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Making a Classroom
More Student-Centered and
Interactive With and Without
Technology
Easy Technology in the Classroom
Try and work in available technology that most students have available :
• cell phones
• podcasts
• wikis
• web videos
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could be behind it
Name: ________________________Person 1: Person 2: Topic: ___________________One thing you remember: Person 1: Person 2:On a scale of 1-101. Easy to understand2. Clear tone3. Emphasis good4. Overall presentationRemember: 10 is perfection and 1 is abysmal
PodcastsTo work on listening
comprehension skills and to hear different voices in English, you can
use podcasts.
http://www.scientificamerican.comhttp://www.dailyesl.comhttp://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/beginner/http://www.eslpod.com/website/http://englishclass.podomatic.com/http://www.edtechlive.com/audio-interviews.htmlhttp://www.sciam.com/podcast/
Wikishttp://carpwiki.wikispaces.com
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
When they go to sign up, your students will see this page. They go to get started and create a username and password.
Your students will put in your wiki address, and end up at your homepage. They then go where it says 'join' and click. It will send a message to you to add them to your wiki and then they can participate.
When you go to create your class wiki, you decide what level you want to allow people in. I usually use protected. You can change it at any time through the Manage Wiki link.
Video Sourceshttp://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/http://www.teachertube.comwww.johnlocker.comwww.youtube.com www.schooltube.com
A resource of videos and clips for every grade and subject area. Excellent for supplementing an idea or lesson.
Finding Volume
Reinforcement Ideas
Use a variety of strategies that appeal to the different learning styles in any subject.
• vocabulary review games
• story/sequence structure development
• discussion stimulation
Vocabulary Reinforcement Ideas
• group card shuffle
• Jeopardy game
• tell the story
• vocabulary games
SentenopolyActions: tell you what kind of sentence to make each timeLetter Cards:roll the dice to determine number of sentence cards
A T B RActions:• Write a sentence that includes the action of an insect• Make a sentence that involves a family at the movies• Create a sentence about a scene at a grocery store• Build a sentence that involves an interjection• Write a sentence that involves an animal and a person
Make a Word (good for vocabulary building)
S RDecide if the words need to be 3, 4, or 5 letters. You can have it start at 3, go to 4, then 5, etc. The teams go until someone can’t go any farther. The cards are turned randomly. You get 10-30 seconds to come up with a word. Decide any rules you want to follow.
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Letter Card Shuffle GameCreate a deck of cards with the letters and play with a group of four. One person lays out the cards and as the players see words formed, they take the cards. The player with the most cards at the end wins.
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Sequence of Events Development
• students create time lines or story maps of the story or event
• cut apart and mount on paper or board (magazines, old books)
• have groups put them back in the correct order
• map or act the story
• can also work for steps in a process
Discussion Stimulation
First rule of thumb: shake it up!
• Make something fun into a discussion tool
• Discussion bucket (collection of discussion topics)
• Launch your idea (paper airplane idea)
• Continue and collect
Music in the Classroom
Music is a huge part of the students’ lives, so why not use it to your advantage?
• working music into weekly lessons
• using student generated material
• teach time periods through music
• incorporate into notes
• tie into story selections
Tie Into Subject Area Curriculum
http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A6027/60275/300_60275.jpg
http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/
music.shtml
http://www.mathwire.com/music/music.html
http://www.kidsknowit.com/educational-songs/index.php
Literature
Unit on Irony
Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) LyricsThere's a 1. ________ on a western bay and it serves a hundred 2. ______ a day3. _______ sailors pass the time away and talk about their homes
And there's a girl in this 4.______ town and she works layin' whiskey downThey say "Brandy, 5. ______ another round" she serves them whiskey and wine
(Refrain) The sailors say "Brandy, you're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be, (1) yeah your eyes could 6. _____ a sailor from the sea"(2) But my7. ____, my 8. _____, and my 9. ______, is the sea.
