Thanks for checking out my technology booth session, Tech In Ten. Below you will find some of the tools we discussed and ideas for implementation. Feel free to contact me!
- Have a set of pre-made Wordles in a folder on your desktop to use when you have a few minutes.
- Guess the Fairytale
- What section of the newspaper did this come from?
- Fiction or Non-Fiction?
- Look for trends in student writing
- http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=8641
- Read Across America or Read Around the World Day
- Skype an Author
- Field Trip Earth
- Do book talks with a partner class
- Interview an expert
- Have someone read aloud to your students
- Chat with your government representatives
- Compare project results
- Video "pen pals"
- Create a Facebook style page for historical or fictional characters
- Carefully evaluate their friends, interests, likes and dislikes, background, status updates, etc.
Blogs
- Read about what other classes are doing around the world
- Practice carefully, thoughtfully and safely constructing comments as a model for engaging others in conversation
- Choose a subject area and difficulty level for ready-made trivia with global and social awareness
Podcasting (more like use of audio recorders like Audacity)
- Daily summary of what we learned in class
- Post homework assignments to website
- Create "books on tape" for other classes
- Keep up with fluency checks throughout the year
- Prepare wall "sticky notes" ahead of time from a story or video, have students sort/classify/sequence when finished on IWB
- Have students leave a comment for consideration and review together
- Class Suggestion Wall (plus/delta)
- Put vocabulary words on a sticky note and see if students can create sentences with them (a la magnetic poetry)
- Create a class bookshelf where students can add books they have read
- Must write a review/summary of the book
- Agree on a set of tags to use (like genre, interest, etc.) to teach tagging
- Track books that you have been reading
- Look for other books that are similar
- Share as a widget on class wiki or blog