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The following are notes and resources gathered by the technology department group that attended the NETA Conference (Neil Hokanson, Brian Tegtmeier, Lori Brouillette, Tanya Windham, Dan Smith, Amy Black, Wendy Leach, Steve Van Boening, Tom Coviello, and we have included Laurie Maline's & Mackenzie Green's notes too!).Scroll down and find great resources and information for your classroom, and if you have any questions or want further details please contact us.
Video highlights from our own NPPSD presenters!
Neil's Notes
April 23, 2009 Thursday
General
Title:
Thinking Big as the World Gets Small
Strand:
General
Description:
Cameras in their cell phones make them citizen journalists. The web is their personal library and media center. They communicate in real time with the ends of the earth. But can they convince teachers to let them learn at school with help from such tools? Beyond the "wow", technology provides limitless potential for connectivity and education. See how today's technologies can (and should) engage and teach a new generation of students.
The Revenge of the Digital Immigrants: Teaching with Media Technology
Strand:
General
Description:
What veteran teachers suspected the research has proved: 21st Century students are different. With different attention spans, higher IQ test scores, and social networks, their sophistication comes earlier and with a different skill set. There is a silver lining: We can teach this "New Brain" more effectively, more efficiently, more engagingly. We have the technology! Media has evolved and education must evolve to match.
To add video “properties” Get code from Hall's blog http://blog.discovery education.co/media_matters; put videos in folder on hard drive; enter video file name in code
TV viewing changes brain behavior and thinking
Maximizing retention time 2 seconds to identify if a site is relevant
Discovery Education streaming
QuickTime Pro
Utilize video!!!
BYU study middle school girls self selected to math after being exposed to video with female science and math models.
Short bursts of videos
Responder Technology will put free tvs for free (runs ads) agreement for three years
We can invade deep in their pockets (Zune, iPod, phone, etc.)
Google Applications is free, web-based, interactive software. It includes, but is not limited to, word processing, slide show presentations, and spreadsheets. Learn how to use Google Apps to truly collaborate on student and work projects. You'll realize that Google Apps is a user-friendly way to streamline your efforts when working with students, their families, and other educators. This session would apply across the curriculum and is designed for beginners to advanced technology users. Presentation can be found at:
http://sites.google.com/site/brouhaha311/main-page/teacher-resource-page
Successful laptop initiatives incorporate vision, professional development, support, preparing the network, budgeting, evaluation, and so much more. To learn how to implement a program of this nature, come listen to an example of how Westside began their laptop initiative.
Presenter(s):
Kent Kingston (Westside High School)
Location:
Wingtip, LaVista
Time:
Thursday 4/23 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Westside Community School District #66: “Our 1-2-1 Journey”
Technology will not transform the organization of learning in schools until it fundamentally serves the individual learner in the conduct of their everyday learning experience. Technology has yet to make a meaningful, transformative difference in school-based learning environments, but the promise is within our grasp! This session shares this vision, a systematic planning process, and an innovative approach for embedding technology in schools.
Learning in the 21st Century: The World Has Changed
Strand:
General
Description:
This presentation will discuss how technology, the learner and the world have changed, creating a sense of urgency for education to change and adapt. This presentation will discuss the learning trends and research that indicate a need for change.
This is the first year that Kearney has used MOODLE
Build as you grow
Language Arts
Title:
You Ning, I Ning, We All Ning
Strand:
Language Arts
Description:
Sure, your students are doing non-school writing--text messaging, social networking sites, and blogs--outside of school, but they don't consider this writing. Let us show you how to develop a community of readers and writers using Ning.com. We will model for you how to create your own classroom Ning and then safely use it with students to create discussions and share writing and information in way that students find fun and exciting.
Presenter(s):
Jane Connealy (Pius X High School & Nebraska Writing Project), Cyndi Dwyer (Lincoln Southwest), Kim Ridder (Scott Middle School & Nebraska Writing Project)
It is private and can be set up only for your students.
You can customize everything!
Had students login first time (in public setting) and let them set up accounts and then went back to private.
To manage new students and old you can “ban” students so they cannot see the other term information
http://nppsdning.ning.com North Platte Public Schools Ning (I will be working on this; so, it is set to private for now!)
Web 2.0/Open Source
Title:
Global Classroom on a Budget
Strand:
Web 2.0/Open Source
Description:
This session will share how we have utilized low cost or free programs that are available on the web to engage our students. Programs we will feature are Skype, gaggle.net, edublogs, spellingcity.com, and video/digital storytelling. We will showcase samples of students' work, and leave you with ideas to take back to your classroom.