Brandy wears a 10. _______ _____ made of finest silver from the North of 11. ______ A locket that 12. _____ the name of the man that Brandy loves
He came on a 13. _________ ____ bringing gifts from far awayBut he made it clear he couldn't stay no harbor was his home (refrain)
Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes when he 14.______his 15._______ storiesShe could feel the 16. _______fall and rise, she saw its 17.______ gloryBut he had always told the 18. _______, lord, he was an 19. _______ manAnd Brandy does her best to understand
At night when the 20. ____ close down Brandy walks through a 21. ____ townAnd loves a man who's not 22. ______she still can hear him say (refrain)
port shipsLonely
harborfetch
steal
braided chainSpain bears
summer's day
told sailorocean raging
truth honest
bars silent
around
life love lady
Building Reading Comprehension
Every subject can use the same strategies to build reading comprehension
• daily current events or news stories related to your topic; also works to increase vocabulary ( can be stories or videos)
• bilingual puzzles
• translation exercises of magazines/news/brochure
Brazil proposes banning sugarcane in Amazon BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil would prohibit sugarcane-ethanol plantations in the Amazon and other ecologically sensitive areas of Latin America's largest nation under a plan unveiled Thursday by the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The proposal, if approved by Congress, will ensure Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane is environmentally friendly and ease concerns the plantations could one day carpet the rainforest, said Environment Minister Carlos Minc."Our ethanol will be 100 percent green with these measures," Minc said. The move would limit sugarcane plantations to 7.5 percent of Brazilian territory. The plantations where ethanol is produced with on-site or nearby distilleries would also be banned from food-growing areas and the vast Pantanal wetlands bordering Bolivia. Brazil is the world's biggest ethanol exporter, and a huge consumer. The fuel powers most new cars sold in the South American country.The proposed limitations would set aside 163 million acres where sugarcane could be grown, said Agriculture Minister Reinhold Stephanes. That's an area slightly larger than France. Brazil has nearly 22 million acres of sugarcane planted now and expects to devote another 15 million acres to the crop over the next decade.The country is also the world's largest sugar producer, with many of its cane plantations producing both products.Congress is expected to vote on the plan to limit the plantations next year.Copyright 2009 The Associated Press
Translate from Spanish to English
• can be done for any subject area
• good way to get them to read the material related to your topic and see if they understood what
they read well enough to translate it correctly
Bilingual Puzzles• can be done for any subject
• ties in current material being taught
• reinforces vocabulary and concepts
• can be created enjoyable by the students
• good pair review as wellhttp://www.spanishtown.ca/spanishforkids/grade1/monthlyvocabulary/month5activities/audio-body.htm
www.puzzlemaker.com
edhelper.com/crossword_free.htm
http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/ - already has a bank of puzzles created for all subjects
Downloads for recording and saving as MP3s:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.php
Copyright free music: www.freeplaymusic.com
Place to post powerpoints and presentations free: www.slideshare.com
carpwiki.wikispaces.com
To get good teacher-made videos: www.teachertube.com www.schooltube.com file conversion/download program www.zamzar.com
Digital Web Resources (documents, photos, maps, audio, video)
Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Images, maps, historical music, websites!Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.phpLibrary of Congress: http://www.loc.gov Check out American Memory, Exhibitions, and Global Gateway. These resources will also lead you to resources outside the Library of Congress – be sure to check for any copyright restrictions.Miller Center of Public Affairs, Scripps Library & Multimedia Archive: http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/macaulaylibrary/NASA Multimedia: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Photo Library: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/New York Public Library Digital Gallery: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfmPics for Learning: http://www.pics4learning.com/Smithsonian Institution: http://www.si.edu/ All the museums of the Smithsonian.Royalty Free Music/Sound EffectsA1 Free Sound Effects: http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/Partners in Rhyme: http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/ Free music loops, free sound effects, free midi files, free audio software.Royalty Free Music: http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/Schools can get access to Royalty Free Music free, provided they meet certain conditions.
When recording in audacity, open the program, click record - you will need an internal or external mike for your computer.
Watch for the meter to record the sound
After recording, you can check the sound by clicking the green play button.
To save, click file, save as mp3.
If you keep a folder for each student, you can track their practice all year and then send the file to their USB, email, etc. for them to learn from.
It will ask you if you want to save the file again, just say no and then reopen the program for the next student.
