Thank You Little Mountain Elementary!

A HUGE thank you to Mr. Hackett and the staff at Little Mountain Elementary for a wonderful workshop day! We had a fantastic time and we hope that you did too! Being able to share our love for technology and teaching with other educators is truly our passion!!! Not to mention how energizing it is to see so many people excited about utilizing their iPads in the classroom!

As promised today, here are links to the presentations for a more in depth look at ways to Utilize your iPad for Conferring (disclaimer we are not paid or supported by the Daily 5 or the Sisters in any way!) and how to Utilize your iPad for Running Records.  We also had questions today about creating pictos, so we have a link to our step-by-step guide for that.

Utilizing iPads for Conferring

Utilizing iPads for Running Records

Creating Pictos (scroll down, it is embedded on the right towards the bottom of the page)

As always, if you attended today's workshop, or any other sessions, please let us know if we can help you with anything. And don't forget that we are available for workshops for school districts/schools/grade levels! Keep us in mind when you are planning your summer learning! We can customize any of our workshops to fit your teaching and technology needs-bringing you the latest and greatest iPad education support that comes with first hand experience of what works in today's classrooms!

But you don't have to take our word for it...here are what some of the participants from Little Mountain Elementary said after today's workshops:

"This class was amazing!!! The instructors are classroom teachers so they "get it." Can't wait to implement these activities into my classroom."

"They are so willing to help and explain! Their excitement is contagious!"

"As a "newbie" I have a direction and a path to proceed."

"The presenters are very organized and knowledgeable"

"I enjoyed learning the new technology of qr code. It opens up lots of new opportunities for learning in my classroom."

"You shared lots of meaningful information in an easy to understand way. Wonderful connection of technology ideas!"

"This is fun and amazing!"

Thanks again Little Mountain!

Hello Little Mountain Elementary!

Welcome staff members of Little Mountain Elementary! We are so glad that you found our blog! Take a look around and remember to email us with any ?s or thoughts you may have. We are here to help however we can! And as a quick link back to our website with the syllabus and presentations for each of the courses click here https://sites.google.com/site/thetechieteachers/little-mountain.  Don't forget to stop back in a few days for detailed presentations about Confer, PDF Expert, CCPensieve; as well as Levelbook and Record of Reading! Better yet, follow our blog to get the latest information sent to you!

If you won a free app code today at Little Mountain for either Futaba Classroom Games or Confer please remember that you need to go to the redeem section of the App Store and enter your code there. DO NOT GO DIRECTLY TO THE APP AND PURCHASE AS NORMAL. You will get charged the full price for the app. A huge thanks to both Futaba Classroom Games and Confer for the codes-we are BIG fans of both apps and are excited that some of the staff at Little Mountain Elementary get to check them out and fall in love with them too! Spread the word about these awesome apps and super kind app developers!

We love getting into schools and sharing our love for technology and teaching! We've met so many fabulous educators and would love to meet some more! Contact us at normoff13@gmail.com if you are interested in having us present at your school. We can customize ANY technology and teaching class you may want. And if you have already seen us & enjoyed the session, make sure to let your administrators know! We are booking for summer 2014 and back to school sessions now!!

Day Four: iPad Apps for Kids Galore!

Sporting our Sophia T-Shirts! 

We had a fantastic time on Day 4 of our iPad courses at Resource Training and Solutions. This afternoon was devoted to iPad Apps with Kids which was filled with many great apps for literacy, math and creation in both primary and elementary classrooms. Normoff has tomorrow off and I think we will both be missing our terrific workshop participants!

Today many of the educators in attendance made note of how they'd like to learn more about creating higher level thinking activities for their students utilizing iPads and technology. A great way to do this is with the use of QR Codes! We have a class next week that isn't quite full yet and we will be discussing many ways to use QR Codes in education for all grade levels. Contact Resource Training and Solutions to sign up!

Here are a few blurbs from some of our wonderful workshop participants today:

Appreciated the laid back style and numerous apps that look to be of great quality.

Exciting presentation, very informative, hands on very useful, answers to many questions. Can go back and start to use.

They provided us with numerous apps that are of high quality and appeal for students.

This class was great because they took fun apps and told us how we can stretch them to make them work for us effectively in the classroom.

Here we are again! Don't forget to share with us your
pic of you rocking your Sophia T-Shirts!

Workshops Day 3: Fun For You and Me!!

Techie teachers give you a ride through technology that is enjoyable, fast moving and applicable. I love useful information, this is! ~thetechieteachers iPad Workshop Participant

We Love Our New TShirts!

Thank you to all who attending our 3rd day of workshops today at Resource Training and Solutions! We had a wonderful time looking at iPad Apps for Teachers and iPad Apps to use with  Daily 5  daily lesson plans! We really appreciate all who are repeat participants and we hope that you have been able to take away useful information from each session.  To those of you who joined us for the first time we hope that you enjoyed the workshops and we would love it if you joined us again! As always, contact us if you participated in any of the workshops and  you have any questions, concerns or comments.

Don't forget that we'd love to come do a techie teacher training for your school or school district!  Let your staff development coordinator know that you'd like to have us join you and they can contact us at normoff13@gmail.com to schedule a training! We can elaborate on any one of our sessions or customize it to your grade level, focus area, or really almost anything else teaching and technology related!

And another great big thank you to all of the developers whose apps we are showcasing in our sessions that provided us with a few free codes for teachers to redeem! They are a huge hit and generating a lot of interest in the apps--apps that thetechieteachers already love!

But by far one of the coolest parts of today was the unveiling of our new t-shirts! They are QR Code ready and techie teacher approved!!!  Woot Woot!

We still have room in both our QR Code sessions and iPads & Formative Assessment! Join us for some awesome prizes and great information!

Here is what a few participants had to say about today's sessions:

Great for any teacher looking to use an iPad for the first time or the hundreth!

This was a lot of information. I would love for you to offer an all day workshop specifically geared k-1 that let's us learn and dive deeper. You are both wonderful!

I am motivated to apply my learnings from today. All the apps will be very useful in my Daily 5 lessons. The organizing ideas are great.

Fabulous information that is not only useful but easy to use.

The information in the session was very helpful. The apps were presented in a very fun way. I loved the free prizes!

Wow! Great class! So many apps that I can start using right now that will increase my efficiency and effectiveness as a teacher using technology! Thanks!

Workshops Day 2:Maximum Capacity and Maximum Fun!

Whew! What a day filled to the brim-we had our greatest number of participants yet and we discussed a lot of great apps! We are super thankful for everyone who joined us today for iPad Apps for Teachers and iPad Apps for Kids. It was a whirlwind, with many people joining us for both sessions which we really appreciate!

We learned about some great new apps and a little more about how different school districts are managing and utilizing iOS devices. We hope that all participants were able to take away new apps to use and ways to utilize technology for academics and as teacher tools! Thanks again to the developers who provided app codes and/or vouchers for today's sessions!

Don't forget to email us with any questions or feedback! And we have some Normoff teacher tshirts to show off tomorrow so make sure to follow our blog to check them out!

Here is what a few people said about today:

"What a great use of my afternoon, apps that will keep on giving!"

"I have been looking for good iPad app for school sessions and these two are the first who came to the concept with teachers in mind."

"Excellent source of information for classroom teachers wishing to use ipads in their classroom! There are so many apps out there,the instructors did the leg work for us to find great ones!"

"FABULOUS instructors with great suggestions and real classroom situations that tie to app usage."