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Technology for Instruction and Assessment

Technology for Instruction and Assessment. Craig Owens Director of Technology Montrose Area School District cowens@masd.info. Agenda. Interactive Whiteboards and Presentation Technologies Student Response Systems Web 2.0 - Great New Resources Educational Use of Blogs Learning Communities

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Technology for Instruction and Assessment

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  1. Technology for Instruction and Assessment Craig Owens Director of Technology Montrose Area School District cowens@masd.info

  2. Agenda • Interactive Whiteboards and Presentation Technologies • Student Response Systems • Web 2.0 - Great New Resources • Educational Use of Blogs • Learning Communities • Additional Resources

  3. Interactive Whiteboards • Display and interact with your computer desktop environment • Robust software tools • Many flavors • Touch board • LCD • Acoustic

  4. Interactive Whiteboards What do I need? • Computer $900 • Interactive Whiteboard $1,500 • Digital Projector $700 $3,100 Anything else? • Projector Mount $500 • Signal Splitter $120 • Controller $600

  5. Interactive Whiteboards • So what’s the big deal? • WOW factor means student engagement • Quickly access internet resources • Target student attention • Highly visual • Manipulative – Kinesthetic/Tactile • Saves time (eventually) • Complex modeling made easy

  6. Interactive Whiteboards • Some example activities: • Greater than or less than? • Billy Bug • If You Were the President • Smart Notebook Activities

  7. Student Response Systems • Get instantaneous formative or summative assessment data. • Can feed back to a gradebook • Great for quiz games / review activity • RF vs. IR • Handhelds can also be used

  8. Student Response Systems • CPS – Classroom Performance System • www.einstruction.com • Integrated gradebook and question builder • ActiVote • Integrates into Promethian whiteboards

  9. Blogs • Blogs are web-based journals that generally allow comments • Web + Log = Weblog = Blog • Easy way to start blogging: • www.blogger.com • www.wordpress.com • www.typepad.com • www.edublogs.org

  10. Blogs • Use a blog for: • Students respond to a writing prompt • Cooperative writing / writing chain • Discussion/debate on a prompt • Create a class webpage • Linking to items related to curriculum • Personal/Professional Enrichment

  11. Blogs • Tips for classroom use of blogs: • Don’t kill writing with over-assessment – set tasks that allow for deviation and subversion • Incorporate blogs as essential components of your course • www.classblogmeister.com

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