INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM: WEBSITES K-12

INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM:WEBSITES K-12

Franklin Township Public SchoolsProfessional Development

October 11, 2010

The Focus of Today’s PD

• Examples of technology integration.

• 2009 Technology standards.

• 2009 21st Century Life and Careers standards.

• Classroom Application Documents

• Technology Toolbox

• Explore websites for ideas to integrate technology in the classroom.

• Provide hands-on experience utilizing websites to integrate technology across the curriculum.

INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM:WEBSITES K-12

All of the opportunities presented today are available for free.

•Teachers act as facilitators of new learning experiences.

•Students shift from passive to interactive learning.

•Students demonstrate learning in a variety of ways.

•Assessment and feedback are varied and individualized.

•Technology supports data driven instruction.

TEACHERS AS FACILITATORS OF LEARNING

•Standards based learning opportunities are teacher developed but often student directed.

•There are many web based ways to present students with opportunities including:

•District teacher pages.

•Sharetabs, one link that conveniently displays a list of related links in tabs.

STUDENTS SHIFT FROM PASSIVE TO INTERACTIVE

LEARNING

This gardening sharetab consolidates the links needed for a student project.

A SAMPLE SCHOOL GARDEN PROJECT

http://sharetabs.com/?gardeningandfood2

Incorporating a 21st century standard 9.1.4.D.1 with literacy 3.1.1G.2, math 4.2.2.D.3, and science 5.3.2.B.1.

TEACHER ACTIVITY

Create your own sharetab:

•Go to http://sharetabs.com/

TEACHER ACTIVITY (CONTINUED)

•Type a list of related links for a project.•You may personalize the link if you want.

•Click the Tabify ’em! button at the bottom.

TEACHER ACTIVITY (CONTINUED)

•The website will return a link for you to use.

A SAMPLE LITERACY ACTIVITY

This literacy sharetab consolidates the links needed for student activities.

STUDENTS SHIFT FROM PASSIVE TO INTERACTIVE

LEARNING

http://sharetabs.com/?literacyactivity

Many of the interactive storybooks are also available in Spanish.

Incorporating a technology standard 8.1.2.A.5, with a literacy standard 3.1.1G.2

A SAMPLE MATH ACTIVITY USING VIRTUAL MANIPULATIVES

This math sharetab consolidates the links needed for student activities.

STUDENTS SHIFT FROM PASSIVE TO INTERACTIVE

LEARNING

http://sharetabs.com/?mathactivity

Incorporating a technology standard 8.1.2.A.5, with math standards 4.1.2.A.1 and 4.2.2.A.4

DEMONSTRATING AND ASSESSING LEARNING

•civil rights project (animoto.com)•stay safe online (schooltube.com)•alphabet (animoto.com)•fish story (voicethread.com)•surfometry (voicethread.com)

• Using Web 2.0 tools, students are empowered to demonstrate learning in a variety of ways.

•Assessment and feedback are varied and individualized.

TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS DATA DRIVEN INSTRUCTION

Polleverywhere (No sign up required!)

•Teachers collect data to drive instruction.

•Future lessons may target small groups or individuals.

•Data can be collected via web or mobile phone. (click below to vote via web)

Voting via the web.Voting via the web.

http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/MTcxODIzMTMzMA/web

Click to view live results. http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/MTcxODIzMTMzMA

Voting via text.

TEACHER ACTIVITY

Ideas for questions:

•Check for understanding to drive future instruction.

•Pre-test or post-test question.

•Class vote on an issue.

CREATE A POLL FOR YOUR CLASS

TEACHER ACTIVITY (CONTINUED)

•Go to Polleverywhere and click create your first poll.

TEACHER ACTIVITY (CONTINUED)

•Click multiple choice poll.

TEACHER ACTIVITY (CONTINUED)

•Type your question and possible answers.•Click on the save new poll button.

TEACHER ACTIVITY (CONTINUED)

•Your graph is returned and waits for votes.

TEACHER ACTIVITY (CONTINUED)

•Enable web voting to allow voting via the web.

SUMMARY

•Teachers can become facilitators by using sharetabs to organize standards based learning opportunities.

•Students can be empowered to become interactive rather than passive learners by utilizing various web based tools.

•Teachers can open up new avenues for students to demonstrate learning via Web 2.0 tools such as Animoto, Schooltube, and Voicethread.

•Teachers can vary and individualize their feedback via Web 2.0 tools.

•Technology can support data driven instruction by creating classroom polls with Polleverywhere.

TEACHER ACTIVITY

This sharetab consolidates the links to all the free tools presented today.

www.sharetabs.comwww.animoto.comwww.voicethread.comwww.schooltube.comwww.polleverywhere.com

http://www.sharetabs.com/?freetools2

Links For Integration

These links will give you ideas for integrating technology into your lessons.

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/teachers.htm

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx

http://literacynetwork.verizon.org/TLN/

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/matrix.php

Review 2009 Standards

Technology http://www.nj.gov/education/aps/cccs/tech/standards.htm

21st Centruy Life and Careers http://www.nj.gov/education/aps/cccs/career/

Classroom Application Documents

• Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings

• Content and Cumulative Progress Indicators (CPIs)

• Classroom Applications including Instructional Guidance and Sample Assessments

• http://www.njcccs.org/search.aspx

Technology Toolbox

• A list of tools that are included in the Classroom Application Documents and/or Unit/Lesson Plan exemplars.

• http://www.njcccs.org/TechnologyToolbox.aspx

TEACHER ACTIVITY

Please use the remaining time to:

• Review the 2009 standards

• Explore the links provided

• Create free accounts if needed

• Create an integrated lesson plan

Thank you!

INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM:WEBSITES K-12

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Franklin Township Public SchoolsProfessional Development

October 11, 2010