Presenter(s):
Amy Black (North Platte Public Schools), Wendy Leach (North Platte Public Schools)
Www.qik.com—upload live video from your cell phone
www.polleverywhere.com—get instant results with your phone. Up to 30 responses for free. Fun & interactive. Can also respond with text answers or via web.
www.voicethread.com—people can comment on a video or pictures w/ voice or text.
www.ustream.com—live web streaming broadcast
www.cooliris.com—cool way to display pictures, looks like apple iPod
Try:
Video lesson plans, recorded from a webcam or phone
Quicktime Pro ($30) to trim videos
iTunes U—see if kids can keep up with college lectures from Harvard, MIT, etc.
Hints & Info:
Brains are wired different because of early TV watching experiences
When searching the ‘net, people analyze the information in 2 seconds or less. Will stop when it’s relevant.
IQ’s: Exact information hasn’t changed but kids’ ability to analyze patterns has dramatically increased. Flynn Effect
www.wordle.net-- cool word clouds. Good for word choice or summarizing
www.cuil.com -- cuil is Gaelic for “knowledge”. Breaks down the searches into a magazine type layout with definitions and subcategories. Can safe search. Started by Google defectors.
·Quicktime Pro is a $20 program that makes it very easy to clip digital videos shorter
·Responder Technology (http://www.prosponse.com/) – ?will give free plasma TVs for your school to display messages throughout the school (ad-sponsored)?
The Revenge of the Digital Immigrants (Hall Davidson, Discovery Educator Network)
·Think in advance about what your consequences will be for students misusing laptops, e.g. close the computer & take it away for the rest of class or the rest of the day
·Decide in advance whether music/headphones will be allowed or not
·Watch students’ screens, change room layout to improve your ability to monitor, let kids help each other, move around a LOT
·Recommendation for lab monitoring software – Apple Remote Desktop (Mac only)
·When integrating technology, start where you're comfortable and add a piece slowly (1 piece at a time!) – overdoing it causes burnout
·Kids do need time away from the computers during the day so they don’t get sick of using them – don’t make them live there
·Recommended that teachers need to be able to install programs to try things out or the initiative will stagnate; the tech department can always restore the computer to a previous state if the teacher messes things up. This allowance gave the teachers tremendous freedom to try things out & move learning forward
·Talk with students about what they do with computers at home to get a better idea of how to use them at school
Web 2.0 Tools and Resources for Learning (Morrie Reece, Apple Inc.)
·http://www.diigo.com/– a collaborative research tool that allows you to highlight and take notes on web pages
·We can no longer be teachers of content but instead must be teachers of context. For example: teachers should never answer a factual question but should instead teach students how to find the information they want.
·TED talks (seehttp://www.ted.com/) can be useful in thinking outside the box.
·The changes we’re facing: changing technology, changing learners, changing world
·Questions to ask students: What is the significance? Why does this matter? Why/how does this work?
·Kids live in a time-shifted world (e.g. TiVo) where they can access content on-demand and take a break whenever they want; school is the most scheduled place in their life.
·Students need to learn multitasking, working in cooperative groups, creating products
·Treat behavior in an individual way, not a mass way – just because one kid might abuse a certain technology tool, that doesn’t mean we must ban it.
·The nature of competition, the nature of the workforce, and the nature of education are changing
·Teacher as master learner / emphasize lifelong learning
·At the start of the year, ask students what their favorite TV shows and computer tools are, and then get to know these and use them to connect to students
·The Horizon Report (http://www.nmc.org/horizon) gives an annual overview of major trends that are set to impact us over the next few years
·Google’s advice to students (regarding how to get a job at Google): major in learning – analytical reasoning, communication skills, a willingness to experiment, team players, passion and leadership.
·Thomas Edison said his “failures” were not failures but stepping stones to success – innovation depends on risk-taking.
·6 design principles of the 21st Century High School: 21st Century Skills, Relevant and Applied Curriculum, Informative Assignments, Culture of Community and Innovation, Social & Emotional Connection (including teacher/student), 24/7 Access to Resources
·Kids need tools to create & distribute, access information, build collaborative environment
·Recommended books: A Whole New Mind, Grown Up Digital, Disrupting Class
Building Innovative Learning Environments for the 21st Century (Stephanie Hamilton, Apple Inc.)
·Be open to new learning – focus on what’s possible, not just what is
·Accountability could be accomplished through IEPs for every student as opposed to standardized testing – are they meeting their individual learning goals?
