Ways To Make Your Classroom More Interactive Beyond the Overhead Ways To Make Your Classroom More Interactive http://tinyurl.com/beyondtheoverhead Gregg Miles

Who am I? Currently Former Instructional Technology Specialist for Effingham County (3 years) Former High School Media Specialist (4 years) Middle Grades teacher (8 Years) Elementary School Teacher (1 year- whew!) Adjunct professor (GSU – 4 semesters)

“The Overhead” Idea conceived in early 1900s Reached it’s height of popularity in the 80s Use declining but still can be found in many classrooms.

I have an LCD projector in my room. True or False?

I have either an Interactive Board or Interactive Pad in my room. True or False?

I have the following brand system in my room. Promethean InterWrite Smart Other

Proverb Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime. Any TapFish fanatics in the room?

Use Available Resources

A few ideas…

Find good “fishing buddies” Teacher Challenge The Whiteboard Blog Free Technology for Teachers Larry Ferlazzo’s Website Suggestions?

“ I don’t have time to read 5 blogs or more a day!”

RSS Feeds Google Reader Tracking Blogs

Now for the fun stuff… “Give me a fish”

Take Them Places

Google Art Project

The Secret Annex Online

Google Street View

Take Them Places… Google Outreach Showcase Stellarium Google Earth for Beginners Ookaboo

Let Them Create

Let Them Create Wordle Uses? Guess the story Free ebooks Analyze famous speeches

Obama State of The Union 2011 Lincoln State of the Union 1862

Guess the Title!

More Ways to Use Wordle Analyze student writing Turn Essays into posters 51 ways to use Wordle

Let Them Create Wordlings Bomomo This is sand Jackson Pollock Crayola Corkboard.me Wallwisher Letter Generator Museum Box

Let Them Play

Spin and Spell http://www.spinandspell.com/

Physics Games http://www.physicsgames.net/

Spelling City http://www.spellingcity.com/

Let Them Play Cyberkidz games E-bug Bitesize Bingo The Lost Army Everest the Experience toporaopa

Watch Learn Participate

Solar System Scope http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

Periodic Table http://www.ptable.com/

Time Zone http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12849630

Watch Learn Participate Heart Interactive Heart and Lung Interactive National Geographic Mapmaker Interactive Whyfiles – Build your own Tornado Interactive voyages Civil War Casualties Civil War Timeline Japan earthquake interactive

Where are we going? Interactive textbook http://www.smashcards.com/

Other Places to Explore http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ Elementary and Middle Interactive Resources http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/ Interesting ways series http://www.wheredidmytaxdollarsgo.com/ Put in salary and dependents and it gives you a break down of where your money went http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/hows/mod01/sim_mod01_01.jsp Simulates filling out a W-4

Other places to Explore http://chartsbin.com/graph Charts and maps that illustrate various types global data http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/ Lots of interactive games and activities Www.thinkfinity.com Interactive games and activities divided by grade level and subject http://www.geotrio.com/ Create, share, view tours

Other places to Explore Interactive maps with audio Great interactive maps from Glenco online http://www.vocabulary.com/ Interactive to improve your vocabulary http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/29/opinion/20101029-civil-war.html Interactive maps relating to the Civil War http://learning.snagfilms.com/ Film with lesson plans Joplin tornadoes

Other places to Explore http://explore.org/education/ Short films with lesson plans http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/ Library of Congress National Jukebox http://www.random.org/ Need a random number? http://artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp Instrument lab games and activities

Thank You!