What's Happening in West Virginia?

Artwork donated by the Professor Garfield Foundation and Peter Reynolds.

First grade students at Ramage Elementary read books on Kindles or listen to audio downloads.  This exciting opportunity allows students to experience text in a new way.

Leticia Lovejoy, Title I
Ramage Elementary
Sent from my iPad

The students at Ramage Elementary in Boone County enjoy the opportunities to learn with iPads. Our school has eight iPad 2s with endless possibilities and applications. We also purchased 25 Kindle Touches for all students to utilize and to support students with accelerated learning capabilities.

Leticia Lovejoy, Title I
Ramage Elementary
Sent from my iPad

West Virginia Virtual Spanish teachers are all planning activities for Digital Learning Day — notice how they have made the cartoons with Spanish captions for the site that day.

Sarah M. Lyons
West Virginia Department of Education
Office of Instructional Technology, Assistant Director

FYI - The American Library Association is celebrating Teen Tech Week - Geek Out @ Your Library, March 4 - 10. I am brainstorming now for events to sponsor that week. Great avenue to highlight digital learning. :)

Candace Pleasant, Library Media Specialist
Hedgesville High School
Hedgesville, WV

Utilizing Acuity and West Virginia Writes is an excellent way to incorporate technology in the classroom. The impact it has on student scores in really awesome. I have been working with homebound students using both techniques. At first they struggles, but after the 2nd or 3rd time of getting in the program and working through the process they are asking questions and discussing that is a great improvement. I am really proud of them. Looking forward to hopefully seeing better scores.

There are many other programs available that are helpful. The two above are at our finger tips.

I would love to have the prek students at Frankford Elementary as a feature for Feb 1st WV's First Digital Learning Day! You can read the official email below from the state superintendents office. I was featured in an article in August about winning the ING Unsung Heroes grant. I would love to showcase how the money has been used to help bring some of our local students into the 21st century of learning through the use of iPads.

There are many other programs available that are helpful. The two above are at our finger tips.

Marcie Easton, M.S., CCC/SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
Frankford Elementary
Greenbrier County Schools

This is my 3rd year teaching Globaloria. This is an amazing class. Students learn so much! I am sorry to learn that because of the fee to participate next year that our school will not be able to offer it.

Liz Daigle
Greenbrier East High School

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Steve Lee music teacher @ North Elementary School in Randolph Co.

http://globaloria.org/dld#WVMS

http://globaloria.org/dld#WVMS

Students in Greenbrier County working with their netbooks on a "thinking based" social studies problem.

Greenbrier County Students making a video using the webcam built into their netbooks.

Edmodo being used in Greenbrier County in conjunction with "thinking based" education.

Visually impaired student in Greenbrier County using adaptive technology and working on the same project as the rest of the class.

Collaboration in Greenbrier County!

Use podcasting often with children, aerobic workouts, DVD of John Jacobson routines, videos of older groups helping younger with follow leader on line dance, basic exercise movement. Use one wall of the multipurpose room for projections and looks like big screen for all to see and follow. This takes laptop, iPad, projector and iTunes account to complete the task.

Please, feel free to visit us in our little town of Milton, at 1201 Pike St. Milton Elementary School Cabell County Schools.

Sue Shoffner
Physical Education Instructor

Here are some photos of my students using technology in the classroom. Our matrices lesson was extended by the use of graphing calculators. This is my 6th Period Algebra II class. Hope Wright Fairmont Senior High School

Fairmont Senior High

Fairmont Senior High

I don't have any pictures of the students but we use the white board and camera in class every day. Thank you, Mrs. Hriblan-Special Education Teacher Buckhannon-Middle School

Here is are links to press coverage of Tug Valley High's Global Gateway (1 to 1) kick-off.
Principal Johnny Branch

WSAZ
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Tug_Valley_High_School_Juniors_Get_Brand_New_Laptops__138082808.html

FYI - The American Library Association is celebrating Teen Tech Week - Geek Out @ Your Library, March 4 - 10. I am brainstorming now for events to sponsor that week. Great avenue to highlight digital learning.
Candace Pleasant, Library Media Specialist Hedgesville High School Hedgesville, WV

Please find attached pictures of my 7th grade students digital artwork from the computer program- paint. They learned how to do digital image repetition and flipping and rotating images.

Also, here is the link that on our schools homepage for our art program’s virtual art talent show. It consists of over six hundred photographed pieces of student artwork from this current year to date. Some photographs are of Pop Art , Andy Warhol styled art, using digital cameras to create the images then scanned onto transfer sheets that are ironed onto t-shirts.
Andy Warhol styled Pop are example done digiatly

Virtual Talent Show

I hope you enjoy all you see!!! Mrs. Kay Mason, Jackson Middle School, Art teacher

Thank You for your interest in our photos, and encouragement in digital technology day! Sincerely, Brie Neel

Here is a photo of digital learning taking place in Ms. Mackey’s math classes at Charles Town Middle School.

Articles in the Press

The Journal

The Herald

The Spirit

 We love digital learning in my class. We use the whiteboard and the computer all the time.  Here are a couple of pictures of the students completing a long e sort lesson on the whiteboard.
Thank you,
Whitney Navratil, First Grade, Winchester Ave Elementary

Twittter Connection-While doing unit on careers in music, we discussed how the internet has changed the game for performers. We used Twitter to connect with one artist who embraced using the internet to market himself early in this career.
Composing-Students used online sites such as The Music Lab atlooplabs.com and Roc at aviary.com to create original pieces and to remix existing songs.
April Estep, Teacher, Sherman High School, Teacher Consultant, National Writing Project