So Little Time, So Many Needs

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So Little Time, So Many Needs

• How Technology Can Help Differentiate

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Todays Outcomes

• Leave with at least 1 idea you can use in the
  classroom now
• Leave with the motivation to dive into another
  site and learn it
• Leave with lots of resources to help you meet the
  needs of your diverse learners

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Topics

• Google Earth creating placemarks
• Scrapbook Blogs
• Podcasts by GCast
• Online Stories
• Writeboard

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What is Differentiated Instruction?
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What is differentiated instruction?

• Curriculum designed to meet individual needs of
  students by modifying
• Content
• Process
• Product
• Learning Environment

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Joining Curriculum and Learning
Thomlinson, 1999, p 45
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Principles of a Differentiated Classroom

• The teacher
• Focuses on what is essential in curriculum
• Understands, appreciates and nurtures differences
  in students
• Adjusts content, process and product according to
  student readiness, interests and learning
  profiles

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Principles of a Differentiated Classroom

• The students
• All participate in respectful and authentic work
• Collaborate with each other and the teacher in
  learning

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Principles of a Differentiated Classroom

• The classroom climate
• Demonstrates interdependence of assessment and
  instruction
• Demonstrates flexibility
• Nurtures goals which maximize growth and
  individual successes

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Why Use Technology to Differentiate?

• Accommodates differences in student experience
  and ability
• Provides motivation to most all students
• Offers flexible learning opportunities
• Provides students the chance to learn 21st
  century skills needed for the real world
• http//www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Differentiat
  ion/five.html

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Google Earth Tours
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Adding Place Markers

• Right click on My Places and Add a new folder
• Find your location
• Right click on the folder you added and then Add
  a Placemark
• Repeat for each placemark you want in your tour

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Creating a Tour

• Once you have all your locations in your folder,
  right click and Save As
• Save to wherever your students can access it
• Google Earth Webinar (for more info)
• https//discoveryed.webex.com/discoveryed/k2/tool/
  record/recordinginfo.php?RecordID10111647
• http//discoveryeducation.typepad.com/north_south_
  carolina/2006/02/goolge_earth_an.html
• Password Discovery

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Scrapblog and GCast
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Scrapblog and Smilebox

• www.scrapblog.com
• www.smilebox.com
• Allows for online scrapbooking/ journaling
  http//jm.scrapblog.com/school/
• Can be embedded into teacher blog
• Ideas include
• pictures of math manipulatives to visually show a
  math problem
• Pictures of field trip to document learning
• Pictures from history to tell a story
• Drawn pictures in Kid Pix, become a story

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GCast

• www.gcast.com
• An easy way to podcast
• Either upload audio saved with Audacity or call
  by phone
• 1-888-65-GCAST to record
• Ideas include
• Readers Theater for an online podcast
• Review of what they learned for the day
• Create poetry and read it
• http//www.gcast.com/u/camruns/main

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Online Stories and Writeboard
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Online Storieshttp//www.quia.com/pages/onlinesto
ries.html

• Tumble Books- http//www.muskingumlibrary.org/chi
  ldren/tumble.html Online books that are read to
  you with text highlighting
• StoryLine- http//www.storylineonline.net/
• Actors reading stories online
• KidzClub- http//www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html
• Leveled readers with online stories and
  printable stories
• Read-On Audio Stories- http//www.beenleigss.qld.e
  du.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html
• Links to many stories all with audio

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Writeboard

• http//www.writeboard.com/
• A way to collaborate with many people on one
  document
• Ideas include
• Copy childs story to Writeboard to allow
  parents/ professional to edit
• Write stories together with parents, community
  members, or other students
• Have daily math problems that parents/ community
  members could solve and explain their solutions

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More Resources and Ideas
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Math Resources

• Digital Camera scavenger hunts for geometry terms
  or shapes
• Use digital camera to take pictures to explain
  math problem (i.e. picture of 4 dice, picture of
  2 dice and then picture of 6 dice to show 426)
• T-Charts/ Venn Diagrams using Kid Pix,
  Inspiration, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher
• Graphs using Excel, Max Count, or Kid Pix, Create
  a Graph Online http//nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphin
  g/
• Online geoboards http//nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames
  _asid_172_g_2_t_3.html
• Math Activities, glossary and resources such as
  online manipulatives K-6 http//www.eduplace.com/k
  ids/mw/
• Glyphs using Kid Pix
• Online Money http//www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip
  /mn_3.html
• Geogebra-free download-6-12 http//www.geogebra.at
  /cms/
• Math Casts-watch or create http//www.mathcasts.or
  g/mc/trf/4/ns/4ns1.2/ http//www.mathcasts.org/ind
  ex.php?titleHow_to_Afford_a_Mathcast_Studio
• Sketchup free 3-D modeling program and once
  models are built they can be placed into Google
  Earth http//sketchup.google.com/
• Lego Program http//web.telia.com/u16122508/progl
  ego.htm

