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Technology’s COOL TOOLS By: Susan Appleton Graduate Student: Old Dominion University Photo Courtesy of office.com (free)

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A powerpoint presentation that shares 4 new technology tools that I learned about in Production of Instructional Materials class at ODU

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Technology’s COOL TOOLS

By: Susan AppletonGraduate Student: Old Dominion University

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Who Am I?• Classroom Teacher (18 years in grades 7 and 5)• BS from Averett University, Danville, VA (1996)• Married• Mother • Graduate Student: Old Dominion University• Aspiring Librarian• Pet Owner• Singer• Creative Writer

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Why Use Technology?• Prepares students for the 21st Century• Makes your lessons more interesting and appealing to students• Engages students who think “outside of the box.”• Gives students practice using technology• Increases student participation• Results: fun and attractive student presentations• Promotes sharing of ideas

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LET’S JUMP IN AND HAVE SOME FUN!

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Activities I am using target 5th-grade, but can be adjusted to fit most students and the curriculum that they cover in grades 3-12.

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Big Huge Labs• Can be used to

create posters, trading cards, magazine covers, and other fun graphics to show comprehension.

www.bighugelabs.com

Look at THIS trading card about ME!

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Magazine covers that describe!

This is a sample one I created using my daughter’s picture and descriptions about her.

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You can make a cube with pictures and blank sides to add your own text. Folding directions are provided too.

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Curriculum Applications• Students will research different animals and make trading cards to tell

about them. Then, students will classify the trading cards (vertebrates/invertebrates)

Science 5.5b)Classification of organisms using physical body characteristics, structure, and behavior of the organisms.• Other possible uses for bighugelabs.com includes reporting research

facts or descriptions on such topics as characters in stories, scientists, planets, historical events or people, etc.

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BRAINSTORMING!!!!!!

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Pixieclipwww.pixieclip.com/beta/

Lets you make video explanations. You can see one here that I made where I worked a problem about adding decimals. Pixieclip lets you record your own voice while you are also drawing on the board. It’s a great way to write AND explain at the same time. It is a little hard to control the “pencil” while you’re writing/drawing.

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Curriculum Applications

Students could create their own pixieclip videos where they explain how to work a decimal problem and then share the videos in class. Math 5.5 The student willa) find the sum, difference, product, and quotient of two numbers expressed as decimalsthrough thousandths (divisors with only one nonzero digit); andb) create and solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving decimals.

Other Ideas:• Draw story maps that show the sequence of plot in a story.• Draw and label the parts of animal/plant cells.• Write words and divide them into syllables• Draw a map of the state of Virginia and label the regions

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BRAINSTORMING!!!!!!

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Canva www.canva.com

Students can use this tool to help them design flyers, posters, etc. about different topics. One of the downfalls is that most of the pictures available on Canva cost money, so students need to have their own pictures saved to upload.

Here’s an example I created for our school’s Open House.

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Curriculum Applications

• Students could design posters or flyers about a topic they are studying in class. This could include a famous person, a book or story they were assigned to read, historical figures, states, animals, etc. The resulting project must include pictures and facts learned from the research process.

(English 5.9c: Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information.)

Other Ideas For Using Canva:• Make a poster about someone you had to interview.• Make a flyer to describe things you have learned in a class.• Design a poster that describes your favorite book (Read Across America Week)• Make a flyer that tells about your school (something that would tell new students all about what your school has to offer them.)• Design a poster that tells about one of your vocabulary words (origin, pronunciation, definition, part of speech, synonyms and antonyms, etc.)

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BRAINSTORMING!!!!!!

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Blogger www.blogger.com

This is an EASY tool that students can use to create their OWN blogs.

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Curriculum Applications• The student could be required to summarize notes that were taken in class and to share their thoughts about

what was discussed(English 5.9e: Develop notes that include important concepts, summaries, and identification of information sources.)

Other Ideas:• Book reports• Lab reports• Create practice study guides/questions for tests that are coming up.• Research project results• Poetry (favorites read AND original creations) • Math Word Problems (created and worked out)

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BRAINSTORMING!!!!!!

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ANY QUESTIONS??

My contact information:Susan AppletonEmail: [email protected]: http://www.futurelibrarian2016.blogspot.com