Technology+Integration+Examples

=Technology Integration= Active Learning/Entry Level- [|Math Games] Constructive Learning/Transformation Level Activity -[| Invention Convention Podcast] How are these two different?

Examples of Three Applications that students have the opportunity to use collaboration, creativity, and publish for an audience [|Literature Blog] || Goal Directed Learning/Transformational Level - [|Math Podcast] || Authentic Learning/Infusion Level - [|Tutorial Video Creation] Collaborative Learning/Infusion Level - [|Video Creation] || [|21Classes] [|Edublogs] [|Wikispaces] || Garage Band [|odeo] [|podOmatic] [|GabCast] [|Gcast] || iMovie [|VoiceThread] [|Animoto] [|Kerpoof] [|CircaVie] [|DigitalStories.org] || Explanation of computation procedure (particularly of enhanced with pictures) || **Language Arts:** [|Grade 3 Blog Pals] [|A Really Different Place] [|Mr. Ardito's Scientists] [|VCS Computer Class] - [|Teacher's reflections] [|M3Class Blog] - (note: [|this teacher] is interested in collaborative project with our district in the spring using VoiceThread [|Miss T's Talented 4th graders] || **Examples:** [|3rd Grade Book Reviews] 7th Grade Plagiarism Podcasts || **Examples:** [|Life Round Here] [|Explanation of process of movie making 2nd graders] VoiceThread Examples [|Civil War Voice Thread] [|Trip to the Farm] [|Favorite Poems] [|Reflection or Refraction] [|Coming and Going] [|Bunny Stories] [|ELL Example] [|Will You Be My Friend?] [|13 Days in American History][|Teacher's blog post about project] [|Reading] || Discuss how these activities may apply to your classroom or content area. How would your students benefit from this type of learning environment? How does this compare to the ways students are currently using technology? What are the challenges need to be overcome? What type of planning needs to be done to implement this type of integration?
 * ** Blogs/Wikis ** || ** Podcast ** || ** Digital Storytelling ** ||
 * Goal Directed Learning/Transformational
 * ** Free Web-based Tools to Use ** || ** Software/Free Web-based Tools to Use ** || ** Software/Free Web-based Tools to Use ** ||
 * [|Classblogmeister]
 * **Lesson or Unit Ideas** || **Lesson or Unit Ideas** || **Lesson or Unit Ideas** ||
 * **Language Arts:**
 * Thought provoking questions and set up a structure for collaborative contribution
 * Communicate with parents and other members of the community
 * Online portfolio of best writing pieces
 * Provide Writing prompts
 * Vocabulary activities
 * Online book club
 * Science:**
 * Summarize readings - ensure students are prepared when they come to class
 * Summarize projects or group presentations - group blogging makes information accessible to everyone
 * Social Studies:**
 * Media literacy - read and write about what they watch, read, see on TV or the news
 * Extend in class discussion - allowing quiet, shy, or ESL
 * Collaborate with students at another school
 * Online readings to read and react to
 * Math:**
 * Manage course information - easy publishing of notes, syllabus, homework, activities, and assessments
 * Writing prompts where students write about solving problems or relating math to real life || **Language Arts:**
 * Play based on book read in class
 * "Radio Show" by characters from a story
 * Book reviews
 * News about what's happening for the week
 * Read aloud to practice fluency
 * Science:**
 * "Radio Show" by a famous scientist
 * Report on lab or Science discovery
 * Research report
 * Weather report
 * Social Studies:**
 * "Radio Show" from history
 * Research report
 * News report from current events or historical event
 * Math:**
 * Script writing, since every story begins with writing
 * Retell a story
 * Create a multimedia project
 * Movie trailer for a book read in class
 * Tell the story of what happened in class during the school year
 * Commercial for a product or place
 * Science:**
 * Multimedia description of science discovery
 * Reflection of Science lab
 * Social Studies:**
 * Timeline of students life or historical event
 * Interview with family member about their life
 * Report a news story to demonstrate citizen journalism
 * "Where in the world?" or "When in the world?" - use images from a certain place or historical time period to create a story for others to identify its origin
 * Math:**
 * Math concept connection to real life
 * Math vocabulary demonstrated in pictures
 * Biography of mathematician ||
 * **Examples:**

= = =Other Projects That Really Happened=

As students do research for their state projects, The students will have an opportunity to communicate with people who live in that state. The librarian has collected the names of teachers/classrooms/students from almost all of the 50 states from his professional network. They will use Skype, video conferencing or email to ask their experts questions and get their perspective on what it's like to live in their state.
 * Project 1:** State Research Project Grade 4
 * Teacher:** Elementary Media Specialist
 * Project Description:**
 * Link to project or more information:**

After drawing a monster using KidPix or TuxPaint, the student wrote a description of their monster using descriptive writing techniques, especially adjectives. The writing was available for another class in another state to see. The other class of students picked a description and drew what was supposed to be the same monster. Both pictures were then put side by side to see how well the writer described their monster. Because the classes of students were not in the same schools, the writing and the monster pictures were put on a wiki so their project could be shared. Monster Project Wiki
 * Project 2:** Monster Project
 * Teacher:** Grades 2 and 3 teachers in three schools in three states, with the help of the computer teacher
 * Project Description:**
 * Link to project or more information:**

Examples using VoiceThread including schools from Illinois
 * Project 3:** Voices of the World
 * Teacher:** Teachers from all over the world, including Illinois, participate in a collaborative wiki
 * Project Description:** Voices of the World is a global project. Each month a teacher in Scotland posts and assignment. She also asks that the assignments by done in a particular application that includes images, such as a photo slide show. The purpose of the projects is to celebrate world languages and dialects.
 * Link to Project or more information:**


 * Project 4**: A Different Place
 * Teacher:** Elementary Gifted Teacher, teaching for 20 years
 * Project Description:** Using [|student blog] strictly for reflection and "free" writing. Quote from the teacher "I thought when we first started that I would have to prompt and they would respond, but it didn't take long for the kids to take the lead. I start discussions but with no expectation that any one will even respond. They are more interested in discussing with each other, we even have some parents who blog with us."


 * Project 5:** English Corner
 * Teacher:** Julia Osteen - 6th grade Language Arts Teacher
 * Project Description:** Using student blogs, students reflect on their reading, participate in digital literature circles, and publish their writing.
 * Link to Project:** [|English Corner]


 * Project 6:** [|Maple Room Audio Books]
 * Teacher:** First Grade Teachers
 * Project Description:** First graders recorded stories written and read by them and the teacher uploaded them to a blog where the parents and other readers of the blog could listen and comment.


 * Project 7:** [|South Paris Collaborative Chat]
 * Teacher:** Two 5th grade teachers
 * Project Description:** Fifth grade class blog where they post responses to specific assignments from their teachers. The content of their writing is cross curricular. In addition, they collaborate with other blogging classroom throughout the world.


 * Project 8:** [|Mathcasts]
 * Teacher:** Math teachers K-7
 * Project Description:** Teachers help their students use VoiceThread or other screen cast programs to illustrate the math process for a particular concept. These screen casts are then posted to a wiki and become part of a [|commercial Math site].


 * Project 9:** [|Life 'Round Here]
 * Teacher:** Coordinator - Chris Craft, Spanish teacher, students from all the world, ages 10-13
 * Project Description:** Students took pictures around their community and used iMovie or Photo Story to put them together in a video with narration and music to tell their story about what life was like where they live.

Click here to access the Technology Integration [|Matrix.] Click here to access the [|Technology Standards for Students]. Read this [|blog post] about a school who does all of it!