Introduction to the Digital Kids

1. Introduction to the Digital Kids Digital Native Map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/extras/digital_native.html Did You Know

2. Inexpensive Ways to Integrate Technology to Enhance Curriculum . . . or, how to connect with your students on a consistent basis.

3. Presenters Jane Sak Technology Integration Specialist Blue Valley North High School 12200 Lamar Overland Park, KS 66209 jsak@bluevalleyk12.org Terri Snethen Library Media Specialist Blue Valley North High School 12200 Lamar Overland Park, KS 66209 tsnethen@bluevalleyk12.org Presentation can be found on the distributed business cards and at

4. Let’s Get Involved • Notetaker for “What is Your favorite piece of instructional technology? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WjInPNM88E&feature=related • Need to download the video if okay 2 claps

5. Cognitive Research Students learn best when they are engaged with what they are studying, when they are making decisions, when they are thinking critically—(technology in any classroom encourages this).

6. Pageantry of Gadgetry • Cell Phones • Gaming • Social Networking Sites • Podcasting • 24-hour information access • Wikis/Blogs • Music Players (ITouch, IPods, IPads, MP3s)

7. Although students use technology they are ??? • “Preparing our students not only to be digitally savvy, but leveraging these technologies to help them create, communicate, connect and collaborate will prepare them to be contributing citizens to their future.” The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators • “Your students are going to use this technology either because of you, or in spite of you.” The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

8. Beloit College Mindset List • “Members of this fall’s entering college class of 2014 have emerged as a post-email generation for whom the digital world is routine and technology is just too slow.” • http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php

9. Technology in the Classroom Consider the following  points as you plan to incorporate technology into a classroom or school: Technology. . . • is a tool, not an end in and of itself. • can  be an advantage or an abused. • is a channel for accessing information. • reaches student’s learning styles. • provides amazing new channels for communications. • can be fun; sometimes it is edutainment. AND • is a heavy investment of capital outlay dollars and requires substantial cost to upgrade and to keep operational. • is extremely difficult to justify if it lies unused or becomes outmoded.

10. Focus for Today • To give you ideas for integration • To share free websites and tools that can enhance curriculum • To include your proven resources

11. The Hat • Classroom Applications • Who should I call on??? Let the Hat determine. Keeps students ready with an answer, • Creates attentiveness • Random selection of pairs • http://download.cnet.com/The-Hat/3000-2132_4-10074565.html?tag=recommendedDownloads • (Avoid installing the Harmony Hollow Toolbar) • Show “The Hat”

12. Cool Timer Classroom application: • Teacher at beginning of hour puts up three review questions from the previous day’s learning, students must answer the questions with or without help from fellow students before the timer ends. Gets students to the room and ready to learn. • Time students as they work on a project • Time student s to come back together to start a new activity http://download.cnet.com/Cool-Timer/3000-2350_4-10062255.html (Avoid installing the Harmony Hollow Toolbar) Show Cool Timer

13. Website Online Storage Site for easily storing, accessing and sharing all of your favorite sites. Classroom Applications: • Save and organize sites for a unit or topic • Students could use a previewed hotlist of resources • Share curricular sites with colleagues • Diigo: http://www.diigo.com (furl absorbed by Diigo) • Copy and organize anything (bookmarks, highlights, notes, screenshots, pictures, articles, bibliographies), access anywhere, share with others. Show toolbar • Diigo tutorial: http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation • De.lici.ous:  http://delicious.com/ • I Keep Bookmarks: http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/

14. Diigo Educator Features • Create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks • Students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group, such as group bookmarks and annotations. • Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them. • Examples…Debate, foreign language

15. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Web 2.0 Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally--http://techlearning.com/article/8670

16. VoiceThread ClassroomApplications: • Share images and create conversations www.voicethread.com Example 16

17. Integration ideas Put presentations online • Brain Shark https://my.brainshark.com • Example • Slide Share http://www.slideshare.net

18. Avatars Classroom Applications: • Creative announcements or messages • Student presentations Voki http://www.voki.com/ (Recorded voice) Example 1 Example 2 Xtranormal http://www.xtranormal.com/ (text to speech) Example 18

19. Creating Books Online Classroom Applications: • Creative writing • Summaries or reviews • Publishing and sharing ideas Comiqs http://comiqs.com/aboutus/ ToonDoo http://www.toondoo.com/Example Comic Creator http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic Bookrwww.pimpampum.net/bookr (all pictures must be in flickr) Tikatok http://www.tikatok.com/

20. Online Scrapbooks • Glogster – www.glogster.com • Example • Tagxedo – www.tagxedo.com • (word cloud with shape, can even add photos) (Must dowload Microsoft Silverlight) • Wordle- www.wordle.net

