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District 87 Technology

Bloomington, IL
Joined May 2009
Finished grading the graduate credit presentations at the the Feast. Great presentations on variety of content areas
www.spellingcity.com
Using IlliniData for scaffolding of students based on income.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
http://www.dumpr.net
some interesting sites from Feast - Week 3 in Bloomington
Posters - http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html send to Ken in BACC for nice color print
Great classroom tools from Google http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html
We signed up for dreamspark https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx .. first 200 accounts for students available in fall 2009
according to MS, they've given up on Popfly Been playing with kodu in the meantime http://bit.ly/O8xvu
Skype 4.1 for Windows is out of beta. It is now available for download.
Moveable Feast - Week 3 in Bloomington coming up July 6. Hope to share some great things learned at NECC
http://cs4hs.media.mit.edu/
New Scratch sites just opened.http://scratched.media.mit.edu/
Later this week, Scratch will have elements to link to the WeDo Legos
Scratch (MIT), Alice (Carnegie Mellon), PopFly (MSFT), Python (?)