Introduction to the Digital Kids

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Introduction to the Digital Kids

• Did You Know

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Inexpensive Ways to Integrate Technology to
Enhance Curriculum

• . . . or, how to connect with your students on a
  consistent basis.

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Presenters
Jane Sak Technology Integration Specialist Blue
Valley North High School 12200 Lamar Overland
Park, KS 66209 jsak_at_bluevalleyk12.org
Terri Snethen Library Media Specialist Blue
Valley North High School 12200 Lamar Overland
Park, KS 66209 tsnethen_at_bluevalleyk12.org
Presentation can be found at the address on the
business card handout
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Cell Phone
Gaming
p24-hour information access
pWikis/Blogs
Pageantry of Gadgetry
pPodcasting
Twitter
Social networking
What is your favorite piece of educational
technology?
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Why Integrate Technology?

• Digital Native Map
• Students learn best when they are engaged with
  what they are studying, when they are making
  decisions, when they are thinking
  critically(technology in any classroom
  encourages this).
• Preparing our students not only to be digitally
  savvy, but leveraging these technologies to help
  them create, communicate, connect and collaborate
  will prepare them to be contributing citizens to
  their future. The Super Book of Web Tools for
  Educators
• Your students are going to use this technology
  either because of you, or in spite of you. The
  Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

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Beloit College Mindset List

• Members of this falls entering college class
  of 2014 have emerged as a post-email generation
  for whom the digital world is routine and
  technology is just too slow.
• http//www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php

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Technology in the Classroom

• Consider the following  points as you plan to
• incorporate technology into a classroom or
  school
• Technology. . .
• is a tool, not an end in and of itself.
• can  be an advantage or an abused.
• is a channel for accessing information.
• reaches students learning styles.
• provides amazing new channels for communications.
• can be fun sometimes it is edutainment.
• AND
• is a heavy investment of capital outlay dollars
  and requires substantial cost to upgrade and to
  keep operational.
• is extremely difficult to justify if it lies
  unused or becomes outmoded.

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Focus for Today

• To give you ideas for integration
• To share free websites and tools that can enhance
  curriculum
• To include your proven resources

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The Hat

• Classroom Applications
• Who should I call on??? Let the Hat determine.
  Keeps students ready with an answer. . .
• Creates attentiveness
• Random selection of pairs
• http//download.cnet.com/The-Hat/3000-2132_4-10074
  565.html?tagrecommendedDownloads
• (Avoid installing the Harmony Hollow Toolbar)
• Show The Hat

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Cool Timer

• Classroom application
• Teacher at beginning of hour puts up three review
  questions from the previous days learning,
  students must answer the questions with or
  without help from fellow students before the
  timer ends. Gets students to the room and ready
  to learn.
• Time students as they work on a project
• Time student s to come back together to start a
  new activity
• http//download.cnet.com/Cool-Timer/3000-2350_4-10
  062255.html
• (Avoid installing the Harmony Hollow Toolbar)
• Show Cool Timer

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Website Online Storage

• Site for easily storing, accessing and sharing
  all of your
• favorite sites.
• Classroom Applications
• Save and organize sites for a unit or topic
• Students could use a previewed hotlist of
  resources
• Share curricular sites with colleagues

Diigo http//www.diigo.com (furl absorbed by
Diigo) Copy and organize anything (bookmarks,
highlights, notes, screenshots, pictures,
articles, bibliographies), access anywhere, share
with others. Diigo tutorial http//www.slidesha
re.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation
De.lici.ous  http//delicious.com/ I Keep
Bookmarks http//www.ikeepbookmarks.com/
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Diigo Educator Features

• Create student accounts for an
• entire class with just a few clicks
• Students of the same class are automatically set
  up as a Diigo group, such as group bookmarks and
  annotations.
• Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set
  so that only teachers and classmates can
  communicate with them.
• ExamplesDebate, foreign language

