PRESENTATION BY: LINDA CARR – LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST SHAWNEE HEIGHT USD 450 [email protected] JAN PROPHET – INSTRUCTIONAL COACH SHAWNEE HEIGHTS USD 450.

PRESENTATION BY:LINDA CARR – LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST

SHAWNEE HEIGHT USD [email protected]

JAN PROPHET – INSTRUCTIONAL COACHSHAWNEE HEIGHTS USD 450

[email protected]

10.16.09

Welcome to:Spice Up Your Projects with

Technology

Technology to Enhance Learning

First StepsRelease time for teachers is approved by administrator

Announce plan to faculty and ask for input

Each grade level determines area of content

We will:We will: Classroom Teachers will:Classroom Teachers will:

Train teachersIntroduce topic to

studentsLead student

preparation (research)

Create/compose with students

Begin projects with students

Provide time to read or write as needed in the classroom.

Provide time to finish project as needed

Embed projects on personal web pages

Show at Open House

Library Plus the Classroom

Third Grade Chooses “Blabbers”

Teachers want to spice up traditional inventor reports

Linda suggests Blabberize.comWe meet to discuss “Blabber” ProjectTeachers are released for collaborating

and “experimenting with Blabbers”We start the process…

The “Blabber” Project Starts

Standards are chosen Library Media

Technology Writing Reading Science

Groups are differentiated by lexile Ebooks are chosen and

read Ebooks are reread for

clearer understanding Eventually they will be

read over and over during note taking

Blabbers are demonstrated to students (Experience before Label)

The Writing Piece Teacher Input We model mind maps Each group will create one

mind map Each map will have two

parts: About the inventor

Early years Achievements

About the invention How it changed our lives importance

From Writing to Technology

Students divided parts of the paragraphs equally for “blabbering” Students read and reread scripts for fluency Then they read them to one of us Now they were ready to create their “Blabbers”

From the mind maps students created scripts We modeled what a script would look like We discussed our authentic audience Scripts were usually two paragraphs in length Students frequently read these aloud during the writing process

After the script was approved…

HTTP://BLABBERIZE.COM

CLASSROOM TEACHERS THEN EMBEDDED ON PERSONAL WEB PAGES FOR OPEN HOUSE

Creating Blabbers

1. USED GUIDED READING BOOKS2. SHOWED VOKI EARLY ON

They practiced at homeThey knew what to do

3. USED GRAPHIC ORGANIZER4. WROTE SCRIPT5. PRACTICED FLUENCY6. CREATED VOKI’S7. POSTED ON WEBSITE

6th Grade Voki’s

Second Grade Uses Photo Story 3

1. Read the book Owen and Mzee, by Isabella Hatkoff

2. Students took notes as we read using Kidspiration

3. Mrs. Carr showed YouTube Hipposodes

4. Groups selected facts

5. We modeled developing paragraphs with their facts

6. Students practiced fluency

7. Mrs. Carr made the Photo Story

8. Student groups narrated

9. Posted on website

Ideas for technology projects

http://blabberize.comhttp://www.voki.comhttp://www.snh450.k12.ks.us/webpages/

lcarrhttp://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com