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Educational Technology

Colina Middle School
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 STUDENTS' SAFE SURFING LIST

| SAFE INTERNET SEARCHING | HOME

 
 
Class Date Time/Location

Workshops

staff development in instructional methods should include teaching strategies and classroom management, and other training designed to improve pupil performance, conflict resolution, intolerance and hatred prevention, and academic content in the core curriculum areas

Topic
Link to description
  12/21/07 Colina Library Lab OUTLOOK
  UNITED STREAMING
  INSPIRATION
   
  1/10/08 3:30-5:00

Colina Library Lab

 HELPING STUDENTS MANAGE ONLINE INFORMATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
  1/24/08 Colina Library Lab PARENT LAB ORIENTATION
  2/7/08 Colina Library Lab

 3:30-5:30

NEWSPAPER FORMAT USING WORD
  TBA   INTERNET MAGIC, COLLECTION OF ONLINE GEMS
  TBA   FILAMENTALITY

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/index.html

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm

 

OUTLOOK
Workshop Objectives:  Learn components of email, calendar and tasks in Outlook to improve communication and job efficiency.

 

 
UNITED STREAMING

 
Workshop Objectives:  Create an account, search for appropriate content, retrieve content, insert content into PowerPoint.

 

 
INSPIRATION
Workshop Objectives:  Discuss value of mindmapping/graphic organizers, view premade mind maps, create original mind map, create hyperlinks, insert into PowerPoint.

 
HELPING STUDENTS MANAGE ONLINE INFORMATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Description:
“A study of Internet savvy middle school and high school students, based on 14 national, diverse focus groups conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that students report that there is a substantial disconnect between how they use the Internet for school and how they use the Internet during the school day and under teacher direction.” - Pew Internet and American Life Project

Students rely more and more on using internet resources, but have never been instructed on the best way to search, assess and credit information that they find. This workshop will give teachers the tools to instruct students on best use of online resources.
In this workshop we will:
  • Student instruction on safe and effective online searching for all subject areas
  • Assessing the validity and reliability of online content
  • Plagiarism and citing online resources
     


Pew Internet and American Life Project
mind map

How to find resources? How to evaluate resources?

  1. do - Four NETS for better searching

  2. view - Finding Quality Websites

  3. view - Cybersmart

  4. preview - The Art of Researching the Web

How to cite resources?

  1. view - School Sucks . com

  3. view - Digital Plagiarism

  4. do - Don't be a Copy Cat

  5. do - Son of Citation Machine

  6. do - A Visit to Copyright Bay

 


 Resources

Teaching to not plagiarize - Apple

http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentations/papermil.html

Copyright from Cyberbee (see lesson plan on bottom)

CYBERBULLYING http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/216/report_display.asp

 

 
 
Enhancing Standards-based Student Writing Through Student Newspaper Report Format

Description:
Students are often asked to write a report on a topic. Unfortunately, students often rehash, or worse, copy resources such as books, online content or online prewritten reports to create a written paper. Designing assignments that require students to go beyond summarizing what they have read, to demand that they apply their understanding to a creative product, provides deeper understanding of any subject.

Teachers will learn how to design a newspaper writing assignment for students that will stretch their understanding of a topic.

In this workshop we will:
* uncover the benefits of using non traditional report writing
* use standards to define the understanding that we are expecting our students to reach
* samples of newspaper report assignments in various subject areas
* how to use MS Word to create a student sample newspaper
* how to show readability levels in Word
 
Newspaper by

 

Watermarks are text or pictures that appear behind the text. They can add interest or identify the document's status, marking a document as a draft, for example. You can use graphics or text as watermarks and, with Word 2002, adding a watermark to a document is easier than ever.

To add a watermark to a printed document:

  1. On the Format menu, point to Background, and then click Printed Watermark.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • To insert a picture as a watermark, click Picture watermark, and then click Select Picture. Select the picture you want, and then click Insert.
    • To insert a text watermark, click Text watermark, and then select or enter the text you want.
  3. Select any additional options you want, and then click Apply.
  4. To view a watermark as it will appear on the printed page, click Print Layout on the View menu.

Editor's Note: To see your watermark onscreen, click the View menu and select Print Layout. Or, alternatively, click the File menu, and select Print Preview.
Here are a few tricks using the CTRL key that I find useful for quickly navigating through Word documents:
  • Hold down the CTRL key and then press the RIGHT ARROW key to move from any point in a word to the beginning of the next word.
  • Use CTRL+LEFT ARROW key to move from any point in a word to the beginning of that word.
  • Use CTRL+UP ARROW key to move to the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Use CTRL+DOWN ARROW key to move to the beginning of the following paragraph.
 Display readability statistics
  1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling & Grammar tab.
  2. Select the Check grammar with spelling check box.
  3. Select the Show readability statistics check box, and then click OK.
  4. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, use the Customize dialog box (point to Toolbars on the View menu and click Customize). To see more buttons, click Toolbar Options at the end of the toolbar.), click Spelling and Grammar .

