1. Patti Duncan DEN Virtual Conference October 25, 2008

3. In the “Teacher Center” choose “More Tools”

4. Choose “Thematic Focus”

5. Discussion Guide MediaActivities

6. Lesson Plans for Different Grades Resources

7. Past themes are archived

9. Atlas Map Videos Related Materials Launch Atlas

11. “Today in History” Items for many different subjects… video clips attached

12. Choose 4 images at random or along a selected theme…

13. First student looks at slide #1 and “starts the story” Create a slide show with one image per slide, add a text box next to image

14. 4 th student finishes the story based on the last image Next student adds to the story at slide #2 … third student writes based on slide #3

15. Search for songs by topic or grade level

16. Download a song and have students make a slide show of the lyrics… then have another team sing along with their song

17. Students search DES for famous person

18. Choose “Speech” from the options to further sort the results

19. Choose a speech they want to report about

20. Choose “speech transcript”speech transcript

21. Students write a “News Report” about the speech, including quotes or “sound bites” (from video clip) and record a podcast of the news report

23. Voicethread allows you to piece together video clips (like the ones that you get from DES), still pics, and voices into one project

25. Students download a video clip with closed captioning Students film themselves doing sign language to video

26. Students can watch a video clip in different classrooms and live blog about it…

27. Collaborating teachers create a blog page for the students Teachers choose a video and download it in their classrooms

28. “Lead” teacher sets up a Cover it Live session and embeds it into the blog At an agreed upon time… each teacher starts the video in their classroom… students log in to the CIL session on the blog

29. Use the “Assignment Builder” to create an assignment that can be done ANYWHERE

30. Use for: Substitute lessons Homebound students To share with other educators Students going on vacation! Email assignment link, post it on district calendar, or post it on your wiki or blog…blog…

31. Students can access assignment and work on it from home, or school

32. To…. And BEYOND….

33. DEN LC Institute Projects DEN National Institute Projects Matt Monjan’s “50 Ways” Preso