Tech+Planning

Website Committee Bitsy and Margo We would like about ten minutes to share the information from the Edline/Blackboard Engage website that will help decide the agenda for our team and committee. I watched online videos showing how to make quick temporary changes to our website. (menu and folder options)



Website Information Page (Blackboard Engage) New LCMS from Blackboard Engage (former Edline) (additional cost) [] Video: []

Website Templates (Design Portfolio) Blackboard Engage []

Maintaining Website Design (Support) [] []

Student Information Systems

=SIS List of Vendors=

To do list: Print our website for review Check on ways to remove drop down list from homepage. Send out suggestion box email to all teachers after spring break. Change visibility on Calendar drop down Websites for Review: St. Anthony in Madison, Ms.

Numbers/Math || Day 1: We’ll investigate Cyber Crimes and how to prevent them. Take the quiz at [] to see how much you already know about keeping your computer safe. Day 2: Explore what technology is and how it’s used. Students will work in small groups, choose a career, and then gather information on how that career has changed over the years as technology has changed. We’ll put together a PowerPoint presentation and then video it for a podcast. [] [] [|http://educate.intel.com/en/TheJourneyInside/ExploreTheCurriculum/EC_TechnologyAndS]
 * Kindergarten
 * [|Eric Shane's MTB Technology Links]- Links to on-line virtual manipulatives, games, demonstrations, and activities that can be used to enhance lessons with Math Trailblazers. ||
 * [|Shape Sorter]- Match the shape in this concentration style game. ||
 * [|Fishy Count] - Count the fish and then click on the correct number. ||
 * [|Oscar's Trash Collection] - Help Oscar sort his "junk". ||
 * [|The Laundry Game] - Click on The Laundry Game to help Elmo sort his laundry. ||
 * [|Bert's Bottle Caps] - Click on Bert's Bottle Caps to help Bert sort his bottle caps. ||
 * [|Check out Cookie] - What comes next? ||
 * [|Interactive 100 Chart] - Color the chart online. ||
 * [|Zoe's Pet Shelter]- Click on Zoe's Pet Shelter to help Zoe sort the pets. ||
 * [|Counting Objects] - Make a graph to show the number of animals. ||
 * [|Sequencing Numbers] - Type the missing number. ||
 * [|Place the Penguin]- Place the Penguin correctly on a number chart. ||
 * [|Introducing the Venn Diagram] - Students sort everyday items by color. ||
 * [|Jay Jay's Matching] - Match the number to the objects. ||
 * [|Find the Missing Number] - Order the numbers 1-10. ||
 * [|Make a Bar Graph] - Enter data and create a bar graph. Categories can be changed. ||
 * [|eManipulatives] - Online counters, coins, cubes, number line, and hundred chart. ||
 * [|Hooray for Diffendoofer Day] - Meet the teachers and help them find their rooms. ||
 * [|Math Advantage] - 4 activities on sorting, musical patterns, shapes, and counting. ||
 * [|Kidport Mathematics] - Several interactive math activities ||
 * [|Bunny Count] - Choose from matching characters or numbers. ||
 * [|Fishing for Numbers]- Number and object match. ||
 * Flo and Zo Sort it Out - Sort the items by color, shape, or other given attribute. ||
 * [|Compare and Order]- Develops comparing skills using words like biggest, smallest, shortest, tallest, heaviest. lightest. ||
 * [|String of Beads]- Color the beads to make color patterns. ||
 * [|Coloring Patterns] - Color each picture the same as the example. ||
 * [|Odd or Even] - Drag and drop the numbers into the Venn diagram. ||

= = = = =3rd - 5th Computer Lab Activities=
 * Graphing **
 * [|Create A Graph] || [|Sugar Bowl Poll] || [|**Coordinates (Flash)**] ||
 * [|Rotation (Flash)] || [|Reflection (Flash)] || [|**Coordinates II (Flash)**] ||
 * Mathdork - graphing || Graphit || Function Flyer ||
 * [|Clever Kids] || [|Graph Sampling] || [|Getting to School] ||
 * [|Data Picking] || [|Planet Hop] || [|Grapher] ||
 * [|What's the Point?] || [|Don't Wake Kate] (early graphing) || [|Lunar Adventure] ||
 * [|Looking for the Top Quark Graph] || [|Interactive Graphs] || [|Graphing] ||
 * [|Billy Bug] (Helps students learn coordinates. ( 0-10) || [|Bar Graphs] || [|Billy Bug 2] Helps students learn coordinates. ( 0-5 ) ||
 * [|Online Learning Interactive Graphs] || [|Shark Graphing] || [|Games on Graphs] ||
 * [|Online Graph Generator] || [|Basketball--Reading Bar Graphs] || [|Tables, Circles, Bar Graphs and Circle Graphs] ||
 * [|Equations of Lines] || [|Graphs] || [|Data Picking] ||
 * [|Planet Hop] || [|Data Picking] || [|Circle Graph Activity] ||
 * [|Graph It!] || [|Bar Graph] || [|Reading Bar Graphs] ||
 * Rate of Change in Linear Functions || Co-ordinate Game || [|Online Graphing Calculator] ||
 * [|Graph Mole] || [|Graphs and Charts] || [|Grapher Cool!] ||
 * Catch the Fly || [|Plotter] ||