    When Microsoft Word finishes checking spelling and grammar, it displays information about the reading level of the document.

 Lesson plans for desktop publishing, includes business cards, brochure on a place or organization and a resume for students, WITH extension activities, business card for a literary or historical figure, a brochure for a process or a project and resume for historical, fictional or literary character.

  Word Tutorials from Microsoft

  Templates from Microsoft (Education section included)

Other resources to help: 
Using Word Art
 Pics4learning
Microsoft Design Gallery Live -
Pics4learning
ClassroomClipart.Com
Office Tutorial
Track changes

http://www.microsoft.com/Office/previous/xp/tips/word.asp


 
 


 Parent Computer Lab Volunteer Meeting

01/24/08

Welcome and THANK YOU!   

Goals:

  1. Student Safety
  2. Our mission of educating our students – this isn’t a “free time lab”, it’s a school lab
  3. Protect the investment of equipment

 Suggested sites and games on http://www.denisehogan.com/Colina/colina_lab.htm

B.  Run contests

1.      Freerice.com – feed people around the world and practice vocabulary

2.      Bookadventure.com

3.      Geobee

D.  What teachers are learning that you can REALLY help with:

  1. Inspiration – mind mapping software
  2. Safe searching – also see EdTech workshops for teachers (especially kids search engines such as Kids Click)
  3. United Streaming – online videos
  4. Webquests – GREAT use of online resources
  5. Cyberguides – SCORE project, core works of literature
  6. Thinkquest – large project, great on college resume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
       
2006-2007 WORKSHOPS
1 T 11/29 3:30-4:45 Library Care and Feeding of COWs, Computers on Wheels
2

Th 1/08

 3:30-4:45
Room 27		 Online Tricks and To Die for Sites – Beginning/
Intermediate
3 TH 1/11 3:30-4:45
Room 27		 Create a Jeopardy game in PowerPoint - Intermediate
4 T 1/30


T 2/27

 Math 3:20-3:50

Science
3:20-3:50

 Dept. - Math/Sci
5 TBD TBD Outlook – an underutilized workhorse - Beginning
6 2/05 3:30-4:45
Room 27		 United Streaming
7 Thursday, May 10, 2007     3:30-5:30
Room 27		 PowerPoint vs. PowerPointless: Tool for Student Presentations
8 TBD TBD Intermediate PowerPoint
9 Th 3/22 3:30-4:45
Room 27		 Rubrics: Why, Where, How - Beginning
10 TBD TBD Touring Online Activities, WebQuests and CyberGuides - Beginning
11 TBD TBD Dept.Engl/SS
12 TBD TBD Microsoft Word for student projects and to increase professional productivity. – Beginning
/Intermediate
13 TBD TBD Creating Online Activities & WebQuests - Intermediate
14 TBD TBD Inspiration Software 
15 TBD TBD Digital Portfolios

Class 1 - T 11/29

Specs on the COWs, how to sign up for use, staff responsibilities regarding use, rules for student use - Denise

Set up, batteries, suggestions for managing student use - Sean & Carisa

Please email Denise for handout, if you are unable to attend.

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Class 2 -W 12/6

Online Tricks and To Die for Sites
Beginning/Intermediate

Expected outcomes:

Participants will:

  • create a backflip account to save, organize and share web site favorites on a remote web site.
  • Learn keyboard shortcuts and search engine tricks to maximize online work.
  • Learn to use specialized search engines created for student use
  • Become acquainted with the richest online sites for educators to use to improve student learning
 

According to Teenage Life Online (2001), a report for the Pew Internet and American Life Projects (www.pewinternet.org), 

Seventy-three percent of US youth between the ages of 12 and 17 use the Internet (probably much higher within our district).  While 94 percent of these teens report using the Web for research and school projects, and 71 percent report that the Internet was a major source of information for their most recent school projects, only 5 percent said that they learned to use the internet in school; 40 were self taught, and the remainder learned from parents, friends or siblings. - David Thornburg
 

Online Know How - See Hand-out

Backflip.com - A great way to store your favorites.

