Transcript Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

Introduction to
the Digital
Kids
Did You Know
Inexpensive Ways to
Integrate Technology to
Enhance Curriculum
. . . or, how to
connect with your
students on a
consistent basis.
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Jane Sak
Technology Integration Specialist
Blue Valley North High School
12200 Lamar
Overland Park, KS 66209
[email protected]
Presentation can be found at the address on
the business card handout
Terri Snethen
Library Media Specialist
Blue Valley North High School
12200 Lamar
Overland Park, KS 66209
[email protected]
Gaming
Pageantry of Gadgetry
What is your favorite piece of educational technology?
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Why Integrate Technology?
• Digital Native Map
• Students learn best when they are engaged with what they are
studying, when they are making decisions, when they are thinking
critically—(technology in any classroom encourages this).
• “Preparing our students not only to be digitally savvy, but leveraging
these technologies to help them create, communicate, connect and
collaborate will prepare them to be contributing citizens to their
future.” The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators
• “Your students are going to use this technology either because of
you, or in spite of you.” The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators
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Beloit College Mindset List
• “Members of this fall’s entering college class of
2014 have emerged as a post-email generation
for whom the digital world is routine and
technology is just too slow.”
• http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php
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Technology in the Classroom
Consider the following points as you plan to
incorporate technology into a classroom or school:
Technology. . .
• is a tool, not an end in and of itself.
• can be an advantage or an abused.
• is a channel for accessing information.
• reaches student’s learning styles.
• provides amazing new channels for communications.
• can be fun; sometimes it is edutainment.
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• is a heavy investment of capital outlay dollars and requires
substantial cost to upgrade and to keep operational.
• is extremely difficult to justify if it lies unused or becomes outmoded.
Focus for Today
1. To give you ideas for integration
2. To share free websites and tools that
can enhance curriculum
3. To include your proven resources
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The Hat
Classroom Applications
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Who should I call on??? Let the Hat determine. Keeps
students ready with an answer. . .
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Creates attentiveness
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Random selection of pairs
http://download.cnet.com/The-Hat/3000-2132_410074565.html?tag=recommendedDownloads
(Avoid installing the Harmony Hollow Toolbar)
Show “The Hat”
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Cool Timer
Classroom application:
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Teacher at beginning of hour puts up three review
questions from the previous day’s learning, students must
answer the questions with or without help from fellow
students before the timer ends. Gets students to the room
and ready to learn.
Time students as they work on a project
Time student s to come back together to start a new activity
http://download.cnet.com/Cool-Timer/3000-2350_410062255.html
(Avoid installing the Harmony Hollow Toolbar)
Show Cool Timer
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Website Online Storage
Site for easily storing, accessing and sharing all of your
favorite sites.
Classroom Applications:
• Save and organize sites for a unit or topic
• Students could use a previewed hotlist of resources
• Share curricular sites with colleagues
Diigo: http://www.diigo.com (furl absorbed by Diigo)
Copy and organize anything (bookmarks, highlights, notes, screenshots,
pictures, articles, bibliographies), access anywhere, share with others.
Diigo tutorial: http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorialpresentation
De.lici.ous: http://delicious.com/
I Keep Bookmarks: http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/
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Diigo Educator Features
• Create student accounts for an
entire class with just a few clicks
• Students of the same class are automatically set up
as a Diigo group, such as group bookmarks and
annotations.
• Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so
that only teachers and classmates can
communicate with them.
• Examples…Debate, foreign language
Bloom’s Taxonomy of Web 2.0
Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally-http://techlearning.com/article/8670
VoiceThread
Classroom Applications:
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Share images and create conversations
Communicate on line
Use of online audio communication
www.voicethread.com
Example
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Integration ideas
Classroom Applications:
• Post presentations online for students to view later
• Save class time
Brain Shark https://my.brainshark.com
Example
Slide Share http://www.slideshare.net
Avatars
Classroom Applications:
• Creative announcements or messages
• Used for student presentations
Voki http://www.voki.com/ (Recorded voice) Example 1 Example 2
Xtranormal http://www.xtranormal.com/ (text to speech) Example
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Creating Books Online
Classroom Applications:
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Creative writing
Summaries or reviews
Publishing and sharing ideas
ToonDoo http://www.toondoo.com/ Example
Tikatok http://www.tikatok.com/
Comic Creator http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic
Comiqs http://comiqs.com/aboutus/
Bookr www.pimpampum.net/bookr (all pictures must be in flickr)
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Online Scrapbooks
Classroom Activities:
• Creative activity
• Brainstorming
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Glogster – www.glogster.com
• Example
• http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
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Tagxedo – www.tagxedo.com
• word cloud with shape, can even add photos (Must
download Microsoft Silverlight)
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Wordle - www.wordle.net
Timeline Generators
Classroom Applications:
• Brainstorm an idea with individual or class
• Organize thoughts
• Capture ideas
• Historical events
TimeGlider: http://timeglider.com/
Example
Student Interactive Timeline: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroomresources/student-interactives/timeline-30007.html
Excel Timeline: http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/timeline.html
Example
Links to many timeline generators: http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-makea-timeline
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Podcasting/Vodcasting
Classroom Applications:
• Assist auditory learners
• Facilitate material review
• Deliver online lectures
• Provide supplementary content
Audacity: a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Lame encoder allows Audacity to export MP3 files.
