( I took a Web 2.0 class last year.) This is an example of a lesson plan that I created to go with our Alternate Kindergarten science unit on plants. Kid Pix is a developmentally appropriate program for AK students. It allows the students to draw objects. We used this program to illustrate things that we learned about the seeds we planted for our mothers for Mother’s Day. After the students drew their picture it was saved as a jpeg and then uploaded to the Web 2.0 tool Voice Thread. This tool allows students to record their voice to the Kid Pix picture. The students were able to explain what their Kid Pix picture was about and what their experience was with planting.
Alternate Kindergarten Science Standard and Benchmark: AK.4 Understands the basic concepts and principles of life science. AK.4.1.C Understands basic requirements of plants to grow.
•Objective: •Students create a drawing, using the computer software program Kid Pix to record their seed planting experiences and then record their voice to explain their picture using the Web 2.0 tool, Voice Thread.
•Prep: computers with internet access, Kid Pix software, projector
•Procedure: •Engage- -Demonstrate Kid Pix software for the whole class using the projector. -Model a sample page with illustration. •Explore- -Students use the Kid Pix program to draw a picture on the computer to illustrate a fact that that they have learned throughout their seed planting experiences. -Save the Kid Pix pictures as a jpeg. Upload the jpegs to the Web 2.0 tool, Voice Thread. Have students record their planting experience to go with their Kid Pix illustration. •Consolidation- -Display each illustration with voice recordings for the whole class to see. You can also provide parents with the link to show parents the projects.
(Another example from the class I took...)This activity is an introductory lesson to a pre-kindergarten class on the topic of shapes.
Alternate Kindergarten Math Standard and Benchmarks: AK.3 The students will demonstrate understanding of geometry and measurement (H, L, C) AK.3.2 Identifies common geometric shapes and describes their features AK.3.2.A Recognizes simple geometric shapes in the environment. AK.3.2.B Names, describes, compares geometric shapes.
•Objective: •Students will be able to name the shapes that are being introduced and identify everyday items that match those shapes.
•Prep: computers with internet access, bag of shapes, bag of everyday items matching the shapes, digital camera
•Procedure: •Engage- Begin by displaying a bag filled with the various shapes to be covered. Pull the shapes from the bag one at a time and have students name the shapes. If the students are not familiar with that shape, go over what the name of that shape is. Next, line up the shapes on the floor, reviewing what the names for the shapes are. Now display a second bag that is filled with everyday items that match the shapes you are covering. Have the students take turns pulling out the everyday shape items and match them to the shapes that you have lined up on the floor. (Example: a pad of sticky notes matches the square) •Explore- After completing the matching activity, discuss the fact that you see shapes all around you. Lead the students on a shape hunt around the school. Have the students find an object to represent each of the shapes you are learning about. Using a digital camera, take pictures of the items that the students identify. (Example: a poster on the wall for a rectangle) Load the digital pictures onto the Web 2.0 tool Voice Thread. Have the each student record their voice with a picture of the shape from around the school. •Consolidation- Play the final presentation for the students so that they can remember the various shape items they found around the school and review the names of the shapes. You can also provide parents with the link to show parents the projects.
When you showed us wordle, like you, I also wondered about the usefulness of the site. However, as you cut and pasted into it I thought about a possible use that I could have used when I taught fifth grade. To help students make decisions about word choice when they are writing they could cut and paste their rough draft into a wordle document to see which words they might be overusing.
I like the interactive timer. If I planned to give the students a certain amount of time to work on a project, the timer projected onto the smart board would allow them to see how much time they have left.
We read a biography of George Washington and made timelines of his life after reading the story. Timetoast would be a good site to do timelines of biography subjects or even sequence of events for a fiction story. It would also be good for science if you wanted to show the development of technology, such as automobiles, flight, etc. --Laurie
The drop box site is a great idea to access my favorite websites from another computer. There have been times when I wanted to share a site with someone and didn't have my school computer with those sites marked.
I like the graph website. That could be fun to use with the new Smartboards we are getting. I would like to make that student friendly. I also like the timer idea. It is a fun change from the hand-held timer I use. The music would be distracting for some projects, but could also be fun for others.
