Rocky Mount, NC 27801

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Parker Middle School

• Rocky Mount, NC 27801

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Parker Pirates TEAM Members

• Yvonne Ethridge
• Guidance Counselor
• Melonie Pratt
• Media Specialist
• Marcy Keener
• 6th Grade Science
• Cynthia Gorham
• Keyboarding

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Parker Pirates New additions

• Charles Payne
• J. H. Rose High School
• Technology
• Tom Manning
• A. G. Cox
• Technical support

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Then...
This was our plan..
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Cynthia Gorham-Keyboarding

• Mentor staff and implement visualizations.
• Software
• Excel-Instruct students according to new state
  standards- Implement viz when available.
• Activities
• Hand Span vs. GWAM (Gross Words a Minute)
  Visualizations with data collected by and from
  students to compare hand size to typing speed.
• Cereal Activity Data collection using DASL to
  create visualization using nutritional facts of
  cereal.

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Marcy Keener -6th grade science

• Block activity- Scientific Inquiry-Scientific
  method.
• Paper activity- Scientific process
  skills-Scientific method review
• Sand box- Soil profile- data collection-landforms
• Excel- Data collection-visualizations of data
  that students collected
• TI InterActive- Interactive worksheets-students
  can test variables in multiple content areas
• Mentor and model Viz when available and find
  funding for new equipment!

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Melonie Pratt -Media Specialist

• Phase One- Generate resource handouts for
  existing visualizations for staff facilitate
  staff development on visualizations to utilize
  within classes offer services to gather data for
  creating personalized viz for teachers
  model/mentor
• Phase Two- Plan and facilitate specialized
  sessions using visualizations targeted for
  content areas and requests continue to
  model/mentor
• On-going- collaborate with colleagues to create
  visualizations and implement tools with students
  in class labs utilize brainpower available
  within Revitalise

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Yvonne Ethridge -Guidance Counselor

• Analysis of test data- Fathom/Excel - School
  Analysis of EOG Data and new students entering
  school.
• Mentor staff on implementation of Visualizations
  within the classroom.
• Team teach with staff utilizing specific
  technology tools.

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Now...

• This is what happened.

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Revitalize- Implementing

• Fathom- Isolated 6th grade at risk students for
  morning reading sessions with peers- (Beta Club
  members)
• Grant writing- Successfully obtained funding for
  probe ware activities implementing Viz with the
  graphing calculators.
• Collaborated with an exceptional, art, and
  science teacher to use Viz within their content
  area.
• Implemented a variety of Excel activities within
  the keyboarding curriculum and shared these
  activities with other keyboarding colleagues.

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Celestial Mapping-Gnuplot in action!
Gave students visual representation of the stars
in our Solar System
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Revitalize- Learning

• As a team we have learned
• How to use search strategies for viz, gif,
  jpg, bmp files on the web.
• How to effectively use Moodle for communication.
• How to use Fathom to analyze test data for the
  school to find at-risk students.
• How to incorporate Viz into multiple inquiry
  activities that could be utilized with the
  students of our school.

Fathom
Moodle
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Revitalize- Leading

• Collaboration with the staff of Parker Middle
  School with Viz techniques and activities.
• Collaboration within the school system through
  the leadership team, testing and accountability
  department, media association, and technology
  specialist to share Viz resources and
  strategies for use.
• Collaboration within the community to share new
  knowledge.
• Model activities within the daily instruction.
• Facilitation of staff development for the staff
  of Parker Middle School.

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Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words!
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I shared this website with the Art Teacher and
showed her a few of the 3D visualizations
available. Today, she uses http//www.artsconn
ected.org/toolkit to show the students 3D
visualizations of line and shape within a
composition.
First the lines and shapes appear with cool sound
effects, then the composition appears.
Ooohs and Aaaahs follow!
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Final composition from http//www.artsconnected.or
g/toolkit
Collaboration for beginning the Icebreaker
activity.
The meeting of the teams
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After the teams meet, the away team tries to
build the structure according to the instructions
that were given.
The teams met a final time to see how close they
were on the home structure vs. the away
structure
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The Tower- SEEING Process Skills
This is the tower activity that is completed in
the beginning of the year to promote team work
and introduce scientific process skills.
These students are preparing their tower to
withstand hurricane force winds.
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Paper Activity- visualizing numeric data
The paper activity allowed students to view
numbers through incorporation of
scientific process skills.
These students are Attempting a harder number
set- testing their own hypothesis.
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Students are beginning an Excel activity on the
measurements of hand spans.
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Using the data that was collected student
manipulated that data using Excel. Once the
students had their spread sheet they saw their
graphed results!
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No Correlation between handspan and typing speed