Patti Duncan DEN Virtual Conference

October 25, 2008

In the “Teacher Center” choose “More Tools”

Choose “Thematic Focus”

Discussion Guide

Media Activities

Lesson Plans for Different Grades

Resources

Past themes are archived

Atlas Map VideosRelated Materials

Launch Atlas

“Today in History”

Items for many different subjects… video clips attached

Choose 4 images at random or

along a selected theme…

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

4th 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

Search for songs by topic or grade level

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

Students search DES for famous person

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

Choose a speech they want to report about

Choose “speech transcript”

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

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

Students download a video clip with closed captioning

Students film themselves doing sign language to

video

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

Collaborating teachers create a blog page for the students

Teachers choose a video and download it in their classrooms

“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

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

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…

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

To….

And BEYOND….

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