BACKFLIP 

  1. Open 2 browser windows - Backflip Directions:  http://www.backflip.com

  2. Click on the yellow "Join Now" button

  3. Complete the "Open Your Account" form.  Be sure to use unique a "name" others won't likely have. 

  4. For the user name and password try using your email account so that you have one less thing to remember. 

  5. Print or write down your information before clicking on the next button.  

  6. Click on "No Thanks" for "Favorites"

  7. Personal Directory:  turn off the options by clicking on the check boxes. 

  8. Drag the "Backflip It!" button

  9. to the browser toolbar.

  10. Scroll down to the bottom of the next screen and click on "No Thanks".

  11. On the main Backflip page click on "My Folders".

  12. To organize your links you can create folders by clicking on the tab in the purple area at the top of the page.

 
 
Looking at State level data. What is being tested. 

 
 
Knowing your students

 
 
Knowing Educational Technology

 
 
Great Sites to Try with Students
 

Did you Think Your Teacher Wouldn't Know3d animated flashing round dot

Your teacher went to college for many years, and is a very smart person.  Your teacher can tell if something is written by a "kiddo", or a professional writer.  But, there's more.  Let's see what your teacher can do.

Go back to NOVA Online/Pyramid and find any text section that you WISH you had written yourself.  Highlight it with your mouse.  Right click and copy, then open Google or Altavista.  Right click and paste the text that you copied from the pyramid site.  Run a search, and yikes, it will show your teacher where you copied it from.  It is easy for your teacher to track down plagiarism.  She can even pinpoint the text on the web page using the Edit> Find  feature!

School Sucks http://schoolsucks.com/
 
Online Newspapers to Read

•  http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Front Pages Today

•  http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

 
http://refdesk.com/

http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters/

 
 
ClipArt

http://school.discovery.com/clipart/

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/archives/classmanagement.shtml

http://desktoppub.about.com/od/templates/Templates_for_Desktop_Publishing.htm

Internet Magic from Patti Tjomsland

 

 

YAHOO KIDS:
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/games/

I have kids use the 'Test Your Knowledge' section ONLY/

FUNBRAIN:
http://www.funbrain.com/

I have kids choose their grade or age level and then
choose an activity/

FACTMONSTER:
http://www.factmonster.com/games.html

SCHOLASTIC KIDS:
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/

 

Workshop evaluation

 

 

 

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Class 3 - Create a Jeopardy game in PowerPoint - Intermediate

Expected outcomes:

Participants will:

  • Learn to use game format as a teaching strategy to improve pupil performance through assessing student understanding and review content in core curriculum areas
  • Learn to use advanced search techniques to locate PowerPoint files online
  • Learn to create game and manage classroom for maximum learning for all students

 

Why Jeopardy?
  • Test for understanding, review content in all subject areas
  • Students write the questions, create the game
  • It's hands on for all students
  • Classroom spirit, it's fun!

CONTENT STANDARDS

Search for one that is already done!

google>advanced search>type in the subject>file format=PowerPoint

http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm

 

Organizing Game play

How structure for the classroom to involve as many students as possible.

  • 3 contestants
  • 3 scorekeepers
  • 1 timer
  • 1 buzzer
  • 1 “Vanna”

I use funny names for the students -  http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/credits/credits.html

Studio audience fills in the "Audience Jeopardy" sheet.  If there isn’t a contestant that can answer a question, I turn it over to the studio audience to answer the question. 

Vanna draws a grid from the papers that are collected from the studio audience.  If it is filled in, then the audience member gets the same “truly tacky prize” as the Jeopardy winner.  I give parting gifts to the helpers and 2nd & 3rd place contestants as well.

General Subjects Jeopardy

The opening categories are on a timer.  As the "contestants" select the answers, click on the appropriate box on the jeopardy board.  To reveal the correct answer, click on the bottom right corner (there will be applause!).

 

Let's make one!

Here is a GREAT template - Jeopardy (be sure the sound is turned on for the full effect) Select "Save".  Save to your documents folder, then select "Open.".  Now save it again in "My Documents" as General Subjects Jeopardy.  This is an important step, so that you always have a "clean" template.

  

Let's review the views in PowerPoint.  Normal, Slide Sorter, Slide Show from current slide

Double click into the textboxes on each slide to fill in your content.  Hint:  Use the enter key to make the text go in 2 rows.

http://www.edochan.com/teaching/jeopardyqus.htm

http://www.j-archive.com/listseasons.php

 

http://www.dailyrepublican.com/constitution-test.html

Save, save, save!

Use the Jeopardy planning sheet to prepare your questions and answers ahead of time.

