1. Transforming Your Teaching
with Technology
Summer 2012

2. Session Objectives
Attendees will be able to evaluate resources that can be used to enhance instruction in academic curriculum.
1
Attendees will be able to identify and implement technology that works in a 21st century classroom.
2
Attendees will learn about 21st Century Skills and how they apply to education.
3
Attendees will learn how technology applies to Bloom’s Taxonomy.
4
Attendees will learn about power tools.
5
Attendees will learn about the types of software.
6
7 Attendees will learn how to collaborate in the future.

3. 21st Century Skills

4. The Instructional Divide
Student-centered Instruction
• Challenge-based learning
• Peer learning
Teacher-centered Instruction
• Lectures
• Drill and practice

5. Evaluating Instructional Technology

6. Power Tools for Educators
Productivity Interactivity Collaboration
• ePortfolios • Flash cards • Annotation
• Graphics • Podcasting • Bibliographies
• Office • Screen casts • Polls
• Presentations • Wikis

7. Productivity
• Dropbox
• Evernote
• glideOS
• Middlespot
• Photo Story
• ThinkFree Online
• Wetpaint

8. Integration Ideas
• Dropbox
– Online file storage
– Document sharing with groups
• Examples
– Student submissions
– Classroom resources
– Group assignments

9. Integration Ideas
• Middlespot
– Online poster/collage tool
– Similar to Glogster
• Examples
– Create posters on any topic
– Career Collage
– Peer teaching

10. Integration Ideas
• Microsoft Photo Story 3
– Brings digital photos to life
– Creates movies for all formats
• Examples
– Body systems
– New techniques/products
– New public safety policies

11. Interactivity
• Calendar/Notes/To Do
– Evernote
– Google Calendar
– mySchoolog
– Remember the Milk
– Zotero
• Podcasting
– ipadio – phlogging
– PhOneCasting
• Poll Everywhere
Podcasting: A series of digital media files that are released episodically and typically
syndicated through the Web

12. Integration Ideas
• Google Calendar
– Online calendar
– Calendar sharing
• Examples
– Classroom calendar
– Group project scheduling
– Parent communication
– E-mail/SMS event reminders

13. Integration Ideas
• ipadio
– Podcasting or phlogging
– Syndicated audio published by phone or
computer
• Examples
– Student organization meetings
– Interviews
– Lectures

14. Integration Ideas
• Poll Everywhere
– Polling system
– Classroom response system
– Embeds into PowerPoint
• Examples
– “Bell ringers”
– “Mini” formative assessments
– Classroom attendance

15. Collaboration
• Diigo
• DimDim
• Google Docs
• PBWorks
• Skype
• Storybird
• SugarSync

16. Integration Ideas
• Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/education
– Social bookmarking and annotations
– Share bookmarks and page notes
• Examples
– Classroom resources
– Research prompts
– Web Quests

17. Integration Ideas
• Google Docs
– Online Office Collaboration Suite
– Office applications
• Examples
– Group assignments
– Online surveys for mini-research projects
– Peer review of projects

18. Integration Ideas
• Skype
– Internet and phone calls
– Videoconferencing
• Examples
– Community partner connections
– Homework hotline
– Interviews

19. Transforming Your Classroom
Evaluate
Transform
Identify

20. Other Great Tools
• ClassDojo
• Livebinders
• OnLive Desktop
• Planbook
• Ediscio
• Doodle
• Citeulike

21. References
•Use the MECA 2012 Diigo Group.
•Contact sean.owen@rcu.msstate.edu to join the group.
•Add your own bookmarks and comments.
•Keep learning!

22. THANK YOU!
Your Logo