03+Instructional+Technology


 * __Jake Wike:__ KEEN Conference**

http://www.ksde.org/Agency/FiscalandAdministrativeServices/CommunicationsandRecognitionPrograms/KEEN.aspx
 * Copy and paste this URL because it doesn't want to cooperate.**

Have students look at a visual as bell work. Then relate worsheet (POSERS or OPTIC) to objective for that day.
 * __Christina Jones__**



@http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp Have your students create a press release! My CT and I are using this during our Caesar Unit! __**Jason Allen**__ Lesson plans to link music with English content. http://rockhall.com/education/resources/lesson-plans/
 * __Precious Collins__**

__**Molly Weber**__ I just discovered one of these and am addicted to the other. **Pinterest** is a fun website and app. Sometimes just the images or summaries inspire me. Do be careful clicking into linked pictures. I have hit malicious links before though they police for them. The website **enotes** is brand new to me but I love the way they broke down the novel in the sample I saw. They show ways to break it down into readable parts that make sense and how long it should take to read in class. I think it is clever but not sure I am willing to pay for it now. [|Pinterest - High School English] [|enotes - For Teachers]

__**Jake Wike Wiki Share 4/2/2014:**__ [|www.literacyta.com]

__**Ma**__**ry Roseberry: Teaching Tolerance** [] This website, as some of you might have noticed from our bullying lesson, is a great resource for our classrooms. There are many different aspects to the website that can offer assistance to our classroom including videos with full lesson plans, articles, discussion questions, etc. All of the materials vary and are a great resource.

[|http://www.ushmm.org] My cooperating teacher and I used this website as a resource for our Identity unit, which revolved around Anne Frank. By using materials from this website, we were able to address many problems that our students were having with tolerance, racism, bigotry, and even anti-Semitism. We were even able to address topic that we had discussed in other units, such as genocide. This website even offers some great interactive online resources with easy access for the students.
 * Mary Roseberry: Holocaust Unit**

Post anything related to digital literacy and technology on this page. Include your name and a brief description of your material(s). It's a behavior and participation monitoring tool for smart phones and computers. You can use the programs avatars or create and import your own, you can use a random generator for participation, take and give instant points and feedback, and you can let students hear/see it or not. You can also send reports and individual notes to parents and students. I was with a AP Speech and Freshman CWC(ESOL) teacher last year who used it for our Freshman mostly. It was handy during individual reading because they had trouble focusing and being quiet/on task. Check it out! http://www.classdojo.com/
 * Molly Weber - ClassDojo**

http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0 Many of us have the pleasure of working with Smart Boards in our classrooms. This website offers FREE lessons that work on your Smart Board. Simply type in the type of lesson you are looking to teach and you're off!! This is a tool I have used several times and a tool that I keep going back to for ideas. I hope you guys enjoy it just as much as I do!
 * Amanda Hays - Free Lessons for SMART Board**

[] This site allows you to download and share lesson plans with other teachers. Though you can buy and/or sell plans there are a vast amount of plans that can be downloaded for free.
 * Jason Allen - Teachers Pay Teachers**

Hey all! I wanted to share two lessons that I have created for my students this semester. One is called "Investigating the 1920's" and is meant to be taught and completed during //The Great Gatsby.// I created this lesson completely from scratch. Thing that I would change: Show the students specific MLA examples for many of the electronic sources they might use. Explicitly tell students that they may only use less than 1 minute of imbedded video in their power points. Create a separate rubric for the paper and the presentation. Make the presentation have enough points so that if they completely blow it off they will only get a C out of the whole project.
 * Andrew Martin: Investigating the 1920s**

The other project I wanted to tell you about is for Toni Morrison's //Beloved.// I used this project as a study device before the students took their sumative assessment over the book. I adapted another teachers lesson to create this one.
 * Andrew Martin: Project for //Beloved//**

Here is a website I've started using with my seniors: [] It allows students to sign up to get text reminders about homework. Students say it helps them out a lot, especially since we have block scheduling!
 * Tiffany Vincent - Remind 101**

We used this book during our poetry unit. It pairs classic poems with hip hop songs. Also, one thing that we really liked was that for it pair only one poetic device was analyzed as opposed to analyzing several devices in every poem.
 * Precious Collins: Hip Hop Poetry**

- Turnitin.com and Heads up application on your iPad or phone. [] Turn it in is a paid service that usually the school pays for and you can add classes, accounts, teachers, teacher aids, etc. Then Heads Up is a game on the mobile app store that you can edit to add things like literacy words or vocabulary or even act it out which is lots of fun. http://www.learningforwardkansas.org/lc_2014.html Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8-9, 2014 Ramada Inn, 420 Southeast 6th Ave., Topeka, KS -This is a website my cooperating teacher (Mr. Bell) designed for teachers to learn about the applications on Apple products (and some Android products) that are useful in the classroom. -These apps span from instructional aids and classroom management tools to supplementary materials to literature. -It is to be noted that these apps range to other content areas as well, which can be explored under the "Content" drop down menu. []
 * Vaughn Crandell: Turn It In and Heads Up**
 * Crandell - Learning Forward**
 * Allie Ijams: Apps for the Classroom**

Noredink.com is a website where teachers can set up accounts for their classes (for free) and make quick grammar quizzes. It tracks the progress of each student and shows the areas that need improvement on a flow chart. This would be handy if you needed to pre-assess students in order to see what pieces of grammar that they need to work on and it also could be used to check in and see if they are retaining information as move onto teaching other pieces of grammar. It is a really simple site to use; I set my account up and tried it out in less than 5 minutes. []
 * Kaila Schmidt: Cool Grammar Quiz Tool**

This is a cool website that I stumbled across while searching for a book online. It is an audiobook site that is volunteer based; people volunteer to read books that they love and anyone can get on the website and download the books that they want to listen to. This might be a great tool to use on days that students need a change or break from reading as a class or listening to the teacher read or if you are sick and can't talk loudly (this happened to me a few times this semester). This site is currently blocked in the USD259 district, but that isn't a huge issue/setback since you are able to download the audiobooks to your computer. []
 * Kaila Schmidt: Free Public Domain Audiobooks**

This website has multiple articles have been rewritten to various lexile scores. This allows students to have the opportunity to use relevant and current nonfiction texts and then also has a content quiz that they can take after each one so you can see how they are doing. You can set up classes and give students assignments based on the classes they have been assigned to. http://newsela.com/
 * Michael Thompson--Newsela**

Tyler Slattery- Glogster Projects This is similar to prezi or any other project based venue. www.glogster.com Of course, you must sign up for an account and you get 30 days of trial period with 125 student limit. I'm currently using this for a characterization project over our novel //The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian// with my CwC freshmen class. They are usually pretty reluctant writers/readers but once you whip out technology for them to use, they are instantly engaged. Just like any other technology based project-you must play around with the interface to investigate future issues. I have found that this interface works best with Google Chrome, so if students are using a laptop without Google Chrome, they must first download it, which takes a few minutes. When we were getting all the students signed up, we were running in to that compatibility issue with Internet Explorer. I originally used Internet Explorer to investigate potential bugs-but of course, you don't run in to bugs until you actually implement it during class. Be patient, calm, and model good problem solving skills for your students. Below you will find my instructions and requirements for this assignment.

**Christina Jones- Teaching with Movies**
The website has lots of information that allows teachers to connect common core with movies that can be helpful in the classroom. The worksheets are two examples that I have used within my classes and have gone well. []