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Technology on a Budget

Technology on a Budget. Aaron McGrath Marshfield High School Friday, September 24, 2010 Technology Fair. Technology on a Budget. This entire PowerPoint will be made available along with presentations/ handouts from other sessions online. (You will receive an e-mail next week with a link.).

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Technology on a Budget

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  1. Technology on a Budget Aaron McGrath Marshfield High School Friday, September 24, 2010 Technology Fair

  2. Technology on a Budget • This entire PowerPoint will be made available along with presentations/ handouts from other sessions online. (You will receive an e-mail next week with a link.)

  3. Link to video Why technology?

  4. Dollars and Sense?

  5. YouTube/TeacherTube • Nelly Furtado YouTube song • Mini-Lectures • Raps/Songs • Water Cycle • Measurements Rap

  6. YouTube/TeacherTube • www.zamzar.com • Converts any YouTube video to any file format you need. • Convert videos to MP3 audio files

  7. Presentations • What for? • Bell ringers (SAMPLE) • Lecture/Grammar notes • (Many presentation software applications associated with textbook you can access and edit in PowerPoint) • Vocab. Flash Cards • Search for already-created PowerPoints for your textbook series • Review Games • markerboards • game templates

  8. Presentations IDEAS: English — Imagery for a poem or song. Social Studies — start with a period music piece and find pictures to show the look of the era Science — Pictures/video of a lab

  9. Finding Photos

  10. Music

  11. Web sites • Purpose: • Homework calendars with links to docs and media • Supplemental materials like study guides, PowerPoints, or notes from class • Assignment Calendar

  12. Polleverywhere.com • Students respond with text messaging on their cell phones to a question you create • Free — limited to 32 participants per poll • $129/year— 40 participants per poll with advanced polling (so you can identify and grade responses) • More pricing information • Sample poll

  13. iPods • Listening activities • Textbook listening activities • Tests – listening to do at own pace • Recorded books/short Stories • Oral activities – using microphone attachments

  14. Wiimote Whiteboard • Explanation • What you need: • Wii remote ($40) • LED pen ($5-10 or make your own) • LCD projector • computer with Bluetooth (USB adapters available $30-40) • software (free download) • Johnny Lee’s how-to Web site • Penteractive

  15. Voki.com • Allows you to create an avatar and have it speak — either with text-to-speech or you can record your own voice. • IDEAS: • If you lose your voice • If you’re absent, have your Voki give directions instead of the substitute so that there is no miscommunication • Student projects — 1st or 3rd person account of a historical event, oral presentation, a character report • Warm-up/Bell ringer Sample

  16. Blabberize.com • Take any picture and then highlight the mouth to move. You can record your voice or call the website via a phone and special call in number. • IDEAS: an autobiography, a famous speech, an oral presentation, an explanation of any topic • Sample

  17. Wordle.net • Allows you create a word cloud from a text in the target language • IDEAS: • Good to use as a pre-reading strategy to predict what text could be about • Social Studies: look at a famous speech or compare two speeches. example: a presidential nomination speech and a winning or losing speech on election night. • English: compare writing styles of authors, self reflect on your own writing

  18. GoAnimate.com • Easily create animations. Choose your own backdrops, characters, music, etc. You can record your voice using a microphone or a phone. • IDEAS: • English- character report in first person, book review • Social Studies/Science/PE- demonstrate student knowledge of any topic in a different format • Foreign Language- practice oral skills (and listening skills when you watch other videos) • Math- explain a math problem or concept • SAMPLE: http://goanimate.com/movie/0Fkh2V04ve6I/1

  19. Bubbleply.com • You can add a transparent layer to any video on which you can add text/graphics to the video.

  20. Comic Strips • Make Beliefs Comix — http://makebeliefscomix.com/ • Comic strips with predesigned characters

  21. StudyStack.com • Type questions & answers or vocabulary terms. It automatically generates games/activities: • Flashcards • Study Stack • Study Table • Matching • Hangman • Crossword • Unscramble • Bug Match • Hungry Bug • FIND LISTS THE ARE ALREADY CREATED • CAN BE DOWNLOADED INTO CERTAIN APPS ON SMART PHONES SAMPLE — http://www.studystack.com/menu-451944

  22. Top-notch Tech Resources

  23. It’s all online • You will receive an e-mail with this presentation and others from today’s sessions! • Questions? • aaron.mcgrath@marshfieldbluejays.org • 417-859-2120 ext. 2179

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