tcea spec. ed. presentation

Web 2.0 in the Special Ed Classroom

Pamela Cranford

Scott S. Floyd

White Oak ISD

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Discarded Stand Alones - GRAB THEM!!!

Language Arts Activities Spelling

TAKS Practice PassagesTreasure Mountain - Reading Comprehension

Reader Rabbit - Parts of Speechand More

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Students can experience success working side by side at their own level.

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Weekly Spelling Tests

Each student takes the weekly spelling test as a ClassServer assignment. The format is designed to match the 4th grade TAKS Writing assessment.

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Students have comprehension questions before them, and the CD cues them when a question is coming up by saying, “Quick Quiz”.

Students mark their answer in pen and self-check when the correct answer is given for immediate feedback.

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Do my students love Technology? Just ask them!

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Technology Tuesdays

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• Technology Folders

Each student has a Technology Folder. This folder contains a grid with the name of each program that is loaded on our

computers. Students choose, load, and record their program by marking the grid with the date. The same program may not be repeated more than twice before at least 2 additional

programs are used by the student.

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Roughneck Research

Book Study

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We did a book study on Snowflake Bentley. Subjects integrated included math, social

studies, science, and reading.

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ClassServer Lesson

Students read a brief history of Wilson Bentley’s life.www.snowflakebentley.com

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In this lesson, students follow hyperlinks to show what they have learned about the Snowflake Man from Jericho, Vermont.

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Next, we went to the weather website to complete a comparison/contrast document of the weather in Jericho to the weather in

White Oak.

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Students followed one hyperlink to a site that allowed them to cut an online snowflake and add it to the blizzard. We viewed

snowflakes cut by students in Italy and other countries. We searched White Oak, Texas, and viewed snowflakes cut by other

students in our town.

www.popularfront.com/snowdays/

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Snowflake Exhibit

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Students Visit our Elementary Library

We sent out invitations to the Primary and Intermediate Campuses asking them to come to the Elementary Library to

view a video loop of the first photographs ever taken of individual snowflakes.

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Fastt Math

At last year’s TCEA Conference, I was lucky enough to win this program at one of the sessions. It is being used in our Math Lab

to aid RtI Students with Math Fluency.

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Mystery Motivator

Technology is an excellent Behavior Management tool as well. I use Dr. William Jenson’s Mystery Motivator idea from Tough Kids Toolbox. Not only are students being rewarded, but they are

actually practicing decoding, attention to details, reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and

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PODCASTS

Inclusion - Color Poems by 5th Grade

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PODCASTS

Blending GT and Sp. Ed - A guest reader - A Christmas Star

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PODCASTS

Author Study - A Salute to Seuss by 4th Grade

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PODCASTS

Pirate Story - Self-directed literacy

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Parent Communication5th Grade Science Field Trip to the Nature Center www.etwwf.org

Special Ed Roughneck Research Spider Research Lesson Plans www.etwwf.org

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Parent CommunicationEmail - Email - Email ! ! !DimDim Conference Call - Sp. Ed Homebound Student

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Next GREAT ProjectsPortable science labs for nature centerFlash drives so that students can take data back and forth from home to school and visa versa.Transfer all Class Server lessons to MoodleBooks on tape to be transferred to iPodsWiki for class projects

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Web 2.0 in the Special Ed Classroom

Pamela Cranford - cranfordp@woisd.net

Scott S. Floyd - floyds@woisd.net and http://scottsfloyd.edublogs.org

White Oak ISD

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