 Workshop evaluation

 

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Class 4 - Math and Science Tour of Content Area Resources

Expected outcomes:

Participants will:

  • Discover ways to integrate online resources into their current teaching strategies
  • Evaluate prescreened online content for use in improving pupil performance in core curriculum areas
Soapbox! - Chose the tool that is appropriate to the job.  Do the "worth it test!"  Selective use of quality technology can greatly improve student learning and motivation.
 

See From Now On

CONTENT STANDARDS
 
 
 Science

 

 

What do you do with these websites?  You are a Zoo Keeper | Can you believe your eyes?

 
 

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Class 5 -  Outlook

that staff development in instructional methods should include teaching strategies and classroom management, and other training designed to improve pupil performance, conflict resolution, intolerance and hatred prevention, and academic content in the core curriculum areas

http://www.microsoft.com/Office/previous/xp/tips/outlook.asp

 

Workshop evaluation

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Class 6 -

United Streaming

Feb. 5, 2007 D.Hogan, D.Matras, S.Gordon
 

Participants will:

  • Learn about effective strategies on using video clips to focus and enhance standards-based instruction
  • Create an account and search for content, based upon grade level standards
  • Learn to store and link video to lessons and to enhance learning with support materials such as graphic organizers, quizzes and discussion guides.


Using Video Effectively
 Using Video with English Language Learners
 

  1. Log in create an account 82D3-E3A8  (record your log in information)

  2. How to search and download:   Full Video Video Segment , Image, Quiz, Audio, Clip Art, Writing Prompt, Funk and Wagnall Articles, Writing Prompt

  3. How to add links to PowerPoint Dave Matras

  4. Advanced searches:  Spanish, Closed Captions (See below)

  5. Save images

  6. Insert images


     

 

Next steps in Teacher Center: 

  • Calendar

  • Assignment Builder

  • Quiz Builder

  • Writing Prompt Builder

  • Making movies!!!!!

 

 

Where to get more help, see Professional Development

 

 

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Class 7 - PowerPoint vs. PowerPointless: Tool for Student Presentations        

 

Kids, Adults and Technology

Description:  Teachers will

Multimedia presentations may be compelling and persuasive. Or they may be glib and disappointing. In the worst case, students will devote more attention to special effects than they will spend on the issues being studied. Powerpointing can become a goal in itself - an unfortunate example of technology being done for technology's own sake. In the best case, the presentation enhances and communicates a larger and deeper body of work and thought.  By Jamie McKenzie http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html

 

In this workshop we will:

  • uncover the benefits of using words, graphics and video to enhance oral presentations
  • study effective uses of PowerPoint, especially as a tool for students to use
  • create a PowerPoint presentation through guided practice

 

Biomes | a Joke  

PowerPoint Pointers

 

Producer! Culture Metaphor Video

 

 

 

http://www.actden.com/pp/

Workshop evaluation

 

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Class 8 - 2

 

 

Intermediate PowerPoint

 

 

What�s the Purpose?

*      Presentation, most common use

*      Loop, as you might at Open House

*      Interactive (like Hyperstudio, or a webpage)

*      Posting on web – copyright is an issue here

 

Discussion

*      Jeopardy online, a fun use for PowerPoint

*      Adding music, interesting

o       You must embed files

*      Background use a photo, you can watermark it (JK Joke PP)

*      Inspiration will save as a graphic and you can link from it to web

 

San Diego Inc., see attached

 

Discussion, continued

*      John Madden Effect

o       Control p

o       e to erase

o       esc to stop

*      Slide Show

o       Rehearse timings

 

Posting it to your FrontPage web

*      Save as web page

o       PUBLISH

o       BROWSE - Save it on the desktop, it will make a file and a folder there

o       Give it a file name

*      Log into your webpage to edit as you normally do

o       Drag BOTH the folder and the file from your desk top (or go to file>import)

o       Make a hyperlink on your page and link to the single file

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop evaluation

 

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Class 9 -  Rubrics: Why, Where, How - Beginning

Participants will:

In this workshop we will:

  • uncover the benefits to using detailed descriptor rubrics
  • learn how to search for online rubrics
  • learn how to use online tools to quickly and easily create rubrics

 When you ask yourself, "What do I want my students to know and understand?  How can they demonstrate this knowledge and understanding?” you are able to clearly define instructional goals for yourself and to your students.  Beginning with the end in mind (designing assessment) helps educators to help to focus instruction to improve pupil performance.  The use of a rubric as an assessment tool clearly communicates goals and expectations for student work to students, parents and colleagues. They are an excellent way to help a teacher objectively assess student work.  Detailed descriptors in a rubric give much more valuable feedback to students than a letter or number grade.