21. Timeline Generators Classroom Applications: • Brainstorm an idea with individual or class • Organize thoughts • Capture ideas Timeline Generators TimeGlider: http://timeglider.com/ Example Student Interactive Timeline: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/timeline-30007.html Excel Timeline: http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/timeline.html Example Links to many generators: http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-timeline

22. Podcasting/Vodcasting Classroom Applications: • Assist auditory learners • Facilitate material review • Deliver online lectures • Provide supplementary content or be part of a blended learning Audacity: a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/Lame encoder allows Audacity to export MP3 files. http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.php Audacity tutorial http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm itunes u – Emerging Technologies in the Classroom Examples: Book Reviews, Campaign Videos, This I Believe

23. Webcams Classroom Applications: • Interact with the community – webcam from location to a classroom • Interact with your class when you are gone • Interact with students on homebound • Interact (talk using microphone, chat free with anyone – even internationally) • Interact with other schools during PLC www.skype.com(2 video participants, 24 audio participants) www.tokbox(up to 20 participants) www.dimdim.com(collaborate, share documents, white board, even record session) www.stickam.com(stream live video on the internet)

24. Graphic Organizers Classroom Applications: • Brainstorm an idea with individual or class • Organize thoughts • Capture ideas Graphic Organizers Webspiration: http://www.mywebspiration.com/ Example Mindmeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/ Bubble.us: http://bubbl.us

25. Flashcards Classroom Applications: • Class Review • Individual Review • Create Flashcards Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/math-and-science Flash Card Exchange http://www.flashcardexchange.com/index.php Flash Card Machine http://www.flashcardmachine.com/

26. Classroom Applications: Provides interactive and collaborative review sessions Allows individual practice and drill in a non-threatening environment Allows another avenue of review and study for various learning styles Allows anywhere/anytime review if activities are online Quizstar: http://quizstar.4teachers.org/ Quiz Revolutions: http://www.mystudiyo.com/ Other quiz programs: http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/31494 Quizzes 26

27. Templates of All Kinds Templates of all kinds http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/TemplateGallery/ Recognize student work with pre-designed certificates • http://www.123certificates.com/ • http://www.dyetub.com/certificates/traditional/

28. Survey & Polls (Free) Classroom Applications: • Source for survey data • Lesson plan on graphing • Source for gathering opinions on current events or curricular issues • Interdisciplinary projects involving a group of teachers • Pretests • Brainstorming prior to reading www.surveykey.com (100 people, 10 questions, up to 30 days) www.zoomerang.com (100 people, up to 10 days)www.surveymonkey.com (100 people, 10 questions) GoogleDoc Forms – must create account, no restrictions, results in spreadsheet or graph form. Example

29. Creating Movies Classroom Applications: • Create a video presentation for any curricular area • Explain or demonstrate concepts PhotoStory3 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx Can include photos, text, music, audio (no video). MovieMaker – Watch Grandpa's excellent skateboarding movie.free program on every Windows machine, including your computer at home (Accessories, Entertainment). Can include pictures, video, audio, music. Example Animotowww.animoto.com Takes photos, video clips and music and automatically creates completely unique video slideshows. Example

30. Rubrics Classroom Applications: • Evaluate student projects • Student evaluation/rubric http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php a free tool to help the teacher who wants to use quality rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/general/ Contains numerous rubrics that are linked by categories and concepts. http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools site to create rubrics and more

31. Great Classroom Resource Access to high-quality, standards-based lesson plans, student activities, reviewed websites and other resources Classroom Applications: • Teacher tool used to create reviews for standardized testing and higher-level thinking applications • Lesson plan library • Resources for online and traditional research • Previewed (by teachers) Internet resources Thinkfinity Lesson Plans and Interactive Resources http://www.marcopolo-education.org

32. MSOffice Productivity Classroom Applications • Research notetaking for a science project • Teacher/peer editing • Grading projects created in Word documents Notetaking (PowerPoint) Comments (Word) – Under the Review Tab 2007-2010- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/insert-or-delete-a-comment-HA001219010.aspx

33. Other Resources • Other district good technology sites: • Lee’s Summit Technology • http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/ • Olathe • http://online.olatheschools.com/depts/irc/ • Cool Tools for Teachers • http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ • Discovery Education Web 20.11 • http://web2011.discoveryeducation.com/ • Go 2 Web 2.0 • http://classic.go2web20.net/

34. Recognizing Obstacles Why don’t teachers integrate technology: • Time--it takes too much time • Fear - students will know more than I do • Money • Equipment “ The greater the stress associated with the activity, the smaller the cadre of teachers willing to give such activities a try.” Jamie McKenzie, Nov. FNO (http://fno.org) Don’t let that be YOU!!!

35. Your Challenge • Use one thing you learned today in the next week. • Share what you learned today with your colleagues (become a technology leader).