If you show them they can, they will and they will succeed.

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If you show them they can, they will and they
will succeed.

• TEC 2006
• Rosemary McFarland
• TRT Fayette County

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• I now think of myself as a fisherman. Using
  technology as the bait, I casted it out to my
  staff. This past year they nibbled and were
  hooked on some of the ideas you are about to see.
  It was great. Not only did I catch a few
  teachers, I caught a few students as well.

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Lets talk about what worked, what lessons were
used and things we have talked about adding next
year.
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Microsoft Virtual Classroom Tours

• High School ages 14-18
• all content areas all subjects
• Middle School ages 11-13
• all content areas all subjects
• Elementary ages 5-11
• All content all subject
• Create your own Virtual Classroom Tour

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INTEL Teach to the Future

• Intel Teach to the Future was part of a
  requirement of the EETT grant. We were to train
  teachers to use these tools and the units
  developed are to placed on the KDE technology
  website.
• Lets look at the tools and how they can be used
  instructionally.

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INTEL Teach to the Future

• Intel Teach to the interactive, online tools
  designed to promote higher-order thinking in any
  subject. Each tool features an online workspace
  where students create and save visual
  representations of their thinking. Students and
  teachers can access their projects any time, from
  home or school. There is no subscription or fee
  required you can set up unlimited projects and
  enroll all your students for free! Teachers must
  be trained by a Master Teacher to obtain the
  materials and code to enter the INTEL workspace.

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INTEL

• Visual Ranking
• Seeing Reason
• Showing Evidence
• Lesson Plans see tab for each tool, plus link on
  my web page for FCPS lesson.
• Pros and Cons- next slide
• Next Year

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INTEL Pros and Cons

• Pro-Great tools that do assist teacher in helping
  students to do higher order thinking.
• Con-Too many hours for people who know how to
  design units of study. Whether 24 or 40 hours,
  the plan leaves teachers wanting to use it, but
  they find they cant fit any more PD into their
  already required time slots.

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• Pro- For those who have had previous training, a
  new online course will be available June 7th to
  register, so teachers can do it online over the
  summer. This might be a good thing to allow them
  to pace themselves in using the program. They
  have to have had some of the initial program.
• KDE needs to post our lesson. They have been
  waiting for the new Core Content so it could be
  added, so keep looking for them or send your
  units to me and I will post them with ours on my
  site
• http//teach.fcps.net/trt3 under the heading
  INTEL
• At my school, teachers took the training and had
  them writing the plans, just ran out of time to
  turn them into me. I plan to work with them to
  get the units and post them. Business, History,
  Humanities 9-12.

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IMMEX

• IMMEX a partnership with the UCLA IMMEX
  (Interactive Multi Media Exercises) and the
  National Science Foundation. provides students
  with educational problem scenarios, and requires
  them to use problem solving skills that integrate
  concepts with real-life situations. This is a
  community-integrated model in which teams of
  teachers, students, business partners, and higher
  education faculty construct the simulations in
  summer technology institutes. IMMEX problem cases
  challenge students to investigate a problem and
  then provide them with the resources to develop,
  test, and refine hypothesis to arrive at complex
  solutions. It has a unique assessment component
  which allows teachers to evaluate student content
  knowledge and reasoning skills by using the
  search path maps generated by the software. To
  read more about the IMMEX project visit UCLA's
  IMMEX Website

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IMMEX

• We are in the final year of the grant with UCLA.
  Last year, all FCPS TRTs were required to write
  2 IMMEX project sets using Dreamweaver. We were
  also to foster use of the project sets in our
  schools.
• The sets at the time were not developed for all
  content areas. It is difficult to develop them
  for areas where a set could have multiple
  solutions.

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IMMEX

• Most are Chemistry, Physics or Science and are
  High School in nature.
• Few are Elementary
• This year the project will be used by TRTs to
  enhance instruction but they will not be writing
  the units. It was too time consuming to learn a
  very complicated software, concept and the time
  required to write the projects was limited by
  UCLA needing to close the site for upgrades.
• Students do love the projects and constructive
  learning does occur.
• Signing up classes for the projects does need to
  take place through Lucinda Sanders(LSanders_at_fayett
  e.k12.ky.us)

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IMMEX

• Problem Sets by content and grade level
• EETT problem sets some of the ones we wrote

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Internet Safety

• Teachers asked me to teach a unit on Internet
  Safety and ethics.
• The librarians and I teamed to do this as they
  had lessons prepared on how to do research,
  citation, etc. They wanted me to bring a
  technology link into the unit.
• I researched an found some interesting things. So
  here is what we did.

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Internet Safety

• I SAFE webcasts lesson plans. Your school must
  submit an implementation plan, be given an ID to
  show the webcasts. It is easy to do and is FREE.
  