I think I will use the Timetoast in my Family Living class. The first project we do in that class is a timeline, students have always done an old-fashioned paper, cut and paste type timeline. I think they would enjoy this web version.
I also am interested in the Blogger. I do journaling in both Child Development and Family Living, and I think it would be interesting to do the journaling in a blog format.
I think I could use the timer tool in PE and in FCS---for timed contests in PE and also in FCS for food labs reminding students of where they should be in making their food
I like the feature of timetoast.com to create timelines for autobiographies. It would also be neat to use during To Kill A Mockingbird to sequence events. I would also use the online-stopwatch.com and post it on my future smartboard during ITEDs.
I could use the graphs for FCS class---after they keep track of their diet for 3 days, they could graph the servings of food they had compared to the number of servings they should have had
In 9th grade science, I see us using the graphing site to help students organize data and to become more comfortable with graphs. This is an area that we want to help our students improve on Basic Skills and ITEDs. Using the computer, instead of paper and pencil, would allow students to create graphs more quickly. They would have the luxury of trying out what if thinking. For example, If I doubled the volume of the gas, what would happen to the temperature?
I could also see us using the mapping tool to create concept maps to help understand how scientific concepts are connected. This would help students organize their thinking. For example, they could see that both elements and compounds are pure compounds while mixtures could be subdivided into homogeneous and heterogeneous.
I think I'll try wordle--having the students keep track of everything they eat for a week and then put that into wordle---it might open their eyes to what they are actually eating!
I would use interactive timers in science for games and activities that involve recalling information during a review. I would use timelines in class as a tool for students to produce group timelines. I could see using wordle as a whole group brainstorm about what they know about a topic, and what they want to know and then what they learn, another form of a KWL in a creative form.
The site www.dropbox.com would be perfect for English projects that span several days since the students would be on random computers each day. It would also work for them if they wanted to continue on with the project at home.
I liked Create a Graph and Wordle. I think Create a Graph could really help my students actually understand graphs better, just going through the process of setting up a graph. I might use Wordle to show the students just how often they use the same words over and over in their writing!
I would use the bighugelabs for making World History posters and projects. I would also use the built in timer (stop-watch.com) for timed notes and timed quizes
I found the sites for lower elementary most interesting for me. KidsClick Quinture Kids Yuppy Zuula.com I will be going in a looking at them more and will use when school starts. Barbara Saunders
I want to do fluency checks with my fifth graders with partners. I didn't know how I was going to use so many stop watches, but now using the stopwatch.com I can set the timer on my computer and have everyone start and stop at the same time.
I have the kids write goals for the second semester. I take their picture and make it into a Wanted poster. Glassgiant.com has an old fashioned wanted poster where the students can upload their picture, goal, and name. They will love to make up their own reward amount!!!
An assessment this year for the book Dark Stairs was a time line. We gave them the events and they had to put a number of them in order and draw pictures. Using timetoast would be a simple way for them to make their timeline from the events given.
Big Huge Labs and Glogster are going to be great to use next year in my Social Studies courses. I will incorporate them into some sort of project with the students.
I may use the bighugelabs for making posters to communicate rules and expectations and I would also might use the stopwatch.com for timing students in races and other activities. Both of these tools would help me run a more efficient and productive P.E class.
I would like to try and store my daily behavior comments in the dropbox (www.drop.box.com)so that I can get to them anytime. The only problem is that I only get 2MB free! I will also have to be 100% certain that the dropbox will be confidential and not let others see my file.
I'm not a blogger or face book junkie, but I might get hooked after this class. I thought the glassgiant.com is something I will try and much, much more from todays work.
I definitely like the idea of the Dropbox as a backup to my files and documents. Also, I've already started using playlist.com for music for students to listen to. I can also use the stopwatch and timer for checking the length of solos/ensembles for contests.
I believe I would use the playlist site to record songs for specific use during Group Meeting (e.g. music and movement, rhyming words, letter-sound connection). I might also use wordle as a poster for parent meetings.
