ILC - Hands-on + Technology = Engaged Stude...

Hands-on + Technology = Engaged Students and More Learning
Karen Muska
Karen.muska@ousd.k12.ca.us

Handouts at www.kmuska.pbwiki.com

Which is more effective? Hands on or Technology? BOTH! increases learning!

Benefits:
    * address multiple modalities
   
When to tech and when not to tech:
    * doesn't have to be all the time
    * does it facilitate content delivery?
    * does it allow students or teacher to access things they wouldn't be able to without it?
    * Does it increase student engagement?
    * does it save time or increase productivity?
    *SHOULD not be increasing prep time

*digital stories

SPACE -
hands on = models of space, flashlight and globe, star charts, constellation models, live viewings
tech = interactive star charts, starry night software, webquest, presentations, portable planatariums!

FLOWERS-
hands on = dissection
tech = online matching, simulation, pollination gizmo@ explorelearning.com

INCORPORATING with smartboards and document cameras
modify AMES or FOSS

Active Studio, See It Deluxe, interactive quizzing

ILC - Using Your Computer to Differentiate ...

Using Your Computer to Differentiate Instruction

Gigi Kelley

1:00-2:00pm Thursday, Oct 16

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  From intervention to acceleration, its important to differentiate!
  


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  www.teachersourcebook.org for great resources on differentiating
  


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  Why differentiate?
• includes all students
• allows teacher to reach all students some of the time
• students feel good when they can do it!
• How to do this?
• for example, record 3 podcasts for spelling tests - advanced, regular, EL list of spelling works. They don't know it's different!
• again, can podcast with Garage band (mac) or Audacity (PC)
• can put in public folder for students to download on a server, USING ipods!
• have them record reading aloud - kids don't know how to without hearing it
• kids can then self grade for accuracy when reading aloud
• need to get cheap mikes, preferably USB adaps
• can then easily share with parents, can grade at home
• or write a grant for ipods with mikes!
  
• describe a character in a book, can put music behind it in Garageband
• in keynote/power point, can make flashcards! Word, picture clue, then definition one after another on a slide. Then for EL, can also record voice! Works for vocab but also math!
• compare contrast on one slide with powerpoint/keynote
• when kids have a hard time conveying info on tests, can speak answers as a podcast!
• imovie and moviemaker also are great for presentation
• Pages is great for charts
• What about, entering data in a spreadsheet already, then asking kids to manipulate? Then when they get the data, they can do right away.
• Ask kids to come in 5 minutes early, pre teach, then they wear a pin that says "Ask me, I'm an expert!" - they love it!
• I want to get cameras for my classes!
• Differentiate with choice
• chart with 9 activities, instructions in each box
• while they are working on their task, pull out small groups to work on "book" stuff
• Tiered lessons
• 4 activities, but the 3rd is the standard, 4th is for those who finish early (Similar to A levels)
• read it, listen to it, draw it, write about it (then read it as a podcast!) or just do it as a podcast
• real power in letting kids self grade. And easy to send home to show how kids are doing. Send home YOUR grade and their self grade!
• web resources on differentiated instruction
• Differentiated Instruction - lots of text but informative
• Tech and Multiple Intelligences 
• Also, look up Gigi Kelley on CUE.org or gigi_kelley@fsd.k12.ca.us
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A differentiated classroom offers different approaches to how teachers present information, what students learn, how they learn it, and how they demonstrate what they've learned

ILC - Work Smarter Not Harder with FREE Online Resources

Work Smarter Not Harder with FREE Online Resources

Stephanie Schuyler

Website with handout

2:30pm-3:30pm Thursday, Oct 16th, 2008

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  Music
  




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  www.freeplaymusic.com - Copyright free music
  


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  Pandora.com
  




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  Google Advanced Search
  




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  can search for power points
  




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  (Make sure its not student generated!)
  


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  should preview before you use it
  




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  good to look for flash! Find videos! Games!
  



