Identify one or more Web 2.0 tools your're listing in your Lesson Plan Template and describe the changes you will make in your classroom to accommodate these tools. Read and respond to others' ideas/plans.
Voice Thread is the Web 2.0 tool I am using in my lesson plan that will require accommodations in my library. I will need to plan for students to have enough computer time to do the project. I will have to be sure that the students understand that they need to plan for the project before they sit down to do it. They will need storyboards to work on and I will need to be sure they show me what they have before they start to upload their project. My looking closely at the storyboard will be especially important the first time they do a Voice Thread to be sure their idea will work in this format. I will use the Whiteboard to show them the steps necessary to complete the Voice Thread and Voice Thread examples. It will take careful planning on my part so the lesson will get finished in a reasonable period of time since I only see the students twice a week for one half hour and I have 7 computers in the library.
In my lesson I plan to use the tools offered on Animoto. I like to use this feature because it will allow the students to create a dos and don’ts multimedia presentation on using cell phones. I like the ease in which the students will be able to create their presentation in class at school and be able to also work on their project at home.
I hope that it will change the students approach to learning by showing the teachers that using technology can be easy to do and will not slow down the learning process but help to engage more students in the active learning process. As a TIS it is my responsibility to integrate technology into the daily lesson of the teacher and help them be comfortable with it.
I also plan to use the web site thinkquest.com to communicate and collaborate online with students from other school. This site will be used similar to a blog and is set up very much like MySpace or Facebook. I know that the students are very used to using these types of social networks yet many teachers are not. I goal is to change the classroom of Hayes to be more in the 21st Century and use interactive technology to actively engage the students in the learning process.
I decided to use the one Web tool that really is not a collaborative one. I decided to use the Create-a-graph website. I am a math teacher, so of course my lesson is based on math. This website is actually very convenient for my students and the lesson that I am going to use.
The website offers many different types of tools that help students to create any type of graph that they will need for my lesson. It is a great hands on experience. I think that using manipulatives is also a very important factor in class, Math at least. This not only does that, but at the same time it is improving their technology skills as well.
I also plan on having students to use GoogleEarth as well. I know that it may sound strange using this tool for Math, but they are to go on vacation and I want them to be able to integrate other subjects as well. So therefore, they are going to give a presentation that includes a map and other facts about that area.
I really want to make my classroom a better learning environment. I want them to be engaged in what we are doing and there is no better way than to allow them to do what they do best...Technology!
There are so many Web 2.0 tools that I want to add to my lesson plans this coming school year. One of the tools that I am going to use is Google Earth the Community Walk. The students are required to visit 15 sites in WV and this will enhance their presentation. Instead of a power point presentation, I am going to have them use Glogster. When power point first came out - everyone was using it - but just like everything else it can get old, I feel Glogster will add a fresh approach to their presentations. With all the new tools, we, as teachers, have more opportunities to tailor the tools to best fit the needs of our students. C. Cole
The tools I will be using most often will include a blog and a wiki. The blog will be utilized as a peer editing tool and the wiki as a publication source.
I would like to incorporate the tools Kerpoop and Glogster. I am going to assign a topic to each of the students and have them create their own movie by writing, scripting and creating their own animation. I would also love to use Glogster to spice up their presentations. They could work in groups to make presentations and share them with their classmates. I am also excited about Create-A-Graph. I am certain that teachers in all subjects could have their students use this tool. Graphs can be made for any subject and I would like for my students to get comfortable with reading and creating graphs.
You all have many good ideas. I have enjoyed learning about all of the tools available. For my personal use I will try the Glogster (instead of Powerpoint)to design my inservice presentations in the fall. I also want to institute a social network to communicate with the parents of my speech students. I love the wiki link and enjoyed blogging. As for integrating into my 'classroom' I remain uncertain. I provide speech therapy in areas with no computer or internet capability.(hallways, stage, popcorn room, etc.) My students all have an IEP with defined amounts of time (out of class) and I have no access to computer labs. I do occasionally work in preschool classrooms with the teacher and can visualize, after communicating with many of you, whiteboard uses, online applications, etc. but with direct student 2.0 uses, I'm struggling. I also don't write lesson plans so this concept is a trial. Many changes are coming and school based therapy will redefine itself - telespeech for areas with no therapist available, more collaboration with teachers when providing services to the PSSN, language delayed, ESL, and special needs students - just to name a few. The immediate 'technology' struggle within my county is to get the online IEP working and proper Medicade billing completed for therapy services provided. I have spent a lot of time with the VoKi and KerPoof sites where I see many uses with the text to speech, storybook/video designs, for AAC users, but remain confused with where, when, how to access these with students. Any and all ideas welcome and appreciated.
