Be sure to get to our technology connect to see what is still in warranty. Dennis Fellin defellin@state.pa.us(717-346-2675) is the contact if we have an issue that is not being resolved by the vendor. Go to vendor first. Susan Rojas, his assistant ,srohas@state.pa.us (717-346-8176) Department of General Services
CPS is not a part of the CFF grant,
Dave, for UStreaming: Ports 1935 and 6667 need to be open
Open for TCP/UPD
From Virginia: Might be a good idea to set the tone, 21st Century mind, keynote speaker
--arrange classrooms in 21st Century
--title for sessions, give thought to this. Instead of "Wiki Widgets" give it a name to have teachers start to put in a broader way. "How to use wikis in the Bio word" Use terms and vocab that goes with subject, or use HOTS, etc.
--Open space, questions to plant to get the discussion rolling.
Saturday, Noon to 5:00pm for the CFF pre-conference at PETE&C
Be sure to check the Webinars. Google Earth is coming up. Schedule on the Moodle or Ed Hub.
Tell Virginia about an outstanding teacher that she can interview for "Spotlight"
UStream.tv for ustreaming. Set up an account
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Technology and Differentiated Instruction
Tech4DI.wikispaces.com
Wikis can be used to divide students into groups
Wikis can be used to divide students into groups
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Show and Tell, Wednesday evening
21 classrooms are good for blogs!
Animoto makes movies, like Photo Story 3
Sketchpad lesson link
CuePrompter.com - Cut and paste any text into box, works like a teleprompter.
Pixton Comics to create comics
Wordle is good, too!
Pole Daddy,com is a good survey tool
Calgary Academy has a lot of information for teachers(look at the short story section)
PHPscheduleit..if we need help, ask Carl.
Animoto makes movies, like Photo Story 3
Sketchpad lesson link
CuePrompter.com - Cut and paste any text into box, works like a teleprompter.
Pixton Comics to create comics
Wordle is good, too!
Pole Daddy,com is a good survey tool
Calgary Academy has a lot of information for teachers(look at the short story section)
PHPscheduleit..if we need help, ask Carl.
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.
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.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Introduction
Making the Classroom Work
- Assign equipment to kids BEFORE they walk in
- Make a BUNCH of sign out sheets
- Have a signal--door open-get your machine, doors closed, wait
- Send kids a few at a time
- Teach what an "acute angle" is (to stop students from typing while teacher is talking)
- Move around when computers are out
- The back button is our friend! (back out of "bad" site)
- Walk around and say, if your Mac isn't working correctly, please stop me
Monitoring Software
Pluses
- View what everyone is doing
- Can catch kids being good
- Software updates, file transfer
Minus
- Teachers become physically distance from the kids
- Focus on the negative
- "What if...confidentiality issues
Living in a Shared World
- Color-coded sign out sheets (to see who is signing out the carts)???
- Cart movement--who is responsible? Teachers only move carts. The teacher who has it moves it to the next room
- Keep peripherals with one person-more use, easier to find. Sign out cameras..they get all of them
- Student Helpers
- Online sign out sheet (Brian, the speaker said she lets the teachers sign out the cart themselves and they use Google Docs. :-) but just now someone raised their hand and asked if anyone else had teachers deleting other teacher. They have had this problem:-(
Cart Keepers
- Choose them carefully (teachers can claim "ownership")
- Support them
- Have clear expectations--update? troubleshooting?
- Give them something in writing (our expectations)
- Velcro is our friend holds the wires in place
WHAT ARE THE TEACHERS ACTUALLY USING?
What are teachers REALLY using?
- What tools do teachers find WORK in the classroom?
CoverIt Live
- Found at www.coveritlive.com
- Caught on at the HS
- Why they like it
- Easy to use
- No usernames/passwords
- Monitored/not monitored
- HTML Code for webpages, wikis, etc
- Demo http://tinyurl.com/5n4ax6
Voice Thread
- www.voicethread.com
- Why they like it
- Identities for kids
- Easy to use
- Easy to add images
- Alternative to Power Point!
- Do not buy the Ed one, it is free!!
WikiSpaces
- More used at Elem/HS! not MS
Easy Bib (easy citation creator)
- www.easybib.com
- No usernames/passwords
- Easy to export to Word
- Controversial
- Tool, like a spell check
Skrbl
- www.skrbl.com (shareable white board)
- no username/passwords...can be bad
- upload images
- Easily used code
- have one student keeping an eye on what is being typed
De.icio.us
iCHat/Skype
Google Docs
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