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