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Blooms Taxonomy of Web 2.0
Blooms Taxonomy Blooms Digitally--http//techlear
ning.com/article/8670
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VoiceThread

• Classroom Applications
• Share images and create conversations
• Communicate on line
• Use of online audio communication
• www.voicethread.com
• Example

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Integration ideas

• Classroom Applications
• Post presentations online for students to view
  later
• Save class time
• Brain Shark https//my.brainshark.com
• Example
• Slide Share http//www.slideshare.net

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Avatars

• Classroom Applications
• Creative announcements or messages
• Used for student presentations
• Voki http//www.voki.com/ (Recorded voice)
  Example 1 Example 2
• Xtranormal http//www.xtranormal.com/ (text to
  speech) Example

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Creating Books Online

• Classroom Applications
• Creative writing
• Summaries or reviews
• Publishing and sharing ideas
• ToonDoo http//www.toondoo.com/ Example
• Tikatok http//www.tikatok.com/
• Comic Creator http//www.readwritethink.org/files/
  resources/interactives/comic
• Comiqs http//comiqs.com/aboutus/
• Bookr www.pimpampum.net/bookr (all pictures must
  be in flickr)

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Online Scrapbooks

• Classroom Activities
• Creative activity
• Brainstorming
• Glogster www.glogster.com
• Example
• http//www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
• Tagxedo www.tagxedo.com
• word cloud with shape, can even add photos (Must
  download Microsoft Silverlight)
• Wordle - www.wordle.net

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Timeline Generators

• Classroom Applications
• Brainstorm an idea with individual or class
• Organize thoughts
• Capture ideas
• Historical events
• TimeGlider http//timeglider.com/
  Example
• Student Interactive Timeline http//www.readwrite
  think.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives
  /timeline-30007.html
• Excel Timeline http//www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemp
  lates/timeline.html
• Example
• Links to many timeline generators
  http//www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-timeline

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Podcasting/Vodcasting

• Classroom Applications
• Assist auditory learners
• Facilitate material review
• Deliver online lectures
• Provide supplementary content
• Audacity a free, open source software for
  recording and editing sounds.
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/ Lame encoder
  allows Audacity to export MP3 files.
  http//lame.sourceforge.net/download.php
• Audacity tutorial http//www.how-to-podcast-tutori
  al.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm
• Itunes u Emerging Technologies in the Classroom
• Examples Book Reviews, Campaign Videos, This
  I Believe

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Webcams

• Classroom Applications
• Interact with the community webcam from
  location
• to a classroom
• Communicate with your class when you are gone
• Interact with students on homebound
• Communicate with other schools during PLC
• Interact (talk using microphone, chat free with
  anyone even internationally)
• www.skype.com (2 video participants, 24 audio
  participants)
• me.tokbox.com (up to 20 participants)
• www.dimdim.com (collaborate, share documents,
  white board, even record session)
• www.stickam.com (stream live video on the
  internet)

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Graphic Organizers

• Classroom Applications
• Brainstorm an idea with individual or class
• Organize thoughts
• Capture ideas
• Webspiration http//www.mywebspiration.com/
• Example
• Mindmeister http//www.mindmeister.com/
• Bubble.us http//bubbl.us

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Flashcards

• Classroom Applications
• Class Review
• Individual Review
• Create Flashcards
• Quizlet http//quizlet.com/math-and-science
• Flash Card Exchange http//www.flashcardexchange.c
  om/index.php
• Flash Card Machine http//www.flashcardmachine.com
  /

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Quizzes

• Classroom Applications
• Provides interactive and collaborative review
  sessions
• Allows individual practice and drill in a
  non-threatening environment
• Allows another avenue of review and study for
  various learning styles
• Allows anywhere/anytime review if activities are
  online
• Quizstar http//quizstar.4teachers.org/
• Quiz Revolutions http//www.mystudiyo.com/
• Other quiz programs http//www.techlearning.com/b
  logs/31494

