Integrating Technology for Content Creation

Professional Development October 13, 2014

Where to start?

PLN – Twitter#Catholicedchat#2ndchat#langchat

Google – Ask and you shall receive!

St. Mary’s Wikispace – place to curate and share information and ideas

Outline expectations of project and acceptable use of devices:

A project overview

iPad Permissions - a list of the approved apps for the assignment (this is critical)

iPad # for the project - this holds students accountable for their device

Remind students not to touch settings

Lastly, be a good citizen and return devices with apps closed out, screens facing left and power ports facing out.

Some Ideas:

Skype: Skype Project Examples:

Primary Source Workshop –Search for CA gold

NASA Digital Learning – Toys in Space

Author talks

Collaborate with other classes, no matter where they are

Find guest speakers and invite them into your classroom

Take a virtual field trip anywhere in the world

Webquest: requires higher level thinking,

not simply summarizing. This includes synthesis, analysis, problem-solving, creativity and judgment

makes good use of the web.

isn't a research report or a step-by-step science or math procedure.

isn't just a series of web-based experiences. Having learners go look at this page, then go play this game, then go here and turn your name into hieroglyphs doesn't require higher level thinking skills and so, by definition, isn't a WebQuest.

Examples:

• Gimme Shelter – Homeless in America

• Dinosaurs Before Dark

• Constitutional Convention

• Perimeter Fun

From: WebQuest.org

Resources for Webquests:

Quest Garden

an online authoring tool, community and hosting service that is designed to make it easier and quicker to create a high quality WebQuest

Examples of good quests

Fee - $20 for 2 years

Blendspace

Collect web resources in one place and share with just one link

Measure student understanding with built-in quizzes

Monitor student progress

Flipping their classroom

Project-Based Learning

Differentiated Instruction

Free

Creation Tools:

ThingLink –

a tool for creating interactive images

Glogster –

similar to ThingLink – create interactive posters

Pic Collage –

allows you to quickly arrange pictures, video, text, and stickers into collages

Aurasma –

Augmented reality – similar to QR codes but with pictures

Comic Life –

allows students to create posters or comic books full of rich media

all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy

Blogging with Students:

Why blog with elementary students?

Critical thinking skills

Practice writing for an audience

Reinforces online ethics and being a good digital citizen

Excellent example of blogging in Science combined with Thinglink

Resources:

Edmodo

Edublogger

KidBlog

Explore! Be inspired! Get creative! Have fun!