Ideas

Yarmouth Tech Course 2009 Presentations - Ideas from Colleagues:
__**Brian Skilling**__: - big pic: fitness portfolios for kids - these portfolios will follow the kids; great for self-evaluations and personal reflections! - used NoteShare to create a notebook with a table of contents and pages with tasks kids have to complete (agility, flexibility...), video themselves, save and turn in (by putting in drop box on First Class) - movie feature in Photo Booth

- //how can I apply these ideas?// NoteShare (MLTI computers only) webpages, pdfs, videos can be dragged right in; check out "my class" features for my kids with drop box features and documents I can drop in the folder for all students to access

- movies and theme music; kids look at a clip of Lord of the Rings audio mixing - project is to create an audio notebook - choose a movie clip to match with an original soundtrack; OR make your own movie on Photo Booth (put on desktop, drag into Garage Band) and design a soundtrack to that OR film a movie with a camera and bring into iMovie - find free movie clips, drag it into iMovie then itunes then from your desktop into Garage Band so you can record your own soundtrack //-// kids learn Garage Band in 6th grade
 * __Kim Grover:__**

//- how can I apply these ideas?// soundtracks and sound for play 4th graders Comm group is doing, their own plays - music and sound effects - then videotape the play with the soundtrack and publish on the wiki; get Kim to come in during sound exploration of Science Club! NOTE: check out Marco Torres' keynote speech on math & sound

__**Barb Ellis & Bob Morse:**__ - differentiate problem solving for their math students - they'll create a database of problems with 5 levels of difficulty in the 4 strands - used NWEA Rit scores to initially determine what level kids are - used Google Docs to create database of problems - kids used chat feature to talk through a given problem as a group (NOTE: no more than 10 kids on at once for a document; how about pairing kids up or assigning a group leader to enter group's ideas)

//- how can I apply these ideas?// HELLO - differentiation!!! a way to group kids and get them info; a way to get allow collaboration between classes and kids of like ability, learning style, interest who don't have class at the same time; I could put up the weekly challenge math on there for all kids to access by choice - then I could give them feedback, too! I could publish MMSETS this way, too and kids could collaborate to solve. How about language arts - literature circles - or would I want to use a Google website forum for discussion instead?

__**Karen Renton:**__ - rainbow recorder - as kids master songs on the recorder, they earn different color strips of yarn to tie on their recorder - problem: Karen must listen to each kid play each song - solution: each class has a voicethread in which kids can play their song from school or home (link on Karen's teacher page called Recorder Voicethread), so Karen can listen to their songs at any time - Karen will share her idea on an email listserve with other music teachers - Karen also wants to help teachers incorporate music into their curriculum, esp. math, - used the site Compose Your Own Music (linked on her teacher page) to put notes on a staff, that calculates the notes in each measure; check out Noteflight - you can write music, it will play it for you and you can see other people's music

//- how can I apply these ideas?// connect math and music! voicethreads - communication; could we create a voicethread to respond to different experiences (like the symphony) or clips/pics/written excerpts

- created a team webpage (in the Yarmouth Domain) with links for each teacher to share resources and info with each other and kids (homework, rubrics, links...); they do their monthly newsletter with Google docs to collaborate and then publish it on their site - on their site, they created voicethreads of book recs in a target genre for their peers to read when looking for a good book to read
 * __Rich Smith & MartiJo Shaw__**:

//- how can I apply these ideas?// do voicethread book recs with Communications for 3rd and 4th grade on our class wiki page; kids can comment on other voicethreads as they read the book, too

//- how can I apply these ideas?// I could go here to keep tabs on where they are in the curriculum - for projects, theme boards

__**Amanda Blaine:**__ - kids use Keynote to create a presentation about a National Park; or use Google Earth to make a map and mark spots at your sight

//- how can I apply these ideas?// Google Earth can go with a lit tour; map for scavenger hunt; guided tour of Main Street in Yarmouth

