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Don’t Be Sheepish: Showing What You Know with Presentation Software. Jen O’Halloran & Daria Taylor Montgomery County Public Schools. Who Are We? . Jen O’Halloran Strawberry Knoll ES 6 years experience MLS from University of Maryland Briefly taught 2 nd grade.
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Don’t Be Sheepish: Showing What You Know with Presentation Software Jen O’Halloran & Daria Taylor Montgomery County Public Schools
Who Are We? • Jen O’Halloran • Strawberry Knoll ES • 6 years experience • MLS from University of Maryland • Briefly taught 2nd grade Terry Martorana, SKES Media Assistant, and I on Halloween, 2006.
Who Are We? • Daria Taylor • Clarksburg Elementary School • 8 years experience • MLS from University of Maryland • 3rd and 5th grade teacher in former life
Session Overview • Intro to three types of software: Pixie, PowerPoint and Photostory • Examples of projects for K, 2, 3, 4 and Staff • Planning for each project • Questions & Resource CDs
Our Goals • Provide multiple examples of how to incorporate effective use of presentation software into instruction of students and staff • Provide files for you to take back and apply to your instruction (located on the Wiki!)
Pixie • Creativity software program that allows students to use pre-created templates, OR create original art and writing. • Slideshow feature
PowerPoint • What can we say that you don’t already know?
Photo Story • Free downloadable software from Microsoft • Allows you to upload digital pictures and create slideshows with transitions, special effects, background music, and narration
Beginning With the End in Mind • Examples of final products • Most examples were collaborations between LMS and classroom teacher • Will share vision of adapted projects when presenting planning process
Kindergarten • Margaret Wise Brown author study • Living Things Research Project • Both projects incorporated writing and drawing using the Pixie Software • Project started with Literature connection in Media Center and then some kind of writing activity • Each student created one Pixie slide and class books/slideshows were then created (used templates created by LMS)
Second Grade Biography • Pixie slideshows created by individual students • Reading/Language Arts and Social Studies connections • 4-5 lab sessions, including one for Gallery Walk • Prior work in classrooms to complete storyboards • Slides created from templates
Third Grade • Writing project based on informative paragraphs the students wrote in class • Four 45-minute sessions in the computer lab (could definitely have benefited from adding 2 more sessions) • No templates were used – students used Pixie tools described in introductory lesson • Students created one slide for each sentence in paragraph and then created slideshow
Fourth Grade Native Americans • Group project meeting Social Studies and Writing outcomes • Bi-weekly sessions for 6 weeks • Collaboration with 2 classes and their social studies teacher • Students used template created in PowerPoint • Slides are examples from final product