One of the Web 2.0 Tools I will be using is YackPack. With this tool, the need for a study group getting together at an actual physical location at a specific time to work on a project is no longer needed. Students can work together, share notes and ideas all online. The other Web Tool that I will be using is called Notefish. This tool will aid students in organizing their research for their project, and enable the students to share their notes with other members of the group. They can access their notes anytime and anywhere from any computer with internet access. My lesson involves some composition, and requires close cooperation and interaction between individual members within the group. Since classroom time is limited, the Web 2.0 tools will enhance learning by increasing the collaboration time spent outside of the classroom. Both of these tools together can create an exceptional learning experience for my students. These tools will also help accommodate each individual student due to the fact that my student to computer ratio averages out to about 30:5. Without these tools, it could possibly make lessons stretch out over a course of months.
As Marsha hinted towards, it seems to me that working with these tools and projects, that more computers and computer time is needed and sometimes the availability for this can be limited. I just hope that these tools work out like they seem, because the down side is that not all students have access to computers outside of school.
I plan to use the epals.com site to let my students choose a country of the world and a pen pal from that country. We can use Google Earth as well in our PPT or video presentation production. I'm not sure about the video production software; I'll have to find out which one is most user friendly, because I will definitely need it to be easy. The students I teach are digital newbies--most of these adults have never touched a computer or mouse before, so I can't count on having any tech geeks around to help me out. I will have to do lots of research to implement this project, and we will do lots of learning together, but it will be a great experience for my students. It will be a project that will bring in all areas of the curriculum as well as some really valuable tech skills.
I want to use Google earth in my lesson design and also use a blog in my class so my students can share and collaborate on the project. I was thinking about how they could present their work and saw Kim's blog entry about Glogster and I am going to investigate that and the epals program that Carole mentioned...The epals across the country or into another country would certainly help my students see how they are connected to people outside Barboursville WV.
I plan on using the Create A Graph in my lesson plan. Since I am a Title Math I found this tool to be very helpful because the students can create a variety of graphs and learn how to analyze their data. I am also using Google Earth to have the students find the longitude and latitude of one of their chosen states, since my lesson is based on the fifty states. Finally, I will have the students communicate with others in their state by using the video feature for SKYPE.
It sounds like Crystal and I had similiar ideas about using Google Earth and the Create A Graph tool. Google Earth is so interested and I think the students will be so interested in their state because Google Earth does such a great job taking Sreet view pictures. The Create A Graph tool is so helpful for Math teachers because the students can visual their table in graph form.
Another teacher and I will be collaborating on a techSteps lesson that involves making a table of rocks and their characteristics. A visual display of these rocks would be an asset to this lesson, in my opinion, so I hope to introduce Glogster to the group. Glogster will provide a means for students to visually display and identify their rock images in an engaging fashion.
Our school webpage software, SchoolCenter, allows us to add a blog page. I added a "What are you reading?" blog just the other day as a result of taking this online course--can't wait to introduce it during library orientation, and I hope to formulate more engaging blog questions in the future. Accordingly, the teacher with whom I'm collaborating and I can easily add a blog page to either her website or to mine in which we ask the students to comment about their techSteps lesson and Glogster experiences. Gee, I can't wait to try this!
Regarding Carole's, Valerie's, C. Cole's, Crystal's, and Jessica's plans for the use of Google Earth--I have long wanted to collaborate with a teacher and incorporate the use of Google Earth in our lesson. I haven't decided on the best use or lesson for this yet, but I've given it a LOT of thought. I need to review specific curriculum objectives, and then try to enlist a teacher to venture forth with this!
I plan on using google docs. This free program allows for students to work together on a document (very close to Microsoft suite)and create a document together. It saves on the internet, so no thumb drive or disk space is needed.
Mary, I went to a conference where they were showing us techSteps. Do you like it? It seemed very complicated and not at all a "pre-packaged" activity like I thought it might be. My thought on Google Earth was super simple; the students could include a google earth picture of their epals' address...or their own in an introduction of themselves...nothing fancy.
I am planning to incorporate the Create-A-Graph, Skype, and Blog in my lesson plans. I am very excited to try the create-a-graph, I thought it would be perfect since I will have math students. But, as Pam noted, it can be used for any subject. I like the ideas that Valerie and Crystal had regarding what types of tools they will be using and how, since they are in math also. Jeremy had a good idea using the Notefish Web Tool, to be able to access notes anytime and anywhere there is a computer.
In my unit, I want to use Voice Thread with the students. I find that it allows for the students to display their creativity through their choice of illustrations. It will also allow them to make a presentation without the fear of being stared down.