A few thoughts I have...Wordle could be used for get-to-know-you student profiles. The upper levels could use vocabulary in Spanish to describe themselves. Bubbl.us would be a great tool for creating family trees. I also like the timetoast site--we could create timelines reflective of the countries reported on in Spanish I.
Luann, First of all, thank-you for taking the time to research, prepare, and instruct the IKM-Manning staff on how to increase their tech knowledge and skills utilizing the Internet and Web 2.0 tools. Great job! Secondly, I believe the timeline tool would be helpful for teachers to share as a visual when assigning students research projects. The timeline is a perfect example for students who procrastinate completing a projects. Time on Task! The elementary students could use the timeline for the weather and or life cycle too. The timeline is great, because most students could use the tool.
I am going to use the graphing program during math. Also I am going to use the webbing programs to help my students create webs for the prewriting process.
I wasn't looking forward to this day of class. Thanks for giving us time to try things out! I want to try the timeline and wordles with my high school students.
I like using the countdown timer when doing bellringers to start the class. I also use them for 5 minute quizzes and other timed exercises. It's a reminder to the students on how much time they have left. I'm also thinking about using wordle for the students to design bookcovers for their books. This would make them more personalized and more likely to stay on throughout the year. They would also have the knowledge to make new ones when the old ones wore out.
I'd like to try using Blogger during professional development...maybe it would work for submitting logs/reflections from collaboration. I also think Dropbox might be a good way to submit professional development assignments :)
I made a link from my website to my blog for students to drop me questions. I hope others will read questions and learn from others. I think this will be a great way for students to ask general questions without having to track me down. Now...I just got to remember to check my blog:-) I like some of the other web 2.0 sites but I'm still figuring out how I will use them.
Another idea...Beth and I could use the bubbl.us to brainstorm during a student council meeting. We could project it and all students could follow along...sometimes we lose students in the back:-)
Wordle could be used by a teacher as a discussion of concepts or a concept review at the end of the unit. If a wordle was on the screen, students could be paired up to review and discuss key concepts.
I've already started using playlist, and I want to use audacity to put announcements and celebrations on my webpage. Thanks, Lu, for all your work to share these tools with us!
I like the idea of making a cartoon out of vocab words. I may try this with my Second Chance Reading kids. I always think pictures will help them remember the word better. This could be a fun variation for a week or two during the semester.
My other idea was to use the first couple of classes at the beginning of the year to teach searching techniques using boolify and kathschrock. I also want to show them google's search features. I can think of multiple times this year that kids asked me how to do many of these things.
Since they don't have much homework for the first day or so, this would be a good time to do this
I'd like to use the interactive timer and see how that works with the students. I could also see uses for the timeline feature in several subjects including social studies and life cycles in science. You presented so many useful things to use. Thanks for having this class, Lu!
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ReplyDeleteI like how you can use the engine to get to a lesson plan website easily.
ReplyDelete( I took a Web 2.0 class last year.) This is an example of a lesson plan that I created to go with our Alternate Kindergarten science unit on plants. Kid Pix is a developmentally appropriate program for AK students. It allows the students to draw objects. We used this program to illustrate things that we learned about the seeds we planted for our mothers for Mother’s Day. After the students drew their picture it was saved as a jpeg and then uploaded to the Web 2.0 tool Voice Thread. This tool allows students to record their voice to the Kid Pix picture. The students were able to explain what their Kid Pix picture was about and what their experience was with planting.
ReplyDeleteAlternate Kindergarten Science Standard and Benchmark:
AK.4 Understands the basic concepts and principles of life science.
AK.4.1.C Understands basic requirements of plants to grow.
•Objective:
•Students create a drawing, using the computer software program Kid Pix to record their seed planting experiences and then record their voice to explain their picture using the Web 2.0 tool, Voice Thread.
•Prep: computers with internet access, Kid Pix software, projector
•Procedure:
•Engage-
-Demonstrate Kid Pix software for the whole class using the projector.
-Model a sample page with illustration.
•Explore-
-Students use the Kid Pix program to draw a picture on the computer to illustrate a fact that that they have learned throughout their seed planting experiences.
-Save the Kid Pix pictures as a jpeg. Upload the jpegs to the Web 2.0 tool, Voice Thread. Have students record their planting experience to go with their Kid Pix illustration.