·3 most important lessons
oUnderstand the adoption cycle:
§Substitution(just the box): technology acts as direct tool substitute, with no functional improvement
§Augmentation(the box + internet + productivity): technology acts as direct tool substitute, with functional improvement
§Modification(the box + internet + productivity + creativity): technology allows for significant task redesign
§Redefinition(the box + internet + productivity + creativity + professional services + mobility + mobile apps + rich academic content): Technology allows for the creation of new tasks, previously inconceivable
§New modes of inquiry, new rich digital content, new access to content, new learning experiences, new culture of innovation & creativity
§David Thornberg “Campfires in Cyberspace” – campfire (formal learning and collaboration space to listen & absorb knowledge), watering hole (informal learning spaces to discuss & create meaning), cave (individual learning space to reflect and create meaning), mountain top (present and publish, demonstrate understanding). Me/one-to-many/many-to-many/either one-to-many or many-to-many
§How do we get student products on the web? They need to create and share/publish – when their audience is the web, their motivation to produce something with high quality increases
§Apple student gallery for publishing?
oBuild a sandbox (let the end user play & experiment with as much freedom as possible)
§Technology is often used in the “Business Productivity Model” which is restrictive and functional, seeking to automate and reduce workforce in order to be more productive and cost-efficient
§In learning, it should promote knowledge creation and dissemination; creative exploration; highly collaborative, interactive, and ad-hoc uses; software solutions that are expressive; user/student centric approach; total opportunity of ownership
Math + Technology = Learning (Tammy Worcester, ESSDACK)
·PowerPoint ideas: make a pizza with different facts about yourself (e.g. placement of sausage on left or right of pizza indicates handedness & color of sausage indicates hair color), ask a question like “how can 1+1 = something other than 2?” and have students make a PowerPoint slide (e.g. 1 + 1 = 50 for 1 quarter + 1 quarter = 50 cents) that reveals the question, then upon click it reveals a hint, and upon final click it shows the answer.
·Excel ideas: make a bar graph & change the bars to clip art, copy and paste graph into PowerPoint (use Paste Special) in order to be able to add animation (under Effect Options, the Chart Animation tab allows you to have the bars appear one at a time), tell students if they have put in the right answer by choosing FormatàConditional Formatting in the answer cell and adjusting the properties to indicate the correct answer.
·Google spreadsheets can be converted to forms using the Form menu item, and when students send their responses to questions they populate the spreadsheet – very much like CPS clickers but using the Web instead of having to buy separate clicker hardware!
Integrating Technology Across All Disciplines (Corinne Hoisington, Central Virginia Community College)
·http://www.toondoo.com/– create your own cartoon (may occasionally have questionable cartoons on the front page?)
·http://www.wordle.net/– creates a word cloud (one of the fonts is named Sexsmith – may be a potential problem for some kids?)
·http://www.cuil.com/– search engine created by some people who left Google, has SafeSearch option, gives a paragraph about each site in the results list, gives related categories & searches
·http://www.polleverywhere.com/– poll via text message with results updated instantly in your web browser (does have an option for web voting, and costs to have a survey over 30 votes)
·http://chacha.com/– get answers to your Internet search questions from real people (they hire high school students & others to respond to your question by searching for the info…get a response within 2-3 minutes; need to register for free in order to ask questions online instead of by text)
·http://www.mediaconverter.org/– copy the web address of almost any video including YouTube, paste it to this site, and it will convert to any of 20 file types (100MB maximum file size for free version)
·http://www.newseum.org/– view front pages of approx. 700 newspapers across the world (click on “Today’s Front Pages”)
Exploring 1-1 Learning: Success Factors (Morrie Reece, Apple Inc.)
·Barriers to Ubiquitous Computing: funding, school board buy-in, administration openness, teacher buy-in, research / evidence of effectiveness, need ubiquitous access at home, wireless security, union contracts and tenure, lack of teacher and parent involvement, staff resources, staff development and staffing, teacher trust that district will invest, school construction priority, lack of understanding of impact, conservative community won’t finance technology, need control of content delivery at classroom level, devices that are kid-proof
·Reasons schools have tried it: enhance learning and achievement in core subjects, develop 21st century skills, provide increased access to technology / eliminate Digital Divide, foster use of wireless technology
·To move forward stop asking, “Should we do this?” and start asking, “How can we do this?”
·Seven Key Success Factors: Leadership (vision, expectations, identify and secure needed tools and training), Curriculum (progressive; willing to incorporate Internet and digital content; maintain focus on standards assessment, human interaction, & 21st century skills), Sustainable Financial Plan / Funding (hardware, software, infrastructure, staff development, project management, professional services, digital content – 75% hardware, 25% other stuff), Sustainable Staff Development (digital literacy, technology-infused learning, digital leadership, consulting services), Assessment and Reporting (organizing and reporting school & district data; student, teacher, and parent surveys; classroom walkthrough protocol; learning project portfolio), Technology Infrastructure and Support Plan (hardware, software, tech help), Receptive and Involved Community (make the vision & communication clear).
·Learn from mistakes, solve problems creatively, learn from others who have implemented 1-1
·Our GPS units do not have USB connections so products may be limited.
·Identify GPS coordinates, and then ask students to identify things of interest at that location.
