Saturday, May 22, 2010

Session 3

Identify one or more Web 2.0 tools you're listing in your Lesson Plan Template and describe the changes you will make in your classroom to accommodate these tools.

Read and respond to others' ideas/plans.

24 comments:

  1. In my lesson plan template, the students will be creating their own voki and recording themselves reading passages or familiar stories for fluency. They will then be posting their recordings to the class wiki, listening to themselves and others, providing feedback, and rerecording themselves.

    The hope is that students will be less self-conscious by reading for their voki instead of taping themselves. They will be posted anonymously. Students will be provided with a rubric or "things to listen for" sheet. This will help them provide appropriate, constructive feedback.

    The biggest change that I will have to make is getting the students oriented to both of these programs. We will likely have to do several practices prior to our real recordings.

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  2. I am planning on using the following Web 2.0 tools in my Lesson Plan Template: online graphic organizers, podcasts, Audacity, a webquest activity, and an online newspaper template. My goal is to have students participate in a cumulative project after reading a novel based on a war. They will be working at different stations in groups to complete various projects. First, students will use graphic organizers to put their information in order. Next, they will create a podcast in which a girl is leaving a voicemail in code on her best friend's phone (this goes along with the novel - I think the boys will think it's funny because they can change their voice). This is being done because they are trying to communicate without being caught during a war. After they record, I will help the students post their podcasts. Then, the kids will start a webquest activity where they have to use flip cams to create a newsreel that uses propaganda.
    I am going to make changes in my classroom, such as teaching my students how to use Audacity, save podcasts, possibly use DropBox to save items, and be a little more hands-off when it comes to the flip cams and MovieMaker, because I want the kids to do research to figure out how to use these tools by themselves. All station work will be graded with the use of rubrics (students will help me create these prior to the project).

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  3. Ok, I must be losing it, because in my previous post, I wrote about all the things I am doing for my class on Using Technology to Teach Reading and Language Arts. Sorry folks! That's what I get for being ambitious and trying to complete all work for both classes in one day. Here is what I'm doing for my Web 2.0 Tools Lesson Template:
    1. The kids will complete a webquest to learn about Poetry. This will be difficult for them, because I am going to be very hands-off so they can figure things out on their own. I will only intervene if it is necessary. The students will end up defining all types and literary elements of poetry; they will be making a poetry portfolio as well.
    2. Students will work in pairs to compete in The Amazing Poetry Race. They will "travel" to different countries, read information on types of poetry, look at examples, then have to open clues and use a different Web 2.0 Tool to complete each task. They will compete for "money" to put in their passports to win prizes.
    My kids usually struggle with poetry, so being hands-off in my approach will be more difficult for me than it will be for them. I feel they will succeed because they will be in charge of their own learning. Also, they will have to be creative, work cooperatively, and problem solve. I'm excited to see what happens next year, because I love a great challenge!

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  4. I have included digital storytelling. In addition, I will utilize Wordle, Become an M&M, Kerpoof, and Dumpr.
    Students will be creating digital stories about themselves title "Hello My Name is..." As new Web 2.0 tools are introduced, students can add them to their stories. This will be a cumulative project throughout the school year.

    I use Become an M&M to introduce basic Windows 7 functions (including the snipping tool) and correctly saving items to their student folder on the school server. I feel it is necessary to adjust students to the new operating system. As they year continues, other Web 2.0 tools will be introduced, usually as I use them. I may incorporate photos in the curriculum and use dumpr.

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  5. For my lessonplan, I'm trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm using an old lesson plan that has been undergoing changes for the past year. My original plan was to study propaganda in Orwell's Nimal Farm. I would introduce the 7 techniques through magazine ads, tv commercials, radio ads, and a guest speaker. Then I would have the student create a video commercial and present it to the class. This year I added moviemaker as a new technology component. After the past few weeks, I'm adding the following changes: 1.) Instead of having the guest speaker come to us, try a podcast with the speaker from an ad agency 2.) Still have students use moviemaker, but use glogster to create the presentation for the class as the final product. 3.) Use blogs for students to collaborate within teams, for teams to communicate with other teams during the creation process for review and critiques, and for teams to correspond with and seek advice from professionals in the field (a mentor) and 4.)possibly use Skype to communicate with another classroom, possibly in Spain or another country, to work on trasnlating our commercials into another language. The challenge would be language as well as avoiding offensive material to that country's culture. In turn, they could send us commercials they created and we could work to do the same.