•Consolidation-
-Display each illustration with voice recordings for the whole class to see. You can also provide parents with the link to show parents the projects.
(Another example from the class I took...)This activity is an introductory lesson to a pre-kindergarten class on the topic of shapes.
ReplyDeleteAlternate Kindergarten Math Standard and Benchmarks:
AK.3 The students will demonstrate understanding of geometry and measurement (H, L, C)
AK.3.2 Identifies common geometric shapes and describes their features
AK.3.2.A Recognizes simple geometric shapes in the environment.
AK.3.2.B Names, describes, compares geometric shapes.
•Objective:
•Students will be able to name the shapes that are being introduced and identify everyday items that match those shapes.
•Prep: computers with internet access, bag of shapes, bag of everyday items matching the shapes, digital camera
•Procedure:
•Engage-
Begin by displaying a bag filled with the various shapes to be covered. Pull the shapes from the bag one at a time and have students name the shapes. If the students are not familiar with that shape, go over what the name of that shape is. Next, line up the shapes on the floor, reviewing what the names for the shapes are. Now display a second bag that is filled with everyday items that match the shapes you are covering. Have the students take turns pulling out the everyday shape items and match them to the shapes that you have lined up on the floor. (Example: a pad of sticky notes matches the square)
•Explore-
After completing the matching activity, discuss the fact that you see shapes all around you. Lead the students on a shape hunt around the school. Have the students find an object to represent each of the shapes you are learning about. Using a digital camera, take pictures of the items that the students identify. (Example: a poster on the wall for a rectangle) Load the digital pictures onto the Web 2.0 tool Voice Thread. Have the each student record their voice with a picture of the shape from around the school.
•Consolidation-
Play the final presentation for the students so that they can remember the various shape items they found around the school and review the names of the shapes. You can also provide parents with the link to show parents the projects.
When you showed us wordle, like you, I also wondered about the usefulness of the site. However, as you cut and pasted into it I thought about a possible use that I could have used when I taught fifth grade. To help students make decisions about word choice when they are writing they could cut and paste their rough draft into a wordle document to see which words they might be overusing.
ReplyDeleteI like the interactive timer. If I planned to give the students a certain amount of time to work on a project, the timer projected onto the smart board would allow them to see how much time they have left.
ReplyDeleteI like the site www.stop-watch.com. It would be great for timing contests in French classes.
ReplyDeleteWe read a biography of George Washington and made timelines of his life after reading the story. Timetoast would be a good site to do timelines of biography subjects or even sequence of events for a fiction story. It would also be good for science if you wanted to show the development of technology, such as automobiles, flight, etc. --Laurie
ReplyDeleteThe drop box site is a great idea to access my favorite websites from another computer. There have been times when I wanted to share a site with someone and didn't have my school computer with those sites marked.
ReplyDeleteI would use glassgiant and bighugelabs when making commercials.
ReplyDeleteI like the graph website. That could be fun to use with the new Smartboards we are getting. I would like to make that student friendly.
ReplyDeleteI also like the timer idea. It is a fun change from the hand-held timer I use. The music would be distracting for some projects, but could also be fun for others.
I think I will use the Timetoast in my Family Living class. The first project we do in that class is a timeline, students have always done an old-fashioned paper, cut and paste type timeline. I think they would enjoy this web version.
ReplyDeleteI also am interested in the Blogger. I do journaling in both Child Development and Family Living, and I think it would be interesting to do the journaling in a blog format.
I think I could use the timer tool in PE and in FCS---for timed contests in PE and also in FCS for food labs reminding students of where they should be in making their food
ReplyDeleteI like the feature of timetoast.com to create timelines for autobiographies. It would also be neat to use during To Kill A Mockingbird to sequence events.
ReplyDeleteI would also use the online-stopwatch.com and post it on my future smartboard during ITEDs.
I could use the graphs for FCS class---after they keep track of their diet for 3 days, they could graph the servings of food they had compared to the number of servings they should have had
ReplyDeleteIn 9th grade science, I see us using the graphing site to help students organize data and to become more comfortable with graphs. This is an area that we want to help our students improve on Basic Skills and ITEDs.