• Jefferson County has lots of power point presentations
• Includes lots of power point games too! Can download and replace with you own stuff
• ThinkFinity has partnered with lots of websites - great portal for educators, parents, students, and afterschool programs
• have lesson plans, interactive websites, primary resources, worksheets, etc
• IKnowThat.com has a lot of free educational games!
• Punctuation Paintball
• Leon's Math Dojo
• Quizzes are here also! Can play alone, with others, with computer, get to pick a character!
• Wet Paint Wiki
• has templates already for educators
• calendars
  
• has widgets
  
• good for peer revision
• options to set permission levels - not open to public unless you want
• has discussion forum to encourage collaboration
• photo gallery, can see members
  
• Gaggle.net
• sign up for 30 email address - greenstudent1, greenstudent2, etc so its anonymous
• (can call to increase space if needed)
• Is a little bit free, http://www.gaggle.net/erate_470.html for discount
• encourages collaboration!
• all teachers have access to all emails, even deleted emails! keeps students responsible
• homework drop boxes - good for things that are completion grades - done or not.
• has blogs, message boards to reflect on books
• TeacherTube (but I like downloading from youtube better)
  
• flip.com for flipcams that are digital video recorder
• good to upload videos you made
• embeddable code to put in your blog or website
• Add resources to Stephanie's blog!
• GREAT for making tutorials, Jing Project 
• Smarttech.com - if anyone in the district has a key you can use it
• can find lessons in Educator Resources
• Find Stephanie on Delicious!
• HotChalk, like Moodle
• Starfall for beginning readers
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Eye and Light at the Explortorium: Jan. 12, 2008

To show pupil:
get a maglight, mirror, and bug box top (lens)
put lens on mirror, then look through lens at mirror
can see pupil!

Iris has more nerves than most other places in the body! That's why it hurts to go from a dark room to a bright room really quickly.

poke a hole at the bottom of a film can, look through it, cover the other eye, and then take it away. It wasn't blurry with the film can, but when you take it away, it IS blurry!

lens is only for fine tuning - pupil does the most focusing! And the smaller the hole, the more focused it is, but the dimmer it is.

Look at your thumb really close up, then look far away, keep doing that and let someone watch. smaller pupils when looking closer, bigger when far away.
(works best with light eyes, maybe can use microscope camera to show one person on LCD projector)

also can do math to find the size of blind spot

mix colors of light, talk about cones

NEI health information for interactive diagram of eye

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows.html

black and white disk on power drill, what will you see? (Only works at certain speeds)
www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/benhams_disk.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/benham.html
can have kids make their own! do half white and half black and make them draw their own

www.michaelbach.de/ot
for lots of iilusions!

Notes on Glencoe Texts: CAN get free PD from textbook company!

Passwords:
earth science- FESCCA07
61F56c2b
Life Science - FLSCCA07
02ade4b1
Physical Science - FPSCCA07
f5fa8e24

- CDE blueprints for biology show what the students SHOULD learn in 7th grade that they will be tested on the 10th grade CST science test
- students can store foldables in plastic page protectors
_ Have an objective on the board at the beginning of each class
-family tree of roots, words, etc as a huge tree in the classroom
-online glossary of 13 languages!





Virtual Lab Answer key ONLY on teacher works

Thursday - NEUROPALOOZA

Check out QUEST!

Nerve pulses -

• good demo is dominoes taped onto ruler to show that pushing one makes a chain reaction
• how is it the same?
• chain reaction
• one way
• change in energy (up has potential energy, down needs energy to get back up)
  
• different?
• nothing goes up or down really
• show what happens if chain is broken
• can use mini candy bars!

Neuro Exam, "Rewiring the brain"

• tossing beanbags at target - 10 without goggles, 10 with goggles, then 10 more without.
• goggles using fresnel lenses (order at
  
• neuroexam.com

Pirate Wednesday!

Dr. Ken Miller's Evolution Website: www.millerandlevine.com

VERTEBRAE

• why do they all look alike?
• what is the function of vertebrae?
• evolution and natural selection is "good enough" not "the most perfect thing ever"

PIRATE eye patches - international talk like a pirate day is Sept 19th!

• wear it for half an hour, turn off all lights, then take of patch, you can see out of that eye and not the other!
  
• more rods than cones
• 120 million rods in one retina
• 6-7 million cones
• rods are more sensitive to light, cones 100x less sensitive.
• rhodpsin is chemical that absorbs the photon of light

http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/skulls/

more eye tricks

• hold dim light up to bottom eyelash
• roll back and forth
• will see shadows of blood vessels! This is because the blood vessel is above the retina layer!
• BLIND spot
• ball of clay, washer, pencils - turn the washer sidways and thread the washer with a pencil
• weiner finger and hole in hand - brain is adding the images!!