http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.php
Audacity tutorial http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm
Itunes u – Emerging Technologies in the Classroom
Examples: Book Reviews, Campaign Videos, This I Believe
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Webcams
Classroom Applications:
• Interact with the community – webcam from location
to a classroom
• Communicate with your class when you are gone
• Interact with students on homebound
• Communicate with other schools during PLC
• Interact (talk using microphone, chat free with anyone – even
internationally)
www.skype.com (2 video participants, 24 audio participants)
me.tokbox.com (up to 20 participants)
www.dimdim.com (collaborate, share documents, white board, even record
session)
www.stickam.com (stream live video on the internet)
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Graphic Organizers
Classroom Applications:
• Brainstorm an idea with individual or class
• Organize thoughts
• Capture ideas
Webspiration: http://www.mywebspiration.com/
Example
Mindmeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/
Bubble.us: http://bubbl.us
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Flashcards
Classroom Applications:
• Class Review
• Individual Review
• Create Flashcards
Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/math-and-science
Flash Card Exchange http://www.flashcardexchange.com/index.php
Flash Card Machine http://www.flashcardmachine.com/
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Quizzes
Classroom Applications:
• Provides interactive and collaborative review sessions
• Allows individual practice and drill in a non-threatening environment
• Allows another avenue of review and study for various learning styles
• Allows anywhere/anytime review if activities are online
Quizstar: http://quizstar.4teachers.org/
Quiz Revolutions: http://www.mystudiyo.com/
Other quiz programs: http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/31494
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Templates of All Kinds
Templates of all kinds http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/TemplateGallery/
Recognize student work with pre-designed certificates
http://www.123certificates.com/
http://www.dyetub.com/certificates/traditional/
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Survey & Polls (Free)
Classroom Applications:
• Source for survey data
• Lesson plan on graphing
• Source for gathering opinions on current events or curricular issues
• Interdisciplinary projects involving a group of teachers
• Pretests
• Brainstorming prior to reading
www.surveykey.com (100 people, 10 questions, up to 30 days)
www.zoomerang.com (100 people, up to 10 days)
www.surveymonkey.com (100 people, 10 questions)
www.polleverywhere.com (audience response system that uses mobile
phones, twitter, and the web)
GoogleDoc Forms – must create account, no restrictions, results in
spreadsheet or graph form. Example
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Creating Movies
Classroom Applications:
• Create a video presentation for any curricular area
• Explain or demonstrate concepts
PhotoStory3
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photo
story/default.mspx Can include photos, text, music, audio (no video).
MovieMaker – Watch Grandpa's excellent skateboarding movie. free program
on every Windows machine, including your computer at home
(Accessories, Entertainment). Can include pictures, video, audio, music.
Example
Animoto www.animoto.com Takes photos, video clips and music and
automatically creates completely unique video slideshows. Example
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Rubrics
Classroom Applications:
• Evaluate student projects
• Student evaluation/rubric
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php a free tool to help the teacher who
wants to use quality rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from
scratch.
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/general/ Contains numerous
rubrics that are linked by categories and concepts.
http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools site to create
rubrics and more
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Great Classroom Resource
Access to high-quality, standards-based lesson plans, student
activities, reviewed websites and other resources
Classroom Applications:
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Teacher tool used to create reviews for standardized testing and higher-level
thinking applications
Lesson plan library
Resources for online and traditional research
Previewed (by teachers) Internet resources
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans and Interactive Resources
http://www.marcopolo-education.org
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MSOffice Productivity
Classroom Applications
• Research notetaking for a science project
• Teacher/peer editing
• Grading projects created in Word documents
Notetaking (PowerPoint)
Comments (Word) – Under the Review Tab
2007-2010- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/insert-or-delete-acomment-HA001219010.aspx
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Other Resources
Other district good technology sites:
• Lee’s Summit Technology
http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/
• Olathe
http://online.olatheschools.com/depts/irc/
• Cool Tools for Teachers
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
• Discovery Education Web 20.11
http://web2011.discoveryeducation.com/
• Go 2 Web 2.0
http://classic.go2web20.net/
Recognizing Obstacles
Why don’t teachers integrate technology:
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Time--it takes too much time
Fear - students will know more than I do
Money
Equipment
“ The greater the stress associated with the activity, the smaller
the cadre of teachers willing to give such activities a try.”
Jamie McKenzie, Nov. FNO (http://fno.org)
Don’t let this be YOU!!!
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Your Challenge
1. Use one thing you learned
today in the next week.
1. Share what you learned today
with your colleagues (become a
technology leader).
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Ideas from Audience
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http://www.authorstream.com/
http://www.artsonia.com/
http://www.mixbook.com/
http://www.bookemon.com/
http://storybird.com/
http://edu.glogster.com/
http://www.capzles.com/
http://prezi.com/
http://www.thatquiz.org/
http://technology.usd259.org/modules/groups/integrated_home.p
html?gid=1491594&sessionid=32329d382e8e1f668b85de5404a5f7af
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