Making Technology Work for You

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Making Technology Work for You

• Kim Overstreet
• Technology Resource Teacher
• Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
• Lexington, Kentucky

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Introductions

• Who am I?
• Who are you?
• Position
• Grade level
• School/District
• What we are going to do today?

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This session is

• an overview of how teachers at one Central
  Kentucky high school are using technology to
  teach, assess and engage their students. From
  warm up activities to exit slips, formative and
  summative assessments and everything in between.
  We will give examples of lessons using Wordles,
  Movie Maker, Prezi and You Tube. We will discuss
  how teachers use our Moodle platform and the
  social networking components contained within to
  involve their students in and outside of the
  school walls.

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Equipment _at_ PLD

• Projectors
• Document cameras
• USB video cameras (i.e. Flip)
• CPS clickers (student response systems)
• Wireless Slates
• SMART boards
• iPads
• eReaders

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Moodle (iSchool)

• Public or private
• Upload assignments electronically, reducing
  paperworkcan grade digitally.
• Include a journal that only teacher and student
  can see.
• All students can participate in a forum
  discussion.
• Wikis allow collaboration among students
• Glossary for vocabulary.
• Quizzes can be created in Moodle or Hot Potatoes
• Questionnaire allows for surveys of students.

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SMART boards Slates

• Take notes and save them on webpage.
• Mrs. Zehnder
• Mr. Kissner
• Mr. Balks lesson
• http//exchange.smarttech.com/tab0
• User groups

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CPS clickers

• Formative assessment
• Flashbacks
• Exit slips
• Summative assessment
• Student paced
• Teacher led
• Review
• Examview
• Game format

• Export files to share with other teachers
• TCA (ACT prep) Blackline masters for ACT practice
• AP questions for practice (timed)

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YouTube

• Schooltube
• Teachertube
• Vimeo
• Dotsub (upload your video and it will be
  translated for you)

• keepvid.com
• zamzar.com
• www.safeshare.tv
• convertmytube.com

Molybdenum To Kill a Mockingbird Singapore
Math Am. History Vocab Unit
Saigon Thunder STOMP
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Presentation Software

• Prezi.com
• http//prezi.com/e-tf8yu1mgez/why-prezi/
• Google Docs
• Others
• http//mashable.com/2008/02/16/forget-powerpoint-o
  nline-presentations/

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Using Video to Assess Student Learning

• Other video assignments
• The Crucible for 11th grade English
• Economics Final Project
• AP US History
• Speech
• Math

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Wordle

• http//www.wordle.net
• http//www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1264392/Research_P
  aper_and_Wordle is the teachers example.
• Students copy their entire research paper into
  the Wordle creator and then choose a finished
  Wordle to print and use as a visual aid when
  presenting their research paper topic to their
  class.
• The Wordles are displayed in the hallway because
  they are more fun to display in the hallway than
  the actual papers.

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Other Ideas

• Glogster http//koverstr.edu.glogster.com/Glog-13
  58/
• Rhetorical terms language wiki
• Dictionary.com flashcards http//flashcards.dictio
  nary.com/deckprofile/view/16742
• Edmodo.com or filesocial.com
• Use smartphone to take picture of whiteboard
  notes
• German teacher uses Google Earth, Yahoo.de, and
  YouTube