Cool Online Tools to motivate and engage your
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Cool Online Tools to motivate and engage your students Students + Textbooks = watch this short clip Power. Point created by Kelly Ford, Director of Technology in Curriculum Resources from teachers, students, seminars, and online research
3 Mega-Skills for Students (as they enter the 21 st century) • Expert Researchers – learning how to manage the overwhelming amounts of information online • Global Communicators– linking our students to students outside of the classroom. • Being Self-Directed– having a voice in the direction of their learning From NJDOE 21 st Century Conference with Alan November of November. Learning. com
Project-Based Learning Small tasks or assignments building into a culminating, meaningful product. The essential question is the foundation. It empowers the students so they can begin “with the end in mind. ”
PBL Problems • Burnout • No choice in format to present • Becomes a “reporting out of information” and never answers the essential question!
Students Must Answer What is my message to the audience and why is it important? Ask them everyday. Their answer will grow and change over the course of the PBL.
One Student Example • Medieval PBL Driving Question Answers • Animoto about Medieval Inventions • Glogster on Medieval Inventions
What do you think of this example? These students were typically the ones who never completed assignments, didn’t participate in group work. They actually didn’t finish all parts of the PBL. But look at the part the DID finish. Revolutions
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Your Curriculum Units Explore, discuss your current PBLs: Is the essential question meaningful? Are there opportunities for real-life connections?
Click on “more” to explore new ways to use Google Screen shot taken using Jing… Click here for tips and tricks for getting better search results on Google
www. wordle. net Recent speech by President Obama Use this visual tool for main ideas of historical speeches, vocabulary practice, or as a concept map
Digital Storytelling http: //animoto. com/education/ o t k c Ba l o o h Sc t h g i N Field Trips Cla o r P ss s t c e j Animoto Sample from Thompson Science Class Book Other Animotos from Thompson Middle School Traile rs
Another Format for Digital Storytelling Free with windows, just download Photostory 3 from online Ruby Bridges Video , 8 th grade Thompson
Online Digital Poster Every student should have the option to do a poster digitally! Glogster samples from Thompson http: //edu. glogster. com/
Share book reviews online and evaluate the quality of other reviews. Teen. Reads. com http: //www. bookhooks. com/write. cfm http: //teacher. scholastic. com/activities/swyar/ http: //inkweaver-review. blogspot. com/2008/12/island-book-one-shipwreck-bygordon. html
• Use Jing to record a lesson that you can post on your website so that students can refer to it any time for help. • Students can use Jing to create tutorials for other students. • Grade Essays or Digital Projects Using Jing Voice Recording – no printing or hand-writing your comments! Teacher Lesson Student Tutorial Grading a Project
Connecting to Students Across the District www. ning. com This screen shot was taken using Jing.
Connecting to Students In Other Parts of the World www. epals. com
Keep Your Students Engaged in a Video Click here for quick video on how to use Today's Meet. com!
The new way to connect with authors, speakers, and professors outside of the classroom Most laptops are equipped with built -in webcams/ microphones…and the cost to purchase either is minimal… Start a grandparent Skype group with primary grades Connect with schools across the district, state, country, and world
Poll Your Students for Instant Feedback (texting from cell phone or laptop)
I-Padio Google Voice Posterous. com
Examples of PBLs using 2. 0 tools
I Want To Explore • • • Examples of authentic PBL ideas Google (more) Animoto Jing Ning Other?
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