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  6. My students will use Skype, VoiceThread, and a wiki to complete their project on the life of Abraham Lincoln. By using Skype, they will communicate with another 5th grade classroom in Illinois as they research the life of Abraham Lincoln using online resources from the Lincoln Presidential Libary and a teacher created webquest. Images of artifacts from Abraham Lincoln's life will be uploaded onto VoiceThread for students to comment on and discuss. Our wiki willbe call "The Lincoln Log," where students in both classes will post what they are learning about Abraham Lincoln, his presidency, and his role in the Civil War.

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  7. I teach special needs Algebra I. My students have always struggled with creating a graph, determining intervals, and then graphing data. Creating a graph is a great site that I would love to use with my class. I would introduce the site by doing a whole class lesson on the SmartBoard, and then we could use it in the computer lab individually or in pairs if needed. The site contains help options and a printing option so that the students could still turn in their work.

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  8. Wow, I'm totally intimidated by the number of tools each of your are utilizing. I wanted to try Kerpoof with my students with our writing project. If that worked well then I wanted to expand to using Vocki and Animoto.

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  9. I am going to be using ClassChatter.com and Audacity. Using these two tools, I plan assist 4th graders in becoming more fluent in how they read and comprehend. To be able to use these tools, centers will have to be set up, along with lab time. They great thing about these two tools is that to download audacity is free and classchatter is web based. This way, students can access stuff at home or school. Last year I kept running into road blocks trying to help my students with these skills.

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  10. I am planning on using the VoiceThread to create a presentation hopefully to then be used as a podcast on our iPod's. Our students are getting ready to learn about the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey as part of our new school. Students will draw pictures or take pictures with digital cameras, of them practicing the 7 habits, that will be loaded into the VoiceThread program. Then students will record a sentence telling what their drawing or picture represents, making sure to use 7 habit vocabulary. Once completed, the presentation will be used to as podcasts for new students, parents, or community members to show them what the habits are and how they understand them.

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  11. I am planning on having my students complete a documentary on a chosen Crusades in groups. First we will do a couple of mini-lessons on copyright and fair use. Then I was going to have my students practice uploading their pictures (slides) into VoiceThreads to practice their narration and get feedback from the instructor and other students. The students will choose roles (ie. director, producer, narrator, lead researcher, art director, etc.) and then begin to "film" the movie in Photostory 3 and add some music.

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  12. I plan to start my lesson with a video on Quadratics in the Real World that I found on You Tube. I think this will be a good way to start the lesson. My students will then use a wiki and and interactive function transformer to explore quadratics. They will talk about there finds on the Wiki. The more I search the more ideas I get. It will be interesting to see where I end up going with this.

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  13. I plan on using Voki, Skype and Create-A-Graph to gather and record information for graphing. I first plan on using Voki to record the instructions for the lesson. Then I want to connect with my friends classroom in another school to gather the information needed to create the graph. After my students have gathered the information, they will each be logged onto Create-A-Graph to organize their data. They can choose which format they want to give the output of the data that they collected. They will then send this information to my friends classroom using Skype. I would like to have each child give the results of their data orally. I would like for them to come up with questions relating to thier graphs to ask the other class. I would somehow like to use students reponders in this lesson, but I just don't quite know yet how this is going to work. I am still playing around with this lesson. The more I learn about Web 2.0 tools, the more my mind spins with ideas.

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  14. I plan to use several Web 2.0 tools in my lesson plan; Webquest, 25+ tools for Accounting and Budgeting, Skype and Blog. After Westest my students seem to give up on me so this year I decided to teach them how to balance a checkbook since most of them do not know how but as 9th graders they are getting ready to get jobs and have no clue how to budget their money. The kids LOVED it! Most of my students don't make it to Economics and at our school this is where they learn how to mangae money. Anyways, I want to expand that project next year and have them complete a webquest where they choose a job, house, car, etc. Then they will have to use the 25+ Tools for Accounting and Budgeting to keep their balance. I want to use Skype to collaborate with another class in a different state so they can see the difference in price of living just here in the U.S. (maybe next year I'll try International if this year goes well) and I want them to keep a daily blog in place of their math journal.
    My biggest challenge will be to get it all together to flow smooth but I am ready and willing to make it work! :) I think it will definitely benefit my students with handling their finances online like most people do now.

