Technology in the Classroom Barbara De Santis 6/8/10

All material is on my blog at www.tinyurl.com/bsdblog

Tonight’s plan You asked for incorporate more hands on technology What technology, how I can access it, and how easy is it to use? How to become comfortable as a teacher with the new technologies available So, I will Share resources Share Student work Created Online Projects Learning Strategy *SMARTBoard

Where to find things?

Thinkfinity

Online lesson plans, activities One stop shopping National contributors Thinkfinity

Subjects Key word Brainpop

In the classroom- Brainpop

Discovery Education

Curriki

In the classroom- Curriki

PBS and NOVA resources Teachers’domain

In the lab- Teachers domain

In the classroom- Learning Tools (a.k.a. interactives) Perfect closure activities

Online Projects

Journey North

Collaborative Projects Real Time Data CIESE

www.jenuinetech.com

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin

JenuineTech PreK-6 Project registration Current + past projects “Just add child!”

www.teachertube.com

Google Wonder Wheel

Search tool Explore topic Narrow search See search terms change Wonder wheel

Google Squared

If your search term does not create a square, you have a chance to add 5 terms and then square it.

www.google.com/squared Create table of results Add columns See related resources Google Squared

www.tinyurl.com Paste a LONG url and select your own shorter version You need to remember your shortcuts. Only good for one site at a time.

Ikeepbookmarks.com sample

What you can do with pictures

glogster www.animoto.com url link

animoto Music videos Registration required Go to www.animoto.com/education Accepts “student” email accounts

www.voicethread.com url link

Voicethread Images/videos with voice Registration required(multiple ids) 3 for free (small fee for teacher’s account)

edu.glogster.com

glogster Online multimedia poster edu site Teacher can create 100 student accounts Social Networking aspect

Sample PhotoStory url link

Start with photographs Add narration or music Looks like a “movie”

Movies Created with flip camera movie8thgradelight.AVI

Options Create your own footage Camera/Flip MovieMaker/Imovie Upload Teachertube/Schooltube/Vimeo

If you film Establish/define roles Criteria Allow time Patience

Fun with words

www.xtranormal.com url link

Xtranormal Text to movie Registration required 13 years old Needs real email accounts

www.voki.com url link

Voki Create your own avatar Free account 60 second limit

Comic Creator (from Thinkfinity) Can print- Cannot save

www.makebeliefscomix.com

MakeBeliefsComix No logon needed Need to print or email Very easy to use

Jen Wagner’s WOTD Wordle

Wordle Quick and easy graphic organizer No registration required Print/copy results (Beware of the Public Gallery)

Guess the Wordle http://jenuinetech.com/GTW Monday-Friday Hints for each day Google form to submit your answer Outside the box!

http://storybird.com/books/animals-and-what-a-first-grader-knows/ www.storybird.com

Online books Illustrations Collaborative Read online Storybird

Where to learn more

1.My blog/tabbloid 2. DE tutorials 3. SMARTBoard resources

http://web2010.discoveryeducation.com/web20tools.cfm

SMARTBoard resources Teachers love SMARTBoard blog (http://smartboards.typepad.com/) SMART site - http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/     There is a SMARTBoard channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/SMARTClassrooms) TeachersFirst www.teachersfirst.com  Use interactive whiteboards as the key word.

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