I will be using a blog in my lesson plans. The students will be paired with a student in another Geometry class. They will have to collaborate with one another on the project. I feel using a blog gives students the independence to think and explore but still leave a record for me to look at and evaluate. Also the blog makes students use written communication which is often left out of math curriculum. From reading the other posts I am very interested in YackPack. At this time I am afraid it would not be feasible because not all computers are equipped with microphones which record conversations. Is their a web 2.0 app that is a hybrid between YackPack and blogging?
Carole, Regarding techSteps, I've had 3 successful experiences collaborating with teachers and their 3 different sets of classes. The seventh graders were fully engaged with the activity that involved using the "motion path" action within the PowerPoint boundaries. I've watched several groups of sixth graders create timelines. It appears to me so far that one has to invest a certain amount of time in techSteps, but when the students master the lesson, they appear to be very proud of themselves! I do not believe that I am intelligent enough to know if these techSteps lessons will catapault our students to a new learning level, but I do know that they are absorbing more technology knowledge and becoming more confident with computers--by no means do all of our students at this middle school have computers at home.
I am thinking of using blogs during my lesson. I think this will be a great way for the students to have to apply what they learned because they will have to discuss and defend it to other students. I have the read the other threads and think that using Google earth is also a fantastic idea. Since I am thinking of doing biomes and ecosystems this may be a great tool for me to use also!!!
I will be using Ipods to create Podcasts or PhotoStory3 for presentations in conjunction with my whiteboard. Also sites for research - there are several museum sites and several that are interactive. I would also like to use a blog this year. The biggest obstacle will be planning time in the labs for the projects. We have labs but they are in constant use. Also time! Assessment will be an issue as there is additional assessment necessary for collaborative projects. It is not just a standard rubric. It will be a challege to find the time to impliment all of these new tools.
I plan on using a blog on think.com and glogster. I might use Voki if the students seem into the lessons. I like the idea of them being able to offer suggestions to each other and to me about our creative writing. I like the ideas about photostory and Google Docs from above. If things go well or need to be adjusted I might substitute PhotoStory for Glogster. We shall see. I can't wait to find a classroom that will let me try this out.
Voice Thread is the Web 2.0 tool I am using in my lesson plan that will require accommodations in my library. I will need to plan for students to have enough computer time to do the project. I will have to be sure that the students understand that they need to plan for the project before they sit down to do it. They will need storyboards to work on and I will need to be sure they show me what they have before they start to upload their project. My looking closely at the storyboard will be especially important the first time they do a Voice Thread to be sure their idea will work in this format. I will use the Whiteboard to show them the steps necessary to complete the Voice Thread and Voice Thread examples. It will take careful planning on my part so the lesson will get finished in a reasonable period of time since I only see the students twice a week for one half hour and I have 7 computers in the library.
ReplyDeleteIn my lesson I plan to use the tools offered on Animoto. I like to use this feature because it will allow the students to create a dos and don’ts multimedia presentation on using cell phones. I like the ease in which the students will be able to create their presentation in class at school and be able to also work on their project at home.
ReplyDeleteI hope that it will change the students approach to learning by showing the teachers that using technology can be easy to do and will not slow down the learning process but help to engage more students in the active learning process. As a TIS it is my responsibility to integrate technology into the daily lesson of the teacher and help them be comfortable with it.
I also plan to use the web site thinkquest.com to communicate and collaborate online with students from other school. This site will be used similar to a blog and is set up very much like MySpace or Facebook. I know that the students are very used to using these types of social networks yet many teachers are not. I goal is to change the classroom of Hayes to be more in the 21st Century and use interactive technology to actively engage the students in the learning process.
I decided to use the one Web tool that really is not a collaborative one. I decided to use the Create-a-graph website. I am a math teacher, so of course my lesson is based on math. This website is actually very convenient for my students and the lesson that I am going to use.
ReplyDeleteThe website offers many different types of tools that help students to create any type of graph that they will need for my lesson. It is a great hands on experience. I think that using manipulatives is also a very important factor in class, Math at least. This not only does that, but at the same time it is improving their technology skills as well.
I also plan on having students to use GoogleEarth as well. I know that it may sound strange using this tool for Math, but they are to go on vacation and I want them to be able to integrate other subjects as well. So therefore, they are going to give a presentation that includes a map and other facts about that area.
I really want to make my classroom a better learning environment. I want them to be engaged in what we are doing and there is no better way than to allow them to do what they do best...Technology!
