Thank you so much for taking time to come and hang out with us. I hope you walked away with at least one thing you could use in your classroom. I know I did. I loved Scott's idea of using PowerPoint to create choose your own adventure stories! I've had my own students play with wordle, but never thought to use if for character traits (Thanks Carla)! XtraMath seems like a great site that allows kids to practice their math facts in a quick and painless way.
I've posted the information from the google doc we created below so be sure to check it out! If there are others sites that you would want to share just add them in the comments section.
It is such a huge blessing to work with so many passionate teachers.
~Melanie
Topic, Presenter, School, Grade
Jolie Valentine, Hoben, Media Specialist, Destiny Quest / My Quest http://bit.ly/uAcz4a
- Videotape book reviews
- Videotape kids reading books for others to listen to
- Can work on writing summaries
- You can friend your students and recommend books to them
- Create bookshelves to share what you are reading; see what your friends are reading
Carla Morrin, Miller, 5th Grade, wordle.net
- Class goals at the beginning of the year
- After studying adjectives and verbs make a wordle poster
- Make a wordle poster about themselves to share at the beginning of the year as a get to know you activity
create a Mother’s day or Father’s day poster as a gift to mom or dad
- Have kids type in word wall words, several times creating a wordle spread.
-Another version is www.abcya.com
- Ask students a review question on google doc (like this) or a google form. Put the results in Wordle.net. Ask: “Are the largest words (most frequent) the most important?” This leads to great discussion.
Emily Verbeke, Too many to name, Psychologist, Interventioncentral.org
- I have a great cheat sheet if anyone is interested..Aimee Bell - of course!
Carol Wiessner, Eriksson, ?, weebly.com
create a class website for parent information
Michelle Krug, Workman, 2nd, storybird.com
-Can be used by different grade levels
-Parents can buy books created
-Use pictures as story starters
-create a story of a recent genre learned
3rd Grade Team from Workman, xtramath.org
- Differentiate instruction
-math facts practice, monitors progress
-This site can be self monitored by students and parents
Diana Olds, Hoben, 4th, pinterest.com
-tons of teacher ideas to steal and share
-Email diana.olds@pccsmail.net or kristi.berry@pccsmail.net or melanie.gray@pccsmail.net
for an invite
Sample Boards: http://pinterest.com/dolds/teaching/, http://pinterest.com/blueberry314/classroom/, http://pinterest.com/graymela/classroom-favs/
- Stealing welcome :)
Kristi Berry, Miller, 5th, ReplayNote App
www.screencast-o-matic.com
-go to google and save images
-then add your own words
Julie Dillon, Isbister, K, shutterfly.com
great way to share pictures with parents
can upload newsletters
Your parents can purchase a book of all the pictures. The books are hardcover books! They can also purchase individual pictures.
Beth Sexton, Dodson, Media Specialist, http://forums.pccs.k12.mi.us/moodle/
-to get your own course contact Jim Casteel or Carol Isakson
Melanie Gray, Workman, 5th, watchknowlearn.org
a warehouse of videos for the classroom
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
makes comic writing fun and easy for the students.
use it for word wall words
Scott Mod, Bird, 4th, Choose Your Own Adventure ppts
-very cool you can add buttons to connect PowerPoint slides and create choose your own adventure stories
-You can also do this with Youtube videos: PSA Choose What Happens Next from the Ad Council: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGkaw44-Ql4 (Note: You have to be careful showing this one because of the suggested videos in the right column. Some are inappropriate.)
Mary Beth Revesz, 4th, Workman, Showme.com
-similar to replay note
-record tutorials for students and families
-showme.com has a ton of screencasts that teachers have already made
Kaarina Bodnar, Workman, Digital Voice Recorder
-record reading books for fluency
-record writing ideas to refer to later when writing stor
- dragon dictation app (free on Ipad) will actually type out dictated ideas
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