Boot Camp, Day 2

In the morning we met modal teachers who shared their expertise in classroom technology! Here is a brief overview of the presentations!

Genevieve Frendo-Rosso
Bucks County Tech HS
Math 11th

Real life and tech areas. Go online, incorporate tech area with business they are working with. Integrate, collect, analyze, and interpret data. Need history of the business Use everything in Algebra II. Use verbal to interpret Math Enter in TI83+. Put Power Point together and do presentation. Collect, interpret data and then predict future information.

What would happen to the Starbucks by 2010? Analyze data and see validity.

Uses Mathbits.com.

Step One: Activate TI83, will see plots and equation. Will interpret the information. This is the teaching component to the project.

NETS- Compare and analyze to see if standards are met. Prepare them and give them the edge.

POWER POINT:
Why they chose Starbucks
History
Growth chart with data
Exponential Growth Analysis
Graph of the data
Exponential growth model and Predicting number of stores for 2010
Accuracy of future growth
Web Sources:
nces.ed.gov/nceskids/CreateAGraph
Create a Graph has Design,Data, Labels, Preview and Print/Save for graphs. Includes Line, Bar, Area, Pie and XY graphs


To get full copy of Powerpoint, email: mrs_rosso@hotmail.com or grosso@bcths.com


Kristen Schaffer Ridley
Social Studies

Wikispaces in the Classroom

Chose Wikispaces because your site is private, requiring membership and Discussion Tab.

Ways to use Wikispaces:

• Link to articles on the web
• Can go to the Discussion and reply to teacher’s message (ie. What is the main idea of this article, do you agree or disagree with statement, etc.)
• Have students create their own posts, then go to three other posts and reply to them. Students compete to have the hightest posts. Students became creative with the titles of their posts to draw more attention
• Google Calendar to tell them what to accomplish everyday and it is embedded into the wikispaces! Helps to keep students organized.
• When running out of time, embed power point to view out of school. Students can add posts.
• After students read a non-fiction book (required in district) write about the book so others can see the reviews.
• All members can change and edit the pages. Groups researched and created a wikispace when studying Genocide. First, create KWL chart, then research and apply to stages of genocide. One problem with this – if 2 students edit in different location, work can be erased by the other by saving. To help, have students plan when they are going to be online.
• History page to show student use. Click on date, anything changed in green or deleted in red. Pages can be locked so they are not edited.
• Create a page for the final exam to study from. Quizes can be taken again to study, add podcasts for review session. Students can ask each other questions in the discussion.
• To help students keep up with current events, you can embed a link to news everyday! CNN Student News


Jeff Wetherhold
Science

Elizabeth Kazanjiian Owen
Email her for the presentation: ekazanjian@ojrsd.com

Using the interactive whiteboard for Shakespeare

Objectives:

Predicting, pre-reading, paraphrasing, inferencing

Develop strategies for decoding Shakespearean text.

Contribute to Discussion

ON THE WHITEBOARD:

• Sorting by characters, problems settings and outcomes. Then come up with a prediction.
• Then, to a balcony scene. Figure out what is challenging, then add modern definitions. Teacher modifies and paraphrases.
• Teacher gets another text and has students come up to add modern terminology.
• Possible online-discussion topics.


AFTERNOON

Presentation on ePals..a way to connect with classrooms around the world. FREE!! Also has blogs to use with classrooms around the world. Check out www.epals.com. They also have a chat function.

Collaboration shared by different districts.