posted by Dorie on Jul 25
Today was a Day of Discovery with Discovery Education at our baseball park here in Houston. We went over the components of Discovery Education, learned about Photostory and Moviemaker ;0), toured Minute Maid Park, and learned about Google Earth and how to embed videos. I am really excited to share what I learned with the staff at my school and hope to share with my district as well. I feel a lot more comfortable with the components-like the builder tools. I really think that teachers will like the new format. I know that most teachers only use DE streaming for the videos and would be amazed to see how much more there is. I will be writing an e-mail to my district technology coordinator to let her know my thoughts. What do you think about Discovery Education streaming? Have you already or do you plan to share it with others?
posted by Dorie on Jul 24
During my current class, I have enjoyed experimenting with different ways that we can differentiate instruction with technology. I have learned how to make a tic-tac-toe board incorporating technology and multiple intelligences, how to create a survey to differentiate instruction according to student’s interests, and create a Bloom’s taxonomy chart that includes weblinks for students. For many teachers, using technology in general is another way to differentiate instruction, because they do not use it at all. I do use technology in my classroom everyday. I recommend to others to look at their curriculum and see how using a technology tool might enhance the engagement and learning for their students. The experience of applying new technology tools to your current curriculum helps you see connections that you might not have made before. I believe that using technology engages the learner. Here is an example of using a tic-tac-toe board that focuses on multiple intelligences and technology integration.
| Dorie Glynn
EDIM 503 Tic-Tac-Toe Board
Recycling -2nd Grade Science
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| Logic Smart
Technology: Surveymonkey.com
Product: Survey your classmates about recycling in their home. Share the results with your classmates. |
Body Smart
Technology: Smartboard, Brainpopjr.com
Product: Watch the movie: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle on Brainpopjr.com. Complete the activities that go along with the movie using the smartboard (easy and hard quiz, game, pop a joke, and belly up). |
Wonder Smart
Technology: Storybook Weaver
Product: Create a story about animals in the forest that find litter on the ground. What do the animals do about the litter? |
| Music Smart
Technology: Moviemaker, Video camera
Product: Create a rap video to persuade people to recycle. |
People Smart
Technology: Wikispaces.com
Product: On the classroom wikispace, post ideas about how to get our school involved in recycling. |
Picture Smart
Technology: Kidspiration
Product: Create a web showing pictures of natural resources, and then show and write about how we can conserve them. |
| Nature Smart
Technology: Digital Pictures, Glogster.com
Product: Take pictures of the playground and school showing how it should look when we recycle and clean up our school/playground. Create a glog poster convincing others to take care of our school/playground. |
Word Smart
Technology: Wordle.net
Product: Create a wordle listing vocabulary words that you might use when talking about how people can help the environment. |
Self Smart
Technology:Twitter.com, internet sites
Product: Share websites, videos, or resources with other classes on twitter that explain why recycling is important. |
The next challenge for me is to incorporate as much of the technology differentiation ideas as I can during the the school year. This year I would like to use twitter.com and podcasting.
