RAPID FIRE IDEAS!

Authentic Lessons to Make Kids Think

Using What You Have Right Now! Dr. Mary Ann Bell

Sam Houston State UniversityHuntsville, TX

RATIONALE

Mindtool concept: – Jonassen, Computers as Mindtools

for Schools– Technology is not an end in itself– use to make kids think!

Use available applications

WORD PROCESSING IDEAS

Great for reluctant teachers Teachers feel most confident

Creative Writing

Cinquain writing Journaling Newsletters/Newspapers Brochures

XX Quiz or Cloze Lesson

In Word-– type some text – where an answer is to be supplied, type

X’s. Person interacting with document

should:– double click on X’s– type to replace.

No need to erase anything…

CONCEPT MAPPING… Inspiration, a great application…BUT…

– Not in all schools – If at school, not available for home use

Substitute the diagram tool in-– Word– Excel– PowerPoint– Use the Drawing Toolbar.

MAKE UP MENUS

Dinosaurs (Described in Lesson Planet)

Spanish Book Characters Famous People

FUN WITH DINOSAURS

Examples of creative sites:– Dino Park USA– Dinosaurs

DON’T FORGET EXCEL!

Use to: – organize information– computations– charts/graphs

Underused application– many teachers need support

Excel Tutorials

Graphing with Excel Excellent tutorials by Bernie Poole

EXCEL IDEAS

Mary Ann Bell’s Tips– MS Office Tips– Excel Tips– MS Office/Paint Tips

Grading Book Characters Students give book/story characters report card

grades… Use qualities like:

– Kindness– Loyalty– Trustworthiness– Intelligence…

Students write justifications for the grades. Chart on Excel

What is MY

grade?

What is My

Grade?

USE EXCEL FOR TIMELINES

MORE EXCEL TIPS PAGES

Tammy’s Tips

Spreadsheets in Math Class

ABC List of Things to Graph

Excel-Lent Ideas

PBS Mathline

Carol Hurst’s Ideas!

PREMADE MATH ACTIVITES …AND SO COOL!

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

POWERPOINT POWER…

POWERPOINT POISON!!!

POWERPOINTLESSNESS…

How NOT to use PowerPoint– http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

An excellent article on the topic:– http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.ht

ml

POWERPOINT

Create Games such as Jeopardy. At the same time, there are plenty of templates that honor copyright: http://www.netxv.net/esc/technology/InstructionalTechnology/templates/powerpoint.htm

Have them make up short PowerPoints to play “Guess the Number.” If you need, there are Internet sites with number guessing games for ideas, such as http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

Presenting reports, group projects, etc. Cumulative projects…start a PowerPoint on a given

concept at the first of a school year. Each time you build on that concept, go back and add another slide.

POWERPOINT LESSON LINKS

Great PowerPoint Tips—Bit Better

A Good idea: Uncover a Picture with ppt

SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES ARE FUN

Here is how do do this: http://www.bitbetter.com/powertips.htm#SubliminalMessages

HERE IS A GREAT SITE!!CRAYONS FOR TEACHERS

Great ideas are offered for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Used as Mindtools

Technospud!

Great ideas and online activities, such as this year’s O.R.E.O. project to teach language arts, math, history, science and technology skills.

Most projects involve food… http://www.technospudprojects.com http://www.technospudprojects.com/

Projects/or2005/instructions.htm

Teachers.net

A popular site with great lesson ideas.

Instructions and ideas for flip books

More General Sites

Teacherfiles

Math Forum

ABC Teach

Lessonplans.com Computer activities and webquests:

Everybody has it…Kids already know it…

It is fun!

Create a Monster!

Create a Monster

Reinforce language arts skills by:– describe the monsters, – write monster stories, etc.

Again with Paint…

Excellent ideas at Toymaker: Create original ones in Paint or other

drawing program. Enforce writing skills with messages,

etc.

ARTSONIA

Great site for art work and self expression:

Linking student projects to writing and art. – Striking example: Drawing Together,

Students Against Terrorism:

NO MORE CANNED CLIPART!

Use only original student art… Excellent examples of self portraits

– http://www.manhattanschool.org/index.php

– http://www.newton.mec.edu/LincolnEliot/index.htm

An example of school original clipart collection:– http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/documents/clipartportal.html

MORE PAINT IDEAS…

Using Paint

Design a Logo:

Digital Camera Ideas

Digital Cameras and Pictures

Travels of Nancy Pearl

– Washington D.C.

