Back to School Training
Today when I was in Jacksonville I was asked, "What is your best training tip for when you only have 20 minutes or an hour to train on netTrekker?" Great question. Can any of you help me answer? Mine would be to introduce how to register and how to conduct a basic search, and then use the scavenger hunt found on the netTrekker Customer Resource Page for a follow up activity. What's yours?
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Permalink Reply by Joquetta L. Johnson on -
I like to show the "WOW" features of netTrekker. These are the features that makes netTrekker stand out from others. I emphasize how netTrekker provides sort of a "one stop" shopping for lesson planning. Teachers get very excited when they find resources that can save them time when planning and are easy to use. Since my school district also uses Promethean and BrainPop, I always demonstrate how to do an advance search for BrainPop and Promethean Resources. This is how I get them warmed-up!
Some of the other "WOW" features I share:
-Read Aloud
-Refining a Search Result
-Search by Standards
-Image Search (images resources like Google and Flickr are blocked in my district, so this feature also wins them over)
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Permalink Reply by Karyn Fillhart on -
I think one of the biggest "wow" factors is the search by standard. With so many teachers feeling the push to teach to the standards, it's a handy tool to search by content area, grade level, and specific state standard.
Another favorite is to search for a topic and then refine the search with learning games. The read aloud feature and the dictionary feature are popular, too, especially with parents of students with special needs, struggling readers, and/or English language learners.
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