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Schoolwide Tech Integration - What is realistic?
 * Term of the day during morning announcements**
 * Show a PowerPoint over the broadcast system**
 * Show news on cafeteria television with tech terms (could be a "Did you know?")**
 * Ticker tape ideas running in hallways (if some schools have these)**
 * Get students to make a movie using technology**
 * Advertise different aspects of technology that 8th grade students need to brush up on for the Technology Test**

Classroom Tech Terms Integration for teachers - What is realistic for teachers?


 * Post words in classrooms (like Boolean)**
 * Get students to "conduct a boolean search" (and/or/not) when researching projects - Teachers must say the word "Boolean"**
 * hyperlinks - Use the word and tell students to click on the "hyperlink in blue"**
 * ribbon - Refer to the "toolbar" now as "the ribbon".**
 * address bar - Tell students how to navigate to the address bar at the top of the screen instead of "googling" a web site**
 * URLs - Stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Unique address for a file. Use this term when referring to web sites. Refer to "URL" instead of "web address".**
 * Pros and Cons of cell phone usage in classroom**
 * Pros:**
 * student engagement goes up**
 * teacher knows location of cell phone**
 * automatic responses (depends on how set up)**
 * no cost to school**
 * lower cost of textbooks**
 * Cons:**
 * prepaid cell phones - students run out of money**
 * not all students have**
 * sexting**
 * lack of focus for students sometimes**
 * in telling students to text, student to student texting might start and then to prove it teacher must request phone records!**
 * much easier to be off task**