1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the third grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || 3 || 1a, 1b, 6a ||   || These are a series of projects I complete with the fourth grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || 4 || 1a, 1b, 6a ||   || These are a series of projects I complete with the fifth grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || 5 || Internet Digital Camera || In Word learn how or practice copying and pasting the word favorite and how to make a colon. Learn how to copy and paste a document onto a website.Learn how to find and upload a photo to a website. (3rd grade)
 * Activity || Software || Skill/NETS || **Tags** || Comments || **File** || **Grade Level(s)** ||
 * [|Computer Lab Favorites] || internet || language arts, social studies, math, science ||  || The activities on this site are 15-30 minutes and easy to manage in the lab setting. There are 2 sections K-2 and 3-5. Great fillers for when students are done with other projects, easy for subs to use. ||   || K-5 ||
 * Word Activities for Fourth || word processor || Nets for Students 1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the fourth grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other word processors. ||   || 4 ||
 * Word Activities for Third || word processor || Nets for Students 1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the third grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other word processors. ||   || 3 ||
 * KidPix Activities for Third || Kid Pix || Nets for Students
 * KidPix Activities for Fourth || Kid Pix || Nets for Students
 * KidPix Activities for Fifth || Kid Pix || Nets for Students
 * Trading Cards || Word

Learn how to zoom in/out to take a head/shoulder shot of a classmate. In Word learn how or practice copying and pasting the word favorite and how to make a colon. Learn how to copy and paste a document onto a website. Learn how to find and upload a photo to a website. (4th Grade) || trading card bighugelab || Students make a trading card to give to their new teacher on the last day of school. We brainstormed a list of topics they'd want their new teacher to know about them. We discussed how to copy and paste the word favorite. I modeled how to do it with a right click. We also talked about other ways. Kids took turns taking pictures of the person sitting next to them. I uploaded them to the common folder on our server. Then the day we made the cards we went to Big Huge Labs and uploaded the picture, picked a background color and added our name for the title and future job for sub title and then copied our Word document. We saved the finished product to their folder.Then we inserted it into a Word document and resized it so we had 6 copies on one page. || [|Big Huge Labs Trading Card] || 3, 4 || Week 2- Students will be painting self-portraits using TuxPaint. ||  || 3, 4, 5 || science || Students visit website, click on "demos" and then can virtually dissect a frog. Works well with a SMARTboard too. (This is a subscription service, but a few demos are free...) ||  || 5 || Word KidPix or Paint || * Use tables in Word
 * Life Cycle of a Frog || KidPix ||  ||   || Students raise tadpoles in their classroom as part of a life science unit. They draw the life cycle of the frog to demonstrate their knowledge. I have also had students create a kidpix slide show of the life cycle with voice narration on each slide explaining the cycle. || [|Life Cycle of a Frog] || 3 ||
 * [|Graphs on Create-a-Graph] || Internet || 35. Use technology resources for solving problems. (graphing software) || graphs graphing || Surveyed the class for data to use in graphs. ||  || 4, 5 ||
 * Musical Microsoft Word || Word || 7. Demonstrate correct procedures for operning, closing and saving files using menu options and commands in appropriate grade/subject instructional software. || word story telling || Students watched a slideshow to get their creative juices flowing. Everyone began with the same sentence "I went to Mardi Gras last night, and you won't believe what happened to me!" Students were split into teams of 4-5. They were allowed to add the second sentence. When the music stops, they rotate to their teammates computer. Each person adds to their teammates story until everyone has rotated one time. The student then finalizes their story and adds clipart pictures. 2-3 week project. ||  || 4, 5 ||
 * All About Me || PowerPoint || 7. Demonstrate correct procedures for opening, closing and saving files using menu options and commands in appropriate grade/subject instructional software. || PowerPoint slideshow || Students complete a 5-slide All About Me PowerPoint activity. Slides include Title, About Me, My Family, Things I Like, and Character Web. Students brought in pictures from home to insert into their family slide. I took individual pictures of all students for them to use on their About Me slide. Students will present their slideshow to the class after about 3-4 weeks of work. ||  || 3, 4, 5 ||
 * [|Learning.com Lessons] || Internet || 2. Use developmentally appropriate keyboard techniques. || keyboarding || Learning.com has a variety of lessons on many topics. Must have subscription to this service. ||  || 3. 4, 5 ||
 * TuxPaint Self-Portraits || TuxPaint || 23. Use a variety of media and technology resources for directed and indpendent learning activities across the curriculum. || paint tuxpaint || Week 1- students learned functions of TuxPaint and had a free day to play around with it.
 * Educational Video Week || Internet ||  || brainpop, videos || Students visited [|www.SchoolTube.com] and [|www.BrainPop.com] to watch educational videos of their choice. ||   || 3, 4, 5 ||
 * [|Virtual Frog Dissection] || Internet ||  || frog
 * That's What I Like About You || Internet
 * Upload pictures to a web site
 * Use microphones connected to computer to record
 * Demonstrate respect for others || voicethread, word, web2.0 || # Students use a drawing software program such as KidPix or Paint to create a self-portrait.
 * 1) Self-portraits are uploaded as slides for the Voicethread and used to create icons for each student. This could be done either by the student or the teacher. Since we were short on time, I did this uploading myself as students recorded using generic identities on VoiceThread and generic slides that I had created for each student until their self-portraits were completed.
 * 2) Students use Word (or other word processing program) to create a table of the students in their class and one or two sentences detailing something they like about that student. These will be approved by the teacher before the student can record on VoiceThread.
 * 3) After all slides are created, students record their **What I Like About You** sentences on each of the self-portrait slides in the VoiceThread.

