1. Where is Rye Junior High School headed?
Welcome, this presentation is for you. You can watch, you can participate, you can review this later on.

2. Jumpstart
Getting started: Looking at the end of what your project might be.  First look.  
    
After the school committee, then  introduce
SEED, spreading educator to educator
Trained 1400 , 7th and 8th grade teachers to begin using ibooks 7 years ago.
View the movie. 
Then:
How we have gotten to where we are!
Studies:
attendance
behavior
written language on MEA
Scores on standardized tests-
About teaching and learning.

3.   
Does this remind  you of anything? No wonder we were scared to go to the dentist!
Look at that scary gear thing under glass!

4. You wouldn't want to go to the same dentist, using the same tools for the past 20 years, would you? Or even how about using the same toothpaste  you used 20 years ago...?
   
Toothpaste has improved to take care of teeth and gums now!

5. What does this remind you of? Would you be scared as a child?
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6. How much has to change to make meaningful change?
   

7. What has happened in our classrooms since that photo was snapped?
Who remembers this?

8. A blog post at TechLearning.com/blog
Look at things differently.
A blog post at TechLearning.com/blog

9. How about changing the way to send someone a message?

10. Would you consider using in  your classroom a transformational activity? What could you do to change?
What if the students ed....

11. If you video-conferenced  someone, somewhere, would that be considered transformational?? What can you change?

12. What has happened in 3 years in Michigan?
How It's Working
Early results from a third-party evaluation conducted by the Center for Research in Educational Policy at the University of Memphis are encouraging.

13. 61 percent of students reported being more interested in learning,
direct observation and surveys,  significant increase in cooperative and experiential learning and computer activities involving critical thinking, plus more student discussion than national norms. 
61 percent of students reported being more interested in learning, 
54 percent felt they learned more, 
51 percent believed their increased efforts would lead to getting better jobs in the future.

14. What have we learned in Maine?
Some of the research from Professor David Silvernail from 
University of Southern Maine.

15. More Maine Sharing. Point to the 2 powerpoints and presentations.
You can view powerpoint presentations here.

16. of Education and Ferris State University in Big Rapids.
 FTL's one-to-one program :
transforming the classroom, highly charged, student-centered learning atmosphere where teachers create a media-rich environment.
emphasis on inquiry and project-based learning, students are also working more collaboratively, moving around, and depending more on one another than the teacher. 
permission to interact with the technology and each other in whatever way they need to learn," 
It's a much more constructivist environment just by virtue of the fact that these kids are working in their native world."
The Freedom to Learn program is a statewide initiative coordinated by the Michigan Department 
of Education and Ferris State University in Big Rapids.

17. Can you think of the types of changes and activities our students are involved in?
Facebook, Myspace,..... keep going!

18. How powerful is this message?
What would you add?

19. Where are our students now?

20. My own movie. It took only 15 min. from start to finish, published!
Oh, and when the animoto was finished, I uploaded to YouTube and in minutes I was done.

21. What can we build in a few minutes?

22. Where do we start?
Located some examples of teachers who have changed their classrooms.
Andrew Churches

23. Classroom Instruction that works
by Stephanie Sandifer  
The website about Classroom Instruction that Works is based on the  "Marzano's 9" , researched strategies of learning which improve student learning and achievement.
Sherry Miller has a great updated site about Marzano
Contributor: Craig Hicks
The use of wikis to be a collaborative note taking tool has great potential. Here are a few examples of student generated wikis.
The use of wikis as a note taking tool would allow students to employ nearly all of the components listed in the research findings associated with this instructional strategy.
Stephanie, a teacher, has created this site as a place for her presentation. Once she presented, she opened the site up for others, including more teachers to share their ideas. Teachers and students can share and collaborate on the Internet.

24. Think back to May 25, 2008    
What were your students doing? How engaged were they?
Here is our 8th grade project. It was a hit.
Student comments: ( made with tinyurl.com)
would this level of excitement have been generated with a pencil and paper project?
would you see your students working on this project during free time in other classes, afterschool, evenings and weekends.
when was the last time you got a message like this from one of your students about an assignment?

25. Resources.
Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans
Many Math Websites-
Math Playground
Online K-12 Interactive Websites
Universal Design for Learning, helps all learners- reading

26. More Resources for Lessons
Education World- a great place for all articles, lessons, ideas
Webquests- lessons that incorporate the Internet

27. Library resources for New Hampshire

28. An Antarctic Connection
This project has been happening for many years connecting schools and scientists.
I hear you may have your
own connection.
You can create your own 
space to have students tell 
the story.

29. Antarctica Lesson Resources
This is a page of lesson resources. 
WBUR, Lesson plans. 
National Geographic Lessons 
BBC Antarctic Lessons 
Virtual Slideshow trip to Antarctica 
IceCubeLive