Wonderful Alphabet Books

Model the Madison Square Art Project, New York City:

The Alphabet

Grammar Kids act out verbs Take pictures with a digital camera Let others guess words.

Geometry ideas

Photography and shapes Websites

– http://42explore.com/geomet.htm– http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathl

ine/concepts/architecture/activity2.shtm– http://www.enchantedlearning.com/mat

h/geometry/shapes/– http://www.rrcc.edu/teachered/sharon/g

eometry.html

DIGITAL PHOTOSAND TEACHING

Great ideas on math, writing, and science

Digital Photography and Geometry Ideas

Rapid Fire Idea Links

Mindtool Rationale– http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A5277.cf

m Creative Writing

– Cinquain:• http://www.abcteach.com/Writing/cinquain.htm

– Concept Mapping:• http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torgani

z.htm– Make up Menus:

• http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/4.html

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

Excel Ideas andTutorials– LabWrite, North Carolina State University

• http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/res/gt/gt-menu.html

– Bernie Poole tutorials:• http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/

– Excel Timeline activity• http://www.microsoft.com/education/CreateT

imeline.msp

Rapid Fire Links, con’t– Tammy’s Tips

• http://www.essdack.org/tips/page1.htm– Spreadsheets in Math Class

• http://www.math.byu.edu/~lfrancis/readings302/Spreadsheets.html

– ABC List of Things to Graph• http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/kadkins/graphin

g_abc.htm– Excel-Lent Ideas

• http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/kadkins/zillions.htm

– PBS Mathline• http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/c

oncepts/technology/activity1.shtm

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

– Carol Hurst’s Ideas!• http://

www.carolhurst.com/subjects/math/datagather.html

Powerpoint Ideas– Gettysburg Address

• http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

– Jamie McKenzie Article• http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html

– Jeopardy• http://www.netxv.net/esc/technology/InstructionalTec

hnology/templates/powerpoint.htm

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

– Number Guessing Game Ideas• http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

– Bit Better Ppt tips• http://www.bitbetter.com/powertips.htm#dif

ferent%20backgrounds

– Uncover Picture and other ideas• http://wwwlow.bham.wednet.edu/schoolkit.h

tm

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

Great General Lesson Sites– ABC Teach

• http://www.abcteach.com/

– Crayons 4 Teachers• http://www.crayons4teachers.org/default.as

p

– Technospud• http://www.technospudprojects.com

– Math Forum• http://mathforum.org/library

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

– LessonPlans.com• http://www.lessonplanspage.com/index.html

– Fun Brain• http://www.funbrain.com/

– Kathy Schrock OF COURSE!!!• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

Ideas Using Paint– Artsonia

• http://www.artsonia.com

– Monster Exchange• http://www.monsterexchange.org

– Schools with Original Clip Art• http://www.manhattanschool.org/index.php• http://

www.newton.mec.edu/LincolnEliot/index.htm

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

– Royalty Free Student Clip Art• http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/documents/

clipartportal.html

– Dr. Bell’s Paint Tips• http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/documents/t

ceawebpages/documents/paintideas.html• http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/documents/

TCEA04/painttips.html

– PBS Design a Logo• http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/co

ncepts/designandmath/activity2.shtm

Digital Cameras and Pictures– http://www.lesd.k12.az.us/RSF/media/dig

ital.htm– http://

www.mansfieldisd.org/wbrown/digitalcameras/

Travels of Nancy Pearl– http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/docum

ents/nancytravels.html– http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/docum

ents/nancynydcx_files/frame.htm

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

Madison Square Art Project, New York City:– http://www.smilinggoat.com/Madison1.h

tml The Alphabet Gallery:

– http://www.pbase.com/abbarich/the_alphabet

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

Kodak—Kids Act Out Verbs– http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/edu

cation/lessonPlans/lessonPlan048.shtml Photography and Shapes

– http://42explore.com/geomet.htm– http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/co

ncepts/architecture/activity2.shtm– http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/

geometry/shapes/– http://www.rrcc.edu/teachered/sharon/

geometry.html

Rapid Fire Links, con’t

– Drs. Cavanaugh Digital Camera in Education http://drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/

– Digital Photography and Geometry Ideas from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/architecture/activity2.shtm

Contact Dr. BellAssistant Professor

Library ScienceSam Houston State University

Huntsville, TX

lis_mah@shsu.edu http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/