I would probably split this in to multiple types of projects next year. I would have the students create a self-portrait or take photos for use throughout the year on multiple projects maybe even at the beginning of the year. Then this project would just focus on using tables in Word, writing their messages about each student and recording on VoiceThread. The kids had a great time recording and these turned out well especially considering we did this project with a limited amount of time. ||  || 5 ||

=K-2 Computer Lab Planning=

[|Favorites] || language arts, social studies, math, science || The activities on this site are 15-30 minutes and easy to manage in the lab setting. There are 2 sections K-2 and 3-5. Great fillers for when students are done with other projects, easy for subs to use. ||  || K-5 || 1a, 1b, 6a || Easy introdution to using Word once students have learned some short vowel sound words ||  || K || 1a, 1b, 6a || These are a series of projects I complete with the Kindergarten class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || K || 1a, 1b, 6a || These are a series of projects I complete with the Kindergarten class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || 1 || 1a, 1b, 6a || These are a series of projects I complete with the Kindergarten class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || 2 || [] || Please see file for many standards covered by this lesson || Students will learn how to use a wiki, comment on the teachertube video that their classmates have done and generally learn some web 2.0 skills. Please see this uploaded .doc for the entire lesson ||  || 2 || [|Simple Shapes] [|Sort Triangles] [|Shape Matching] || Use digital camera to take a photograph of an object shaped like a circle, square or triangle. Use Smartboard pen to select a color then trace shape and write sentence "I see a ..." Use pen to click and drag shape word to finish sentence. || I completed this as a project for Jen Wagner's [|Shape of Things project]. I introduced the camera to small groups and let them try it out. Rest of the class worked at their own computers on shape sites. I tried taking one class on a walk around the school to take pictures but with only 3 cameras and needing some assistance it was a little too noisy and chaotic so rest of the classes stayed in the room. They spent more time on the shape sites waiting their turn to take a picture of an object with a shape. I selected the best photos and uploaded them to the Smartboard Notebook. Then each class did sentences for 3-4 pictures. At first I was having one child trace a shape and write a sentence. But that was too much waiting for rest of the kids. So then one person traced the shape, another wrote I see a and a third dragged the word into place and added the period. That went much better. ||  ||
 * **Activity** || **Skill/****NETS** || **Comments** || **File** || **Grade Level** ||
 * Writing stories, || creative writing || wonderfully designed site for younger kids to write imaginative stories || [|Kerpoof Studio] || K-5 ||
 * [|Computer Lab]
 * Word Activities for Second || Nets for Students 1a, 1b, 6a || These are a series of projects I complete with the second grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other word processors. ||  ||   ||
 * Word Activities for First || Nets for Students 1a, 1b, 6a || These are a series of projects I complete with the first grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other word processors. ||  ||   ||
 * We are Thankful ||  || In the computer lab during the month of November, the students will create a picture of things they are thankful for in Kidspiration using a [|template]. I will then upload the pictures, and the students will record their voices to create a VoiceThread that will shared on the We are Thankful wiki. || [|We are Thankful template] || 1 ||
 * Fire Safety Poster || keyboarding, copy and paste text and pics || October is fire safety month. K-2 have visit from firetruck and have a puppet show on fire safety. Culminating activity for grade 2 is to create a 12x18 sized "fire safety tip" poster. Students use quick publications in Publisher. Format the poster, add heading, use clip art for picture and copy and paste a fire safety tip from this site []. Worked with partners. took one one hour class to complete with time to spare. ||  || 2 ||
 * Word Activities for Kindergarten || Nets for Students
 * KidPix Activities for Kindergarten || Nets for Students
 * KidPix Activities for First || Nets for Students
 * KidPix Activities for Second || Nets for Students
 * Web 2.0 intro to wiki
 * [|KeySeeker] || Integrates letter recognition and picture-letter connection for early learners ||  ||   || K ||
 * Shape of Things Book

