Feature - Physical Education Playing Video Games: Physical education students across the district are using technology, including the video game "Dance Dance Revolution" to get up and moving during class. Playing "DDR" allows the entire class to be moving at the same time and maximizes the activity the students get during P.E.

Focus on the Classroom: Coleman Middle School technology students are enlisted by the principal to redesign the school's website. The students learned to use Dreamweaver software and worked as a team to create the site from scratch.

Feature - Wichita Student Technology Leadership: WSTL allows students across the district to not only learn how to use technology, but also to teach others how to use it. Students also will help with the maintenance and repair of equipment in many cases.

Focus on the Classroom - Hadley Students Blogging: Cindy Carmichael's students are participating in a project from iLEARN. The students have exchanged teddy bears with a class from Italy and are blogging about the bear's experiences in their new countries, through the view of the teddy bear.

Focus on the Internet: Wordle Velma explains how a Web 2.0 internet site called Wordle allows users to enter text into a field, or copy and past text from other documents, and then create word clouds from the text. The more a word is typed, the bigger it is in the word cloud.

Tech Tip of the Month: Formatting in Excel: Cammy Todd walks through conditional formatting in Excel allows the user to use font color, cell color, or icons to visually depict and arrange data. Excel 2007 has many more enhancements with this feature than in previous versions of Excel.

SMART Tip of the Month: Screen Capture: Brandon Bench shows how to use the screen capture tool in SMART Notebook to capture images from other programs on your computer and insert them for use in Notebook lessons.

Feature - Sento Clickers Student Response System: Wondering how to use the new Senteo clickers that have arrived in your school? This clip demonstrates how quickly and easily the Senteos can be integrated into SMART Notebook 10.0. Senteo questions can be created before the students are in class, or "on the fly" for instant feedback on student comprehension.

Focus on the Classroom - Webkinz: Brenda Jasper is using the plush toys Webkinz in the library at Harry Street Elementary to teach students technology skills and so much more. The stuffed toys come with an online access code that can be used to access the Webkinz online society. Here students can play educational games and care for their pets, all without the mess of a live classroom pet.

Focus on the Internet - Skype Communication Tool: Velma Davis demonstrates the advantages of using Skype for communications. It is a free tool downloaded from the internet that allows you to make phone calls, video conference calls, and to send instant messages from your computer to other Skype users.

Tech Tip of the Month - SmartArt in Office 2007: Cammy Todd demonstrates how to use SMART Art in Office 2007 in a number of ways in your classroom. You can use SmartArt to add color, emphasis, and shape to information in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook 2007 in just a matter of minutes.

SMART Tip of the Month - Fill Tool: Brandon Bench shows how the Fill Tool works in SMART Notebook 10.0 and gives some reasons and applications for using this tool. The Fill Tool is a quick way to fill shapes in Notebook software with solid color or gradient fills.

Feature - Document Cameras in the Classroom:
Gone are the days of the overhead projector. Teachers today are utilizing document cameras in their classrooms to display documents in full color to their students, as well as three-dimensional objects-all without getting any overhead projector ink on their hands.

Focus on the Classroom - Google Docs:
Students at Heights High School are using Google Docs to collaborate in writing letters to President Elect Barack Obama. This is part of a nation wide project called "Writing our Future."

Tech Tip of the Month - More uses for Google:
Cammy demonstrates that Google is more than a just a great search engine. She demonstrates how Google can be used as a calculator, dictionary, and can even help with conversions.

Focus on the Internet - iGoogle:
Velma shares a great time saving tool called iGoogle. iGoogle is a custom browser homepage that allows you to add gadgets and widgets that will help you to find information more quickly and complete tasks in a more timely fashion.

SMART Tip of the Month - Shape Tool:
The Shape Pen in SMART Notebook 10 allows you to use either a SMART Board pen or your finger to draw a shape, and it will "snap" to a more clearly defined version of that shape.

Feature - SMART SynchronEyes:
SMART SynchronEyes is a classroom management software that enables teachers to spend less time managing the use of computers, and more time focusing on curriculum. WIth this software, teachers can monitor students' computer use, display student computers to the whole class, "push" website addresses to the student computers, and much more.

Focus on the Classroom - District Wide Student Election:
November 4 was a record-breaking and historic election day in our country. Learning Services and the Instructional Technology Department worked together to implement the first ever, district-wide presidential straw poll election for USD 259 K - 12 students. Secondary students also voted on the Senate and House races.

Tech Tip of the Month - Microsoft Office Reference Tool:
For years, teachers have spent countless hours teaching students how to create citations and references for various purposes. Now, Microsoft Office 2007 has integrated a reference tool that creates citations, works cited, bibliographies using will use multiple formats - such as ALA and MLA.

Focus on the Internet - Google Earth:
Google Earth is a free internet application that allows you and your students to explore places all across the globe without leaving the classroom. Students can view satellite images of their school, home, or anywhere else they might like to visit.

SMART Tip of the Month - Dual Screen:
SMART notebook 10 has added many new features. This month, Brandon Bench will demonstrate the dual-page display and pin-page features. The dual-page display allows you to view two pages at one time. The pin-page feature allows the user to keep one page "pinned in place" and scroll between the rest of the pages in dual-page display mode.

Feature - Technology in the Library:
Index card catalogs are a thing of the past! See how technology has changed the school library with tools such as electronic card catalogs, electronic checkout systems, and internet magazine databases.

Classroom Focus - Coleman Music:
Visit Amy Ives's classroom at Coleman Middle School to view a technology rich music classroom. Students are utilizing computers to compose music, listen to themselves sing, and much more.

Tech Tip of the Month - Microsoft Office File Formats:
Cammy Todd explains the file formats created in different versions of Microsoft Office including saving in different versions and identifying the various types of documents by their file extensions.

Focus on the Internet - Google Docs:
Velma Davis explains and explores a free online application called Google Docs. It is an incredible tool that can be used quickly and easily to increase collaboration and efficiency.

SMART Tip of the Month - Magic Pen:
Brandon Bench from Mueller Elementary will demonstrate a new feature in SMART Notebook 10 called the magic pen and gives ideas how to implement it in the classroom.

Feature:
L' Ouverture Technology Magnet has been named a SMART Showcase School. Click the image to see how they have integrated SMART Technology products, as well as other types of technology, into their school in order to receive this distinction.

Classroom Focus:
Interactive Distance Learning, or IDL, is a way that students can interact and collaborate with other students in other cities, states, or even countries. Click the image to see how Hadley Middle School students used IDL in their classroom.

Tech Tip of the Month:
Recently moved to Office 2007 and now you're completely lost? Cammy Todd walks through the basics of Word 2007 including the Office button, Quick Access toolbar, the mini-toolbar, plus Tabs and Ribbons.

Focus on the Internet:
There are many web-based applications that can be used to increase productivity and promote collaboration. Velma Davis introduces and demonstrates several of these free, web-based applications including iGoogle, Google docs, and Google Earth.