Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works

Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works:

Setting Goals:

KWHL (know, want to know, how will learn, learned)

In Inspiration…a web

A template to have students fill in with goals:

How to make a template: File..Save As..Document

Template (.dot)

Format: Our class learning goal for this unit:

To understand______

Complete the following sentences to set your personal

Learning goal:

I know….

But I want to know…

I want to know more about…

Goal plan template in Inspiration:

Goal in box

Goal in 5 steps…with completion dates

Personal Learning plan in Inspiration’s Goal Setting Template

Goal setting

Name What I Areas to What I need Resources

Dates to already develop to do

Complete do well

Data collection tools

Survey Monkey, Pollcat lite, web surveyor and profiler pro

Creating Rubrics

Rubistar. Landmark Project Rubric Machine, www.teach-nology.com

NWREL

Web logs (blogs)

Providing Feedback

In Microsoft word, use the “Reviewing” function under toolbars

To add comments (Insert…comment). Save documents in a shared folder.

Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale (in Word – calculates the complexity of a piece) Tools…Options…Spelling and Grammar…Show readability statistics

Classroom Response Systems – wireless clickers

Use with eInstruction (Instructor summary and question report – list of student responses)

Web resources:

www.mathplayground.com/index.html

www.explorelearning.com

www.cut-the-knot.org/games.shtml

www.brainpop.com

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise

Class blog

Poetry… teacher posts a poem, students respond

Students post poems

Teacher posts rubric

Students peer evaluate

Wikis (collaborative writing – students add to collective knowledge on a topic)

pwiki.com

www.wikispaces

Instant messaging with experts AIM or ichat

(online help sessions – college professors, etc)

Video conferencing

Providing Recognition:

Class earns bonus points when 90% of students score a proficiency level with clickers

Students anonymously post their work for reviews on a web site

Certificates made from templates in Powerpoint

Web showcases or picture galleries (a picture of a refridgerator with artwork posted on it) – student work showcase

www.flickr.com – upload pics, link to web page (limit user access)

send audio email congrats

video conferencing

Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers

Student-generated rubrics

Kidspiration plan: Today you will learn….picture…Essential question…

Complete an advance organizer (fill in boxes) in Inspiration (e.g. types of bridges, forces acting on the bridge)

Brainstorming in Inspiration

Use video clips:

www.unitedstreaming.com

www.archive.org

video.google.com

a9.com

creativecommons.org

Students create videos…save to flash drive.. use with other students as advance organizers

Nonlinguistic Representation:

Word processing…graphics enhanced notes (picture from clipart.com with sounds added..print sheets for students)

Software from Inspiration (Inspire-data) – students enter and plot data

Graphic organizers with Microsoft Visio, Cmap Tools, SmartTools, Word

Mneumonic – use Inspiration Vocabulary Word template (students give definitions, use in a sentence, give a mneumonic, and can link to sites for more information)

Create time line in draw…. Draw…Grid…Snap Obects to grid

Draw….Grid…Display gridlines on screen

(add clip art) Insert…Picture…Clip Art

Or create time line in Inspiration

Collect info with scientific tools… digital probe, microscope

Multimedia presentations… Power Point, Key note, Hyperstudio

Animations: webmonkey.com/webmonkey/kids

www.animationfactory.com/help/tutorial_gif.html

www.apple.com/uk/education/animation

use software from ToonBoom Animation, Inc

Student-created movies: iMovie, Moviemaker

Use java applications, simulations from the web

Other good web sites for nonlinguistic rep:

www.knowitall.org

Surviving Everest (National Geographic)

:channelnationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/everest

www.digitales.us

www.ourtimelines.com

Summarizing and Note taking

Use Word’s Track Changes Feature to help students with rule-based summarizing

Steps: 1. Take out the material that is not important to understanding

2.  Take out words that repeat info

3.  Replace a list of things with a word that describes the things in the list

4.  Form a topic sentence or find one

Sample way to use Track Changes

Type in a passage from a text. Activate Track changes. Find a redundant sentence. Highlight it and delete it. (it shows changes…crossed out text, etc)

(Great for writing workshop)

Another Word Tool… AutoSummarize Mark Up

Tools…Auto Summarize (It gives you four choices…highlighting key points, insert summaries at the beginning or end, hide everything except summary without leaving the document).

Students can use this with their own writing to find the key points.

Create combination notes in Word or PowerPoing

Definition frame in Inspiration:definition, general category, characteristics

Topic-Restriction-Illustration in Inspiration:

General topic or statement, what info does the author give that narrows or restricts the topic or statement, what examples does the author give

Problem/Solution frame (in Inspiration’s Template Library)

Character trait note taking in Inspiration

Note taking in Powerpoint (over a graphic on slide)

Web resources for note taking:

:notestar.4teachers.org

:docs.google.com (students can work on work together)

www.thinkfree.com

Cooperative Learning:

Components: (sink or swim together), (helping each other to learn, applauding efforts and success), (each of us has to contribute to the group achieving its’ goal), (communication, trust, leadership, decision making, conflict resolution), (reflecting on how well the team is functioning and how to function even better)

Multimedia – rubrics

Roles, task description

Keypals

Web quests

Web site creation: www.apple.com/ilife/iweb

:office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher

:www.lauyan.com/en/tw-home

:www.virtualmechanics.com

:www.coolpage.com

Shared calendars

Shared bookmarks

:del.icio.us

: www.blinklist.com

: www.kaboodle.com

Course management

:moodle.org

:globalschoolnet.org/GSH

:www.blackboard.com

Web simulation games

www.homesofourown.org

www.jigsaw.org

www.skype.com (users talk for free (multiple users) despite location)

Reinforcing Effort

Effort rubrics

Notetaking, attention, participation, homework, studying, total effort

Pair effort rubrics with performance (Excel spreadsheets, graphs)

Survey on effort – survey monkey

Which strategies will help students practice, review and apply learning:

Similarities and differences:

Create classification tables and templates (group things into categories by characteristics)

Analogy of the day (students can create each day for next day warm up…use graphics, in template)

Spreadsheets – create and analyze

Comparison charts – scatter plots

Venn diagrams

Literature comparison templates

Animal classification templates

Ideas classification template (e.g. living/non living)

Classification matrix (i.e. sorting bugs into categories

Homework and Practice

Choices in products using a variety of media

(lists some review sites and some sites good for homework)

:writeboard.com (multiple users edit a doc on web)

:www.backpackit.com

Students make individual or shared pages to organize notes, to-do lists, web sites

www.campfirenow.com

online group chat… class to class, etc (password protected)

Generating and Testing Hypothesis:

6 tasks: Systems analysis, Problem solving, Historical Investigations, Invention, Experimental Inquiry and Decision Making

Use spreadsheets

Digital probe analysis

Multi player strategy games

Special software applications