Day 2-Children opened Kidspiration2. I modeled how to insert a text box and change font, color and size. Children copied their sentence which was written on a strip of paper for them: I see 1 Santa. (Next year I will type the sentence using all caps. I forgot some children can not identify letters yet. ) Day 3-Modeled how to find Christmas library and insert correct number of pictures. Some children needed to finish writing. I fixed capitalization/punctuation errors and told individual students how to print. With one group I put their story on Photostory3. I added some music and had the children read their sentence. I put the finished story on my school [|webpage]. The finished books were bound into a book and given to the classroom teacher to add to the class library. (Next year I will begin earlier and make sure the cover pages are laminated for extra durability. ) ||  || K || I think if the kids did it again I might have them find 1 bird, reptile, mammal etc. They can add 6 pictures to the movie. The movie can also be emailed to you or home. ||  || 1 || [|Cash Out Game], [|Counting Money], [|U.S. Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change] ||   || 2 || webquest January || I use this as an introduction to webquest, so there is no project attached to it. This is more of an information gathering tool. The students complete the worksheet while completing the webquest. ||  || K-1 ||   || Inspiration Counting || The students place the correct number of holiday pictures next the the number bubble. Each number gets a new picture. || || PK-K || Inspiration || Students complete the All About Me worksheet in class or at home. Each fact is typed in a new bubble connecting to the main web. The students then insert a picture of themselves in the middle of the web. ||   || 2nd ||
 * Christmas Counting Book || Kidspiration2 Photostory3 || Copying a simple sentence. Clicking and dragging the correct number and type of objects. || Christmas || Day 1-Children brainstormed Christmas items. I wrote them on the interactive whiteboard-they helped by supplying beginning and ending sounds. Next they chose an item and a number1-18 (depending on number of children in the class). I wrote their name/number next to the word.
 * [|Nat'l Geographic Filmmaker] || Internet || Match sounds and animals to make a movie. Work on skills of click, drag and scroll. ||  || Students have to click and drag animal clips, sound clips, a song and then if there's time they can write, save and add captions. In a 40 min. class I had two students who did everything. I just wish the site had sound clips to go with more of the animals but the kids did fine. At the end they save the movie. I had a paper ready for them with the web address on it and they wrote down their 9 digit retrieval code to take home.
 * [|Adjectives Video]& Sentence ||  || 2. Use developmentally appropriate keyboard techniques. ||   || Students watched a video on adjectives. Then I showed them how to change font color and size in Word. I gave them an example sentence "I lost my little red ball under the big green fence." ||   || 1 ||
 * [|Sign the Declaration] ||  || 23. Use a variety of media and technology resources for directed and independent learning activities across the curriculum. ||   ||   ||   || 2 ||
 * Rebus Rhymes || Word || 24. Use appropriate techniques for producing and publishing documents. ||  || Students typed either Little Boy Blue or Hey Diddle Diddle in Word. They replaced some of the words with clipart pictures of that word. Print. ||   || 2 ||
 * Silly Names || Word || 24. Use appropriate techniques for producing and publishing documents. ||  || Students type their names in Word. They change the font, size, and style of the letters to make their names silly. Print them and use as bookmarks. ||   || 2 ||
 * All About Me || Kidspiration || 34. Apply content-specific tools, software, and simulations to sup, port learning and research. ||  || Students completed an All About Me activity using a template. The students then printed their work. ||   || 2 ||
 * [|Planet Sort] || Kidspiration || 34. Apply content-specific tools, software, and simulations to support learning and research. ||  || Students sorted planets by inner and outer. ||   || 2 ||
 * [|Kidspiration Seasons Activity] || Kidspiration || 6. Demonstrate appropriate use of hardware (input/output devices) and media. ||  || I read "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow" to the students. Then, they completed a winter activity in Kidspiration. Students drag and dropped clothes to dress kids for all seasons. ||   || 1 ||
 * Whales/Dolphins || Internet ||  || whales, dolphins, science || After watching the Dolphins video and taking the quiz on [|BrainPop], students explored the [|Cetacean Station] website. ||   || 2 ||
 * Coins/Money || Internet || ALCOS #4, TCOS #35 || coins, money || As a class, play the [|Discovering Coin Values] from Toon University on the SMARTboard. Then, students can explore the following sites:
 * Martin Luther King Webquest || Internet and worksheet ||  || Martin Luther King
 * Holiday Numbers || Inspiration ||  || Christmas
 * All About Me || Inspiration ||  || Self
 * Find me in Google Earth || Google Earth || geography, lats and longs, space || google earth, space, || Five projects for K-2 that use Google Earth and teach lots of skills that coordinate with classroom lessons || [|Google Earth projects] ||  ||
 * Keyboard Fun || online keyboard programs || computer basics, keyboarding, || keyboarding, computer skills || Eleven keyboarding projects that include websites, how to make keyboarding fun, and more || [|Keyboarding projects] ||  ||