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Reading Resources

• Internet Childrens Public Library
  http//www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location
  search when studying other countries
• Read real product reviews and write/record spoken
  voice of recommendations based on what they find
  (any shopping site- such as www.amazon.com)
• Read Please Text Reader- free download of program
  that reads text from any source
  http//www.readplease.com/english/downloads/rp200
  3
• Text Aloud converts written text to MP3 format
  for iPod http//www.nextup.com/TextAloud/index.htm
  l
• Natural Reader http//www.naturalreaders.com/
  Uses the ATT natural voices and converts the
  text to MP3 format for use on iPods
• Audacity free program to record voices- readers
  theater, book reviews, review of what you learned
  for the day and email to parents
  http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Annenburg videos- free online videos on many
  different subject areas and topics
  http//www.learner.org/
• Read, Write, Think website full of ideas and
  online materials/ activities for the language
  arts curriculum http//www.readwritethink.org/stud
  ent_mat/index.asp
• Librivox- volunteer to read stories and record
  online as well as listen to stories online
  http//librivox.org/

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Writing Resources

• Use Writeboard to have editors collaborate
  www.writeboard.com
• Use digital cameras to tell a story, embellish a
  preexisting story, or help explain problems
  through still pictures or through live video
  http//www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/ind
  ex.html
• Use an online note tool to help groups collect
  notes together quickly and easily
  http//notestar.4teachers.org/
• Participate in the Internet projects
  http//alpha.fdu.edu/cohen/fiveways.htm
• SpringDoo http//www.springdoo.com/ A video email
  system where students could send video responses
  to the community on books read, current events,
  etc.
• More Writing Resources
• Tiddlywiki http//www.tiddlywiki.com/
• Zoho Writer http//www.zohowriter.com/
• Wikispace http//www.wikispaces.org

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Social Studies Resources

• Have students read an article, use Audacity to
  record a response to the article
  http//teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_gra
  des35.htm
• Create a blog to document how history is being
  written everyday through the current events
• Google Earth tours of historical places with
  website links for more information
• Internet Childrens Public Library
  http//www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location
  search when studying other countries and read
  literature from that country
• Google Earth game
• Try Scholastic online activities
• Social Studies/News/Content Area Reading
  http//teacher.scholastic.com/activities/
• If you were president game http//teacher.scholast
  ic.com/scholasticnews/games_quizzes/electiongame/g
  ame.asp

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Science Ideas

• Use digital camera and PowerPoint handout view
  (Under Print choose Handouts) to take pictures of
  steps in experiment and then have students write
  was happened.
• Foss Web http//www.fossweb.com/ Online science
  activities
• Online Microscope http//www.open2.net/science/mic
  roscope/frames.html
• Dont know the answer to a scientific question?
  Ask Science Bob or Dr. CRAM http//www.sciencebob
  .com/questions/questions.html http//www.cramscien
  ce.ca/drcram.php
• Online telescope that you can control from your
  computer http//mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservator
  y/
• BBC Science http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sciencecl
  ips/index_flash.shtml
• AOL Jr Science http//www.aolatschool.com/junior/
  science

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Teacher Management Ideas

• Quiz Star- online quizzes that can include
  multimedia http//quizstar.4teachers.org/
• Assign-a-day- Create your own online assignment
  calendars with links to resources
  http//assignaday.4teachers.org/
• Study Shack http//www.studystack.com/ Create
  your own study cards or self-quizzing system or
  use some of the thousands already created
• Rubistar http//rubistar.4teachers.org/ Create
  your own rubrics for saving or printing
• PBL checklist http//pblchecklist.4teachers.org/
  Create your own checklists so that students can
  see what needs to be done for a project
• United Streaming http//www.unitedstreaming.com
  Digital content for digital learners. Create
  online assignments that combine multimedia and
  web sites.