The Heart of Engagement 5 Engaging Technologies for Middle School Minds
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The Heart of Engagement
5 Engaging Technologies
for
Middle School Minds
The Illustrious MissZee
•Fairfield Falcon •VCU Alumni •ODU Student•MS English Teacher•Future LibrarianMiss Rebecca Zuckerman
HCPS/ODU 2016
Use it! •Create characters and tell Stories.
•Make history Speak.
•Promote your school and library.
•Bring Figurative Language to life.
• The mouthtakes some time
• Embedding is amulti-step process
• Video conversionis free, but onlytemporarily
Use
it!
• Organize and plan for larger products.
• Teach new procedures and concepts.
• Practice with Text Structures by creating cartoons (6.5 k) (in
the spirit of this compare and contrast cartoon by Oatmeal).
• Create political cartoons. (8.3 c)
• Reflect on reading. (7.6 i and l)
• Teach Mood and Tone
• Teach or practice foreign language.
• Free version is very limited.
• Creating comics can be time-consuming.
Use
it!
• Have students turn in a website rather than a classic research paper.
• Use Wix as a portfolio for student work.
• Use Wix to promote clubs and do-gooder’s at your school!
• Not all of the controls are intuitive. Play around a lot and click on all the options to learn what they do.
Use It!• Explain Sequential
Concepts• Summarize to reflect
on learning.• Teach main idea and
supporting detail.• Create anchor charts• Create visual media
messages• Display data and
research
• Creation of Infographics can be time consuming
• Temperamental controls
• Starting from scratch is overwhelming
Use it!• Create, design, print, and promote
inventions. • Create representational objects to
go along with a book, character, or research topic
• Repair or upgrade existing machines
• Create historical artifacts• Work as team to build something
• Not currently compatible with Google Chrome
• Will not save unless you are working in Firefox
• Design can be visually “tricky”
Questions?
Image Credits Cover Page (slide 1):
Clker Free Vector Free Images/ 29620 Images (2012). Face black man smile afro hair. Retrieved at: https://pixabay.com/en/face-black-man-smile-afro-hair-41697/ CC0 Public Domain
Slide 2:
Clker Free Vector Free Images/29620 Images (2014). Falcon-bird of prey-raptor. Retrieved from: https://pixabay.com/en/falcon-bird-of-prey-bird-raptor-303847/ CC0 Public Domain
Slide 3:
SuperTuffPinkPuff (2010). This horse is whack. Retrieved at: http://supertuffpinkpuff.deviantart.com/art/That-horse-is-whack-184706818 CC BY 3.0
*This image was modified: the tongue was removed from the original image and the modified picture was used in a “blabber “createdby Miss Zee on “blabberize.com”
Slide 4:
Budi, Rollan (2009). Dog chillin’ with red sunglasses. Retrieved fromhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/rollanb/3545177630 CC BY-SA 2.0 *Photo modified by MissZee using blabberize to animate and add audio.
Slides 5, 11, 14, 17:
Roventine, M. (2009). Caution: jazz hands! Retrieved at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/3718340188 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Slide 6:
Pixton by Miss Zee
Image Credits Slide 7:
Inman, M. (2016). Minor differences. Retrieved at: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences/capslock The Oatmeal: USA.
Slide 8:
Pixton by Miss Zee
Slide 9:
Wix Website by Miss Zee
Slide 10:
medithIT (2013). 10363851703. Retrieved at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/medithit/10363851703 CC BY 2.0
Slide 12:
Easel.y by Miss Zee
Slide 13: Piktocharts by Miss Zee
Slide 15:
Deblock, M. ( 2016). Tinkercad chair. Retrieved at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhJt2C65jY8 Standard Youtube License.
Slide 16:
Mad Hatter Hat made by Miss Zee in Tinkercad
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