Thursday, February 17, 2011

OMG, I CNT BLIEV WE R REALLY GTTNG THS IN SKUL

FETC 2011
Wed, Feb. 2, 2011
Notes by: Laura Hall, 3rd grade teacher
St. Luke’s Lutheran School


OMG, I CNT BLIEV WE R REALLY GTTNG THS IN SKUL
Anthony Luscre - Director of Technology Mogadore Local Schools
Clear Summit - www.clearsummit.org  - download presentation and see links to other resources

Follow your district’s AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) regarding cell phones in the classroom.
  • Douglas Adams- author of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • Telegraphs consisted of the short, vowel-less letters that many kids text with today.
  • Problem with texting now: there is no consistent format.
  • Using multimedia in the classroom -
    • Consider the Digital Story of the Nativity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZrf0PbAGSk
    • Use same idea in classroom. Ex- when studying the Civil war
      • Have students research what type of transportation was available, where the people were (google maps), how they might have sent e-mails to each other, etc.
    • Can use for multiple subject areas.
  • www.emodo.com
  • Twitter project ideas:
    • short story (140 characters), poem, or Haiku
    • Vocabulary word-of-the-day
    • In Literature or History
      • Fake Newspaper Headlines for a historical or fictional event
      • a few words from a famous character’s perspective
    • Health
      • give examples of healthy foods and exercise
    • Special Education
      • helping keep track of their goals
    • Homework
      • instead of writing assignments on the board, Tweet them
  • Texting Ideas
    • Encourage written communication
    • Learn about appropriateness of variety of writing types for specifically audience and situations
    • as an example of how a language lives and changes
  • Safer texting and social networking tools used by schools
    • School-hosted blogging packages, Word Press, Moodle and other CMSs
    • Google Apps for Education
      • instead of printing out your paper, google it!
      • Then teachers can edit it/make comments
    • Gaggle
    • ePals
  • More ideas:
    • Book Reports or Class Projects by Wiki
      • Wiki = websites that are updated by many people
      • ex: Wikipedia
    • Class Blog- large variety of uses
    • Student/Teacher run Community Projects
      • Historical information (people, places, buildings, events, etc.)
      • Clubs/Teams
      • Peer learning
      • tutoring
    • My fake Facebook
    • My real Facebook
      • With real walls! One teacher had the students post pictures and comments on large pieces of paper posted on the walls! Then they could go around the room and (literally) write on each other’s “walls.” :)
  • Google Earth Project Ideas
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • Geography- where, near what, size, distance, navigation, etc
    • Historical imagery enables you to go back in time and browse the visual historical record of our planet (including hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.)
    • City planning and Construction
      • can reconstruct ancient cities using Google Sketchup
    • Google Literature field trips
      • Find places talked about in books or movies
      • USE BEFORE L.M. ELLIOTT VISIT!!
    • Try searching for “Google Earth in the Classroom”
  • “There Should be an App for That” project ideas
    • school work
    • science projects
    • social issues
    • family chores
    • hobbies
    • recreation and sports
    • etc.
    • Students don’t need to do the actual programming; just get the conceptual idea
    • Have students create “sudo” Apps
      • Create written descriptions for
        • What it is for
        • What is does
        • How it does it
      • Draw a Flow Chart/Diagram of Operations
      • Write technical specifications
      • Write User instructions
    • Freeware and/or Open Source
  • E-Bay Project Ideas:
    • Economics
    • Entrepreneur
    • Social Studies/Geography
    • Web Page Design
    • Writing
    • Math: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
    • Statistics
  • Spreadsheet Project Ideas
    • Auto Filtering & Sorting
      • Ex: Romeo and Juliet- create spread sheet of the characters, who they were friends with, if they died, etc. then sort by friends of Juliet who died
      • gives a good visual
  • Online Simulations
    • Science and Engineering
      • Edheads - Excellent simple machines and design activities
      • Blender
      • StarLogo TNG
      • Gamestar Mechanic
      • Alice
      • Kodu Game Lab
      • XNA
      • Diginspired
      • GeoGebra
      • TeachEngineering
  • Virtual Worlds, Avatars & Sims
  • Misc. Project Ideas
    • Pod Casting
    • eHow- How to do just about everything! Videos and articles
    • Online Foreign TV and Radio Stations
  • Resources:
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