8th Grade

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Apple iBook Mobile Lab at Montevideo	Montevideo is using an Apple Mobile Lab for instruction thanks to a generous gift from a local philanthropist. The Apple Mobile lab allows students to break free of wired labs and utilize technology throughout the building at Montevideo. Core content SOL classrooms have the ability to use the lab for a variety of teaching ideas. The Montevideo Mobile lab is not just any lab, but a Super lab. This lab has additional hardware for multi-media lessons and presentations. Students use still cameras, a digital video camera, a laser printer and an InFocus projector to bring learning alive! The teacher has a powerbook (that runs the projector) to do advanced teaching, create using the iLife Suite, then burn to DVD for use when the mobile lab is elsewhere. The MMS Wireless iBook Mobile Lab includes:   > 1 Apple iBook Wireless Mobile Lab secure cart > 25 student iBook laptop computers running the rock solid operating system OSX > 1 Apple Powerbook computer DVD/enhahced graphics (for the teacher) > 1 InFocus X2 Digital Video Projector > 5 HP Photosmart M307 Digital Still Cameras > 1 Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P93 Digital Still Camera > 1 Sony Handycam DCR HC85 Digital Videl Camcorder > 1 set of Altec Model 220 Audio Speakers > 1 HP1300N Laser Printer   Software and licensing including: All of Apple's Standard Innovative software Apple's iLife Suite Appleworks Adobe Photoshop Elements Microsoft Office Mobil Lab Acrobat Files for Teachers Wichita Study Open Ended Question I Served Civil War Life of a Veteren Rights and Responsibility History Immigrants Journey Newspapers Colonial Lesson Obe's Links - Obe Hostetter of Hillyard Middle School has a rich page of links for comptuer instruction in the 8th grade. http://www.quia.com/pages/solcomputers.html   Documents for Lab Setup and Admin. Sample Sign Up Sheet ~ Sample SignOff Mobile Lab Guideline (appleworks)	Apple Curriculum Solutions   Other links of interest: How an English teacher taught "To KIll A Mockingbird" with technology. " The teacher's methods worked well. By integrating technology into her English lessons, Reynolds kept her students interested." http://www.asbj.com/specialreports/0903SpecialReports/S5.html Lesson Plan Links http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/subject_template.php?subject_id=1  Links of interest using mobile labs: http://www.apple.com/education/mobilelabs/index.html http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/edtalk/toc.htm http://www.nsta.org/programs/laptop/grade.htm http://education.wichita.edu/m3/mobility/wireless/education.htm  iLife Lesson Plans: http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/  WVPT lesson plans (NTTI) and other WVPT guided links http://www.wvpt4learning.org/lessons.asp http://www.baylink.org/lessons/ http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/search.htm GREAT site with lots of suggestions using technology http://www.knowledge.state.va.us/main/lesson/les.cfm Math: http://www.apple.com/education/k12/curriculumsolutions/math/riverdeep.html http://www.riverdeep.net/math/math.jhtml http://www.apple.com/education/k12/curriculumsolutions/math/futures.html Science: http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/upperman/ http://www.apple.com/education/mobilelabs/science26.html  Language: http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/wilson/ Multi-media http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/harlandale/  OSX Tutorials... the Ibook labs are OSX. Teachers and students wishing to learn about OSX skills and management of the finder can use the following links for instruction and help. Web pages that will help you learn OSX (i've book marked these in safari): http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/OSX/welcome.html http://www.aquafiles.com/resources/tutorials.html http://www.biola.edu/admin/computersupport/tutorials/osxtutorial.cfm This one is my favorite. If you have a fast internet setup the video clips are fabulous. http://poets.sfsu.edu/osx/