So Little Time, So Many NeedsHow Technology Can Help Differentiate

Today’s Outcomes• Leave with at least 1 idea

you can use in the classroom now

• Leave with the motivation to dive into another site and learn it

• Leave with lots of resources to help you meet the needs of your diverse learners

Topics• Google Earth creating

placemarks• Scrapbook Blogs• Podcasts by GCast• Online Stories• Writeboard

What is Differentiated Instruction?

What is differentiated instruction?

• Curriculum designed to meet individual needs of students by modifying:– Content– Process– Product– Learning Environment

Joining Curriculum and Learning

Thomlinson, 1999, p 45

Principles of a Differentiated Classroom• The teacher:

– Focuses on what is essential in curriculum

– Understands, appreciates and nurtures differences in students

– Adjusts content, process and product according to student readiness, interests and learning profiles

• The students– All participate in respectful and authentic

work– Collaborate with each other and the

teacher in learning

Principles of a Differentiated Classroom

Principles of a Differentiated Classroom

• The classroom climate– Demonstrates interdependence of

assessment and instruction– Demonstrates flexibility– Nurtures goals which maximize growth

and individual successes

Why Use Technology to Differentiate?

• Accommodates differences in student experience and ability

• Provides motivation to most all students

• Offers flexible learning opportunities• Provides students the chance to learn

21st century skills needed for the real world

http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Differentiation/five.html

Google Earth Tours

Adding Place Markers• Right click on My Places and

Add a new folder• Find your location • Right click on the folder you

added and then Add a Placemark

• Repeat for each placemark you want in your tour

Creating a Tour

• Once you have all your locations in your folder, right click and Save As

• Save to wherever your students can access it

• Google Earth Webinar (for more info)– https://discoveryed.webex.com/discoveryed/k2/tool/record/recordin

ginfo.php?RecordID=10111647

– http://discoveryeducation.typepad.com/north_south_carolina/2006/02/goolge_earth_an.html

– Password= Discovery

Scrapblog and GCast

Scrapblog and Smilebox

• www.scrapblog.com• www.smilebox.com • Allows for online scrapbooking/

journaling http://jm.scrapblog.com/school/

• Can be embedded into teacher blog• Ideas include:

– pictures of math manipulatives to visually show a math problem

– Pictures of field trip to document learning– Pictures from history to tell a story– Drawn pictures in Kid Pix, become a story

GCast• www.gcast.com • An easy way to podcast• Either upload audio saved with

Audacity or call by phone• 1-888-65-GCAST to record• Ideas include:

– Reader’s Theater for an online podcast– Review of what they learned for the day– Create poetry and read it– http://www.gcast.com/u/camruns/main

Online Stories and Writeboard

Online Storieshttp://www.quia.com/pages/onlinestories.html • Tumble Books-

http://www.muskingumlibrary.org/children/tumble.html Online books that are read to you with text highlighting

• StoryLine- http://www.storylineonline.net/ Actors reading stories online

• KidzClub- http://www.kizclub.com/Sbody.htmlLeveled readers with online stories and printable stories

• Read-On Audio Stories- http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html Links to many stories all with audio

Writeboard• http://www.writeboard.com/• A way to collaborate with many people on

one document• Ideas include:

– Copy child’s story to Writeboard to allow parents/ professional to edit

– Write stories together with parents, community members, or other students

– Have daily math problems that parents/ community members could solve and explain their solutions

More Resources and Ideas

Math Resources• Digital Camera scavenger hunts for geometry terms or shapes• Use digital camera to take pictures to explain math problem (i.e. picture of 4

dice, picture of 2 dice and then picture of 6 dice to show 4+2=6)• T-Charts/ Venn Diagrams using Kid Pix, Inspiration, Word, PowerPoint,

Publisher• Graphs using Excel, Max Count, or Kid Pix, Create a Graph Online

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/ • Online geoboards http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_172_g_2_t_3.html • Math Activities, glossary and resources such as online manipulatives K-6

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/ • Glyphs using Kid Pix• Online Money http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_3.html • Geogebra-free download-6-12 http://www.geogebra.at/cms/• Math Casts-watch or create http://www.mathcasts.org/mc/trf/4/ns/4ns1.2/

http://www.mathcasts.org/index.php?title=How_to_Afford_a_Mathcast_Studio • Sketchup free 3-D modeling program and once models are built they can be

placed into Google Earth http://sketchup.google.com/ • Lego Program http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm

Reading Resources• Internet Children’s Public Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location

search when studying other countries• Read real product reviews and write/record spoken voice of recommendations

based on what they find (any shopping site- such as www.amazon.com)• Read Please Text Reader- free download of program that reads text from any

source http://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/#rp2003 • Text Aloud converts written text to MP3 format for iPod

http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/index.html • Natural Reader http://www.naturalreaders.com/ Uses the AT&T natural voices

and converts the text to MP3 format for use on iPods• Audacity free program to record voices- readers theater, book reviews, review

of what you learned for the day and email to parents http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• Annenburg videos- free online videos on many different subject areas and topics http://www.learner.org/

• Read, Write, Think website full of ideas and online materials/ activities for the language arts curriculum http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

• Librivox- volunteer to read stories and record online as well as listen to stories online http://librivox.org/

Writing Resources• Use Writeboard to have editors collaborate www.writeboard.com • Use digital cameras to tell a story, embellish a preexisting story, or

help explain problems through still pictures or through live video http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/index.html

• Use an online note tool to help groups collect notes together quickly and easily http://notestar.4teachers.org/

• Participate in the Internet projects http://alpha.fdu.edu/~cohen/fiveways.htm

• SpringDoo http://www.springdoo.com/ A video email system where students could send video responses to the community on books read, current events, etc.

• More Writing Resources– Tiddlywiki: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ – Zoho Writer http://www.zohowriter.com/ – Wikispace http://www.wikispaces.org

Social Studies Resources• Have students read an article, use Audacity to record a response to

the article http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm

• Create a blog to document how history is being written everyday through the current events

• Google Earth tours of historical places with website links for more information

• Internet Children’s Public Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ Do location search when studying other countries and read literature from that country

• Google Earth game • Try Scholastic online activities

– Social Studies/News/Content Area Reading http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/

– If you were president game http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/games_quizzes/electiongame/game.asp

Science Ideas• Use digital camera and PowerPoint handout view (Under Print

choose Handouts) to take pictures of steps in experiment and then have students write was happened.

• Foss Web http://www.fossweb.com/ Online science activities • Online Microscope

http://www.open2.net/science/microscope/frames.html • Don’t know the answer to a scientific question? Ask Science Bob or

Dr. CRAM http://www.sciencebob.com/questions/questions.html http://www.cramscience.ca/drcram.php

• Online telescope that you can control from your computer http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/

• BBC Science http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml

• AOL Jr Science http://www.aolatschool.com/junior/science

Teacher Management Ideas

• Quiz Star- online quizzes that can include multimedia http://quizstar.4teachers.org/

• Assign-a-day- Create your own online assignment calendars with links to resources http://assignaday.4teachers.org/

• Study Shack http://www.studystack.com/ Create your own study cards or self-quizzing system or use some of the thousands already created

• Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Create your own rubrics for saving or printing

• PBL checklist http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/ Create your own checklists so that students can see what needs to be done for a project

• United Streaming http://www.unitedstreaming.com Digital content for digital learners. Create online assignments that combine multimedia and web sites.