·A good idea may be to write a tour of North Platte describing GPS locations and history of each of the area. Maybe a good idea for AP History.
·Google literature, history, science or any subject tours.
·Student’s paths may be tracked using GPS>
·Do our digital cameras have GPS ability to print lat & long on the picture?
·Travel bugs may be used to study geography.
·How does this all fit with GIS?????????????
Tammy’s Technology Hints
·Vocoo (I think) may let students develop their own music. This avoids copy right issues.
·Vozme-Type or copy text then the software will read the text to the student.
·Kickyoutube.com
·Skitch—screen capture for Mac-free
·Jing-upper right corner of screen.
Google Tricks and Tips
·Calculator in search window.
·Conversion tool metric to SAE use the word in.
·Dictionary—define etc.
·Advanced search—type in key words.
·Bottom pull down window-power points.
Angel
·Myelearning.org
·This seems to be a group of service units that has joined to make the program affordable.
·The consortium has their own server. ESU 10 & 3.
·Similar to black board.
·160 schools in NE.
·Clickers will work????
·Information & documents teachers generate become community property. Teacher generates a handout as an employee of the district, so the district owns it.
·Mr. O’Malley indicated that they used Angle in Sutherland. He said that students could use drop boxes and turn in assignments without having email accounts.
Thursday I spent time walking through vendors, and time in the poster sessions.
Friday morning keynote.
·Distance equals band width.
·Information transfer has flattened the world.
·Connectivity provides jobs to small environments. Think about how this affects rural NE.
·Connectivity may help us retain our youth.
Innovative Learning Environments
·Learning needs to lead technology.
·Define learning goals then determine the technology that leads to those goals.
Steve editorial: How do we handle students that put forth effort not to learn? Can technology motivate these students? I am not so sure that I am the expert on what I need to teach. I let standards guide me. I also depend on the research gone into writing a text guide my methods.
·Maine 1-1 initiative supported with a staff of 5.
·Things did not go so well in Australia.
·1-1 learning not 1-1 technology.
·Teachers need to feel that they cannot do their job without technology.
·We use technology today to substitute what we have always done. Ex: attendance. Technology needs to redefine what we do.
·Do more than put in boxes with wires.
·Do our net books have the ability to handle video? I just talked to Neil about this. Yes
Social setting
·This conference allowed for learning in a social setting. I am able to understand some of the tech depts. issues as we traveled and shared meals.
·Students need to have some relaxed places to learn. Ex: The small rooms at the high school allow this. As a teacher I need to be careful that these spaces are used for learning vs. socializing.
·Students work needs to be published: web, refrigerator, how about the TVs in the commons? The display boards throughout the building do this. Pod casts etc.
·Create a sandbox for students to play in.
·Students need to generate knowledge then disseminate that knowledge.
·When we discussed Angel we talked about user groups for email. User groups change. Ex: My earth science class has had about 22 members all year. About half of these students have been in the course all year. My chemistry enrolment is much more stable.
Student Centered Leaning
·I needed to eat lunch and this was not my session of choice, but it had seats and the session I wanted to attend did not have.
·OPPD does take away technology availability for inappropriate use. I like what Brian said last evening about not taking away technology as it is additional work for the teacher.
PASCO session
·We worked with the Spark. I am sure it would get easier, but I think our investment in net books is correct. The net books provide more flexibility.
·I need to learn about GIS. PASCO did give me a GPS device that will connect with the Explorers that are in room 2109. We have a DVD that I need to watch.
·It will be difficult to find people to work in the sciences.
·I would like an opportunity for the geography, biology, and earth science folks to learn about GIS (Global Information Systems)
Cool Science and Social Studies—Tammy W.
·Much of this program was directed to elementary teachers.
·I need to learn more about Google earth and GIS. I am wondering if Cathy Weaver may be a source of some in-service here. I can see this is something for some of the sciences and geography. Maybe the ESU could do something here. I will email Deb Paulman.
·Does our school have or need to have a paid account??
Changing professional development for the 21st Century
·21st Century does not focus on technology, but assumes that it is present.
·Support systems are necessary.
·Sometimes people in charge just don’t get it.
·Technology will accelerate the district vision or mission.
·Identify curriculum goals first, and then develop the in-service, support and eventually the technology.
·Name workshops carefully. Names are motivators.
·Lessons need to focus on curriculum not technology.
·Change is difficult.
·Teachers do not need to know all of a program to use it. We need to recognize that students can be the experts. Teachers fear students knowing more than they do.
·Keep students focused on student learning.
Final
Laurie Maline's Notes
The Revenge of the Digital Immigrants
This is the link for our keynote speaker from day one. I have also included the site he showed at NETA. He did some really cool things with Google earth and Jing.
