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Welcome to the Parkland Elementary School Trojan Tech Teams Page. Each of our elementary schools has a Trojan Tech Team consisting of up to four 4th and 5th grade students, a teacher/advisor and a Technology Paraprofessional. Student members of the teams are selected to participate in the program based upon their demonstrated leadership skills and proclivity for technology. The Trojan Tech Team Program was designed to develop a corp of student and teacher leaders equipped with the skills to share knowledge of technology tools, develop creative ideas for integrating technology into the learning process and provide basic technology support to students and teachers.

The Elementary Trojan Tech Teams meet four times per year for face-to-face training on new and emerging instructional technologies. At these sessions the students learn how to use an educational technology tool, and then collaborate with teammates to apply what they have learned to design a creative way for teachers or students to integrate the technology tool into the learning process. In addition to the four face-to-face training sessions throughout the year, the teams participate in an online, virtual meeting as a culminating activity at the end of the school year to reflect upon the experiences of the year.

Check back to this page often to see the work of the Parkland Elementary School Trojan Tech Teams!


 * First Session: Oct. 2013 **

Technology Tool: Big, Huge Labs **(@http://bighugelabs.com)**
Big, Huge Labs is a free, online web site offering a plethora of student-engaging activity tools. Using Big, Huge Labs students and teachers can create:
 * motivational posters
 * mosaics
 * calendars
 * billboards
 * trading cards

to list just a few items. At the October 2013 session the Elementary School Trojan Tech Teams learned how to use the trading card tool within the web site; and created examples of the use of the trading card feature in an educational setting!


 * Introduction to the Using Big, Huge Labs Website Trading Cards **


 * Exemplars of the use of Trading Cards in the Classroom: **
 * Vocabulary Trading Cards: **
 * [[image:word of the day tttgrey Mia.jpg width="320" height="478" caption="by: Mia-Joy"]] || [[image:big huge lab trading card1 Leyna.jpg width="319" height="468" caption="by Leyna"]] || [[image:psdmiddleschools/Big Huge Labs Trading Card2 andrew.jpg width="321" height="477" caption="by Andrew"]] ||


 * Continent Riddle Trading Cards: **
 * [[image:Australia trading card JULIA.jpg width="313" height="450" align="left" caption="by Julia"]] || [[image:TROJAN TECH TEAM Tyler B kratzer.jpg width="313" height="450" caption="by Tyler"]] ||


 * Notice the use of differentiation by the students in the types and difficulty levels of the questions employed on the trading cards! **
 * NOTE: in addition to learning how to use the Trading Card feature in Big, Huge Labs the Trojan Tech Team students learned how to use the Advanced Search feature in Google Images to find images that are free to use and share. All of the images used in the examples above are copyright compliant. **


 * Second Session: Dec. 2013 **

** Technology Tool: Prezi (@http://www.prezi.com) **
Prezi is a free, web-based presentation tool providing an engaging alternative to PowerPoint. With Prezi users can create and share presentations including: images, video, diagrams, documents and text. //**Most exciting; Prezi has a collaborative feature that permits teams of users to work on a single project simultaneously, and Prezi presentations allow users to set the play path of the Prezi - creating non-linear presentations!**// Teachers, be aware of three things regarding Prezi accounts:
 * There is a free, educational version of Prezi providing extended storage space and privacy settings for student created Prezis. Be sure to sign-up for the educational version of Prezi for yourself and your students
 * According to Prezi's terms of service, parental permission is required for students under the age of 13 to use the tool
 * Prezi REQUIRES a valid email address in order to sign-up

See the video below for creating educational accounts in Prezi:

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