1. PRESENTATION BY: LINDA CARR – LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST SHAWNEE HEIGHT USD 450 CARRL@USD450.NET JAN PROPHET – INSTRUCTIONAL COACH SHAWNEE HEIGHTS USD 450 PROPHETJ@USD450.NET 10.16.09 Welcome to: Spice Up Your Projects with Technology

2. Technology to Enhance Learning First Steps  Release time for teachers is approved by administrator  Announce plan to faculty and ask for input  Each grade level determines area of content

3. We will: Classroom Teachers will: Train teachers Introduce topic to students Lead student preparation (research) Create/compose with students Begin projects with students Provide time to read or write as needed in the classroom. Provide time to finish project as needed Embed projects on personal web pages Show at Open House Library Plus the Classroom

4. Third Grade Chooses “Blabbers” Teachers want to spice up traditional inventor reports Linda suggests Blabberize.comBlabberize.com We meet to discuss “Blabber” Project Teachers are released for collaborating and “experimenting with Blabbers” We start the process…

5. The “Blabber” Project Starts Standards are chosen  Library Media Technology  Writing  Reading  Science Groups are differentiated by lexile  Ebooks are chosen and read Ebooks  Ebooks are reread for clearer understanding  Eventually they will be read over and over during note taking Blabbers are demonstrated to students (Experience before Label) The Writing Piece  Teacher Input  We model mind maps  Each group will create one mind map  Each map will have two parts:  About the inventor Early years Achievements  About the invention How it changed our lives importance

6. From Writing to Technology  Students divided parts of the paragraphs equally for “blabbering”  Students read and reread scripts for fluency  Then they read them to one of us  Now they were ready to create their “Blabbers”  From the mind maps students created scripts  We modeled what a script would look like  We discussed our authentic audience  Scripts were usually two paragraphs in length  Students frequently read these aloud during the writing process After the script was approved…

7. HTTP://BLABBERIZE.COM CLASSROOM TEACHERS THEN EMBEDDED ON PERSONAL WEB PAGES FOR OPEN HOUSE Creating Blabbers

8. 1. USED GUIDED READING BOOKS 2. SHOWED VOKI EARLY ON They practiced at home They knew what to do 3. USED GRAPHIC ORGANIZER 4. WROTE SCRIPT 5. PRACTICED FLUENCY 6. CREATED VOKI’SVOKI’S 7. POSTED ON WEBSITEWEBSITE 6 th Grade Voki’s

9. Second Grade Uses Photo Story 3 1.Read the book Owen and Mzee, by Isabella Hatkoff 2.Students took notes as we read using KidspirationKidspiration 3.Mrs. Carr showed YouTube HipposodesHipposodes 4.Groups selected facts 5.We modeled developing paragraphs with their facts 6.Students practiced fluency 7.Mrs. Carr made the Photo Story 8.Student groups narrated 9.Posted on websitewebsite

11. Ideas for technology projects http://blabberize.com http://www.voki.com http://www.snh450.k12.ks.us/webpages/lcarr http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com