Tech Webpages http://smaatech.wikispaces.com/This+Week+in+Tech http://smaatech.wikispaces.com/This+Week+in+Tech [] [] [] Typingweb

Study Island [] computer parts hangman [|http://elementarytechteachers.ning.com/forum/topics/i-am-a-new-computer-lab?xg_source=activity&id=2067663%3ATopic%3A34333&page=3#comments] http://winterwonderland.wikispaces.com/DecActivities09-10 http://njtechteacher.wikispaces.com/Old+Tools

The classic board game. Sink your enemy's ships before they sink yours! || The classic board game. You know how to play, but do you know how to win? ||
 * Battleship
 * Checkers
 * Connect 4

The classic board game. Can you get 4 in a row before the computer? || The classic board game. Will you rely on strategy or luck? || Double-click on groups of same-colored blocks to make them disappear. || Similar to Whack-a-mole. Whack the gophers when they pop out of their holes. || The classic arcade game. Sometimes less is more. Requires clicking and dragging. ||
 * Othello
 * Same Game
 * Gopher
 * Pong

Another strategy game of jumping pegs around a board. || A puzzle that involves transferring blocks from one spot to another. Requires faster clicking and mouse movement. ||
 * Peg Game
 * Tower of Hanoi

Similar to Whack-a-mole. Whack the gophers when they pop out of their holes. || The classic arcade game. Sometimes less is more. ||
 * Gopher
 * Pong

Tom Barrett, a classroom teacher in Nottingham, England has started several collaborative documents to gather great ideas for using different types of technology in the classroom. It used to be a small list and it just keeps growing.

Please check his blog [|ICT in my Classroom] for the most up-to-date list.

[|Google Docs in the Classroom]

[|Your Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom]

[|Google Earth in the Classroom]

[|Twitter in the Classroom]

[|Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom]

[|Wordle in the Classroom]

[|Wikis in the Classroom]

[|Visualizer (Document Camera) in the Classroom]

[|Make Your Classroom a Sparkly Place]

[|Use Audio in the Classroom]

[|Use Wallwisher in the Classroom]

[|Supporting Writing in the Classroom]

[|Use Google Wave in the Classroom]

[|Use an iPod in the Classroom]

[|Use a Nintendo Wii in the Classroom]

[|Use a Nintendo DS in the Classroom]

[|Use a Search Engine in the Classroom]

[|Use Prezi in the Classroom]

[|Use Voicethread in the Classroom]