Web 2.0: Technology Integration for the 21 st Century Teacher October 6 and 7, 2011 SCCS Staff Development Rebecca Battistoni, Librarian

Why integrate technology?  Total immersion into the content areas  Deepens and enhances the learning process  Prepares students with skills needed for today’s work environment  Four key components of learning  Active engagement by all students  Participation in groups to foster teamwork  Frequent interaction and feedback from teacher and peers  Connection to real-world situations, problems and experts  Effective integration is achieved when use of technology is  Routine  Transparent  Supports curricular goals

The 21st Century Teacher’s Toolbox  21 st Century Teachers  Engage with technology in their own lives  Are more likely to value technological tools in their teaching  Use technology with students  Tools (often free!)  Promote and extend student learning  Should happen on a daily basis  Web 1.0 tools text based; Web 2.0 tools interactive  Challenge  Finding ways to use technology as routine part of class  Helping students use technology to extend their learning  Trying to add too much, too fast

Audio Tools for Any Content Area  Collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam) Classroom Applications  Real time discussion with scientists, authors, experts, etc!  Collaboration with others world wide  Free computer to computer connection

Learning Tools for Any Content Area  Creative interactive posters for any assignment  Combines text, images, video, music  Use as an alternative to Power Point  Six subject categories: Languages (French and Spanish), Geography, Math, Humanities, Chemistry, and English  UN World Food Program  Playing donates rice to help end world hunger

Social Networking Tools for Any Content Area Classroom Applications  Bulletin boards  Instant messaging  Connects students to students  Ability to post videos and pictures  Collaborate within the system

Social Networking Tools, cont.

Content Area: Science  Experiments, games and activities  Huge site with hundreds of things to explore!  MS/HS visual, interactive science simulations  Mostly ES games/activities from Canadian site  Publish writing as an “EcoReporter”

Content Area: Math  Both sites create graphs to save, share and print

Content Area: Math  Interactive, web-based manipulatives for K-12

Content Area: Humanities and Research  Multimedia site with diverse, creative visuals  Enhances our understanding of war and its history  Create interactive timelines  Annotated links to 1,200 + history web sites  Links to hundreds of quality K-12 lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more  Recommended by Chronicle of Higher Education, National Council for the Social Studies, New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, and many others

Content Area: Humanities and Research, cont.  Huge selection of student interactive graphic organizers, diagrams, and other tools

Content Area: English and Writing  Blogs (web logs) started as personal journals, often with highly political overtones; a blog is a website that is updated on a regular basis, displays the content in reverse chronological order (newest entries first), and allows, even invites, reader response  Blogging classroom applications  “Blogger of the day” – allow one student a day to blog on the class blog  Student journal; ideas include reading logs, exercise/food logs for PE/Health, science fair reflections  Create “Top 10” lists of important information from that day/week/unit  Embed websites on the blog that you want the students to read and respond to  Create a question chain: teacher posts a question, one student answers it and post another question, and so on; no question can be repeated; good way to start book discussions or review for tests  Group problem solving: post a school related issue and get feedback from the students  Add a photo a day and have students write comments/stories/poems about the photo  Sponsor out-of-class contests  Extra-credit assignments  Keep absent students up-to-date  Communication with parents about classroom climate

Content Area: English and Writing, cont.  Choose any text or series of words, and paste them into a box at the Web site to create a graphic display of the words, with the size of each individual word being determined by its frequency in the original word set Classroom Applications  Display classroom rules uniquely  Display grade level content expectations  Create unique book reports or notes  Analyze student writing for overused words  Add to projects or posters to enhance presentations

Content Area: Reading home.asp  New program purchased by the school  30 day free trial until program is installed  Password: sccs2011; Login: login  Over 300+ eBooks; access at school and home  Share book recommendations, rate books, write book reviews, and create own virtual bookshelf  Set up a private group with just students

Content Areas: Music, Art and PE  Database of 3,000+ songs for classroom use  Song lyrics reference guide  Activities, curriculum, and resources for K – 12 teachers  Great section on how to incorporate Web 2.0 into art classes  Art museums from around the world  Great ideas on using photos in new, creative ways  Create an online fitness journal  Track personal statistics and goals

Teacher Timesaver Tools  Free resources from US government agencies  Lots of links to lesson plans, activities, games and more

Teacher Timesaver Tools, cont.  Teacher resources for all subjects  Create worksheets for extra practice  Create grading rubrics  Create different types of puzzles

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy, cont.

Where are you on the digital ladder?

Where can I learn more?   HUGE list of resources for technology integration  Digital tools section is place to start  Tutorials on different applications  SCCS Public Folder  Presentation found in Library Media Center Folder  Found within both the ES folder and Secondary folder  Just click on a blue link to start exploring  Ask for help; this is just a beginning!  Technology Department  Other teachers  Your students  School Year 2011/2012 Goal  Try to add at least one digital tool this year!