Technology Rich Classroom Program - Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's World

Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's World

The Technology Rich Classroom (TRC) Program in Kansas is a Title II-D initiative funded through the Kansas State Department of Education.

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Stacy Smith commented on WHIRL's blog post 'YouTube Video Help'

This is a great tool. I also use KeepVid. It allows you to download videos so you aren't streaming, which is a big deal in our district.

12 hours ago

Melanie Farmer replied to Melanie Farmer's discussion 'Week 3 - Tools for Collaboration, Communication, and Creation...and Some Others, Too!' in the group TRC Book Discussion '10

Great troubleshooting, Jona! We would love to see some of your final products =)

14 hours ago

Melanie Farmer replied to Melanie Farmer's discussion 'Week 3 - Tools for Collaboration, Communication, and Creation...and Some Others, Too!' in the group TRC Book Discussion '10

I love delicious too, Joyce, and have you used Diigo? Some perks of Diigo include: you can create groups with your network and save pages with annotations so that others can see what you think about parts of a Web site. Here is a link to the learn a…

14 hours ago

Jenny Gridley replied to Melanie Farmer's discussion 'Week 3 - Tools for Collaboration, Communication, and Creation...and Some Others, Too!' in the group TRC Book Discussion '10

Share a powerful teaching example using of the tools from the chapter: I would like to share how two of my teachers are using their document cameras as web cams and Skype to team teach with one another during reading. The teachers call each other o…

16 hours ago

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Announcement!

Youtube Video Help from a TRC Facilitator

The WHIRL blog post this week is from Jenny Gridley. She is a TRC facilitator and technology integration specialist in Wichita. Jenny maintains a blog called the "Digital Equivalent" which she uses as a communication and sharing device for the teachers that she works with. Take a look at her most recent post where she shares a practical, TRC classroom example of the use of SafeShare.TV. This tool makes playing YouTube videos in the classroom safer and cleaner for teachers!

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NEW to TRC Celebration this Year: TRC Awards!

This year we are implementing program-wide awards and we need TRC team members to make the nominations!