TTTTECHIE TOOLS TODAY

By Sharon Rohde

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About Me……..

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Audio/Video Tools In The Classroom

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Audio/Video Tools in the Classroom

• Audio/ visual tools can address the many ways that students learn

• Examples: of AV tools• Podcasts• Collages• Video• Interactive resources

Tagxedo, Powtoon, Blogger, Voki and Weebly

http://pialujan1986.blogspot.com/2012/06/21st-century-classroom.html

Tagxedo

Curriculum Connections & Educational Focus

• Appropriate for grades 2 and up• Curriculum application

–1. 3rd Grade VA SOL 3.1 – Tagxedo project about Greek culture

–2. Plants and plant parts–3. Content and grade level vocabulary

Functionality and Limitations

• Creatively display text

• Small selection of colors, fonts, and shapes.

Powtoon

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• Powtoon brings your presentations to life through animated videos.

http://sharonrohde.blogspot.com/2014/06/powtoon.html

Click the link above to view the Powtoon I made about classroom rules.

Curriculum Connections & Educational Focus

• Appropriate for grades 2 and up for student use and teacher use

• Curriculum applications1. 3rd Grade VA SOL 3.11- The student will write

a short report.

2. 3rd Grade VA SOL 3.12- The student will use available technology for reading and writing.

3. Students will use this to create a book report or a visual aid for a book they have read.

Functionality and Limitations

• This is a great tool that is fun to use and enables students to easily add animations to their visual presentations.

• Cannot download video without paying for a subscription.

• www.powtoon.com

Blogger

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Sharon Rohde’s Blog

Curriculum Connections & Educational Focus

• This tool is appropriate for 4th grade and up.

• Curriculum applications• 1.Students will read and react to an article

on the teacher’s blog.• 2. Students can respond to specific

questions or allow students to post reflections after listening to a podcast.

• 3. SOL VS.3 Have students post ideas and opinions about topics discussed in class.

Functionality and Limitations

• It is a great communication tool between teachers, parents, and students.

• Cannot be used with lower age elementary.

• www.blogger.com

Voki

http://www.voki.com/

• http://sharonrohde.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-06-10T20:05:00-07:00&max-results=7

• Open this link to see the voki that I made.

Curriculum Connections & Educational Focus

Appropriate for grades K-12Curriculum applications

1. Self recordings of poems2. Create a book talk3. 3rd Grade VA SOL 3.5, 3.6-Students can

read and record themselves for fluency.

Lesson plan retrieved from www.classroom20.com

Functionality and Limitations

• Great visual tool for students

• Limited choices for avatars unless you purchase a license.

Weebly

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Curriculum Connections & Educational Focus

• Appropriate for grades k and up for group projects and grades 2 and up for independent projects.

• Curriculum applications– Group Project- display student work– Student created webpages– 3rd Grade SOL 3.11/2.4-informational

webpage comparing past and present of Egyptian culture

Functionality and Limitations

• Weebly has a very user friendly interface for creating webpages.

• It has a limited upload file size with the free version.

I hope you enjoyed this “handy” guide to techie resources.

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Time forQuestions and Answers

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