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  15. I plan on using a wiki and YackPack in my lesson. A few of the main changes will be the open environment in the classroom. I usually like to keep things very much in order, but when working with a wiki there is alot of downtime during the class as students may be doing all their heavy lifting work at home or elsewhere and using class time for discussion and collaboration,etc. I will also need to get some better microphones for the students to use yackPack to leave their voicemail messages and communications.

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  16. I plan on designing a unit where the kids explore a different country to see if they would like to live there, then create a wiki or use kerpoof to present their findings to the class. I think it would be really cool if we could skype someone from their country so that person could tell why they love their country.

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  17. The lesson will focus on geographic features around the globe. Students will use Museum Box as a Web 2.0 tool to enhance instruction by keeping a box to record travels.
    http://museumbox.e2bn.org/teachers/view.php?id=72
    Wordle
    www.wordle.net (vocabulary recognition)

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  18. I plan on using Google Docs in my lesson plan for this class. The feature that I like best about Google Docs is that the presentations created can be saved to an online account. This would allow my students to work on their projects on any computer with an internet connection. We would not have to worry about a lost or forgotten disc or flash drive.

    I’m also thinking about creating a wiki for my class. This would provide my students a safe place to “meet” online and share information. I could post important dates, upcoming and current assignments, completed project examples, class discussions, etc. I do worry about the kids without internet connection at home, though. They would be at a disadvantage.

    To accommodate the use of these tools in my classroom, I would have to increase the amount of computer lab time available to my students. I would also like to place a couple of computers in my classroom so that students would have computer access daily. This may help even the playing field for those without internet access at home.

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  19. When I have my classroom, I am planning on using the site ePals to find keypals for my students. My lesson is on adjective agreement. In the sentence, "La casa es roja," casa is feminine so the adjective red(roja) has to agree.

    I could have my students look for examples of adjective agreement in their keypals messages and double check their own emails for agreement.

    I would have to schedule computer time either in a lab, as I did in my previous job, or if we are lucky enough to have computers, in our room.

    I could also have my students write their keypals questions about agreement although it is a rather cut and dry issue. More often, students forget than don't understand.

    Remembering agreement when speaking is often even harder than when writing and I would like to start with students making podcasts that they share with their keypals. These podcasts would have examples of agreement.

    After we got some practice talking on the podcasts, we might move on to talking on Skype. That would require scheduling with another school and possibly working with time zone differences.

    There are many Spanish speaking students here in America too of course and it would be very interesting to work with a school where many students speak Spanish in the USA. I think this would be very educational and help build understanding.

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  20. I am planning on using wiki's and blogs to enhance our monthly book reports. I am also wanting to use Voki's as a communication tool for my parents and students on my classroom web page.

    Each month the students will have to create a wiki page of the book they have read. This wiki will become a site where students can go and find recommendations of books that they would like to read. Students will also be asked to respond to each others wiki page to give supportive and appropriate feedback on their book report.

    I believe that the students will be thrilled to learn to do this. They also will be learning new skills. I believe I will have students who will enjoy doing book reports!

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  21. I love using Blogs. I think students enjoy responding to ideas, books, or other classroom instruction using this tool. It gives those students that do not have the ability to speak aloud the opportunity to respond to situations. This can be easily implemented into any lesson.

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  22. I love blogs as well! Class Chatter is a great resource/tool for the classroom and is the ultimate communication tool for distance learning blogs between students an facilitator. I also love Voicethread! I do not have my own classroom at this time, but if I ever decide to go in that direction, I will definitely implement that tool into reflections and digital journaling! Both of these tools were used with my lesson plan.

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  23. I am planning to use Animoto, Glogster, Skype, and google Earth during my unit. I have used all of these resources before except Glogster. I think that students will love creating a Glog - my concern is that it is a site with no restrictions, so some of the submissions are not appropriate for children. That is something I am going tohave to watch closely when introducing students to the site.

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  24. Though not on the top ten list in the article, I will be planning a lesson using Google Earth and Google SketchUp to take students on virtual tours of some of the world's most famous performance halls (Sydney Opera House, etc.). SketchUp is a 3D drawing application that provides a "warehouse" of pre-designed 3D models. Through SketchUp the students can take a virtual 3D tour of the model. Google Earth will allow the students to view actual satellite imagery of the building as well as its surroundings and local points of interest.

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