There are so many Web 2.0 tools that I want to add to my lesson plans this coming school year. One of the tools that I am going to use is Google Earth the Community Walk. The students are required to visit 15 sites in WV and this will enhance their presentation. Instead of a power point presentation, I am going to have them use Glogster. When power point first came out - everyone was using it - but just like everything else it can get old, I feel Glogster will add a fresh approach to their presentations. With all the new tools, we, as teachers, have more opportunities to tailor the tools to best fit the needs of our students. C. Cole
ReplyDeleteThe tools I will be using most often will include a blog and a wiki. The blog will be utilized as a peer editing tool and the wiki as a publication source.
ReplyDeleteI would like to incorporate the tools Kerpoop and Glogster. I am going to assign a topic to each of the students and have them create their own movie by writing, scripting and creating their own animation. I would also love to use Glogster to spice up their presentations. They could work in groups to make presentations and share them with their classmates. I am also excited about Create-A-Graph. I am certain that teachers in all subjects could have their students use this tool. Graphs can be made for any subject and I would like for my students to get comfortable with reading and creating graphs.
ReplyDeleteYou all have many good ideas. I have enjoyed learning about all of the tools available. For my personal use I will try the Glogster (instead of Powerpoint)to design my inservice presentations in the fall. I also want to institute a social network to communicate with the parents of my speech students. I love the wiki link and enjoyed blogging. As for integrating into my 'classroom' I remain uncertain. I provide speech therapy in areas with no computer or internet capability.(hallways, stage, popcorn room, etc.) My students all have an IEP with defined amounts of time (out of class) and I have no access to computer labs. I do occasionally work in preschool classrooms with the teacher and can visualize, after communicating with many of you, whiteboard uses, online applications, etc. but with direct student 2.0 uses, I'm struggling. I also don't write lesson plans so this concept is a trial. Many changes are coming and school based therapy will redefine itself - telespeech for areas with no therapist available, more collaboration with teachers when providing services to the PSSN, language delayed, ESL, and special needs students - just to name a few. The immediate 'technology' struggle within my county is to get the online IEP working and proper Medicade billing completed for therapy services provided.
ReplyDeleteI have spent a lot of time with the VoKi and KerPoof sites where I see many uses with the text to speech, storybook/video designs, for AAC users, but remain confused with where, when, how to access these with students. Any and all ideas welcome and appreciated.
One of the Web 2.0 Tools I will be using is YackPack. With this tool, the need for a study group getting together at an actual physical location at a specific time to work on a project is no longer needed. Students can work together, share notes and ideas all online. The other Web Tool that I will be using is called Notefish. This tool will aid students in organizing their research for their project, and enable the students to share their notes with other members of the group. They can access their notes anytime and anywhere from any computer with internet access. My lesson involves some composition, and requires close cooperation and interaction between individual members within the group. Since classroom time is limited, the Web 2.0 tools will enhance learning by increasing the collaboration time spent outside of the classroom. Both of these tools together can create an exceptional learning experience for my students. These tools will also help accommodate each individual student due to the fact that my student to computer ratio averages out to about 30:5. Without these tools, it could possibly make lessons stretch out over a course of months.
ReplyDeleteAs Marsha hinted towards, it seems to me that working with these tools and projects, that more computers and computer time is needed and sometimes the availability for this can be limited. I just hope that these tools work out like they seem, because the down side is that not all students have access to computers outside of school.
I plan to use the epals.com site to let my students choose a country of the world and a pen pal from that country. We can use Google Earth as well in our PPT or video presentation production. I'm not sure about the video production software; I'll have to find out which one is most user friendly, because I will definitely need it to be easy. The students I teach are digital newbies--most of these adults have never touched a computer or mouse before, so I can't count on having any tech geeks around to help me out.
ReplyDeleteI will have to do lots of research to implement this project, and we will do lots of learning together, but it will be a great experience for my students. It will be a project that will bring in all areas of the curriculum as well as some really valuable tech skills.
I want to use Google earth in my lesson design and also use a blog in my class so my students can share and collaborate on the project. I was thinking about how they could present their work and saw Kim's blog entry about Glogster and I am going to investigate that and the epals program that Carole mentioned...The epals across the country or into another country would certainly help my students see how they are connected to people outside Barboursville WV.
ReplyDeleteI plan on using the Create A Graph in my lesson plan. Since I am a Title Math I found this tool to be very helpful because the students can create a variety of graphs and learn how to analyze their data. I am also using Google Earth to have the students find the longitude and latitude of one of their chosen states, since my lesson is based on the fifty states. Finally, I will have the students communicate with others in their state by using the video feature for SKYPE.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like Crystal and I had similiar ideas about using Google Earth and the Create A Graph tool. Google Earth is so interested and I think the students will be so interested in their state because Google Earth does such a great job taking Sreet view pictures. The Create A Graph tool is so helpful for Math teachers because the students can visual their table in graph form.