ReplyDeleteUsing the computer, instead of paper and pencil, would allow students to create graphs more quickly. They would have the luxury of trying out what if thinking. For example, If I doubled the volume of the gas, what would happen to the temperature?
I could also see us using the mapping tool to create concept maps to help understand how scientific concepts are connected. This would help students organize their thinking. For example, they could see that both elements and compounds are pure compounds while mixtures could be subdivided into homogeneous and heterogeneous.
I think I'll try wordle--having the students keep track of everything they eat for a week and then put that into wordle---it might open their eyes to what they are actually eating!
ReplyDeleteI would use interactive timers in science for games and activities that involve recalling information during a review. I would use timelines in class as a tool for students to produce group timelines.
ReplyDeleteI could see using wordle as a whole group brainstorm about what they know about a topic, and what they want to know and then what they learn, another form of a KWL in a creative form.
The site www.dropbox.com would be perfect for English projects that span several days since the students would be on random computers each day. It would also work for them if they wanted to continue on with the project at home.
ReplyDeleteDuring this year I've worked with students using other search engines. We taught what is a valid web page. Anyone can post a web page.
ReplyDeleteI also want playlist and flicker. They look cool!
I will try using Timetoast when the students are done reading a class novel. They will select important events and then summarize those.
ReplyDeleteI will also try using one of the online stopwatches as the students are involved in group and individual work.
I liked Create a Graph and Wordle. I think Create a Graph could really help my students actually understand graphs better, just going through the process of setting up a graph. I might use Wordle to show the students just how often they use the same words over and over in their writing!
ReplyDeleteI would use the bighugelabs for making World History posters and projects. I would also use the built in timer (stop-watch.com) for timed notes and timed quizes
ReplyDeleteI will not have time to blog.
ReplyDeleteI could use big huge labs for locker room motivation posters
ReplyDeleteI think I could use the wordle with my 1st graders at the beginning of the year to tie into our name unit.
ReplyDeleteDian S. I like the Flickr, online storage and the kids search engines sites
ReplyDeleteThe stop watch would be useful in timing students when running in PE/Weights
ReplyDeleteI found the sites for lower elementary most interesting for me.
ReplyDeleteKidsClick
Quinture Kids
Yuppy
Zuula.com
I will be going in a looking at them more and will use when school starts.
Barbara Saunders
I think blogging is a good idea for others.
ReplyDeleteI could use the timers when my students are cleaning up and putting things away.
ReplyDeleteI could use the bubbl tool when I have the kids do concept maps in the "Music of the Decades" unit.
ReplyDeleteI want to do fluency checks with my fifth graders with partners. I didn't know how I was going to use so many stop watches, but now using the stopwatch.com I can set the timer on my computer and have everyone start and stop at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI have the kids write goals for the second semester. I take their picture and make it into a Wanted poster. Glassgiant.com has an old fashioned wanted poster where the students can upload their picture, goal, and name. They will love to make up their own reward amount!!!
An assessment this year for the book Dark Stairs was a time line. We gave them the events and they had to put a number of them in order and draw pictures. Using timetoast would be a simple way for them to make their timeline from the events given.
Big Huge Labs and Glogster are going to be great to use next year in my Social Studies courses. I will incorporate them into some sort of project with the students.
ReplyDeleteI may use the bighugelabs for making posters to communicate rules and expectations and I would also might use the stopwatch.com for timing students in races and other activities. Both of these tools would help me run a more efficient and productive P.E class.
ReplyDeleteI may be able to use befunky.com for yearbook and create a graph for Intro To Bus. and Bus Mgt.
ReplyDeleteI would like to try and store my daily behavior comments in the dropbox (www.drop.box.com)so that I can get to them anytime. The only problem is that I only get 2MB free! I will also have to be 100% certain that the dropbox will be confidential and not let others see my file.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Flickr site and Timer site would be useful for my students. There are several others that I would like to experiment with.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a blogger or face book junkie, but I might get hooked after this class. I thought the glassgiant.com is something I will try and much, much more from todays work.
