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30 Students + Computers = Engagement Presented by Valerie R. Burton, M. Ed. West Jefferson High School, New
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30 Students + Computers = Engagement
Presented by Valerie R. Burton, M. Ed. West Jefferson High School, New Orleans, LA
Tools that we will investigate
Explore ways to integrate technology and increase engagement by using: 1. Google Docs for collaboration, Google Forms to gather information2. Weebly.com for ePortfolios and easy websites3. Wordle.net for avatars, presentations and assessment4. Kidblog.org for student blogs5. Edublogs.org for an assignment blog6. Photopeach.com for photomovies7. Twitter.com for updates8. PBWorks.com to create on online classroom9. Padlet.com to gather ideas and other online tools
I am, Valerie Burton, an AP Literature and English IV teacher from New Orleans, LA.
I currently teach at West Jefferson High School. I look for any and all opportunities to integrate technology into my lessons.
Using Google Forms
Use Google Docs
• to collaborate • to gather information
• to test online
Use Google Docs to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, etc.
How I use…
Google Docs for collaboration and to gather
information– Peer Editing – assign students to writing groups
and they share and revise each other’s work.– Forms – have students complete surveys for
pre/postreading assignments– Tests – create multiple choice tests that can be
graded by Flubaroo– Share information – share a document as a webpage
I used this form to gather information about my students
It is easy to create forms to get
information about prior knowledge
for upcoming projects, conduct surveys, exit or
entrance tickets, quizzes, etc.
Generate interest in the theme
or plot
Discuss the results
Check for prior knowledge (pretest)Check for acquired
knowledge (posttest)
The results are
populated into a
spreadsheet
• Name and describe your document
• Type in your questions
What type of question do you want to add?
Looking for a quick easy way
to quiz?
Tests are graded and students are given grades by email
How can you use Google Docs/Forms in
your classroom?
Why not teach them here…..?!?!?!?!?
Weebly
How I use…
Weebly.com for ePortfolios and easy
websites–Class website – publish announcements, tips and reminders for parents and students
–Class ePortfolio – collect assignments and artifacts to be showed off and shared.
–Student ePortfolio - highlight classwork, community service activities,
awards and recognitions.
How can you use Weebly in your
classroom?
Using Wikis
PBworks is an easy-to-
use free web page that multiple
people can edit, it’s
based on wiki technology.
WYSIWYG
Create Publish
Comment
Converse
Post Ideas
Respond
Share Edit
Collaborate
Engage
Use PBworks to communicate withAdministrators, Faculty, Parents and Students
How can you incorporate wikis into your
classroom?
Posting to Padlet
Possible Question Stems
Why do you think…? What is the main idea…?What inference can you make…? What is the purpose of….?What is the relationship between…? What do you see as other possible outcomes?What ideas justify…? What are some of the problems of…?What evidence can you find…? Can you distinguish between…?How is…similar to…? What was the turning point…why?How would you categorize…? Compare…to…? Contrast…to…?What conclusions can you draw…? What can you infer….?
How can you incorporate Padlet into your
classroom?
Wordle
Wordles can be used as avatars, to preview new information
or as assessments
How can you use Wordles in your
classroom?
Blog Posts
• to make regular updates about assignments, events, and anything going on in class
• To engage students in their learning and extend collaboration with classmates and even people all over the world
*Students can be required to post a short (a few sentences or a short paragraph) synopsis of each reading in the student’s blog. Students can be requested to create • a short dialog between the authors of each
week’s texts• list ways in which the subject of the texts could
affect the student’s life or society• reflect on the implications of the texts for life
online in the future• answer their own key questions from their own
perspective
Blog Reflections
How can you use Blogs in your
classroom?
PhotoPeach
How I use…
How can you use PhotoPeach in
your classroom?
Tweets allow you to
• have 24/7 participation in 140 characters or less
• network with others in a way that transcends the walls of our schools and neighborhoods
• Here is a blogpost I created with Twitter resources
• Have students• Tweet class updates provide• Contribute to backchannel
discussions• Post videos and pictures• Share resources to enhance
textbook• Post as a character• Format thesis sentence as a tweet
How can you use Twitter in your
classroom?
