TechEnhancedLearningEpisodes

TEED 512 - Spring, 2009 - Ed Tech Strand

Technology-Enhanced Learning Episodes
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For example: [|Grow Beasts in Wikispace] Created by Mark Roddy
 * Abstract** -- Students use spreadsheets and a wikispace to facilitate the construction of their understanding of how mathematical measurement and modeling can be used to make predictions of a physical phenomenon, the growth of a Grow Beast.

My Life, Your Life ~Xuân-Nhi Cao~

Global Positioning and You! Abstract: This activity will introduce students to the technology of Satellite Triangulation used in the Global Positioning System. Students will first study the history of satellite technology, and how it has gradually changed from military use to the private sector. Students will then engage in GEOCACHING, a scavenger hunt type adventure outdoors that will illustrate how the Global Positioning System works. Created by Dan Cutter

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Created by Mary Wills
 * Abstract:** Students will learn about the reality of immigrating to the US from another country. They will practice taking the perspective of a recent immigrant. They will formulate questions and actually interview an immigrant from their community. Students will take at least one digital photo of their interview subject and incorporate that photo into a Word document which will also include the interview questions and answers. Adapted from [|PBS Teachers Website]=====

[|Creating a classroom webpage to enhance community] Abstract: Students will help the teacher to create a webpage for the classroom using wikispace. The webpage will include pictures taken by the students of what they are doing in their classroom and as well as other information the students want to share with family and friends. by Jessica Cahan

[|Research, Report and Present!] Created by Dianne Gallawa
 * Abstract** - Students will use google sites, gadgets, spreadsheets, graphs/charts and a SMART board to develop their understanding of technology, tracking and reporting data, and to develop their presentation skills.

[|Children From Around the World - An Animated Tour] Created by Thomas Grant
 * Abstract** - Students will decorate a paper doll after being shown images of different children from around the world, scan their paper dolls, import the digital images into iMovie or Quicktime to create an "animated" movie, and then add music and share the movie on TeacherTube with other teachers and students.

[|Map a Trip in Planiglobe] Created by Kristen Bernert
 * Abstract** – Students will plan a trip and use Planiglobe to map out traveling routes to develop their spatial and geographical knowledge. Students will then post their planned trip and maps on Wikispace to share with the rest of the class.

[|All I Never, All I Ever Learned] Abstract: Students will prepare a web site of their family members’ experiences with education and learning. The site will include photographs of family members accompanied by audio files of student-led interviews. Created by Lucy Morehouse

[|Students Teaching Students - Electronic Presentations] Created by Kate Baerlocher
 * Abstract-** The students will create a PowerPoint presentation about the animale of their choosing. They will then use this PowerPoint presentation to teach their peers about their chosen animals.

[|Dig Into History - Life in Ancient Mesopotamia] Created by Lacey Lafferty
 * Abstract** - Students will deepen their knowledge of life in ancient Mesopotamia by participating in a simulated dig and museum exercise and then creating a post on the class wikispace discussing something they have learned. Adapted from [|Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History]

[|Sum of Interior Angles of Triangles: Euclidean and Spherical Geometries] Created by Haley Woods
 * Abstract** - Students will use GeoGebra to in ductively prove that on a plane, the interior angles of all triangles sum to 180 degrees. Students will then use Spherical Easel and find a counter-example for triangles on spheres, showing instead that on a sphere the interior angles of a triangle add up to different amounts depending on the size of the triangle.

[|Digital Collections of Historical Archives on the Web!] Created by Devin J. Engledew
 * Abstract -** Students will utilize an online digital collections database in order to prepare and present a PowerPoint presentation that that focuses on a specific period or development of events relating to Pacific Northwest history.

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 * Abstract-** This project will provide students with an opportunity to discover some of the wonderful people that make up their community. The students will research and interview community members in the neighborhood who have made a difference in their lives. They will record and edit these histories. The films will screened on a special night to which all the community members will be invited and honored for their contributions.======

Speech and Presentation on a Courageous Person Created by Anne McBroom Flanagan
 * Abstract**- Students choose a courageous person to research and report on. They will investigate their individual on the Internet. They will write their outline for a speech on their person. They will learn to enhance their presentation with Powerpoint and/or Youtube clips. They will receive some basics on giving a great speech, and then they are ready to present to the class!

