Transcript So Little Time, So Many Needs

So Little Time, So Many Needs
Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction
Today’s Outcomes
• Leave with at least 1 idea you
can use in the classroom now
• Leave with the motivation to
dive into another site and
learn it
• Leave with lots of resources to
help you meet the needs of
your diverse learners
Topics
• Google Earth creating placemarks
• Scrapbook Blogs
• Podcasts by GCast
• Online Stories
• Writeboard
• More Resources by Subject
What is differentiated
instruction?
• Curriculum designed to meet individual
needs of students by modifying:
– Content
– Process
– Product
– Learning Environment
Joining Curriculum and Learning
Thomlinson, 1999, p 45
Principles of a Differentiated
Classroom
• The teacher:
– Focuses on what is essential in
curriculum
– Understands, appreciates and nurtures
differences in students
– Adjusts content, process and product
according to student readiness, interests
and learning profiles
Principles of a Differentiated
Classroom
• The students
– All participate in respectful and authentic
work
– Collaborate with each other and the
teacher in learning
Principles of a Differentiated
Classroom
• The classroom climate
– Demonstrates interdependence of
assessment and instruction
– Demonstrates flexibility
– Nurtures goals which maximize growth
and individual successes
Why Use Technology to Differentiate?
• Accommodates differences in student
experience and ability
• Provides motivation to most all students
• Offers flexible learning opportunities
• Provides students the chance to learn 21st
century skills needed for the real world
http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Differentiation/five.html
Google Earth Tours
Adding Place Markers
• Right click on My Places and Add
a new folder
• Find your location
• Right click on the folder you
added and then Add a Placemark
• Repeat for each placemark you
want in your tour
Creating a Tour
• Once you have all your locations in
your folder, right click and Save As
• Save to wherever your students can
access it
• Google Earth Webinar (for more info)
– https://discoveryed.webex.com/discoveryed/k2/tool/record/recor
dinginfo.php?RecordID=10111647
– http://discoveryeducation.typepad.com/north_south_carolina/200
6/02/goolge_earth_an.html
– Password= Discovery
Scrapblog and GCast
Scrapblog and Smilebox
• www.scrapblog.com
• www.smilebox.com
• Allows for online scrapbooking/
journaling http://jm.scrapblog.com/school/
• Can be embedded into teacher blog
• Ideas include:
– pictures of math manipulatives to visually
show a math problem
– Pictures of field trip to document learning
– Pictures from history to tell a story
– Drawn pictures in Kid Pix, become a story
GCast
• www.gcast.com
• An easy way to podcast
• Either upload audio saved with Audacity
or call by phone
• 1-888-65-GCAST to record
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Reader’s Theater for an online podcast
Review of what they learned for the day
Create poetry and read it
http://www.gcast.com/u/camruns/main
Online Stories and Writeboard
Online Stories
http://www.quia.com/pages/onlinestories.html
• Tumble Bookshttp://www.muskingumlibrary.org/children/tumble.html
Online books that are read to you with text highlighting
• StoryLine- http://www.storylineonline.net/
Actors reading stories online
• KidzClub- http://www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html
Leveled readers with online stories and printable stories
• Read-On Audio Storieshttp://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiosto
ries/index.html
Links to many stories all with audio
Writeboard
• http://www.writeboard.com/
• A way to collaborate with many people on
one document
• Ideas include:
– Copy child’s story to Writeboard to allow
parents/ professional to edit
– Write stories together with parents,
community members, or other students
– Have daily math problems that parents/
community members could solve and
explain their solutions
More Resources and Ideas
Math Resources
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Digital Camera scavenger hunts for geometry terms or shapes
Use digital camera to take pictures to explain math problem (i.e. picture of 4 dice, picture
of 2 dice and then picture of 6 dice to show 4+2=6)
T-Charts/ Venn Diagrams using Kid Pix, Inspiration, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher
Graphs using Excel, Max Count, or Kid Pix, Create a Graph Online
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/
Online geoboards http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_172_g_2_t_3.html
Math Activities, glossary and resources such as online manipulatives K-6
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/
Glyphs using Kid Pix
Online Money http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_3.html
Geogebra-free download-6-12 http://www.geogebra.at/cms/
Math Casts-watch or create http://www.mathcasts.org/mc/trf/4/ns/4ns1.2/
http://www.mathcasts.org/index.php?title=How_to_Afford_a_Mathcast_Studio
Sketchup free 3-D modeling program and once models are built they can be placed into
Google Earth http://sketchup.google.com/
Lego Program http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm
Reading Resources
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Internet Children’s Public Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location search
when studying other countries
Read real product reviews and write/record spoken voice of recommendations based on
what they find (any shopping site- such as www.amazon.com)
Read Please Text Reader- free download of program that reads text from any source
http://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/#rp2003
Text Aloud converts written text to MP3 format for iPod
http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/index.html
Natural Reader http://www.naturalreaders.com/ Uses the AT&T natural voices and
converts the text to MP3 format for use on iPods
Audacity free program to record voices- readers theater, book reviews, review of what you
learned for the day and email to parents http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Annenburg videos- free online videos on many different subject areas and topics
http://www.learner.org/
Read, Write, Think website full of ideas and online materials/ activities for the language
arts curriculum http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Librivox- volunteer to read stories and record online as well as listen to stories online
http://librivox.org/
Writing Resources
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Use Writeboard to have editors collaborate www.writeboard.com
Use digital cameras to tell a story, embellish a preexisting story, or help
explain problems through still pictures or through live video
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/index.html
Use an online note tool to help groups collect notes together quickly and
easily http://notestar.4teachers.org/
Participate in the Internet projects http://alpha.fdu.edu/~cohen/fiveways.htm
SpringDoo http://www.springdoo.com/ A video email system where students
could send video responses to the community on books read, current events,
etc.
More Writing Resources
– Tiddlywiki: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
– Zoho Writer http://www.zohowriter.com/
– Wikispace http://www.wikispaces.org
Social Studies Resources
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Have students read an article, use Audacity to record a response to the article
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm
Create a blog to document how history is being written everyday through the
current events
Google Earth tours of historical places with website links for more information
Internet Children’s Public Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location
search when studying other countries and read literature from that country
Google Earth game
Try Scholastic online activities
– Social Studies/News/Content Area Reading
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/
– If you were president game
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/games_quizzes/electiongame/
game.asp
Science Ideas
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Use digital camera and PowerPoint handout view (Under Print choose
Handouts) to take pictures of steps in experiment and then have students
write was happened.
Foss Web http://www.fossweb.com/ Online science activities
Online Microscope http://www.open2.net/science/microscope/frames.html
Don’t know the answer to a scientific question? Ask Science Bob or Dr.
CRAM http://www.sciencebob.com/questions/questions.html
http://www.cramscience.ca/drcram.php
Online telescope that you can control from your computer http://mowww.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/
BBC Science http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml
AOL Jr Science http://www.aolatschool.com/junior/science
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Quiz Star- online quizzes that can include multimedia
http://quizstar.4teachers.org/
Assign-a-day- Create your own online assignment calendars with links to
resources http://assignaday.4teachers.org/
Study Shack http://www.studystack.com/ Create your own study cards or
self-quizzing system or use some of the thousands already created
Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Create your own rubrics for saving or
printing
PBL checklist http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/ Create your own checklists so
that students can see what needs to be done for a project
United Streaming http://www.unitedstreaming.com Digital content for
digital learners. Create online assignments that combine multimedia and
web sites.