ReplyDeleteI definitely like the idea of the Dropbox as a backup to my files and documents. Also, I've already started using playlist.com for music for students to listen to. I can also use the stopwatch and timer for checking the length of solos/ensembles for contests.
ReplyDeleteI could use the bubbl tool when I have the kids do concept maps in the hs while discussing the form judges use to evaluate performances.
ReplyDeleteI think I could use the wordle with my students when trying to remember lyrics. All the words are there...they need to put them in order!
I believe I would use the playlist site to record songs for specific use during Group Meeting (e.g. music and movement, rhyming words, letter-sound connection). I might also use wordle as a poster for parent meetings.
ReplyDeleteA few thoughts I have...Wordle could be used for get-to-know-you student profiles. The upper levels could use vocabulary in Spanish to describe themselves. Bubbl.us would be a great tool for creating family trees. I also like the timetoast site--we could create timelines reflective of the countries reported on in Spanish I.
ReplyDeleteLuann,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, thank-you for taking the time to research, prepare, and instruct the IKM-Manning staff on how to increase their tech knowledge and skills utilizing the Internet and Web 2.0 tools. Great job! Secondly, I believe the timeline tool would be helpful for teachers to share as a visual when assigning students research projects. The timeline is a perfect example for students who procrastinate completing a projects. Time on Task!
The elementary students could use the timeline for the weather and or life cycle too. The timeline is great, because most students could use the tool.
I am going to use the graphing program during math. Also I am going to use the webbing programs to help my students create webs for the prewriting process.
ReplyDeleteI never realized that you could trim down the URL address when searching for a topic! Nice handout Lu!
ReplyDeleteI also liked time toast and the interactive timers.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't looking forward to this day of class. Thanks for giving us time to try things out! I want to try the timeline and wordles with my high school students.
ReplyDeleteI have and will continue to use the interactive stopwatch. I use for probes and ITEDS.
ReplyDeleteThe graph maker will be a tool I would like to use in my math classes.
Luann has a done an awesome job in presenting all of this--thanks
ReplyDeleteI like using the countdown timer when doing bellringers to start the class. I also use them for 5 minute quizzes and other timed exercises. It's a reminder to the students on how much time they have left.
ReplyDeleteI'm also thinking about using wordle for the students to design bookcovers for their books. This would make them more personalized and more likely to stay on throughout the year. They would also have the knowledge to make new ones when the old ones wore out.
I'd like to try using Blogger during professional development...maybe it would work for submitting logs/reflections from collaboration. I also think Dropbox might be a good way to submit professional development assignments :)
ReplyDeleteI made a link from my website to my blog for students to drop me questions. I hope others will read questions and learn from others. I think this will be a great way for students to ask general questions without having to track me down. Now...I just got to remember to check my blog:-) I like some of the other web 2.0 sites but I'm still figuring out how I will use them.
ReplyDeleteAnother idea...Beth and I could use the bubbl.us to brainstorm during a student council meeting. We could project it and all students could follow along...sometimes we lose students in the back:-)
ReplyDeleteWordle could be used by a teacher as a discussion of concepts or a concept review at the end of the unit. If a wordle was on the screen, students could be paired up to review and discuss key concepts.
ReplyDeleteI've already started using playlist, and I want to use audacity to put announcements and celebrations on my webpage. Thanks, Lu, for all your work to share these tools with us!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of making a cartoon out of vocab words. I may try this with my Second Chance Reading kids. I always think pictures will help them remember the word better. This could be a fun variation for a week or two during the semester.
ReplyDeleteMy other idea was to use the first couple of classes at the beginning of the year to teach searching techniques using boolify and kathschrock. I also want to show them google's search features. I can think of multiple times this year that kids asked me how to do many of these things.
ReplyDeleteSince they don't have much homework for the first day or so, this would be a good time to do this
I would like to use dropbox as a backup plan. Want to experiment with timetoast and webspiration.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to use the interactive timer and see how that works with the students. I could also see uses for the timeline feature in several subjects including social studies and life cycles in science. You presented so many useful things to use. Thanks for having this class, Lu!
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job of getting this class ready. Thanks for giving us tools we can use in our classrooms right away.
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