Different Kids Require Different Methods

•      If we are going to TEACH  them, we have to REACH  them!

•      Ideas?

–    Cell Phone quiz

–    Podcast

–    Blogging

–    You tube (education style)

–    Wikis

–    MP3 methods

–    Collaboration opportunities

Different Kids Require Different Methods

•      Their World has changed!

•      Has our teaching changed?

Tech Can Be….

•      That hook you use to pull them in!

•      The way to get them LISTENING to what the teach has to say

•      Tutor helps the accelerated students go above and beyond

•      Teacher’s aid that helps low levels move up

•      Seamless part of curriculum and an aid to the teacher …. If you let it!

Fasten Your Seatbelts

We are on the information highway

Thinking Maps and Graphic Organizers

•      This online graphic organizer allows students to shape and share their ideas. http://bubbl.us/

•      Other charts and printable lists and links

–    www.nileshs.k12.il.us/west/skills/skills/thinkingmaps.pdf

–    www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/

–    www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

–    www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

–    www.nhcs.k12.nc.us/htree/Curriculum/ThinkingMaps.html

ONLINE GAMES

•      www.prongo.com/games

•      www.20q.net 

•      oit.ndsu.edu/menu

•      www.kto8.com/kto8_browse_games.php

Individual Activities

•      www.spellingcity.com

•      www.20q.net

•      Flashcards online

–   www.rememberize.com/ 

–   www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/flashcards.htm

Webquests and Digital Storytelling

 

•      Gilligan’s Island- http://www.mustangps.org/~blackwellk/gilliganquest.htm

•      Bill of Rights- http://education.iupui.edu/webquests/billofrights/index.htm

•      Just google your subject/area or a keyword and you will find one

–   Cell webquest middleschool

–   Civil War webquest elementary

•      www.Voicethread.com

Interactive programs & websites grab students' attention and help keep them focused on the assignment.

•      Visual Periodic Table- http://www.periodictable.com/

•      Planiglobe Map Building http://www.planiglobe.com/omc_set.html

•      Trading cards and more www.bighugelabs.com

•      Word Clouds www.wordle.net/ 

•      Share Photos in Scrapbook www.Smilebox.com 

•      Create Cartoons

–    www.toondoo.com/

–    www.kerpoof.com/

•      Create talking Pictures www.blabberize.com/

Interactive Web

•      Human Body http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?organs

•      Cow Eye Dissection http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/index.html

•      More in all areas

http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/handson.html

•      Journey to Mars  http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/teachers/index.html

•      Gizmos for all grades (this one is a cost) http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspResourceCatalog

•      Periodic elements http://www.webelements.com/

•      Magnetic Poetry http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/create.cfm?k=1

•      Writer’s window http://www.writing.com/

•      www.writingfix.com/

Videos to use or to share

•      Photostory is a FREE download (Google it)

•      You tube with www.zamzar.com 

•      My Learning Tube.com www.mylearningtube.com

•      www.schooltube.com

•      www.teachertube.com is addicting!

•      Animoto.com

•      My advice:

–    Find ways to use clips in teaching

–    Start small when creating

–    Remember it is the process not the production that matters

Too easy to share with a Flipcam

Flipcam $100-$150
Target to Amazon

Podcast

•      MP3 audio recording

•      Audacity FREE Recording software

•      Many ways to use them

•      Examples

So What’s a Podcast

•      Pod Cast distributes multimedia files over the Internet for playback on MP3 players, I Pods,  and personal computers.

•      A podcast has the ability to be downloaded automatically

•      Neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or other portable player,

Podcast and education?

•      Podcasting has given teachers a way to motivate students to read, write and share the stories they create.

•      It also works as a delivery method for the auditory learner

Ideas for Podcasts in the Classroom

•       Students interview relatives about their life histories, and then combine the audio interview with family photos in an iMovie project.

•       Student pairs record a conversation in the language they are studying.

•       Students listen to instructions prerecorded by their teacher on an iPod. They then record their science experiment using a digital camera and an iPod with a voice recorder, and create an iMovie project.

•       Speech and Language samples

•       Students record spelling words and then listen to them while studying

•       Students record mini history concept lessons and then share

Culminating Task Projects

 

These are examples of the types of culminating task projects  that students complete to demonstrate learning

So What’s a BLOG?

•      Blog or weblog is web and log

•      Blogs are usually over a topic or area of interest.

•      There are blogs over just about any subjects. Blogs are great ways for people to collaborate and share ideas.

•      Blogs post each new post at the top of the page

•      Blogs can be a solo or a group

A blog entry consists of the following:

•      Title or headline of the post.

•      Body content of the post.

•      The URL of the full, individual article.

•      Post Date and time of the post

•      Comments added by readers

•      Categories subjects that the entry discusses

Blogs and wikis

•       Web 2.0 collaboration

–     edublogs.org

–     blogger.com

–     pbwiki.com

•       Middle school example of wiki http://lunchtimeleaders.wikispaces.com/

Students covering the news and more http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=altcastreminder&altcast_code=a115353cbc

•       7-9 Animal project wiki http://crosbyprojects.wikispaces.com/Animal+Ark

•       9-11 Wiki Michigan to Columbia http://globalexplorers.wikispaces.com/

•       14-16 Glass Castle http://lccgr9english.wikispaces.com/

•       online lab report http://wiki.micds.org/wiki/Sellers:Advanced_Chemistry/Heat_of_Fusion

•       Special needs blog/ http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/

•       Classroom Blog http://bluebirdsclassroom.blogspot.com/

 

•       Example of how they are used http://hzana.edublogs.org/2007/04/10/shake-it-up-video/

So Do I Have to Have a Blog?

•      Find some to read before ever leaping to that step

•      Then start your own teaching blog

•      Then move to a classroom blog

•      www.Edublog.org

•      www.Blogger.com

•      www.Audioblog.com 

•      http://www.imbee.com/ 

Thanks for attending!
Contact Information:
Dedra Stafford


 

Phone:  405-314-6689

Email: staffordd@cox.net

www.wizardworkshops.com