• Privacy and the Internet
• Cyber Relationships
• Intellectual Property
• Malicious Code
• Cyber Citizenship
• Social Issues
• Pornography on the Web
• Cyber Harassment

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Internet Safety

• We did the first webcast. Administer and online
  survey to see what they knew.
• Then an activity to show them how easy it was to
  guess who had what screen name and explain to
  them how easy it is for cyber predators to pick
  their victims. What information not to give out.
• Then view the webcast.
• Class time expired before all questions were
  answered so next block was used to complete
  questions and surveys. Students were surprised at
  what you can learn about a screen name, and gtgtgt

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Internet Safety

• Learned information not to give out or post.
• Post assessment given.
• Next year, I plan to post the webcast schedule
  and lesson plans online. I would like to set up a
  BLOG on SHAREPOINT so it can be monitored before
  posting (student response) and get teachers and
  students involved in topics.

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Internet Safety

• Netiquette Making a Big Decision students need to
  realize bad behavior leads to consequences. Good
  WebQuest.
• Online Safety for teens a shorter version of the
  I Safe lesson
• Creating a Safe School a site that asks students
  to look at what is happening and to devise a plan
  of action.

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Ethics

• We moved in this direction so student would learn
  that just because it is there doesnt mean it is
  yours to take, that is relevant or even safe
  because it is on the Internet.
• How to Evaluate Information on the Internet
• If you do middle, you may want to try the
  interactive game
• http//www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/cybers
  ense_nonsense/
• http//www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/jocool
  _jofool/ for internet awareness, surfing savvy

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Ethics

• I did the first activity over two 90 minute
  blocks and the students really responded. I would
  consider using one of the webcasts from ISAFE and
  the Blog as additions if the teachers want to
  move or vary the activities.

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Web Pages/Movie Maker2

• Student needed motivation. They werent
  progressing as we wanted, especially in the 9th
  grade Academy. I proposed giving students the
  option of selecting how they would present the
  information to the teacher. Lets talk now about
  Movie Maker, Web Pages, Producer 2003, Photo
  Story 3, Blogs, Forums, CPS, and Podcasting.

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Web Pages

• We used Front Page. I had handouts with basic
  information prepared. I also had links to online
  tutorials where students could go for information
  and work on their pages away from class time.
• The above online tutorial had great ideas and it
  became the theme for our class. Create the
  folder, all items for your page in the folder,
  sites for backgrounds, graphics all were given to
  the students so we knew the information was safe.

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Web Pages

• Ideas for pages Students were given a (1)decade
  to research. They created pages for Music,
  Fashion, Events, People, etc of that decade.
  (2)Holiday How do you celebrate the Season or do
  you?
• Prior to the Season web page we had done a
  scavenger hunt which I modified. Here is the link
  to it. Other links to resources used in the
  Plagiarism, Ethics, WebPages can be found by
  following this link.

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Web Pages

• Student interest increased as did attendance.
  Students wanted more and different technology.
  Students who had web pages were allowed to use
  more advanced features on their pages, and use
  Dreamweaver or other programs to create pages.
  Next year, the idea grows into more content
  areas, more projects. Students still must adhere
  to AUP but will be able to use more sophisticated
  programs and some are wanting to write their own
  codewill have to have that checked first before
  posting.

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Movie Maker 2
MOVIE MAKER 2 This is a free download from
Microsoft for PCs. Movie Maker for Beginners
dont go looking for lots of books, a good source
of material is right here on the Microsoft
site. A good book Microsoft Windows Movie Maker
2 Do Amazing Things (Bpg-Other) (Paperback) by
John Buechler . I purchased it on Amazon for
7.00 and it was well worth the money. Other good
training materials Tutorial Movie Maker Shows
step by step from opening the program to
rendering a movie. Great source from Atomic
Learning. Windows and PC versions.
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Movie Maker 2

• This was a challenge. I had not used this or
  Producer 2003, which is a POWERPOINT add-on that
  allows you to add a limited Movie to your
  Powerpoint presentations.
• My goal with this was to begin moving the high
  school towards the ISTE and KDE standards that
  keep stating communicate globally and with
  video conferencing. They werent doing any of
  that except a few in distance learning classes.

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Two brave souls, Betty Hester and Maureen Batts,
took my suggestion to heart and gave me their
students as my experiments. Along with the
District staff, I began to show the students
MOVIE MAKER and how easy it was to take still
photoswe didnt really have time to do video
this year and create a short movie. Once again,
we used the steps from Web pages, create a folder
and store everything in one place. We used the
LCD and step by step laid out the movie, audio,
copying sound tracks, we had the students pick a
topic and most of them made a movie about
themselves. I just told them it could have
nothing that their poor ol Grandma (me) would
object to hearing or seeing. One student went so
far as to open paint, edit the photo and ask,
Grandma, is this ok? I loved it. They had
bought into Movie Maker.
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HERO

• This movie was created by a student in Paint and
  imported into Movie Maker. It shows elements of
  Math.

