1. Enhancing Vocabulary Instruction While also incorporating the Four C’s of Education

2. Our Agenda Today  What are the “Four-C’s”?  What is Kahoot!  What is Puppet Pals 2?  What is Book Creator?  How can these apps be used in the classroom?  Examples?  Q & A

3. What are the “Four- C’s?”  Communication  Collaboration  Critical Thinking  Creativity  Students need to succeed in academic subjects but also master the four-c’s in order to be prepared for the 21 st century.  How can we ensure that our students are gaining this knowledge during our instruction?  Focus is no longer on the teacher, but the students…what are they doing? How are they learning? How are they interacting?

4. Kahoot! https://getkahoot.com/ https://getkahoot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpTEg5lEKlI

5. Kahoot!  is a “game-based classroom response system”  It is a quick informal assessment where the teacher can see if the students are grasping the material and which students are struggling with the material.  Interactive

6. What Kahoot! looks like

7. How do I register?  Now that you know what Kahoot! is you are ready to jump in!  Go to https://getkahoot.com/ OR click the shortcut to the app on your iPad.https://getkahoot.com/  Use the provided handout and take the next 2 minutes to register for your teacher account.

8. Puppet Pals 2 HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1r_EwwCgPs

9. How do I use Puppet Pals?  This app allows “teachers to engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a killer book report” (Puppet Pals HD2).  My students worked out word conversations with their vocabulary words for the week. This also allowed me to assess their knowledge of the words.  This app could also be used for story retelling. It helps the quiet child in the class act out behind the scenes.

10. Brainstorming  Let’s brainstorm some ideas on how to use Puppet Pals in the classroom:  Story telling  Vocabulary conversation  Teach a concept  Use the help sheet provided to learn how to start using Puppet Pals 2

11. Book Creator  This app allows students to create “iBooks in a PDF form and allows them to print, add sound, text, and photos to their book” (Book Creator, 2014).  I used this app in my classroom and had my students work in groups to make a vocabulary book with the word, definition, synonyms, antonyms, and a picture for each word. They then saved their book as a PDF and emailed it to me for grading.  Book Creator Help Sheet for reference

12. 3 rd Grade Book Creator Example Screenshots of their Book-taken from Book Creator and iBooks

13. HELP !  3 Apps that incorporate the Four C’s for enhancement to instruction  What do I do now?  Help pages provided  Brainstorm with your students  Let them interact with their devices!

14. Any Questions?  Feel free to visit www.zurawskiworkshop.weebly.comwww.zurawskiworkshop.weebly.com for handouts, this presentation, and more information on theses apps to enhance vocabulary instruction!