New Ideas for The School Year

Tech Ideas For The

New School Year!

8/20/12

Animoto

Animoto is an intuitive, versatile tool for you and your students to use this year!

Example of First Day Of SchoolClassroom Project

AnimotoHow to Use Animoto:

1. Sign up for an Animoto Educator account by clicking here. Use code - a4emacc4a0480

2. Make sure to sign up with a different password than your school password.

3. You will need to reapply every 6 months. 4. Good idea for students to collect pictures

before they are introduced to Animoto. 5. Have students credit pictures and

sources on a PPT slide to upload later (save the PPT slide as a jpg)

6. If a picture won’t upload to Animoto – resave it as a JPG

How To Use Animoto

1.Book Trailers Click here for examples2. Visually represent a poem3. Biography 4. Back to School “All About Me” movie5. Timelines6. Recap your school year7. Show steps in solving a math word problem8. Vocabulary – define and represent in picture form9. A service announcement video for Science10. Cause-and-Effect 11. Make a movie about a planet, plant, animal, rock cycle…12. Historical period video13. Summarize a unit14. Alphabet or number movie15. Whole class message to parents, principal, teachers

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Examples of Glogster

Earth Unit Posters (Presentation mode – paid account) Nonfiction Text FeaturesPythagorasBenjamin FranklinIntegers

***Click here for a Glogster rubric

Glogster

How to use Glogster:

1. Make sure to go to: http://edu.glogster.com/2. This is a free account – you won’t have all the

privileges of a paid account 3. Each account allows for 50 students4. Sign up for two accounts if you Team teach5. Students must put their names on their Glogs

The BEST thing about

Glogster is once initial directions are given, the student’s creativity

will flow! Sometimes less direction leads to more

creativity!

Glogster Ideas

1. End of Unit review2. Biography3. Country study4. Poems5. “Wanted” poster for a historical figure6. Glog on a math topic including word problems and

links7. Book poster8. Movie poster to go with your Animoto video9. Have students summarize a chapter in Science10. Interactive presentation tool

GLOGSTER’S USES ARE ENDLESS!

Wordle

Examples of Wordle

Character Traits Confident/Not Confident

Mystery Wordle

Word Match

Math Vocabulary

Classroom Values

Student of the Week

Word Clouds

How to use Word Clouds

1. Wordle is an easy to use site to make Word Clouds – no login needed

2. First, type what you want in a Word document – Wordle has no spell check.

3. The more times you type a word, the bigger the word will show up in your Wordle

4. To use numbers go to LANGUAGE and uncheck NUMBERS

5. Use the ~ sign between words to keep them together (ex – Twenty~one)6. Stay away from the Gallery – no filter

HOW TO USE WORDLE1. Character traits2. All About Me3. Mystery Wordle4. KWL5. Paste student stories to see “over used” words6. State Report/Character/Book/Science Topic7. Word Wall8. Student of the Week9. List what the class in comfortable with and uncomfortable with regarding

a certain topic10. Guess the definition11. Paste text to find main idea for fiction and nonfiction12. Thank you notes13. Gifts for parents14. Poetry

Digital Storytelling

Storybird Great for collaborative stories

Students select artwork or teacher preselects and writes a story based on the artworkFree account allows teacher to create assignments

Stories can stay online to share, embed, or purchase a hard copy

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KerPoof

Digital Storytelling

Fun for all ages!KerPoof has fantastic suite of tools to produce great storiesGreat beginner spelling gameHas TONS of ideas and resources for teachers

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Extras…

Mystery State