Jump Start your School Year with Technology

Class Description: This class will give you a head start on the upcoming school year.

• Find and explore interactive Web sites and activities that support your curriculum.
• Learn how to make charts and graphs, construct posters.
• Find an assortment of other beginning-of-the-year activities that support your academic curriculum and make your classroom run more smoothly.

General Back to School Ideas

Introductions

• Create "Name Tents"
• "It's All About Me"
  • All About Me Scavenger Hunt - Internet scavenger hunt
  • Name Design - Sign Language
  • NameVoyager - How popular is your name and when was it popular?

Visual Ranking - What would you like to learn?

• Teacher ID: jsdtechnology
• Team ID: Team 1 - Team 10
• Password: 1 - 10
  
• Assignment - As a team, decide what you'd like to learn during these two days. Compare your results with the rest of the class.

Harvesting - Sometime you've just gotta look around to find new activities/ideas

• Planning/Organizing
  • Start with one or two things to work on
  • Organize yourself
• Copying Text
• Saving Web Sites
  • Save Website As...
  • Print as PDF
• Do it all ONLINE!
  • del.icio.us - Social Bookmarking
    • Bookmark buttons make it deliciously easy to add sites to your del.icio.us account
  • Firefox - del.icio.us works great in Firefox
  • JSD Online Email - Save your findings in an email to yourself
• Copying and Saving Images
  • Open your Internet Browser
  • Go to one of these resources to find an image
    • Image Resources
    • Google Image Search
  • Position your mouse over the image
    • To copy the image on a MAC computer, click and hold the mouse button (or hold the control button when you click the mouse). A box will appear. Select "copy image."
    • To copy the image on a PC computer, click the right mouse button. A box will appear. Select "copy image."
    • To save the image on a MAC computer, click and hold the mouse button (or hold the control button when you click the mouse). A box will apear. Select "Save image" or "Download image." Note where you save the image.
    • To save the image on a PC computer, slick the right mouse button. A box will appear. Select "Save image" or "Download image." Note where you save the image.
  • Screenshots work nicely!
    • Entire screen - <Shift>+<Command>+3
    • Selection of screen - <Shift>+<Command>+4
  • Note: It's important to teach students to cite resources!
• Assignment - Harvest as we go throughout this class. Create a del.icio.us account to save bookmarks. Be prepared to share at least two new sites AND two images/clip-art that you will be able to use in your teaching.

Copying the easy way...

Create Content Using the Internet

• Teacher Tools - Online tools for teachers and students
• Pioneer Online Library - Great planning/classroom resource
• Assignment - Search the Teacher Tools section of the T4 web site and/or the Pioneer Online Library. Find three different resources that you can use with your classes. Be prepared to share your findings with this class.
• Interactive Student Tools
  • Student Interactive Tools
    • Sample - National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (Math)
  • Interactive Sites for Elementary Students
• Class Puzzles
  • Puzzlemaker
  • EdHelper Crossword
  • Create a Crossword Puzzle
• Create your own cool text (for use with PowerPoint, web pages, etc.)
  • http://www.cooltext.com
  • http://www.3dtextmaker.com
• Assignment - Search the Student Interactive Tools or Interactive Sites for Elementary Students section of the T4 web site. Find one resource that you can use in your teaching. Create a worksheet that you can use to introduce your resource to your students.
  • Example - Totally Tessellated!
  • Sample Introductory Worksheet

Social Software - How can Web 2.0 change the way you teach?

• Writeboard - Shareable, web-based text documents
• Writely - Online word processor
• Protopage - Create a shareable home page for your class that includes dynamic content
• Blog - Instantly publish
  • Blogger
• Podcast
  • Education Podcast Network
  • Podcasting News
• Wiki - Web pages that anybody can edit
  • Wikipedia
• del.icio.us - Social Bookmarking
• Flickr - Photosharing
• YouTube - Flickr for video
• Google Pages - Create your own web pages easily
  • Works best with newer browsers

Classroom Games That Use Technology (PowerPoint)

• Jeopardy
  • Jeopardy Template
  • JumpStart Class Jeopardy
  • Jeopardy Fonts (Enchanted.ttf - Gyparody.ttf)
  • Flash Version
• Who wants to be a millionaire?
  • Old Man and the Sea Sample
  • Instructions on how to use
• King/Queen of the Row
  • Geometry Sample
• Additional PowerPoint Games
• Assignment - Create a game that you can use with your students. Be prepared to share it with our class.

Curriculum Resources

• UEN K-12 Core Resources
  • Select the appropriate core area
  • Lesson Plans and Links are available for standards; Lesson Plans are available for objectives
• T4 Grade level resources
  • Provides ideas for using resources within the classroom
• Assignment - Scour the above curriculum resources. Find two different lesson plans or other resources that you can use in your teaching. Be prepared to share your findings with our class.

Charts and Graphs, Posters and other projects

• Poster Instructions in Excel
• Poster Templates in AppleWorks
• Inspiration, KidPix Deluxe and The Graph Club are examples of other programs that print poster size.
• Samples:
  

Class Checklist	Class Assignment List
Class Bingo Card	Student Contract



• Assignment - Create a poster, class checklist, student contract or other document for use with your students. Be prepared to share it with our class.