Using Wikis
PBworks is an easy-to-
use free web page that multiple
people can edit, it’s
based on wiki technology.
WYSIWYG
Create Publish
Comment
Converse
Post Ideas
Respond
Share Edit
Collaborate
Engage
Use PBworks to communicate withAdministrators, Faculty, Parents and Students
Parents and Faculty
can see the work that
we are doing in class
Share
resources
with faulty
Sample template to use for wikipage
Goal QueryInitiate discussion. Focus on author’s message. Link information. Identify difficulties with the way the author has presented information or ideas. Encourage students to refer to the text because they have misinterpreted, or to help them recognize that they have made an inference.
What is the author trying to say?What is the author’s message?What is the author talking about? That’s what the author says, but what does it mean? Why did the author choose this word?
How does that connect with what the author already told us?What information has the author added here that connects or fits with _______________? Does that make sense?Did the author state or explain that clearly? Why or why not? What do we need to figure out or find out? Did the author tell us that?Did the author give us the answer to that?
Posting to Padlet
Possible Question Stems
Why do you think…? What is the main idea…?What inference can you make…? What is the purpose of….?What is the relationship between…? What do you see as other possible outcomes?What ideas justify…? What are some of the problems of…?What evidence can you find…? Can you distinguish between…?How is…similar to…? What was the turning point…why?How would you categorize…? Compare…to…? Contrast…to…?What conclusions can you draw…? What can you infer….?
How can you incorporate Padlet into your
classroom?
Real-time note-taking and backchannel
• Teams of four take notes using a real-time note-taking handing off to another team every half hour, publishing their notes to the class site after the end of the class session.
• Students can use collaborative tools to engage in parallel, relevant online discussion in real time through the web, Facebook, Twitter, or Facebook.
*Each week, a team of four students works between meetings of class sessions to update an enhanced e-book that includes the notes, lexicon entries, and mindmaps for that week, with graphics, text, and live links.
* In addition, e-book teams develop a webpage on best practices and procedures.
E-book teams
Real-time note-taking and backchannel
• Teams of four take notes using a real-time note-taking handing off to another team every half hour, publishing their notes to the class site after the end of the class session.
• Students can use collaborative tools to engage in parallel, relevant online discussion in real time through the web, Facebook, Twitter, or Facebook.
• Post a Note on this WallWisher about what you want to do today.• Complete this Google Form survey so that we can share our thoughts
about tech integration.• PicLit• Google Form and the results Results• Blog Posts• Blog Post - What do you see? (Create a story)• Quick Writes What are you thankful for?• Wallwisher Post a "Check In Post"• Blog Entry Post a "Check In Post"• Google Form for Necklace and Results
• Cause and Effect Essay• Essay Format• How to embed a video wikipage• How To Videos• How to use Glogster• How to Write a Dear Scholar Letter• Blog Post directing them on creating their Drug Abuse Project• Create a wordle Directions on creating a wordle are here• Using words to describe yourself
• Create a wallwisher or a google form to solicit opinions about the tools that your students may want to use in class.
• Book Review• PicLit• Google Form Basic answer form with 40 answer slots• Wallwisher • Blog Entry• BTW essay Assignment• BTW Journals Assignment• BTW Quotes Assignment• Research Wiki• Blog Posts• Take survey after reading story to help formulate opinions
• Blogs• Google Form for Oral Presentations• BTW Glog• Blog Posts• Checklist• Rubrics• ePortfolio Glog ePortfolio • Online Assessments• Online
jeopardy game that tests your knowledge of WJ rules and Sentences and Fragments.
• Videos• Self Assessment• Glogs/Wikipages/Blog Posts• Google Form Vocabulary Test Use the results for reTeaching
Contact me if you need meI am an English Language Arts teacher from New
Orleans, Louisiana who looks for all opportunities to integrate technology into my classroom.
I blog. http://2blog2share2learn.edublogs.org/I tweet. http://twitter.com/MsBisOnlineI share. http://msbisonline.weebly.com/
Need to contact [email protected] or [email protected](504) 298-9764about.me/VRBurton – myselfabout.me/BurtonsScholars – my class
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