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- Culture
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How
do you build the IT culture in your
school?
- Keep
it simple
- Make
it fun
- Make
it a part of the day
- Work
as a team
- Smile!
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- Building a culture of technology is essential to
reach technology integration goals. Technology should
be a regular part of the school environment.
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- Ringmaster
Quote
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- We believe that children are the
future
- We believe teachers shape their
future...
- We believe technology is cool
- We believe teachers are cooler.
- -Tom Snyder Productions
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- Create a Culture
Let's explore some ideas that will keep technology
interesting and fun.
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- Start with Cool Projects. Focus on
projects that require a low "learn-time", very
little class time, and very little management.
These projects should also be high impact and
real-world. Make the curriculum fun!
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- For example, the Lost
and Found Tooth project is fun and easy.
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- Share Cool Projects. Reach outside the
classroom. Post your projects in the classroom or
hall bulletin boards. Consider a sharing area in
the library/lunchroom. Get the entire school
involved in a school-wide activity. Think about
projects that work across grades. Share your
project on the Internet.
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- Explore some Science
projects.
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- Involve Everyone! Involve students in
grant writing, teachers in creating, principals in
judging, and parents in sharing.
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- Build Fun Themes. Everything's more fun
with a theme. Even a website like this one! Create
schoolwide projects, hold logo contests, and
coordinate fund raising activities.
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- Make your technology lab or classroom area more
enticing. Cover the doors and walls with colorful
cloth. Put beanie babies on the tops of computers,
create fun screen borders from cardboard, made
student-produced background and screen savers, buy
matching mouse pads, and build mobiles from old
mice, motherboards, and disk. Have fun!
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- Culture
- How do
you build the IT culture in your
school?
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- Do
It!
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- Brainstorm ways to bring teachers and
technology together.
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- Brainstorm a fun theme for next
fall.
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