ReplyDeleteAnother teacher and I will be collaborating on a techSteps lesson that involves making a table of rocks and their characteristics. A visual display of these rocks would be an asset to this lesson, in my opinion, so I hope to introduce Glogster to the group. Glogster will provide a means for students to visually display and identify their rock images in an engaging fashion.
ReplyDeleteOur school webpage software, SchoolCenter, allows us to add a blog page. I added a "What are you reading?" blog just the other day as a result of taking this online course--can't wait to introduce it during library orientation, and I hope to formulate more engaging blog questions in the future. Accordingly, the teacher with whom I'm collaborating and I can easily add a blog page to either her website or to mine in which we ask the students to comment about their techSteps lesson and Glogster experiences. Gee, I can't wait to try this!
Regarding Carole's, Valerie's, C. Cole's, Crystal's, and Jessica's plans for the use of Google Earth--I have long wanted to collaborate with a teacher and incorporate the use of Google Earth in our lesson. I haven't decided on the best use or lesson for this yet, but I've given it a LOT of thought. I need to review specific curriculum objectives, and then try to enlist a teacher to venture forth with this!
I plan on using google docs. This free program allows for students to work together on a document (very close to Microsoft suite)and create a document together. It saves on the internet, so no thumb drive or disk space is needed.
ReplyDeleteMary, I went to a conference where they were showing us techSteps. Do you like it? It seemed very complicated and not at all a "pre-packaged" activity like I thought it might be.
ReplyDeleteMy thought on Google Earth was super simple; the students could include a google earth picture of their epals' address...or their own in an introduction of themselves...nothing fancy.
I am planning to incorporate the Create-A-Graph, Skype, and Blog in my lesson plans. I am very excited to try the create-a-graph, I thought it would be perfect since I will have math students. But, as Pam noted, it can be used for any subject. I like the ideas that Valerie and Crystal had regarding what types of tools they will be using and how, since they are in math also. Jeremy had a good idea using the Notefish Web Tool, to be able to access notes anytime and anywhere there is a computer.
ReplyDeleteIn my unit, I want to use Voice Thread with the students. I find that it allows for the students to display their creativity through their choice of illustrations. It will also allow them to make a presentation without the fear of being stared down.
ReplyDeleteI will be using a blog in my lesson plans. The students will be paired with a student in another Geometry class. They will have to collaborate with one another on the project. I feel using a blog gives students the independence to think and explore but still leave a record for me to look at and evaluate. Also the blog makes students use written communication which is often left out of math curriculum.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading the other posts I am very interested in YackPack. At this time I am afraid it would not be feasible because not all computers are equipped with microphones which record conversations. Is their a web 2.0 app that is a hybrid between YackPack and blogging?
Carole,
ReplyDeleteRegarding techSteps, I've had 3 successful experiences collaborating with teachers and their 3 different sets of classes. The seventh graders were fully engaged with the activity that involved using the "motion path" action within the PowerPoint boundaries. I've watched several groups of sixth graders create timelines. It appears to me so far that one has to invest a certain amount of time in techSteps, but when the students master the lesson, they appear to be very proud of themselves! I do not believe that I am intelligent enough to know if these techSteps lessons will catapault our students to a new learning level, but I do know that they are absorbing more technology knowledge and becoming more confident with computers--by no means do all of our students at this middle school have computers at home.
Hmmm . . . gotta' use Google Earth!
I am thinking of using blogs during my lesson. I think this will be a great way for the students to have to apply what they learned because they will have to discuss and defend it to other students. I have the read the other threads and think that using Google earth is also a fantastic idea. Since I am thinking of doing biomes and ecosystems this may be a great tool for me to use also!!!
ReplyDeleteI will be using Ipods to create Podcasts or PhotoStory3 for presentations in conjunction with my whiteboard. Also sites for research - there are several museum sites and several that are interactive. I would also like to use a blog this year. The biggest obstacle will be planning time in the labs for the projects. We have labs but they are in constant use. Also time! Assessment will be an issue as there is additional assessment necessary for collaborative projects. It is not just a standard rubric. It will be a challege to find the time to impliment all of these new tools.
ReplyDeleteI plan on using a blog on think.com and glogster. I might use Voki if the students seem into the lessons. I like the idea of them being able to offer suggestions to each other and to me about our creative writing. I like the ideas about photostory and Google Docs from above. If things go well or need to be adjusted I might substitute PhotoStory for Glogster. We shall see. I can't wait to find a classroom that will let me try this out.
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