1/22/15 Notes:
- http://padlet.com/mgmontgomery/sp15eed324
- http://answergarden.ch/view/80699
- WHNT Article on how technology is helping classrooms
- http://goo.gl/J2Yh3
- ALEX
- We need to start viewing ourselves as teachers of the 21st century. Technology is the newest way to enhance learning.
- Integrate technology to where students can create something by their-selves. This is a higher level question of Bloom's Taxonomy.
- Students have technology around them at all times so we need to gather information and learn more about teaching using technology so that the students can learn about things more. The students can familiarize themselves by using technology that they can actually use without complications. Some people who did not have technology growing up assume that using technology will simply decrease learning abilities when in reality, technology is actually enhancing learners.
- A teacher at Florence City School made it to where the students can take their core classes at home so they can have time to take electives during regular school hours. Grades as the result are turning out better than expected.
1/29/15
Tech Talk Presentations
Tech Talk Presentations
- animoto.com: (Elli Mitchell) great way to create mini videos for your classrooms to see. You can upload videos, different pics and add noises to it. For teachers, all students can log onto their account so that the students' videos can be seen by the teacher. It's a great thing for a book report or posting pictures. Also students can create mini videos displaying what they did during a break or book report. Elli's example was on a book report.
- glogster.com: (Shara Thrilkill) gives you templates for different subjects: such as History, Science, etc. You can also see other peoples' templates that they have posted as well. Dr. Myhan's class uses that too for book reports, history assignments, posters as well. Creating a free account doesn't last long though because after a few days, your trial session expires. She did her glog on Martin Luther King, Jr.
- storybird.com: (Rebecca Logsdon) provide pictures for children or whoever is using it to be inspired and create their own stories. Teachers can make their own accounts for the class to use so that their assignments can be seen at one time. You can make chapter books, picture books, and poems. Words are also provided for these. A con is that the words given for a certain Haiku or poem is given to you to use instead of creating your own. Due dates can be posted on there. Costs $15 to print off your own hard copy of the book your class makes. her assignment she created was for everyone to create Haikus.
- voicethread.com: (LeAnna Lloyd) package is $79 per year you use it. :/ You can use pictures and create comments to go with the pics. Voices can also be used as well. Not sure if students can see the windows unless using the account of the teacher or creating their own. Can be used as a learning tool.
- edmodo.com: (Hannah McComb) classroom facebook! Great for parents to use. Closed group unless you add them and uses an access code. Things like grades, homework assignments, reminders about certain things can be posted. Notes about reminders are also used. It's a great way for teachers to communicate with students and their parents whenever it is convenient. Good way to help prepare students for internet etiquette, like on social media. Has a library that can be used. Very appealing to children. It's a free website. :)
- prezi.com: (Courtney Geiger) free website. Great/fun way to make presentations. Moving from slide to slide may by tricky, but depending on how the students are using technology, it shouldn't be too big of a problem. Great for group/individual projects. You can search for other prezis to use, but be cautious about them. View them before displaying them to the class.
- rubistar.com: (Trae Stowe) can create rubrics for classes and classroom activities. Displayed a tutorial on how to create a rubric. Mrs. Hutton loves this site! We are going to be using it later in the semester.
2/5/2015
Tech Talk Presentations:
Tech Talk Presentations:
- Symbaloo.com (Katie Bradford)- can use facebook to create an account. It's a bookmarking tool that you can put all of the websites that you use together on one page. You can add/remove as many websites as you want.You can use Symbaloo to organize those websites so that you can go immediately to the website of your choosing without typing the web address. This saves you from any typos on whatever website you may be trying to get to. You can also view other teachers and their websites to see what they use. Her handout includes two websites that can be used on how Symbaloo works. Katie had to watch a lot of videos to truly understand how it works.
- slideshare.net (Kayla Rice)- professional videos and slide show presentations can be seen through this website. To make an account is free. One can upload older powerpoints and presentations through slideshare as well. Teachers can use this to teach on any topic. Kayla searched "teaching multiplication" and had different presentations come up that could be used in the classroom. Younger children may have trouble accessing this account.
- smore.com (Katie Conlon)- designs flyers. It's a great way to incorporate creativity and technology all at the same time. It's a fun way to create flyers online instead of by hand.
- kahoot.com (Elizabeth)- Free website that is a game based classroom response system. You don't have to be signed in to play games on the website. It's a fun website that you can incorporate any type of subject into. :)
- socrative.com (Erin Covington)- great way to create tests and quizzes online. There are tests already made that you can use as well. Most standardized tests are usually taken on computers now these days. You have to create an account as a teacher if you want to use it in your classroom. "We believe big change is possible in education through small improvements. We started Socrative to make teachers' lives simpler while making teaching more fulfilling and learning more visible. We're more than a student response system. We're a window into learning, and we see big things on the horizon. Above all else, we are educators, and we are passionate about building tools that help teachers make a difference." You can assign teams under this account. Would probably be good to start having the kids in the younger grades start using this to take tests under. You can keep the same quizzes, but the pin number for them changes each time it's used [just like Kahoot].
- google.com/earth (Me)- Fun way to explore all over the world.
- murally.com (Katie Fowler)- can show ideas as freely as you can create them. It's a website to form ideas. ($8 a month as a teacher for an account). It's a fairly new website. Very collaborative and easy to use.
