Tammy Worcester's spotlight afternoon session
Special thanks to Bradley Comstock for allowing us to use his mobile hot spot for web viewing of Tammy's session on our way home in the car!
Discussion on how TIME makes a difference & how everyone's biggest complaint is that they don't have enough TIME!
Examples she used for how TIME makes a difference in our thinking process--especially when you're stressed with time limitations...
- Family feud bloopers http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=family+feud+bloopers
- math problem with patterning that tricks you with the speed at which she reveals the next step
Use technology as a timesaver:
- Google Search Engine:
- as a calculator (type problem directly in search bar)
- as a conversion tool (metric to standard, Celsius to Fahrenheit
- as a dictionary (type: define word; some dictionary entries have a little speaker icon for pronunciation)
- Google Chrome
- microphone option in search bar (to speak what you want to search for)
- filtering options at top of screen in Chrome allows you to search sites for specific readability...search tools | All results | Reading Level (basic, intermediate, advanced)
- double gray arrows beside the web search results (right hand side) shows preview of website
- type "chicken" in search bar; Chrome now has a Recipes tab at top; use search tools, you can check other ingredients you have to narrow search results; you can choose how many calories you want the dish to have...etc
- Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com)--knowledge engine--she used three examples:
- Virginia
- Virginia and Kansas (comparing chart)
- Big Mac (nutritional content)
- Activities
- instead of just having students research & write a report about something (which they'll just copy & paste text from internet)--have them do an acrostic poem in powerpoint requiring facts learned from their research to be the text
- write a postcard home or to a friend about visiting a place they're studying or researching having them include at least 3 facts; use ppt & print handouts (2 per page) for appropriate sized printing of postcards
- recordmp3.org--EASY audio recording site; saves recording as URL for accessing later
- kaywa (QR code creator: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/)
- http://www.drawzit.com/--online paint program that creates a URL for the image
- Apps
- Reflections (creates a wireless document camera for showing what you're doing on iPad or iPhone)
- ShowMe
- Educreations
- Sock Puppets--teach vocab words, tell about books, set up scenario for reviewing character traits, classroom rules, directions--save to YouTube to create a URL
- Use QR code reader to assess Google Form to submit answers to teacher (Quiz Bowl)
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