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Examples and Instructional Uses of Technology Tools

Page history last edited by Jeremy Tellex 15 years, 10 months ago

Examples and Instructional Uses of Technology Tools

The purpose of this wiki is to capture as many BCSD general uses, BCSD specific uses, general examples, and references to the various instructional tools available for teachers to enhance the teaching and learning process through the use of technology. This site will only grow as educators from within our district and any other contributers share their ideas for the benefit of everyone. Please feel free to send my your comments and ideas if you are unable to edit this page.

The topics described below are:

Video Data Projector
SMART Board
Visualizer / Document Camera
Student Response Systems
- Classroom Performance System
- Classroom Response System
Blog
Wiki
Podcasting / Recording of Audio Files
Video, Pictures, & Slideshows

VIDEO DATA PROJECTOR

BCSD General Uses:

Display Video Streaming, photographs, graphic displays, movies
Smartboard lessons
Whiteboard (in the moment teaching...like a chalkboard)
Visualizer
Pearson Successnet
Computer links: Games, interactive lessons
Student presentations (Powerpoint)
Model worksheet and journal pages
Display classroom management (daily messages, schedules, expectations, lesson objectives)
Play music
Demo websites and searching tools
Model any use of technology (blogging, research, wiki, powerpoint, word processing)

BCSD Specific Uses:

Use microsoft word to add to current worksheets that students are currently working on
Math team: Students share their work (visualizer)
Classroom management

Instructional Advantages

Instructional Considerations

Student Learning Advantages

Student Learning Considerations

Safety Considerations

SMART Board

Instructional Advantages

Instructional Considerations

Student Learning Advantages

Student Learning Considerations

BCSD General Uses:

Interactive lessons
Worksheet completion as a whole class
Notetaking (Print out for absent students, or for kids who need this feature)

BCSD Specific Uses:

Daily Editing practice
Weekly Skills corrections (class does together)
Investigations lessons
Organization of units and files
Importing movie files and interacting with the movie (pause and write on the screen as necessary)
Text Tagging a non-fiction article together as a model to move to independence

Examples

These lessons are saved in the FRES Shared > Staff Community > SMART Board Notebooks

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

Reference

All Lesson Activities

Visualizer / Document Camera

Instructional Advantages

Instructional Considerations

Student Learning Advantages

Student Learning Considerations

BCSD General Uses:

Sharing of student projects
Display books/textbooks
Visual Graphics/ illustrations
Model writing
Model science/math objects (tiles, magnets, calculator, procedures for experiments) (Rather than gather around a table to watch...the class can see without crowding)
Install ELMO software from CD and connect visualizer to laptop using USB cable to save pictures to laptop

BCSD Specific Uses:

STUDENT RESPONSE SYSTEMS

Instructional Advantages

Instructional Considerations

Student Learning Advantages

Student Learning Considerations

Classroom Performance System (eInstruction)

BCSD General Uses:

Pre-assessment
Review concepts before final assessments
Provides automatic feedback of specific questions missed which guides instruction for individuals and whole class
Post-assessment
voting
vocabulary
collaborative decision making

BCSD Specific Uses:

3rd Grade:
4th Grade: Explorers Assessment (MP), Colonial Assessment (MP), Revolutionary Assessment (MP), Meet the Teacher Night Questionaire (MJ),New York State Weekly Quizes (MJ,BJ)
5th Grade: Geometry Review (LK),

Classroom Response System (Renaissance Learning)

BCSD General Uses:

Individual pace for assessments
Whole class assessment (T.V. screen is in each person handheld device)

BCSD Specific Uses:

Reference

BLOG

Instructional Advantages

Instructional Considerations

Student Learning Advantages

Student Learning Considerations

BCSD General Uses:

Communication with students, from other classes students, from parents, from community, from world
Student responses to literature questions
Conversation / Discussion forum
Report on current events, respond to other report of a current event

BCSD Specific Uses:

Katie Covert's 4th Grade Blog

Beth Jackelen's 4th Grade Blog

Mary Anne Pettit's 4th Grade Blog

Killeen Higgins' 4th Grade Blog

Katie Fallon's 4th Grade Blog (Iraq Soldier)

Mrs. Gondoli's / Mrs. Boak's 5th Grade Blog (password protected)

Examples

A Duck with a Blog

Blog Away on a Paperless Journal

I Miss My Childhood

D&C Brighton Blog

Reference

Blogging? It's Elementary, My Dear Watson!

Ten Habits of Bloggers that Win!

Student Blogging Rules

WIKI

Instructional Advantages

Instructional Considerations

Student Learning Advantages

Student Learning Considerations

BCSD General Uses:

Whenever multiple students need to collaborate on one document, from anywhere, at anytime

BCSD Specific Uses:

Examples

Google Documents

BCSD 2020 Vision

Westwood Schools (9-12)

Mr. Lindsay's (gradeschool) Classroom Wiki

School Community Wiki (with grade-level examples)

PBWiki Examples

K-12 Wiki w/ various uses

FlatClassroom Project (EduBlog Award Winner)

Portaportal.com (Bookmarks for edit and access)

Reference

Help using PBwiki (tracking all users comments)

The Art of Using Wikis to Teach

How I Use Wikis. What do you do?

Collaborative Videoconference Wikis

PODCASTING / RECORDING OF AUDIO FILES

Instructional Advantages

Instructional Considerations

Student Learning Advantages

Student Learning Considerations

NOTE: "Podcasting" is often believed to be an audio file uploaded to a website for access by other users. This is not a totally accurate definition of a podcast. A podcast allows the audio file to be pushed to another audio device such as an mp3 player. For a full definition and description of a podcast from Wikipedia, click here. For many of the uses shown below, all audio files will be stored on the BOCES Podcast server with the ability to have true podcasting capability.

BCSD General Uses:

This technology allows the students to hear themselves speak with the goals of improving oral fluency, comprehension, public speaking, and the editing and revising process. The students also can share their podcast with anyone around the world, just by accessing the website.
Using a simple audio recording program, such as Audacity, to record student work will improve oral fluency and public speaking while increasing comprehension of written text. Allowing students to listen to their recording will provide an opportunity for reflection on the editing and revising writing process.
Students can share their work with others in a forum that does not require their physical presence. They learn that the sharing of their work is not confined to the four walls within their classroom, and to a sheet of paper.
Important lessons can be recorded for student playback at a later date, or from any location.

BCSD Specific Uses:

News Articles Mrs. French / Mrs. Tellex's 4th Grade Class

VideoCasts Mrs. French / Mrs. Tellex's 4th Grade Class

Examples

BOCES Podcast Server

Jeffrey Daniel Frey's Blog of Podcast Examples

University of South Carolina

Reference

What is / How to Podcast (not relevant to BCSD, but informative)

What is a Podcast (short and sweet description)

Jeremy Tellex's BCSD Podcast Resource Webpage (contains recording software and directions)