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Would you like to replace your grade book by an e-grade-book? Would you like to provide your students with electronic discussion boards where they may edit their work and work collaboratively while you monitor all that? Would you like to run a poll where parents and students share their choice? Would you like your students to take a practice test, or a test, from anywhere, with your control of time and attempts?

IF yes and with other options embedded your solution is LMS - create online lessons with articles, images, audio, and video for your class. Manage discussions, auto-grade assessments, and track scores through a gradebook. It is user friendly, takes you in steps to learn all the options provided it is a fully equipped class. It gives you the option of monitoring the visits to your class by time and date. This is an excellent replacement of your grade-book, attendance book, calendar, announcement board, discussion board, and assignment packs that you carry around or even home. You will have your grade book sorted by the class that you teach with the ability to edit assignments and prepare them ahead of time before publishing to students. When students enter your class they are automatically registered in the attendance book. You may create your own calendar with the event and assignment of your choice. The home page allows you to add announcement to your class continuously. The discussion board is an excellent tool to monitor the work of the different groups in your class and it is a great way allowing them to communicate from a distance. Instead of carrying loads of papers, the drop-box option allows your students to upload their assignments, and they will be accessible to you from any place. It allows you to add wiki-projects too and your grades will be directly linked to you grade-book. This is similar in many features of our class at Walden with other options. If you don’t have something similar provided by your school website, this is a good start. Best regards Omaima khoury
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**Replacement Ideas, Heather Hawkins** A Smart Table can replace many activities that usually require a large number of manipulatives to complete. Also, the table provides opportunities for students to be creative and artistic, drawing and writing on the screen with the Smart Pens. One example of replacement would be a traditional tangram. Tangrams usually utilize plastic shapes being fit together in a particular pattern. This activity is available on the Smart Table, but students will be using their fingers to drag, flip, and move pieces into the tangram. Many students find this much more engaging and even a bit more fun than traditional plastic tangrams. Tangrams are just one example of how a Smart Table can be used to update and replace older activities. The number of activities that this technology could replace grows exponentially as the software is updated and explored. Students can also utilize this for illustrating stories, playing learning games, math activities that previously required manipulatives, and learning to work collaboratively with a group to complete a task. Students often revel in the fun of using Smart Tables because they are engaged and having fun while learning. This technology provides students with the opportunity to get away from their seats and explore something new, often with friends as this is designed for group work.

__ Replacement Ideas __ from Mary Jackson

How do teachers introduce spelling or new vocabulary words? Do we simply read the list from the textbook? How about look them up in the dictionary or glossary? What about write them on the chalkboard then discuss each word?

Using a PowerPoint presentation to introduce and reinforce new vocabulary can greatly enhance student learning, engagement, and understanding. Varying images can be added to visually represent the words. The inclusion of easily added creative animations will grab students’ attention and increases their focus. A simple PowerPoint presentation is a way to replace an outdated practice with a 21st century tool.

Replacement Idea Kahan Handy

Some students are shy and do not share much in class. Often times their voices are not heard. Using voice thread provides an opportunity for them to record themselves while adding graphics, and various slides to their work.

Voice thread allows teachers to focus on objectives will students develop their content. This helps students develop confidence in their work as they are able to edit and present their best voice.

Teachers can instead of a classroom discussion on certain topics provide opportunities for students to for students to engage in a voice thread activity that can be an assessment to to provide data about students knowledge on topics under study.


 * Replacement Idea - Debbie Harrar**

Webquests replace traditional practices of reading the textbook, discussing what was read, and answering paper / pencil questions. To make things different, especially in science and social studies, I often put my third grade students in small groups of 4. Each group is assigned a section of the text to read and discuss with their group. Then, they write the important points on a sheet of chart paper and present to the class. This is ok for some, but I always have the students who do all the work and others who sit back and wait for it all to be finished. I have others who lay all over the floor or distract others in the group. Give my third graders a laptop and suddenly they are all engaged. The WebQuest just might be the ticket to engage students and ensure 100% participation.