JamStudio.com (students can create their own music) use for power points, moviemaker, and Photostory.
Vocaroo (free voice recorder allow to use computer mic) (you could email voice to friends) you can embed the code to blog or wiki.
Vozme (uses text converts to voice). Cut paste into text for kids who have hard time understanding the writing process they could use as a proofreading tool!!!!
Kick YouTube type kick in the YouTube address bar then follow the directions on how to download your desired video to your computer or thumb drive to show to your students.
Classtools Random Name/Word Picker (fruit picker, it looks like a slot machine). You could use this for spelling or randomly pick students for a turn for a classroom game.
Research Is Not a 4 Letter Word (EBSCO )
In this session we learned about EBSCO and how to use it with students for research. This site offers a way for students to search hundreds of articles for information they may need for research projects of all kinds. If you get the chance to look at the sight and how it can be applied to students when researching it I would highly recommend it to educators.
Got Angel
Angel notes: myelearning.org of Nebraska
This is a Learning Management system Similar to Blackboard or Moodle.
Social Bookmarking
In this session two social bookmarking sites were discussed. Social bookmarking is a way to surf the internet finding sites that interest you and rather than save them to favorites you can save them to the site so that no matter what computer you are on whether it is the one at school or the one at home you would always have a way to look at for favorites and with their tools share them with colleagues, students, or friends.
http://delicious.com/ Delicious adds a browser button to you browsers tool bar so that you can options available to you as you surf.
http://www.diigo.com/index Is like Delicious however it has a highlight feature to help show others what about a page you found interesting. It also works with Twitter. You can also add floating sticky notes to your page.
Student-Centered learning & Technology Modules
This was a very good session that had lots of useful information on Google Docs, Web 2.0, Podcasting, Blogging , Wikis, ect. The different topics are listed to the left on the page. This is a great resource.
If you need ideas for lesson plans, sites for your interactive whiteboards, or a site for students to access in the lab Thinkfinity can help you with customized searches and a calendar at the bottom of the page to help with links to events that occurred on that day. It is free of charge.
-go to “custom animation”, add effect to bar, like “dissolve”
-on right, go to animation options to effect options (arrow down on right)
-“chart animation”, come in “by element in category”
-then the bars should come in on their own whenever you choose to click for the presentation
Algebra Challenge
-under excel
-put information on graph paper or grid, and when you enter the right answer for an equation, the answer box will turn green
-blank excel workbook
-resize the columns and rows to make squares instead of rectangles
-start with cell A2, type question, put answer in cell B2
-under “format”, choose “conditional formatting”
-cell value is equal to (answer)
change format for color by selecting a number and saying if it is right or wrong by color, green if correct answer
-when child answers question, the box will respond with the color you chose under your format
---do this with math, spelling, vocab, quizzes
Google spreadsheet
-under google docs
-you could create a new document, presentation, spreadsheet
-you can use this online with students once it is created
-under name, write 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in each cell
-save it under your name (?)
-go to “form”
-put multiple choice answers
-find address at bottom of page, click on it
-in address box, go to tinyurl.com (see Neil) and insert your address and change it to a smaller title
-have a power point created and have kids respond on your online spreadsheet, with just numbers, no symbols
-you can use this with estimation
------maybe do this with clickers instead of google and website link
activity idea----on power point, give fun estimation questions and give a hint and picture so kids can respond, examples:
“how many calories is in a big mac”
“how many tall in feet is the eifel tower”
“how many inches tall is this woman”
-put answers on slide to view after kids have chosen answers
-have kids find average of answers, or graph the information
Cool Science and Social Studies Computer Activities
Class Zoo
power point
-overview: have kids choose a zoo animal, and they can make a chart displaying their animal
-search for an animal in clip art and enlarge it
-put bars around animal by adding a long skinny rectangle from top to bottom, change bar by adding a shadow (use #12)
-duplicate (control d) and use up arrow 2 times, and right arrow over until it is spaced out appropriately, then duplicate the new arranged bar
-add a text box to show child’s simple research over animal, along with their name
-make text box white and give it a border, making it look like a sign on the bars
Postcard
-instead of writing a research report over a topic
-make their research look like a postcard, including a picture on right side, a letter message on the left as a letter containing at least 3 facts of topic, and of course a stamp in the top right corner
-to print postcard: handout, 2 slides per page
-when you print it, put two on a page and you can cut them out
-maybe make a duplicate slide, printing 2 of their postcards, taking one home and keeping one at school to grade and post
Create own flag
-make a flag showing things that represent you, brainstorm ideas before
-slide 2 color page, add a large white (or other color) rectangle horizontally across the page, KEEP IT CLEAN AND SIMPLE
