Sneak Peek to a Techno Future

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Sneak Peek to a Techno Future

• ESU 17 Learning Web Team
• Valentine Community Schools
• Ainsworth Community Schools

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• Linda Schafer Cutcomb Lake Attendance Center
  K-2nd
• Nicole Osnes Valentine Elementary School
  3rd-5th Grade Enrichment Reading
• Deb Obermiller Valentine Elementary School-4th
  Grade
• Molly Aschoff Valentine Elementary School-5th
  Grade
• Amanda Ganser Ainsworth Elementary School
  K-6th Computers
• Susan Scholtes Ainsworth Elementary School
  4th Grade

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Technologies Implemented

• Video Conferencing Polycom cart Skype
• Movie Making iMovie PhotoStory
• Podcasting Garage Band
• Clickers eInstruction
• Web based tools Google Earth Gizmos
  

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Marzanos Instructional Strategies

• Nonlinguistic representations
• Cooperative learning
• Homework and practice
• Providing feedback
• Identifying similarities and differences
• Goals

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Our Technology Explorations

• Podcasts
• Gizmo
• WebQuests
• I-Movie

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GizmoMath Olympiad

• Road Trip (Problem Solving) Gizmo

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GIZMO Phases of the Moonexplorelearning.com
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GIZMO Phases of the Moon
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Experience Math and Science with

• GIZMO at http//www.explorelearning.com/
• 30 day free trial
• 3rd-5th Grades

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Podcasts

• Used Garageband
• Book talks
• Could also be used for readers theater, radio
  shows, and an artifact to show students fluency
• Students created script first and then practiced
• They were able to see how loud or soft they
  spoke.
• Added music for the background

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Podcasts

• 3 different microphones
• -omni-directional mic
• (works great with groups, but does pick up noise)
  
• -built in mic on computer
• -20 external mic
• Preferred the built-in mic..it blocked ambient
  noises

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Podcasts

• Programs Utilized
• -Garage Band
• -iPods
• Suggestions
• Drag and Drop Voice Memos into Garage Band
• Offer opportunities for practice, before
  recording
• I preferred Garage Band over the iPods, graphs
  their voices
• Some 4th Grade Students learned how to record on
  their own, with limited supervision
• Learn how to delete unwanted podcastsnot as
  easy as you think!
• Believe it or not! Students were quiet and we
  recorded in the classroom!

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Student Input on Podcasting

• Liked writing our own script
• Liked using expressions with voicehigh and low
  voices
• Research
• Picking out the music
• Helped me learn stuff.more about the tundra
• Pretend to be somebody different.pretend to be
  a person of knowledge.like Bill Nye the Science
  Guy.and that is not me!
• Putting it on-line!

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Student Input on Podcasting

• Taping and Sharing with family!
• Putting it on-line!
• Working with friends!
• Took too long!

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Sample Book talks
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I-Movies

• Used I-Movie HD
• Created an I-Movie based on information read in a
  nonfiction article in reading class
• Students created scripts and found pictures
• PicturesMake sure to transfer into I-Photo first
• VoicesRecorded directly into I-Movie, but you
  could also use Garageband
• Transitions and titles added at the end

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Student Thoughts on I-Movie

• My favorite part was being able choose the
  transitions and sounds.
• I liked talking into the microphone for the
  sound.
• I liked working with my partners.

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Webquests

• http//webquest.org/index.php

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Photo Story
Personal Narratives Field Trip Tours Self
Illustrated Poems Directions for Completing a Task
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owerpoint
Presidential Election Brown County Historical
Society Dream House Floor Plans What am
I? Personification Presentations Camp Pamphlets
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Garage Band
Historical Interviews Book Reads Radio
Commercials Nursery Rhyme Renditions Living
Poems
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Weather Project
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Skype video conferencing

• Free Download
• http//www.skype.com/

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• Thank you all for coming to our session

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Contact Information

• Molly Aschoff maschoff_at_esu17.org
• Nicole Osnes nosnes_at_esu17.org
• Deb Obermiller esu17dob_at_esu17.org
• Linda Schafer lschafer_at_esu17.org
• Amanda Ganser aganser_at_esu17.org
• Susan Scholtes scholtes_at_esu17.org