Beyond the OverheadBeyond the Overhead

Ways To Make Your Classroom More Interactive

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Gregg Miles

Who am I?

• Currently– Instructional Technology Specialist for

Effingham County (3 years)

• Former– High School Media Specialist (4 years)– Middle Grades teacher (8 Years)– Elementary School Teacher (1 year- whew!)– Adjunct professor (GSU – 4 semesters)

“The Overhead”

• Idea conceived in early 1900s

• Reached it’s height of popularity in the 80s

• Use declining but still can be found in many classrooms.

I have an LCD projector in my room.

True or False?

I have either an Interactive Board or Interactive Pad in my room.

True or False?

I have the following brand system in my room.

A. Promethean

B. InterWrite

C. Smart

D. Other

Proverb

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.

Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime.

Any TapFish fanatics in the room?

Use Available Resources

A few ideas…

Find good “fishing buddies”

• Teacher Challenge

• The Whiteboard Blog

• Free Technology for Teachers

• Larry Ferlazzo’s Website

• Suggestions?

“ I don’t have time to read 5 blogs or more a day!”

RSS Feeds

• Google Reader

• Tracking Blogs

Now for the fun stuff…

“Give me a fish”

Take Them Places

Google Art Project

The Secret Annex Online

Google Street View

Take Them Places…

• Google Outreach Showcase

• Stellarium

• Google Earth for Beginners

• Ookaboo

Let Them Create

Let Them Create

• Wordle– Uses?

• Guess the story Free ebooks• Analyze famous speeches

Obama State of The Union2011

Lincoln State of the Union 1862

Guess the Title

!

More Ways to Use Wordle

• Analyze student writing

• Turn Essays into posters

• 51 ways to use Wordle

Let Them Create

• Wordlings• Bomomo• This is sand• Jackson Pollock• Crayola

• Corkboard.me• Wallwisher• Letter Generator• Museum Box

Let Them Play

Spin and Spellhttp://www.spinandspell.com/

Physics Gameshttp://www.physicsgames.net/

Spelling Cityhttp://www.spellingcity.com/

Let Them Play

• Cyberkidz games

• E-bug

• Bitesize Bingo

• The Lost Army

• Everest the Experience

• toporaopa

Watch Learn Participate

Solar System Scopehttp://www.solarsystemscope.com/

Periodic Tablehttp://www.ptable.com/

Time Zonehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12849630

Watch Learn Participate

• Heart Interactive• Heart and Lung Intera

ctive• National Geographic

Mapmaker Interactive• Whyfiles

– Build your own Tornado

• Interactive voyages• Civil War Casualties• Civil War Timeline• Japan earthquake int

eractive

Where are we going?

• Interactive textbook

• http://www.smashcards.com/

Other Places to Explore

• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/– Elementary and Middle Interactive Resources

• http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/– Interesting ways series

• http://www.wheredidmytaxdollarsgo.com/– Put in salary and dependents and it gives you a break

down of where your money went

• http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/hows/mod01/sim_mod01_01.jsp– Simulates filling out a W-4

Other places to Explore

• http://chartsbin.com/graph– Charts and maps that illustrate various types global

data

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/– Lots of interactive games and activities

• Www.thinkfinity.com– Interactive games and activities divided by grade level

and subject

• http://www.geotrio.com/– Create, share, view tours

Other places to Explore

• Interactive maps with audio– Great interactive maps from Glenco online

• http://www.vocabulary.com/– Interactive to improve your vocabulary

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/29/opinion/20101029-civil-war.html– Interactive maps relating to the Civil War

• http://learning.snagfilms.com/– Film with lesson plans

• Joplin tornadoes

Other places to Explore

• http://explore.org/education/– Short films with lesson plans

• http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/– Library of Congress National Jukebox

• http://www.random.org/– Need a random number?

• http://artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp– Instrument lab games and activities

Thank You!