-add a couple of clip art images that represent you in a creative way
-after flag slide is done, go back to first slide and explain why you created the flag as you did
-I had 3 stripes on my flag because
-print to landscape
-fold flag across middle, cut out flag , and put skewer/chopstick through middle to hold up flag
High Five for Heroes
-use 2 slides, decide who hero is (sports stars, someone from real life, ect)
-page set up to portrait
-add title to middle of 1st slide
-slide 2: make long textbox, about 2 inches wide, and type why this person is their hero, “My dad is my hero, and he deserves a high five because…”
-when you print trace our hand around the title page, over the words
-cut out narrow, long vertical words on slide 2 and glue words under hand to display
Building Healthy Bodies
-brainstorm ways to keep body healthy (no drugs, seat belt, exercise…)
-blank presentation
-slide 1: add large rectangle on left side of page, change rectangle color to white, on right side of page add a smiley face under shapes so it is large on the page
-slide 2: put a large rectangle across bottom of slide, duplicate it on top, then add two shorter rectangles above bottom longer ones, change colors to white
-when print, print as a handout (2 slides per page) if you want smaller people cut out rectangles for arms and legs, and circles for smiley face and larger circle for body
-social studies: make this a historical character with facts on arms and legs
Animated Cycle
-create one slide and put animated clip art all on one side in relevant positions with title and name
-to find animated clip art, select “movie” as a media type for the results when in searching clip art
-duplicate slide 3 times (insert duplicate slide or hover and control d
-on slides, add arrows, one set on each slide
-select a timed transition
-to continue playing: set-up show “loop continuously until escape”
Mouse over Map
-this shows a diagram that you’ve created, and when you hover over part of it, information will show about that piece of the diagram
-use action settings, hyperlink to slide with information that goes with the information page
-choose option “mouse over” on action
HOW: (kind of confused)
-create 5 slide show
-give title over slide, crust, mantle, inner core, outer core
-make circles and color them to show the layers
-for an invisible button, apply action first, then change the fill color to no fill and no border
-place button over area of choice to show information
-copy buttons over every slide
-add text
-other ideas: midwest region of the US, state information, heart diagram
Google Maps
-enter school address, zoom in to see surrounding area
-click on school icon to pop up menu, click on search nearby (?), and enter “hotel” or “pizza”, “Walgreens”
-to find driving directions, use pop up button and place in other address to get driving directions
-drag blue line directions to a specific town you’d like to visit along the way
-with google account, make customized map
-go to tab at top “my maps”
-create new map, title up
-add markers to map by dragging blue peg tab at top to area on map
-you can add a description for a place, change the marker color/design
-create a google account and give it to your students to use at the same time if you choose
-if you could choose, which state would you live in and why
-kids can use local maps and use markers to highlight important areas
-they can also write a story across the map by adding markers and creating descriptions, maybe one like “The Storm”
-you can use this with google earth by pressing button at top and view it with the world!!
Rev Up Reading and Writing Classroom with Technology
Read Write Think
www.readwritethink.org/student
Loads of ideas for ideas!!!
click on activity link, and find “visit this activity
www.wordle.net/create
use for word choice, copy and paste sample and see fluency
social studies, copy and paste speech, see main idea
Tall Tale
-write tall tale of their own, story or poem
-type it on word
-divide page into 3 columns
-print
-cut apart into strips and tape together to make a TALL tale
Book Marks
-use this as a book report or author highlight
-use power point, blank slide
-divide page into 4 vertical equal sections by using the straight line tool at bottom of page
-add textbox title at top
-go online and find a picture of book cover (go to authors website or to )
-use textbox and type information
-to copy and paste your strip into the other 3, duplicate (control d) and use your arrows to place where you’d like the 2nd strip to be, then duplicate it again, and it will go into the other sections perfectly
-when you print these, have the creator keep 2, I’ll keep one, and give one to the library to hand out
Summary Sleuth
-blank presentation on power point
-choose a topic and find information, copy and paste the text
-paste it into your power point
-when it is too wide for your slide, paste it into a textbox that you’ve made as large as your slide
-to paste in regular text, go to paste special and choose unformatted text
-choose important information
-choose an oval from your bottom tool bar and place it over information, and change color of oval, make it look like a magnifine glass, making circle transparent
-use a textbox to write a summary
Sticky Notes
power point, blank slide
-change slides page setup and make 7 ½” by 7 ½”
-add pictures, text
-make these for a proofreading checklist, and give to kids to use
-give title as “from the desk of…”
-at bottom say my name
-put a picture over the middle
------to change a pictures color, double click a picture and change its color
-make picture transparent by changing it to “washout”
-to print, make 4 duplicate slides and change printing options to “handout” (4 to a page)
-put sticky notes over squares, and play with a printer to see which way it needs to be fed into the printer (sticky note side down?)