CA State Content Standards

Why use them? | Where to find already created rubrics? | How to create your own rubrics?

 
Why Rubrics
  1. Clear expectation for students before they do the assessment, must share before - begin with the end in mind (no "SECRET ASSESSMENTS"
  2. Students learn to self assess and peer assess, make the rubric with students
  3. Clear feedback - Less objective than a holistic letter grade, much, much more informative
  4. Easier to grade - studies show that students do more self assessment, and the work is of higher quality or more closely related to learning goals

 

A good scoring rubric will:
  • Help teachers define excellence and plan how to help students achieve it.
  • Communicate to students what constitutes excellence and how to evaluate their own work.
  • Communicate goals and results to parents and others.
  • Help teachers or other raters be accurate, unbiased and consistent in scoring.
  • Document the procedures used in making important judgments about students.

 

    -- Herman, Aschbacher, and Winters (1992)

 

Resources

http://pareonline.net/pdf/v10n3.pdf Scholarly article with research to support use of rubrics to increase student performanace

http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/assessment/roomforubrics.htm

http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/Intro_Scoring/intro_scoring.html

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

 
Where to find already created rubrics

University of Wisconsin | Chicago Public Schools: Rubric Bank | The Staff Room for Ontario Teachers |

How to create your own rubrics

A rubric with two or more separate scales is called an analytical rubric.  This contrasts with a scoring rubric that uses only a single scale that yields a global or holistic rating. Carefully select 3-5 indicators

Avoid negative language, describe what is expected.

Rubistar

  1. Let's look at the Inspiration section
  2. Let's build one together - print, save to excel, register to recall it
  3. Build one

Rubric Websites

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment Rubrics
A categorized, annotated list of over 2500 sites to help educators, teachers, and parents enhance instruction and support the curriculum.

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Class 10 What's a WebQuest? – Steps from Bernie Dodge, SDSU

 

Understanding and the structure and potential of WebQuests for student Learning.

What's a WebQuest?

Inquiry oriented, based on engaging tasks, uses quality web resources, can be short term or long term, often uses roles and cooperative learning

Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Site | Search Filamentality Site
 

Ready to build one ? Here are the steps - The Road to Creating WebQuests

Why use one?  Student motivation and authenticity, real thinking skills, working cooperatively, constructivist theory
 

Parts of a WebQuest

  1. Introduction

  2. Task

  3. Process

  4. Resources

  5. Evaluation

  6. Conclusion

 

Pick a fruitful, appropriate topic and goal.

  1. Standards-based
  2. Enduring Understanding
  3. Good use of the Web “Worth it test Catalog of Catalogs of Web Sites for Teachers for great ideas and links

Select a task that engages higher-level thinking

Start creating the WEBSITE

  1. Provide scaffolding
  2. Graphic organizers
  3. Examples of student work

Develop an EVALUATION (Rubistar) 

Write documentation for other teachers.

Test it Revise it as needed.

Web Clinic for Grades 6-8

Workshop evaluation

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Class 11 -

English and Social Studies Tour of Content Area Resources

Expected outcomes:

Participants will:

  • Discover ways to integrate online resources into their current teaching strategies
  • Evaluate prescreened online content for use in improving pupil performance in core curriculum areas
Soapbox! - Chose the tool that is appropriate to the job.  Do the "worth it test!"  Selective use of quality technology can greatly improve student learning and motivation.  See From Now On

Kids are born digital, we are immigrants.  Alan November
 

CONTENT STANDARDS

 
 
  1. Writing with Style - Writing Manual
  2. Holt Online Resources for Language Arts
  3. SCORE Schools of California Online Resources for Education - CyberGuides are WebQuest type activities for core works of literature, CA Standards based.  ( I wrote some :) )
  4. Children's Literature Index - K-12 Lesson Ideas for Literature
  5. Inspiration - See the Language Arts Templates.
  6. ABC's of the Writing Process - Contents Page
  7. The Biography Maker
  8. Letter Generator
  9. Essay Writing: essaypunch.com - an interactive online essay writing tutorial
  10. Children's Literature Resources for Teachers
  11. Scholastic Teacher, Language Arts Lessons
  12. Exploratorium Magazine Online: "The Evolution of Languages"
  13. Flamingnet Book Reviews
  14. Vocabulary University
  15. More Ideas Than You'll Ever Use for Book Reports
  16. Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
  17. Reading Rockets: 103 Things to do Before/During/After Reading
  18. Resource Centre: 100 Things to do with Books [English Online]