[|Presentations on Africa and Foreign Aid] Created by Daniel Joseph Nietering
 * Abstract** -- Students will research the humanitarian conditions of a current recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Africa and make a PowerPoint presentation on their findings.

[|Me Talk Pretty One Day] Created by Melissa Deutsch
 * Abstract-**Students will use the Internet to research a dialect using the International Dialects of English Archive. Students will practice and record themselves performing this dialect using the Garage Band application.

[|Experiencing Life In Another Country] Created by Katie Hayes
 * Abstract-** Students will communicate via email with an ePal of similar age at a school in India to learn about the Indian culture and how their lives are similar and different to children their age in India. At the end of the year the students will write a reflection paper and make either an iMovie or PowerPoint Presentation to present to the class about how their lives are similar and different to the lives of their ePals.

Orienteering with GPS Created by N. Barnes
 * Abstract-** Students will navigate a course around school grounds using a compass and measure; they will then navigate a similar course using a handheld GPS in order to quantitatively compare and contrast, with Excel, modern and ancient orienteering tools.

[|Book Reports for the 21st Century] **Abstract-** In pairs or groups of three, students will use iMovie, GarageBand and search engines to create a four to six minute visual and audio book report that focuses on the overarching themes, feelings and messages of their book. Created by Emily Taylor

[|Where is the world is Ms. James?] Created by Megan James
 * Abstract-** In this learning episode students will use //weather.com// to look up and track the weather once a week in a city of thier choice for the entire school year. They will then use //microsoft excel// to chart thier cities weather throughout the year, and at the end of the year make a //google site// webpage about their city and thier finding. This webpage will contain basic information about the city such as, the city's weather patterns, and average temperatures. Students will then be able to make hypothesis about that cities seasons on line. The student will then be required to visit other student's webpages, and write a final report on how thier city's weather is different or the same as three other cities around the world.

[|A Raisin in the Rain] Created by Marie Donadio
 * Abstract**- As part of studying the play //A Raisin int he Sun//, students will use the University of Washington website [|Segregated Seattle] to consider if the Younger family's experience in Chicago in 1960 would have been different here in Seattle or Shoreline.

[|Weather Post] Created by Diana Kushner
 * Abstrac**t: Students will use weather.com to develop their understanding of weather-related vocabulary words. They will enhance their appreciation of weather trends and predicted vs. actual conditions by finding and plotting data on a spreadsheet and by comparing digital images that they take of differing weather conditions. As participants in an ongoing, archival weather project, they will experience collaborative effort.

[|Banned Novels & Modern Presentations] Create by Michael Bliss
 * Abstract:** In pairs or groups of three, students will first choose a book to read from a lisst comprised of banned books over the past 50 years. After reading the book, the groups will use iMovie/Movie Maker, camcorders, and online search engines in order to create modern-day video presentations (approx 5 min. in length) that focus on the following: 1) The reasons for the book's banning; 2) The author's message; 3) The mood of the novel.

[|Close Reading and Analysis on Smart Board] __Abstract:__ Students will each be assigned a passage from the book __Kite Runner__ to practice close reading and analysis. They will analyze using the Smart Board in groups of three and will each participate in a think aloud with the class while documenting their notes and thoughts on the passage. The will use the Smart Board to circle important words, motifs, big ideas, and sentences or statements related to theme. -Created by Colin Slingsby

Cultural Classroom Exchange

**Abstract:** Students will participate in a virtual classroom cultural-exchange to learn about a culture different from their own.
Created by Susan Alotrico

[|Picture Classification Challenge] __**Abstract:**__ Students will demonstrate their understanding of the concept of classification by creating their own pictorial classification hierarchies. Using a digital camera, students will photograph an array of items and then arrange them based on the principles of classification discussed in class.

[|Explore Planet Earth] **Abstract:** Students will create a report and class presentations exploring planet Earth and the relationships between geography and weather systems. Created by Sharon Wall

[|My Favorite Book - Community Building on VoiceThread.com] Created by Julia Seidman
 * Abstract:**During the first week of school, students will be asked to use [|VoiceThread.com] to create a presentation to share with their classmates and teacher describing their favorite book or author and why it's their favorite. Students will then be asked to comment on the VoiceThreads created by their classmates to begin the year's conversation about literature. This will serve as a community-building activity, a refresher on some of the themes addressed in prior years of Language Arts, a way to establish standards for appropriate classroom discussion, and an introduction to a technology we may use throughout the year for other projects.

