Technology You Can Use Next Week

in Your Classrooms.

With Nicholas Montei April 21, 2013

Welcome to…

Why Technology in your classroom?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk

Twitting with your Students?

•To take a meter on their feelings, what’s going on in their life, etc.

•In Literacy / English as a book review or suggestion…

•As a review for what they’re learning… quizzes, tests, what’s going to be new today, etc.

Take a Moment…

The Technology We All have… 83% of American adults own some kind of cell

phone– Pew Research, 2011.

Half of all adult cell owners (51%) had used their phone at least once to get information they needed right away. One quarter (27%) said that they experienced a situation in the previous month in which they had trouble doing something because they did not have their phone at hand. – Pew Research, 2011.

Yet in our schools… According to a July 2012 study, 56% of

parents of children ages 8 to 12 have given their children a cell phone.  The percentage goes up with age.  Time for Kids, September 2012.

But Only 47% of schools allow their students to leave their cellphones on silent. The Journal of Technology Studies, “Cellphones in American Schools”

Using Cellphones in Your Classroom…

Photography Projects Video Cameras Voice Recorders Calculators Encyclopedia’s Web searches / Webquests Conducting Survey

A couple of geat sites for you…Remind101.com

www.polleverywhere.com

www.mentimeter.com

And you should Infuse your Room!http://www.infuselearning.com/

•Take Multiple Choice Test

•True-false Quizes

• You can conduct Polls

•Students can draw Responses

http://ed.ted.com/

And then you can talk to other classrooms/ professionals…

Video Conferencing brings the world to YOUR classroom…

http://classroomvideoconferencing.weebly.com

I recommend a 50 inch or bigger tv for classroom viewing as opposed to a projector.

Bringing iPads into your room…

Some Great Apps… iMovie: Uses the iPad to create movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhoaLAV8t6o

Book Creator: Digital Storytelling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhoaLAV8t6o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD4ggIokVWo

Polyframe: Photo Collage with text iFontMaker: Allows you to create your own font using your finger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a6CNYbdhIM

And then there’s this… QR reader: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSA3YsBy_pU&list=PLEC160E1EE3D31F96

Or you could have your students create a piece of artwork or a story, then record your students talking about their artwork/story and post it on a web page. Attach that QR Code to the work in the hallway. Give your students time to hear other students talking about their work

There’s also this idea… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW032sKtj8&list=PLEC160E1EE3D31F96&index=4

Or for the younger grades, there’s this…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IY52fnG-c8

And then there’s this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VPwzCF0zEI

Thanks for listeningPlease use some of this technology in your

classroom!