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Movie Maker

• I have other examples. This was a great success.
  The teachers are taking classes to learn more
  about Movie Maker and we hope to incorporate
  video next year. With long range use of the tool
  for advanced class projects.
• Teachers who were content with Powerpoint now
  want to move into Producer and try the movie
  because their student want the options like
  others have had. I see more students having
  choices in how projects are completed.

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Ideas for Next Year

• More use of Blogs
• Teachers can control the environment in which
  students respond, who sees and edit the response.
  They can determine the content and easily assess
  who is reading or doing the assignments. They can
  give assignments to students who are absent or
  need to be away from school who can access the
  information from virtually anywhere.

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Blogs

• A Study of Kentucky is a lesson plan using a
  blog.
• Looking on the Fayette site you can see other
  teacher blogs and how they have used them.
• Blogmeister is another site to view for uses of
  blogs. It is a good site.

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Blogs, Forums, and Podcasts

• Students like using Blogs because they are cool.
  They are diary like.
• Forums are threaded discussions and students
  dont like doing them as much as blogs.
• Podcasting is the next big item. It is richer in
  content because it is blog, but you can add audio
  and video. I have not yet had the chance to
  create a podcast, but will have one by August. I
  have many links to sites and data.

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Podcast

• David Warlick has done much in the field of
  Podcasting and has a good Powerpoint
  presentation.
• http//landmark-project.com/workshops/ppt/Classroo
  m_Podcasting.ppt.htm
• Research

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TI Calculator and Geometers Sketchpad

• Numbers the CBS show others will be posted on my
  web page ( for TI calculator) These are posted
  for all teachers to
• Lesson Accelerator from Atomic Learning New
  Lesson Plan for Geometers Sketchpad
• for both PC and Mac
• Folder of Lesson Geometers Sketchpad

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Sharepoint

• Sharepoint is a content management system. It
  allows users to create a workspace and share
  documents, pictures, post messages, link to other
  sources, create surveys and create discussions.
  It uses Microsoft products (Word, Excel,
  PowerPoint, One Note, Outlook, etc) so we dont
  need to teach new ways to interact with the
  program. Sharepoint allows the administrator to
  create new sites and set permissions as to who
  can access and edit the posted information.
  Because it is web based, it can be accessed from
  any computer with Internet access.

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Sharepoint

• My site goal next year introduce to staff
• Tutorial on working with Sharepoint documents
  library
• Need to share an Outlook 2003 calendar in
  Sharepoint
• Publish and Excel list

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OneNote 2003 Usage Scenarios Rebecca the Student

• View the video to right and the screen shot below
  to see examples of how Rebecca uses OneNote 2003.
• Type notes and copy diagrams from course Web
  sites to prepare for exams. Rebecca uses the
  Tablet PC pen to handwrite notes and draw
  diagrams while she is in class.
• Organize her notes to write papers and prepare
  presentations. She can easily use notes created
  in OneNote 2003 in other Office programs, such as
  Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft
  PowerPoint.
• Send notes to classmates in an e-mail message.
  Rebecca can share her notes with friends with a
  few clicks of her mouse.

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OneNote 2003 Usage Scenarios Rebecca the Student

• See how Rebecca uses OneNote 2003 to organize and
  share notes taken in class.

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OneNote 2003 Tour

• Online Demo for program and another for student
  information. Both links on same page.
• Brainstorm uses of program
• The trial is available in 23 languages and is 80
  megabytes (MB) with an estimated download time of
  7 minutes or less for standard high-speed
  connections, and 3 hours if you're using a 56
  kilobits per second (Kbps) Internet connection.
• Licensing can be added to KETS Volume Licensing
  agreement. See KETS Contract list.
• Trial downloads come in 60 and 180 days.

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Learning Essentials

• Learning Essentials curriculum-based templates
  and toolbars for Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft
  Office PowerPoint presentation graphics program,
  and Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet software,
  plus academic tutorials from leading education
  publishers.
• Show from Powerpoint teacher/student sites

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Work essentials for middle and high school
teachers

• Communicating with students through e-mail
• Creating and maintaining electronic gradebooks
• Creating student assessments
• Enhancing your lessons with eye-catching
  presentations
• Helping students design great presentations
• Implementing project-based learning in your
  classroom
• Incorporating technology into lessons
• Managing your class calendar
• Organizing your electronic files
• Preparing for a substitute

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Elementary school teachers

• Ongoing communication with parents
• Planning a successful open house
• Planning effective lessons
• Preparing for an elementary school substitute
  teacher
• Setting up your classroom for success
• Welcoming students back to school

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All the lesson plan, handouts, tutorials, movies,
Power Point of this conference presentation and
links I have mentioned can be found on my TRT
page http//teach.fcps.net/trt3 my Sharepoint
site http//sharepoint.fcps.net/trt/rmcfarla/defau
lt.aspx Email me. Rosemary.McFarland_at_fayette.kysc
hools.us Thanks for attending and please if you
have any questions, contact me.