[|Living In Our Environment: Here and There]
 * ABSTRACT:** Students will interact with students from another part of the world or country, through ePALS, to enhance their learning in World Geography and human interactions with the environment. They will also explore geography and environment with the use of GoogleEarth. They will take part in this "cultural exchange" to also further their communication and presentation skills.
 * Created by Abigail Laxa

[|Sports Broadcasting in Spanish]
 * Abstract:** Students will present a sports news segment to the class after being exposed to Spanish vocabulary and phrases used in sports broadcasting through the use of an Xbox and research on internet sites such as [|YouTube]and [|ESPN Deportes].
 * -**Luis Gamez

Students Share Their Science Fair Project with Their ePal Created by Sarah Allsop-Fine
 * Abstract** - Students will create science fair projects and will share this project with their ePal with whom they have been communicating with all year. Students will share their science fair project either through explaining what they did on a podcast or using iMovie and sending it to their ePal. Students will research their science fair project using three book resources and three reliable internet websites.

[|Take a Virtual Trip to your Family's Place of Origin] Abstract - Using Google Earth and travel sites such as: expedia, travelocity, orbitz, etc., students will plan a trip to where their families originated from. If students are not aware of where their families originated from, they can choose a location they would like to travel to. Google Earth has a feature that allows you to plan a route (such as Seattle to the Philippines), and record a virtual tour of the trip. The students will then use an excel spreadsheet to create a cost comparison of the three travel sites they selected to use. Created by Nicole Nava

[|Our Powerpoint Novel] Created by Mary Angelene Arciaga
 * Abstract** In groups of three or four, students will apply the six parts of a plot (protagonist, antagonist, conflict, climax, denouement, and ending) and create a narrative using Powerpoint and digital cameras.

[|Share your poetry with your ePal] Created by: Julianne Cardenas
 * Abstract**: As part of their writer's workshop experience, students will venture out to new sharing opportunities by taping each other reading their personal poetry using a Flip Camera. They will then upload their movie file as an attachment and send an email to their ePal. The learning will come from the student's reflection time to write about their poetry writing and ePal experience in their blogs.

[|Poetry Unit on Romanticism: Modeling Poetry Unit Project] Created by: Sara Shea
 * Abstract:** A 90-minute lesson on the Romantic poetry movement, utilizing iPod for music, PowerPoint presentation, document camera, and videos from Keepvid.com. The lesson is a model of what students are expected to achieve when they, in groups, present their own poetry movement.

[|Slope Battleship!] Created by: Taylor Blue
 * Abstract:** After spending several class periods working with coordinate grids, finding x- and y-intercepts, solving slope, and writing equations in slope intercept form, students will play an interactive game in pairs using Grapher on their computers. With a partner, a student will try to guess three points that lie on his or her partner's line by guessing points in (x,y) form. Students will make note of their misses. When a student gets a hit, he or she will find two other points that are on their partners line, and then solve for the equation of the line in slope intercept form.

[|Investigations into the culture of Japanese students]
 * __Abstract:__** Students will research an aspect of the Japanese culture through chat and pictures from a pen pal class in Japan.

Students will create their own how-to books, film themselves presenting the books and demonstrating their task, and then share their presentations with a school in Sweden with TeacherTube! Created by: Clara Luce
 * [|How-to Books Shared Around the World]**

[|Discovering Our Favorite Books Through Creative PowerPoint Presentations]
Created by: Beth Ervine
 * Abstract: ** The students will create PowerPoint presentations, which they will then share with the class, about a book they recently read and enjoyed.

Abstract: Students will go back in time and discover the orgins of the city of Seattle. Using Historylink.org, students will research an event or specific location and gather photos and information onto PointPoint. Students will be the "expert historians" of their event and teach the class what they learned through a PowerPoint presentation. At the end of the unit, the class will take a city tour and visit most or all of the locations to understand how they have changed. //Created by: Kristin Covey// 
 * [|Seattle Now and Then]**