed to develop scaffolding activities for the project.)

= __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Week #2: VOICE THREADS** __ = = = =<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Differentiation in the Math Class** = = = <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">TBA Soon!

=__<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Week #3: STORYBIRD** __= = = =<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Homework? Oh, yeah! Homework! = =<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Oh, no! A Monster Ate My HomeWork! =

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= __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Week #4: WETOKU** __ =

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<span style="color: #ff7600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Coming your way later this month since I don't have a webcam. :(** = =

= __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Week #5: Blah! Blah! Blah! BLOG!** __ = =<span style="color: #0301fe; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Preparing NOW for STUDENTS Coming to My Classroom SOON! :)** = <span style="color: #0301fe; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I've set up my blog using edublog; however, I haven't had time to work on my page design or figure out how to set up "widgets" and such. Here's the link to my first blog post . . . please consider leaving a comment / response to my blog. Be sure to check back in mid-late August for updates and changes! :)

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