Greeting Card
change page setup to portrait in power point
-slide 1: type message in word art (thank you, get well…)
-stretch it out and turn it upside down
-slide 2: blank
-slide 3: clip art
-slide 4: greeting in large text box
-print as a handout with 4 slides per page, then fold and trim edges
-have students do reports on animals with facts and pictures inside
Hinky Pinky
word choice fun with a pair of rhyming words that answer a question
“A hairpiece warn by a hog… pig wig”
Choose your own ending
-summarize your book on a few slides
-on last slide, create 3 alternate endings
-use an action button to give the alternate endings
-place action button at bottom of page, and choose it to create a hyperlink to a certain page with your ending choice
Extending Learning Through Technology
find power point with ideas and examples at www.gips.org/westlawn/student-projects
email presenter wastelk@gips.org
look at the wastlawn site for LOTS of good ideas!!
How to integrate with full schedules:
-utilize the people around you, collaborate with others
-Denise D., middle/high school students taking a course, have them share their knowledge and learning…could it be part of their course?
-work with Allison on a music program and have kids do research, then make project on tuxpaint and display at music program
Ideas:
-make a picture using media blender/tuxpaint, save it to a jpeg document, and have it behind the kids when they present
-use tuxpaint to create projects, like have students create their own version of a story, an alternate ending
-make a patriotic project on media blender/tuxpaint and add music to show families
-use kidspiration to show what they learned, like in science they can show the cycles of a butterfly
-authors purpose, point of view, instead of writing ideas on paper, have kids put work on kidspiration with words and a pic…possibly an extention with HAL
-take pictures of your community and write about the services it provides
-use “keynote” as a way to share writing, it shows the writing sample a child typed, and also have child talk as the pages are on the screen
-podcast more work…have kids
-book talks/reports, write book talk, say it into an ipod, and display the title, put book onto library website so other kids can see if they want to check it out
-use email to ask teacher questions about a question, when a teacher is on maternity leave
-Skype kids when you have a sub just to check in
-comic life allows you to create pictures and add speech bubbles to their pic…focus on using voice, insert picture and add thought bubbles for an “I have a dream” project
-comic life is a program that you need to purchase, but can use a 30 day free trial
-word choice and sentence fluency (in the program called “pages”), use text boxes to show better word choice and sentence fluency, getting longer and more descriptive sentences
-compare/contrast different areas of our earth using google earth, look at vegetation
-a proscope is like a microscope that links up with your computer so the whole class can see samples, it can take pictures too
-link technology standards with grade level standards
Integrating Technology into the Elementary Classroom
------see website for good ideas, Lisa Schultz, third grade, Arapaho Schools
-use google earth more!!!! ----twitter to collaborate with other teachers
-insert pictures from net shift, control 4?
-kidspiration: graphic organizers, pictures, among other things
-you can use this program as an assessment tool, you can save it and print work off
-tux paint: use stamps and words to make posters, book covers, illustrate stories, turn them into iMovies where students put their story and pictures together, and read them for their audience (can we do this with movie maker???)
-----cool idea: provide classes in the summer for kids to sign up for (movie maker, power point, ect) -teach kids how to use notebook for smartboard, they can create projects for smartboard and we can go over them
-podcasting ideas: read a poem, story, readers theater, add pictures or video, teach a lesson, chapter review, showcase art, interview someone also extend for HAL to display research or teach other students
-ipods can be used for reading fluency, use as a hotread at the end of the week for 6 minute fluency, also use for readers theater
-iMovies: turning tuxpint into a movie, look at yellow handout for ideas on how to transfer tuxpaint into a movie (“command, shift, 4” changes it into a jpeg file and put into movie)
-utilize contacts with soldiers…incorporate them into projects
-use notebook software templates to create more specific lessons to our curriculum: vocab, reading charts, scan documents into and use identifying skills, have work set-up with the answers under the shade, then reveal and discuss
-use my remote more so I don’t have to be at board to advance slide
-use smartboard recorder more, especially for subs
-create movie from smartboard project, go to Lisa’s website for ideas and directions for
Sneak a Peek to a Techno Future
Gizmo, math and science program, project based explorelearning.com
-subscription based website around $6 per student, cheaper for larger districts, get 30 day trial, pretty reasonable, there is a sale right now for elementary, it is a new site
-it provides plans, materials, review, worksheets, project guides, pretest, assessment, shows teacher scores, download activities to your account and give kids link to assess, like quia kind of
---awesome capabilities with this site!!!!!!! TRY IT!!!!
