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Technology Best Practices for the Tennessee Curriculum Standards

Jan ColeyJefferson County Schools

http://jc-schools.net

Why are you here

?

PROGRAM OVERVIEW• Sites• Participants• Dates/hours of operationWHAT WILL YOUR

LEGACY BE?

Fish is FishBy: Leo Lionni:

Assessment is the backbone of instruction.

Technology Standards in Tennessee

The Tennessee Department of Education has adopted the National Educational Technology Standards for students, teachers, and administrators.

What are the NETS for Students?

These are standards developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) that will help students prepare to work, live, and contribute to the social and civic fabric of their communities.– Demonstrate creativity and innovation – Communicate and collaborate – Conduct research and use information – Think critically, solve problems, and make

decisions – Use technology effectively and productively

Learning Pyramid

New Blooms

Source: http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

NETS for Students ProfilesK-2

Use Tools that Engage Your Students

Tools

• Story Maker from Seussville http://www.seussville.com/games_hb/storymaker/story_maker.html

• Story Bird http://storybird.com/ Collaborative Storytelling

• Certificates http://123certificates.com/• On-line Games and Activities UEN K-2

Interactives• Audacity – free multi-track audio editor• LameLib

Utah Education Network

Podcasting for education

• Very inexpensive• Develops digital

citizen and responsibility

• Communication skills – speaking, writing and editing

• Monitor student reading progress

• What do you need?– Software

• AudacityAudacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux,

• LameLib– Microphone

• Tutorial

NETS for Students Profiles Grades 3 - 5

Photo Story 3 , iStoryAnimoto, MovieMaker

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes

Wordlewww.wordle.net

Educational Uses

• Vocabulary• Review• Scrambled

sentences• Surveys• News Items• Book reviews From jamiekeddie.com

NETS for Students Profiles Grades 6-8

Photo Editing

Picnik• No software to download• Upload your own photos• Save photos back to local

computer• Easy to resize photos for

use in PowerPoint or on the web

Autocollage

LiveBinders

• Three binder on-line• Great way to collect,

store, and share information

• May collaborate• May keep private or

public• Use user-created

documents or link to Internet

• Example

NETS for Students Profiles Grades 9-12

Documentation with Digital Images

Curricular Projects

• French Project

http://commoncore.org

Dynamic Curriculum

Dynamic Curriculum http://jc-schools.net

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Because of you…

their wishes are

coming…

TRUE!What will your legacy

be?

Links to Resources

• Best Practices for Technology Integration• Tech Integration – Best Practices from PBS• Best Practices of Web Tool Integration• Scoring Guide for Lessons using Technology Resource

s • NETS for Students

• NETS for Students – profile of accomplishments by grade band suggestion

• ISTE

Thank You

Remember: Technology is Driving our Future.