EC Sharing Session II

Trainer Observations
Must be scheduled by April 30th
3 Things Turned In:
Summary
Check Sheet
Planning Questions

Time Cards & Assignment Sheets
Due on or before April 30th, 5 pm
NO EXCEPTIONS
Attach Trainee Assignment sheet to the time card.

Lesson Plan
Email to Bonnie by April 30th

Tonight's Agenda
ProScope

Frosted Mini Wheat
Brown Sugar
Chair
Dried Apricot
Ring

iTunes U
Lectures from various universities recorded and posted online ("Universities")
Podcasts by or for kids ("K-12" -> "Utah Electronic High School" -> "Jordan School District")
-UCET Sessions
-Student Podcasts
-TEDTalks by Arthur Benjamin
-University of South Florida -> College of Education -> Lit to Go

Favorite Podcasts:
NPR
-Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!
National Geographic

Sharing

• boinx.com - mouseposé
• quicksilver
• microscope adapters to attach ProScope
• google docs
• Use a Wiimote as a SmartBoard - Download Wiimote Whiteboard software
• slide show of technology assignments played at parent conferences
• use uTips in conjunction with clickers
• student music videos - songs on GarageBand, then movie
• weekly student reports on GoogleDocs to share with team
• planner on the computer projected for the kids to copy & follow along with
• biographies in ComicLife - kids dress up as the person & take a photo, then add info.
• still photo movies - use cameras, use PhotoBooth, etc.
• still photo movies about heat, light, & sound concepts drawn on whiteboards

Wikis:

• embed a google calendar
• assignment list with links to documents or powerpoints
• embed surveys
• student pages
• photos
• slide shows

Blogs:

• student entries
• parent notes
• class journal
• assignments

Cool Software

OmniGraffle
Popular for Macs
Requires Leopard operating system

Pencil
2-D Drawing Software
Pencil Firefox Ad-on

EC Sharing Session

Ideas from other teachers about what they are doing with technology:

ComicLife

• Animal Reports - Heredity and Survival - 5th grade
• Animal Reports - Predator/Prey - multiple pages - 9th grade
• Demonstrate patterns created with pattern blocks - work displayed on a ComicLife page - this was used as the consequence for his students fighting at recess - they had to learn to work together to create the patterns
  
• Class Newspaper - produced monthly
  

Movies

• Moon Movies - kids took photos of moon phases, then put them together into a movie - 6th grade
• Claymation Movies - students take still photos and put them together into a movie

Podcasts

• Non Fiction Book Reports - audio & still photos - created on GarageBand - 6th grade
  

Blogs

• Club Blog - for groups and clubs at the school
• Teacher Blog - teacher posts assignments and worksheets on the blog - links to google docs - so if the students lose their copy they have to go online and print themselves a new one - they could even submit online

Office

• Use Excel to create graphs - to avoid problems with different versions of Excel, SaveAs the older version
  

Wikis

• Posting assignments online

My UEN

• Notes to parents about what is going on at school and in the class
• Links
• Calendar

Ideas From Bonnie
Picnik
Jing Project
ScreenCast
Wee World
PhotoFlex
Screen Capture - Shift Apple 4
Lulu
Plasq
Skitch
Digital Teaching Tools
Export entire albums from iPhoto to Picasa
Create a Podcast using the document camera - See Kelly's Podcast to learn how:

• http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4
• Go to "T4 Tips Podcasts"
• Go to "T4 Tips Podcast #40 - AverVision 300 AF+ Document Camera"

Create a movie using the document camera

• Plug in a USB port from the document camera to your computer
• The AVerVision screen will pop up
• Click the record (the movie reel)

By the way, there is an anti-glare screen for the document camera!

Engaged Classroom

This blog has been created to post items required of me as a "21st Century Engaged Classroom" teacher. I have several other blogs that I have been using to display and discuss technology use in the classroom already, but I decided it would be easier to one central location for this particular assignment. I also decided I didn't want my personal blog on the Engaged Classroom wiki. I may eventually use this blog as my classroom blog, but I haven't decided yet if I prefer to use a blog, a wiki, or just my UEN site. I think having all 3 may get a bit confusing for my students!

So, please take a look around. I am linking my existing graduate school blogs and several websites I have found helpful in teaching with technology. I would like to go back at some point and add some labels to my old blog posts to make them more easily searchable, but for now you can simple search them by key word.

That's all for now!