MAKEOVER TIME BY: Christina Williams

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MAKEOVER TIMEBY Christina Williams

• Session 1 1100-1200
• Session 2 100-200

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How do we turn a pencil and paper assignment to
a fancy technology lesson?

• What kind of technology equipment is available in
  your school building? School system?
• What kind of technology do your students have
  assess to?
• Does your department have technology money? Does
  your school?
• Buy technology equipment/software that will
  benefit not only the world language dept but
  other departments in your school.

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How do we turn a pencil and paper assignment to
one that has technology?

• 1. Start slowly Begin by adding a technology
  based activity that will take place for 10
  minutes of a lesson.
• 2. Pick an easy and engaging technology based
  activity (QUIA, video recorder, digital camera).

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Taking Notes

• Use Microsoft office tools (power point, excel,
  Word Document) and/ or Inspiration.
• Book the computer lab in your school media center
  and teach your class there allowing your students
  to take notes on the desktops.
• Provides students with multitasking, typing, and
  computer skills.
• Book the LCD Projector and project notes on board
  via your lap top. More time efficient way to give
  notes to students. You are not re-writing notes
  throughout the day. Also provides consistency
  among classes.
• Behavior Management tip give extra credit,
  coupon, or award for the first 5 students who
  finish their notes (plus save the document
  properly) first ?.

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Whole Class Activities

• Web quests
• Jeopardy
• Internet article reading activity
• Poesia Haiku
• Flip Books From paper ?Word Processor
• Assessments (Quia, Blackboard, Power Point)
• Digital Cameras to make a mini-movie
• Video Camera to record skits promotes
  communication and culture.
• Create a website on http//geocities.yahoo.com/gcp
  /

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Web Quest

• 1. El Bosque Lluvioso
• 2. Independent Rainforest Assignment
• There are many already made web quest
• Websites
• You could make your own.
• Websites for web quests
• http//clta.net/lessons/

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Example of Webquest
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Jeopardy

• Whole Class activity
• Divide class into 2 or 4 groups
• Materials Jeopardy board, buzzers (whistles,
  noise makers), Prizes (points, coupons)
• Blank form is included in Technology CD
• You control the technology. Cheap. Students do
  not need to have individual technology

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El Bosque tropical Jeopardy board
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Sample of Question
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Sample of Answer
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Poesía Haiku

• Haiku poems on paper ? computer based.
• Provide students with word template.
• Students still have to draw, paste and cut.
• The best of both worlds. Still teaching in a
  traditional way with a twist .

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Useful websites

• For Clip art http//tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanPro
  j//FLClipart/
• For Templates and fill in the blank activities
  http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainfore
  st/

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Better Safe than Sorry ?

• Always, always have a back up plan. Reality
  check technology is a wonderful thing but
  sometimes it may not work! ?

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Contact info cwilliams_at_aces.k12.ct.uschristinahd
z_at_yahoo.com(203) 639-8403 ext 1216