Technology and the Gifted Student

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Technology and the Gifted Student

• Katrina Jordan, Winn Parish (kjordan_at_winnpsb.org)
  Dr. Michelle Brunson, NSU (faziom_at_nsula.edu)

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Who We Are and What We Do

• Katrina
• Teacher/coordinator for the gifted program in
  Winn Parish.
• Itinerant teacher, traveling to seven schools
  each week and covering about 400 miles each
  month.
• Currently working toward a doctorate in CI with
  a cognate in gifted education.
• For more about me visit my web sites at
  http//www.winnpsb.org/TeachersWeb/kjordan/ and
  http//www.winnpsb.org/TeachersWeb/kjordan/.

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Who We Are and What We Do

• Michelle
• Director of Graduate studies at Northwestern
  State University in Natchitoches, LA.
• Earned a M.Ed. in Gifted and Talented Education.
• For more about NSU go to http//www.nsula.edu/.

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Where is Winn Parish? Where is Natchitoches
Parish?

• For more info about Winn Parish, go to
  http//www.winnpsb.org/ or http//www.winnfield.co
  m/.
• To learn more about Natchitoches, go to
  http//www.natchitoches.com/ or
  http//www.natchitoches.net .

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Characteristics Related to Potential Giftedness

• language
• questions
• examples illustrations
• quantitative expressions reasoning
• problem solving
• special skills
• innovative use of things
• breadth and depth of information
• collections hobbies
• Persistenceetc.

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Curriculum adaptations

• Acceleration
• Enrichment
• Sophistication
• Novelty

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Enrichment-

• curriculum is richer, broader, changed or added
  to for challenge and growth.

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Qualitative Differences

• Content (what is learned)
• Process (methods and thinking)
• Products (what indicates learning)
• Learning environment (both psychological and
  physical)

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What to Use

• Creative and critical thinking
• Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
• Blooms Taxonomy
• Open-ended questioning

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Technology

• The use of technology can help educators meet the
  needs of not only the gifted students in their
  classes, but all learners.

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Making a Web Site Frontpage
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Free Web Site Makers

• http//www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/ (this
  is a list of sites that offer free web sites)
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/homepagebuilder/inde
  x.htm (free class homepage builder)
• http//geocities.yahoo.com/ (have to sign up for
  Yahoo- better packages available for small fee)

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Making a Blog

• http//www.blogger.com/start

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Inspiration
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Kidspiration
To learn more about Inspiration or Kidspiration
and to get a free trial go to http//www.inspirati
on.com/home.cfm .
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Timeliner
For more information about Timeliner, product
tours and free downloads go to http//www.tomsnyde
r.com/products/productextras/TIMV50/ .
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Lagniappe

• http//www.pacificnet.net/sperling/quiz/Science
  Quizzes
• http//www.miamisci.org/ Miami Museum of Science
  Science of Tsunami Mystery object (you can
  submit a guess), Atoms Family (exp. Suggestions
  explanations)
• http//animal.discovery.com/features/tsunamis/tsun
  amis.html Animal Planet Tsunami Animals
•  http//www.hhmi.org/coolscience/ Cool Science
  for Curious Kids on-line biology activities,
  exp. Suggestions and explanations
• http//pbskids.org/cyberchase/ Go to Games
  Central computer science related games, also has
  other math/science related games
• http//pbskids.org/zoom/ Zoom go to games and
  choose Kitchen Chemistry (perform on-line exp),
  and/or Pendulum ( make it swing, factoids)

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•  http//www.pbs.org/teachersource/ PBS Teacher
  Source Savage Earth (Tsunamis, earthquakes),
  ideas for exp. When you browse by subject
  (science)
• http//dsc.discovery.com/ Discovery Channel
  Science News, Myth Busters (use exp to
  prove/disprove urban legends), sharks,
  mummiesall kinds of stuff to read about.
• http//science.discovery.com/ The Science
  Channel lots of stuff to read, also has fun and
  games section including a 3-D shark tank Build
  a Roller Coaster
• http//dlcenter.larc.nasa.gov/ NASA center for
  distance learning

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• Web sites about social studies (ancient cultures)
• Egypt
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
• http//www.guardians.net/egypt/pyramids/tour_the_p
  yramids.htm
• http//www.virtual-egypt.com/
• Mesopotamia
• http//www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html
• http//ancientneareast.tripod.com/Babylon_Babil.ht
  ml
• http//www.crystalinks.com/assyrian.html

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• Asia
• http//members.aol.com/Donnclass/Indialife.htmlIN
  DUS
• http//www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/1757/scrittu
  ra/scritturastoria.htm
• Europe and the Mediterranean
• http//carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/myth.html
• http//members.aol.com/Donnclass/Romelife.html
• The Americas
• http//www.halfmoon.org/days.html
• http//www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/chiche
  n/chichen_index.html
• http//www.crystalinks.com/aztecgods.html
• For a full list of web sites about ancient
  cultures go to
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/professional/profboo
  ks/technology/netexplorations/ancient_civ.htm

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• Math web sites
• http//www.k111.k12.il.us/king/math.htm
• http//www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/
• http//www.math.com/
• http//www.aplusmath.com/
• http//www.coolmath.com/

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• Educational Games
• http//www.kidsdomain.com
• www.funbrain.com
• www.bonus.com
• www.zeeks.com
• www.funology.com
• www.brainpop.com
• www.eduplace.com

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• Misc. Cool Stuff
• Periodic Table of Comic Books www.uky.edu/project
  s/chemcomics
• Make Your Own Movie www.digitalfilms.com
• American Rhetoric audio recordings of famous
  speeches at http//americanrhetoric.com
• Answers.com new search engine at www.answers.com
• Buzzwhack latest business and technology buzz
  words at www.buzzwhack.com
• How Stuff Works good for research to answer
  questions at http//www.howstuffworks.com
• Flaming Text.com at www.flamingtext.com
• Winter Olympics
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indep
  th/winterolympics/index.asp