Cool Online Toolsto motivate and engage your students

PowerPoint created by Kelly Ford, Director of Technology in Curriculum

Resources from teachers, students, seminars, and online research

Students + Textbooks = watch this short clip

3 Mega-Skills for Students(as they enter the 21st century)

•Expert Researchers – learning how to manage the overwhelming amounts of information online

•Global Communicators– linking our students to students outside of the classroom.

•Being Self-Directed– having a voice in the direction of their learning

From NJDOE 21st Century Conference with Alan November of NovemberLearning.com

Project-Based Learning

Small tasks or assignments building into a culminating, meaningful product.

The essential question is the foundation.

It empowers the students so they can begin “with the end in mind.”

PBL Problems

• Burnout

• No choice in format to present

• Becomes a “reporting out of information” and never answers the essential question!

Students Must Answer

What is my message to the audience and why is it important?

Ask them everyday. Their answer will grow and change over the course of the PBL.

One Student Example

• Medieval PBL Driving Question Answers

• Animoto about Medieval Inventions

• Glogster on Medieval Inventions

What do you think of this example?

These students were typically the ones who never completed assignments, didn’t participate in group work. They actually didn’t finish all parts of the PBL. But look at the part the DID finish.

Revolutions

More Examples

Your Curriculum Units

Explore, discuss your current PBLs:Is the essential question meaningful?

Are there opportunities for real-life connections?

Click on “more” to explore new ways to use Google

Click here for tips and tricks for getting better search results on Google

Screen shot taken using Jing…

Use this visual tool for main ideas of historical speeches, vocabulary practice, or as a concept map

www.wordle.net

Recent speech by President Obama

Digital Storytelling

http://animoto.com/education/

Class Projects

Field TripsBack to

School

Night

Book Trailers

Animoto Sample from Thompson Science Class

Other Animotos from Thompson Middle School

Another Format for Digital StorytellingFree with windows, just download Photostory3 from online

Ruby Bridges Video , 8th grade Thompson

http://edu.glogster.com/

Online Digital Poster Every student should have the option to do a poster digitally!

Glogster samples from Thompson

TeenReads.comhttp://www.bookhooks.com/write.cfm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/swyar/

http://inkweaver-review.blogspot.com/2008/12/island-book-one-shipwreck-by-gordon.html

Share book reviews online and evaluate the quality of other reviews.

•Use Jing to record a lesson that you can post on your website so that students can refer to it any time for help.

•Students can use Jing to create tutorials for other students.

• Grade Essays or Digital Projects Using Jing Voice Recording – no printing or hand-writing your comments!

Teacher Lesson Student Tutorial Grading a Project

Connecting to Students Across the District www.Ning.com

This screen shot was taken using Jing.

Connecting to Students

In Other Parts of the World

www.epals.com

Keep Your Students Engaged in a VideoClick here for quick video on how to use Today's Meet.com!

The new way to connect with

authors, speakers, and professors outside of the

classroom

Start a grandparent Skype group with primary

grades

Most laptops are equipped with

built-in webcams/ microphones…and

the cost to purchase either is

minimal…

Connect with schools across

the district,state, country, and

world

Poll Your Students for Instant Feedback (texting from cell phone or laptop)

I-Padio

Google Voice

Posterous.com

Examples of PBLs using 2.0 tools

I Want To Explore

• Examples of authentic PBL ideas

• Google (more)

• Animoto

• Jing

• Ning

• Other?