“Speed Geeking” presentation at SD43 Pro-D Day, Feb 22, 2013
Cursive writing – technology supports for a self-paced program
student practice booklets – based on “Clock climbers” program
iPad apps – “Cursive Practice” and “Fun Letters Cursive Handwriting”, for students to learn and practise
Smartboard screens to match student booklet, with animations, for students to learn and practise (EFI Fontware for cursive fonts)
Jeopardy
Using freeware “Stu’s Quiz Boxes” http://quizboxes.com/
Question Editor to set up questions
Pictures – save in prescribed size, name, format
Sounds – save in prescribed size, name, format
Set up special questions: double-value, risk-an-amount
Tracks team scores as you go, up to 6 teams
Sumdog
www.sumdog.com
Math practice games, students play against class, world, or computer
Teacher setup of classes, teachers, students, and skill level for groups or specific students
Teacher can set up Activities – restricts students to specific skills and levels
Bulk load and edit of student accounts
Sharepoint – explorer view
In sharepoint go to your list : eg View All Site Content / Site Documents
Actions / Open with Windows Explorer /
Drag Address Bar icon to desktop
You now have a folder on your desktop you can modify, without using Sharepoint
Sharepoint – auto-changing webpart
A date-sensitive website part that rotates content based on date
Examples: spelling list for each week, math problem of the week, rotating student work ….
Set up once for whole year
Instructions (warning – these are old! but you’ll get the idea) Auto changing spelling list
Storybird
www.storybird.com
Create stories with an art gallery as starting point
Bulk load and edit of student accounts
Free for one class, subscription for more,
Social sharing of stories and comments
OneNote — Evernote
Both good information storing tools
http://www.evernote.com – cloud based, seasoned tool, friendly interface, lots of hooks to other tools, many many platforms
Microsoft Office / Microsoft OneNote 2010 – cloud based or local, great Office integration
Education & Technology 
Thanks, Rick that was great!