-podcast ideas: book talks, use a microphone for better sound quality, create in the classrooms in groups, don’t need everyone there at the same time, you can edit
-keep it simple, just use audio and have kids give a book review
-iMovies: radio commercials, nursery rhyme renditions, living poems
-webquests: good website to search: www.webquest.org
-use more in content areas, search by subject or grade level
-photo story: personal narratives, field trips around world, poems, directions for completing a task
-power point ideas: dream house floor plan (use as a draying tool), what am I?, camp pamphlets
-working together in ESU 17…sandhills (can be 108 miles apart)
-collaborate classrooms, share technology that each school might not have
-do this with science (weather), think about contacting Valentine, Ainsworth, maybe write up script to help organize kids
------use this to get together with other teachers who are interested skyping with other classrooms across the state, click on Skype in schools under the forum
nebraskaeducatorsnetwork.ning.com
contact Molly Aschoff in Valentine to skype with (search: mollyaschoff on skype)
sara.olson@kearneypublic.org 2nd grade in Kearney who wants to skype
Beyond Boundaries: Using Social Media to Teach Math to K-6 Girls
HOW PRESENTERS USE HANDHELDS:
-kids use I-pac’s
-write stories and draw pictures using sketchy (needs windows XP) on the i-pac to create their own stories with words and pictures that relate to math
-I am going to the store with $____
-use also with division, create a process step by step by using a new slide for each step
-also write to show stages of a process by using new frames each time, like showing the cycle of a seed and write simple descriptions on it
-i-pacs also have word and other software to use, can draw a picture and write text by it, and can also connect to the internet
-they have a lot of memory, and add an SD card for more memory
-you can upload student work to view, and can also download your own work onto the handhelds leaving blank slides for students to answer the questions, THIS IS A BETTER FORM OF A QUIZ
-when uploading the files, save the information onto a “gif” file instead of” jpeg”
IDEAS TO THINK ABOUT:
-Ning is a site that is like a webpage, is possibly more user friendly than google web documents, you can include twitter on it, while also posting pictures
-they use twitter for individual students by creating accounts for each child
-before using the handhelds, go over a set of expectations and sign a contract for the guidelines
--------note to self---------use handhelds that the district has, ask Denise D. when she used them with HAL
--------use handhelds with math, science, and writing next year
-------we want to use more technology to engage kids, hopefully it will make learning less “boring” and give students the motivation to stay in school!!!!
Free Elementary Reading Resources on the Web
go here for all of the websites: www.ops.org/elementary/king click on teacher resources
email shannon.foster@ops.org
Sites:
-internet4classrooms
-eduplace (choose a grade level)
-eword game (good one, I used it in Denver) good for unfamiliar vocab or goes with reading series? make a table to show
-crossword challenge is a good one too
-Transport to Reading (good sound) and choose one of 4-5 activities
-Reading Ring (higher level) based on humor if they get a joke, then view comic strip and answer questions based on material, order the frames in the comic
-Orson’s Farm (primary) rhyming words
-Word Sort email Shannon if you’d like 2nd grade unit phonic list
-a game a day: give a new problem every day, fun for wake-up work or as a reading
-visuwords (Caution: type word in yourselves and look at it before you view it)
-if you enter a word, it gives you a web with synonyms, antonyms, and other ways the word is related to something else
-good for word choice or vocabulary
-gamequarium…readquarium, this has a lot of reading skills with fun games
-starfall (primary): click on “learn to read” it has letters, rhyming, easy sentences…there is an audio component for each activity
-roythezebra (primary): for guided reading
-it gives you prereading questions, then it gives you the story to read, post reading worksheet with comprehension questions, there are several sections so this can be an ongoing lesson
-there are other phonemic activities on this site too
-gamegoo: funny with a lot of stories to choose from
-tooth fairy: synonyms, antonyms
-monkey business: simple sentence construction, gives sentence parts
-word builder (from eduplace): choose a grade and progress through units, build words using a spelling strategy, kids progress at their own pace
-little fingers (pre-K and primary): colors, phonics, counting, math
-tumblebooks.com reads books to you
-highlightskids.com
-thewritesource.com: 4th grade prompt ideas
The Connection: Math, Intervention, Technology
-connect your math instruction and give it a relationship for students so they have a meaning to relate back to
----calculating area by deciding how much money is needed to carpet our hallway, or practice perimeter by rebuilding the walls of our classroom
-have kids make a word problem with every number problem
-discussion is the most important piece, why did you do the problem that way? how did you solve it? what would have happened if…
-iSucceed MATH 3-8 grade
-combines technology and print and provides an intervention piece
-can see answers, how many attempts were made to solve, gives answers if it is incorrect several times, if they do not understand completely, it takes the child to a reteach portion
-this is mainly an intervention piece, materials come in kits, 5 kits = 5 contents, it isn’t divided by grade level, so there is a decimals, fractions kit, measurement and geometry kit
-interventions should meet child at level, so maybe not practice multiplication, but look at mastering addition
-there is also a technology piece, vocabulary cards
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