- electronic portfolio for kids' writing; started with a poetry unit, putting kids' poems on Pages with backgrounds/pics/colors.... -want to create a literary magazine to publish on magcloud (Flicker - creative commons: you can get pics to use for things published on-line because they're not copyright protected); then she created a Google site on the Yarmouth domain that serves as a blog, so kids can publish their poetry and later get comments on them
 * __Karyn Smith__**:

//- how can I apply these ideas?// literary mag with my Communications kids, Writing club; mag cloud is very cool!; Amanda's idea: new magazine drive - we sell magazines made by our own kids!

- developed a new teacher web page for parents, kids and teachers - she has links, FAQ's, a quicktime video of a field trip and of a poetry performance - wants kids to be able to run the flip camera for future filming
 * __Carli Page-Redmann:__**

//- how can I apply these ideas?// a great place for me to keep tabs on 2nd grade curriculum, work and links; Carli and I can film literature circles to link to her site - and kids can view themselves and critique their discussion skills; use the flip cam to film 4th grade play performance (Cathy has 2 in the lab)

__**Elke Tate:**__ - changed from a teacher page to a blog (linked on her teacher page) - included shelfari with book covers and blurbs - embeded it in her teacher page - their blog is in Wordpress

//- how can I apply these ideas?// I could link cool sites and pics to the Talents Program wiki; check out shelfari; tell Melissa to sign up for shelfari so I know what she's reading!

__**Cam Weir:**__ - practiced downloading youtube clips; find a clip, watch it, then go up to URL, after www. and add "pwn"; choose MP4 to download it onto your computer so you can drag it into a page, wiki, blog....without linking to youtube (allowing kids to openly search youtube at home - may want to avoid); to get your youtube clip into itunes, open itunes and choose "add to library" - select from the spot where you've saved it (like Downloads or Desktop) NOTE: have Cam share the instructions on how to do this in a Google doc with staff

//- how can I apply these ideas?// use clips on the wiki, on my Google site for hybrid classes, voicethread for kids to respond

- made a blog for her class, linked to her teacher page - made a voicethread to link to her page of the kids' exploration of the garden (looking for white cabbage butterflies)
 * __Mary Pat Bowen:__**

//- how can I apply these ideas?// some kids in her class may want their research project to be an extension of this study; I can build on this when I take her kids out to the garden for science club

- has a blog for her electronic portfolio - has a wiki with pics, homework, documents, links; also uses her wiki in class as a "center" or choice for kids to access - a youtube clip - played one part muted, then paused to ask us what we saw, then replayed with the sound - kids could write a script for it themselves
 * __Erica Corbett:__**

//- how can I apply these ideas?// with my communications kids, I can show them muted youtube clips to create scripts for; for me, I could access Erica's wiki to get to her Spanish I class text, sources, activities

- made an mlti webpage (mlti.yarmouthschools.org) with resources, and tips for kids ; use the announcements page as a blog - screen toaster will record a movie of what happens on your desktop, so you can demo tech stuff for your kids as a movie and then put it on your webpage (as long as you upload the movie to youtube); on your page, go to "insert" and "video" and choose youtube - use command, shift, 4 to take a pic of your desktop and put that on your webpage ("insert" "image")
 * __Todd Coffin:__**

//- how can I apply these ideas?// I could add to my webpage with announcement pages for discussions; have kids use screen toaster for kids to teach others how to do something; __ask Todd Q's as I make my own website;

- used netvibes to do science in the news in collaboration with her friend, a teacher in Portland, OR; they share a netvibes page kids can learn from (site, weather...); kids will create a podcast about their science in the news stuff to put on the page - this will be connected to her teacher page so others can see
 * Ragan Bartlett:**__

//- how can I apply these ideas?// talk to Ragan about netvibes if I revive mine for middle schoolers; direct my science club kids to this site to enjoy the podcasts; show the 2nd graders in science club