- classdojo.com (Caitlan Grossheim)- classroom management tool. You can reward or discourage good or bad behaviors. LOVE this website. It can keep up with all the good/bad behaviors as well as attendance. It can be used on computers or ipads. Only problem is when the child gets angry if he or she loses a point. :)
- dropbox.com (Elizabeth Topping)- ($9.99 a month if you want more space), but it's originally free other than that. Stores pics, doc, videos, etc. If you want to clear space on your phone, you can put all of your pics and stuff onto dropbox to create space. You can place links in there to send to other people so that they can click and open it.
- pinterest.com ()- great way to get ideas on different things in general. Classroom ideas can be shared through this too. Can add pins to your boards as well.
- google drive/ google box (Robyn Wylie)- basically like dropbox. Can store files, share files, and can be used anywhere on computer, phone, tablet. Great place to keep all of your students work. Looks kind of like Microsoft Word because you can type documents and save them on there too.
- storyjumper.com (Kelsey Hester)- website where you can create books. It's a great way for students and teachers to show creativity. You can add your own photos as well.
- educreations.com (Abby Tomlinson)- whiteboard and screencasting tool. Teachers can create lessons through this website. It's also an App.
3/12/15
Smartboard- learning about how to use a smartboard. Mrs. Hutton feels like it is a great piece of technology that all teachers should use.
The smartboard notebook is similar to powerpoint, has the same bar up top along with options like Microsoft Work. It's user friendly. The tool bar (if you have more than 1 page, you can go back and forth between pages with just a touch of your finger. You can undo things if you happen to mess up as well.) To add a page, click up top. What ever is written or drawn can be saved as 1 image. Anytime that you pick up your pen, it starts as a new image.
clone- makes the exact image again
infant cloner- no matter how many times you pull it down, the first one will stay. an example is if you're teaching a lesson on money and you want the students to be able to pull the money down, the quarter will still stay.
you want to lock some of the things in place on the board so that the students can't move some of the things.
if you want to order things, you right click and choose "order" so that you can place the images how you want to display them.
you just have to play with it to learn better because there is so much that you can do.
if you save, but haven't saved again, you can clear the page from where you last saved the image. If you want to edit.
you can reveal and hide some of the info or answers of something by using the SHADE button. you can just show however much of the page you want.
The gallery- interactive things that are already made that you can insert into smartboard. you can search different topics in the gallery.
Assigned Smart lesson due March 19! Interactivity is key in the lesson.
Smartboard- learning about how to use a smartboard. Mrs. Hutton feels like it is a great piece of technology that all teachers should use.
The smartboard notebook is similar to powerpoint, has the same bar up top along with options like Microsoft Work. It's user friendly. The tool bar (if you have more than 1 page, you can go back and forth between pages with just a touch of your finger. You can undo things if you happen to mess up as well.) To add a page, click up top. What ever is written or drawn can be saved as 1 image. Anytime that you pick up your pen, it starts as a new image.
clone- makes the exact image again
infant cloner- no matter how many times you pull it down, the first one will stay. an example is if you're teaching a lesson on money and you want the students to be able to pull the money down, the quarter will still stay.
you want to lock some of the things in place on the board so that the students can't move some of the things.
if you want to order things, you right click and choose "order" so that you can place the images how you want to display them.
you just have to play with it to learn better because there is so much that you can do.
if you save, but haven't saved again, you can clear the page from where you last saved the image. If you want to edit.
you can reveal and hide some of the info or answers of something by using the SHADE button. you can just show however much of the page you want.
The gallery- interactive things that are already made that you can insert into smartboard. you can search different topics in the gallery.
Assigned Smart lesson due March 19! Interactivity is key in the lesson.
WebQuest (4/9/15)
4/16/2015
Digital Story project discussion
digital storytelling tools: powerpoint, storyboard
created account on animoto.com
started creating our digital story project; mine's on Thomas Edison
- Inquiry-oriented
- Online tool for learning
- Most all info explored comes from the internet
- Can be as short as a single class period to as long as a month unit
- Usually involves group work, with division of labor among students who take on specific roles of perspectives
- Resources preselected by the teacher. Students spend their time USING information, not LOOKING for it.
- Created by Bernie Dodge
- Benefits are that: tomorrow's workers will need to be able to work in teams, individuals will move through several careers in the course of a lifetime, the issue facing citizens will become more and more complex, and societal problems will resist easy fixes or black-and-white categorization.
- We are digital immigrants teaching digital learners!
- Essential components are: introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion
- Introduction:
- Task: description of what the learner will do by the end of the exercise. Can be a product or an oral presentation. A taxonomy of tasks
- Description of tasks; clearly describe tasks, lets learners know process required to accomplish task, can provide learning advice
- Set of informative resources: list of teacher-located
- Evaluation: need measurable results, evaluation rubrics are most authentic assessment
- Conclusion: bring closure to quest, remind students what they have learned, encourage them to extend learning to other domains/subject areas.
- Video on WebQuest
4/16/2015
Digital Story project discussion
digital storytelling tools: powerpoint, storyboard
created account on animoto.com
started creating our digital story project; mine's on Thomas Edison