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Templates of All Kinds

• Templates of all kinds http//officeupdate.microso
  ft.com/TemplateGallery/
• Recognize student work with pre-designed
  certificates
• http//www.123certificates.com/
• http//www.dyetub.com/certificates/traditional/

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Survey Polls (Free)

• Classroom Applications
• Source for survey data
• Lesson plan on graphing
• Source for gathering opinions on current events
  or curricular issues
• Interdisciplinary projects involving a group of
  teachers
• Pretests
• Brainstorming prior to reading
• www.surveykey.com (100 people, 10 questions, up
  to 30 days) www.zoomerang.com (100 people, up to
  10 days)www.surveymonkey.com (100 people, 10
  questions)www.polleverywhere.com (audience
  response system that uses mobile phones, twitter,
  and the web)
• GoogleDoc Forms must create account, no
  restrictions, results in spreadsheet or graph
  form. Example

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Creating Movies

• Classroom Applications
• Create a video presentation for any curricular
  area
• Explain or demonstrate concepts
• PhotoStory3 http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usi
  ng/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
  Can include photos, text, music, audio (no
  video).
• MovieMaker Watch Grandpa's excellent
  skateboarding movie. free program on every
  Windows machine, including your computer at home
  (Accessories, Entertainment). Can include
  pictures, video, audio, music. Example
• Animoto www.animoto.com Takes photos, video
  clips and music and automatically creates
  completely unique video slideshows. Example

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Rubrics

• Classroom Applications
• Evaluate student projects
• Student evaluation/rubric
• http//rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php a free
  tool to help the teacher who wants to use quality
  rubrics but does not have the time to develop
  them from scratch.
• http//www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/gene
  ral/ Contains numerous rubrics that are linked by
  categories and concepts.
• http//myt4l.com/index.php?vplpage_acviewtype
  tools site to create rubrics and more

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Great Classroom Resource

• Access to high-quality, standards-based lesson
  plans, student
• activities, reviewed websites and other resources
• Classroom Applications
• Teacher tool used to create reviews for
  standardized testing and higher-level thinking
  applications
• Lesson plan library
• Resources for online and traditional research
• Previewed (by teachers) Internet resources
• Thinkfinity Lesson Plans and Interactive
  Resources
• http//www.marcopolo-education.org

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MSOffice Productivity

• Classroom Applications
• Research notetaking for a science project
• Teacher/peer editing
• Grading projects created in Word documents
• Notetaking (PowerPoint)
• Comments (Word) Under the Review Tab
• 2007-2010- http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-
  help/insert-or-delete-a-comment-HA001219010.aspx

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Other Resources

• Other district good technology sites
• Lees Summit Technology
• http//its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/
• Olathe
• http//online.olatheschools.com/depts/irc/
• Cool Tools for Teachers
• http//cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
• Discovery Education Web 20.11
• http//web2011.discoveryeducation.com/
• Go 2 Web 2.0
• http//classic.go2web20.net/

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Recognizing Obstacles

• Why dont teachers integrate technology
• Time--it takes too much time
• Fear - students will know more than I do
• Money
• Equipment
• The greater the stress associated with the
  activity, the smaller the cadre of teachers
  willing to give such activities a try. Jamie
  McKenzie, Nov. FNO (http//fno.org)
• Dont let this be YOU!!!

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Your Challenge

• Use one thing you learned today in the next week.
• Share what you learned today with your colleagues
  (become a technology leader).

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Ideas from Audience

• http//www.authorstream.com/
• http//www.artsonia.com/
• http//www.mixbook.com/
• http//www.bookemon.com/
• http//storybird.com/
• http//edu.glogster.com/
• http//www.capzles.com/
• http//prezi.com/
• http//www.thatquiz.org/
• http//technology.usd259.org/modules/groups/integr
  ated_home.phtml?gid1491594sessionid32329d382e8e
  1f668b85de5404a5f7af