So Little Time, So Many Needs

1. So Little Time, So Many Needs How Technology Can Help Differentiate

2. Today’s Outcomes • Leave with at least 1 idea you can use in the classroom now • Leave with the motivation to dive into another site and learn it • Leave with lots of resources to help you meet the needs of your diverse learners

3. Topics • Google Earth creating placemarks • Scrapbook Blogs • Podcasts by GCast • Online Stories • Writeboard

4. What is Differentiated Instruction?

5. What is differentiated instruction? • Curriculum designed to meet individual needs of students by modifying: • Content • Process • Product • Learning Environment

6. Joining Curriculum and Learning Thomlinson, 1999, p 45

7. Principles of a Differentiated Classroom • The teacher: • Focuses on what is essential in curriculum • Understands, appreciates and nurtures differences in students • Adjusts content, process and product according to student readiness, interests and learning profiles

8. Principles of a Differentiated Classroom • The students • All participate in respectful and authentic work • Collaborate with each other and the teacher in learning

9. Principles of a Differentiated Classroom • The classroom climate • Demonstrates interdependence of assessment and instruction • Demonstrates flexibility • Nurtures goals which maximize growth and individual successes

10. Why Use Technology to Differentiate? • Accommodates differences in student experience and ability • Provides motivation to most all students • Offers flexible learning opportunities • Provides students the chance to learn 21st century skills needed for the real world http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Differentiation/five.html

11. Google Earth Tours

12. Adding Place Markers • Right click on My Places and Add a new folder • Find your location • Right click on the folder you added and then Add a Placemark • Repeat for each placemark you want in your tour

13. Creating a Tour • Once you have all your locations in your folder, right click and Save As • Save to wherever your students can access it • Google Earth Webinar (for more info) • https://discoveryed.webex.com/discoveryed/k2/tool/record/recordinginfo.php?RecordID=10111647 • http://discoveryeducation.typepad.com/north_south_carolina/2006/02/goolge_earth_an.html • Password= Discovery

14. Scrapblog and GCast

15. Scrapblog and Smilebox • www.scrapblog.com • www.smilebox.com • Allows for online scrapbooking/ journaling http://jm.scrapblog.com/school/ • Can be embedded into teacher blog • Ideas include: • pictures of math manipulatives to visually show a math problem • Pictures of field trip to document learning • Pictures from history to tell a story • Drawn pictures in Kid Pix, become a story

16. GCast • www.gcast.com • An easy way to podcast • Either upload audio saved with Audacity or call by phone • 1-888-65-GCAST to record • Ideas include: • Reader’s Theater for an online podcast • Review of what they learned for the day • Create poetry and read it • http://www.gcast.com/u/camruns/main

17. Online Stories and Writeboard

18. Online Storieshttp://www.quia.com/pages/onlinestories.html • Tumble Books-http://www.muskingumlibrary.org/children/tumble.html Online books that are read to you with text highlighting • StoryLine-http://www.storylineonline.net/ Actors reading stories online • KidzClub-http://www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html Leveled readers with online stories and printable stories • Read-On Audio Stories-http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html Links to many stories all with audio

19. Writeboard • http://www.writeboard.com/ • A way to collaborate with many people on one document • Ideas include: • Copy child’s story to Writeboard to allow parents/ professional to edit • Write stories together with parents, community members, or other students • Have daily math problems that parents/ community members could solve and explain their solutions

20. More Resources and Ideas

21. Math Resources • Digital Camera scavenger hunts for geometry terms or shapes • Use digital camera to take pictures to explain math problem (i.e. picture of 4 dice, picture of 2 dice and then picture of 6 dice to show 4+2=6) • T-Charts/ Venn Diagrams using Kid Pix, Inspiration, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher • Graphs using Excel, Max Count, or Kid Pix, Create a Graph Online http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/ • Online geoboards http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_172_g_2_t_3.html • Math Activities, glossary and resources such as online manipulatives K-6 http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/ • Glyphs using Kid Pix • Online Money http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_3.html • Geogebra-free download-6-12 http://www.geogebra.at/cms/ • Math Casts-watch or create http://www.mathcasts.org/mc/trf/4/ns/4ns1.2/http://www.mathcasts.org/index.php?title=How_to_Afford_a_Mathcast_Studio • Sketchup free 3-D modeling program and once models are built they can be placed into Google Earth http://sketchup.google.com/ • Lego Programhttp://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm

22. Reading Resources • Internet Children’s Public Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location search when studying other countries • Read real product reviews and write/record spoken voice of recommendations based on what they find (any shopping site- such as www.amazon.com) • Read Please Text Reader- free download of program that reads text from any source http://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/#rp2003 • Text Aloud converts written text to MP3 format for iPod http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/index.html • Natural Reader http://www.naturalreaders.com/ Uses the AT&T natural voices and converts the text to MP3 format for use on iPods • Audacity free program to record voices- readers theater, book reviews, review of what you learned for the day and email to parents http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Annenburg videos- free online videos on many different subject areas and topics http://www.learner.org/ • Read, Write, Think website full of ideas and online materials/ activities for the language arts curriculum http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp • Librivox- volunteer to read stories and record online as well as listen to stories online http://librivox.org/

23. Writing Resources • Use Writeboard to have editors collaborate www.writeboard.com • Use digital cameras to tell a story, embellish a preexisting story, or help explain problems through still pictures or through live video http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/index.html • Use an online note tool to help groups collect notes together quickly and easily http://notestar.4teachers.org/ • Participate in the Internet projects http://alpha.fdu.edu/~cohen/fiveways.htm • SpringDoo http://www.springdoo.com/ A video email system where students could send video responses to the community on books read, current events, etc. • More Writing Resources • Tiddlywiki: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ • Zoho Writer http://www.zohowriter.com/ • Wikispace http://www.wikispaces.org

24. Social Studies Resources • Have students read an article, use Audacity to record a response to the article http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm • Create a blog to document how history is being written everyday through the current events • Google Earth tours of historical places with website links for more information • Internet Children’s Public Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location search when studying other countries and read literature from that country • Google Earth game • Try Scholastic online activities • Social Studies/News/Content Area Reading http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/ • If you were president game http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/games_quizzes/electiongame/game.asp

25. Science Ideas • Use digital camera and PowerPoint handout view (Under Print choose Handouts) to take pictures of steps in experiment and then have students write was happened. • Foss Web http://www.fossweb.com/ Online science activities • Online Microscope http://www.open2.net/science/microscope/frames.html • Don’t know the answer to a scientific question? Ask Science Bob or Dr. CRAM http://www.sciencebob.com/questions/questions.htmlhttp://www.cramscience.ca/drcram.php • Online telescope that you can control from your computer http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/ • BBC Science http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml • AOL Jr Sciencehttp://www.aolatschool.com/junior/science

26. Teacher Management Ideas • Quiz Star- online quizzes that can include multimedia http://quizstar.4teachers.org/ • Assign-a-day- Create your own online assignment calendars with links to resources http://assignaday.4teachers.org/ • Study Shack http://www.studystack.com/ Create your own study cards or self-quizzing system or use some of the thousands already created • Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Create your own rubrics for saving or printing • PBL checklist http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/ Create your own checklists so that students can see what needs to be done for a project • United Streaming http://www.unitedstreaming.com Digital content for digital learners. Create online assignments that combine multimedia and web sites.