1. 12 in 120:
Old Tech, New Implementation
English Department
Retreat 2013
Tech Talks

2. Wordle as Higher Order Reading
Instruction- Scott
• Wordle
• Handout
• Annotations, Indexing, Synthesis
• Thinking of annotations as more than marking up a page
• Encourages analysis and drawing of conclusions
• Increase in sophistication over time
• Initially, people, places, things
• Eventually creating their own

3. Class Dojo as Reflection- Katy
Class Dojo
• Anecdotal records
• Positive and Negative behaviors, but no reward attached
• Reflect on teaching- put yourself in class
• Analyze trends
• Communicate with parents
• Support for discipline and other decisions
• Customizable behaviors, so can do more academic

4. Discussion Forums as Think Time- Julia
Discussion Board "Party Favor"
• Respond to prompts
• Time to think about difficult topics
• Quick
• Threads
• Private
• Planning for larger assignments
• Create commenting guidelines
• Coursesites/Blackboard a good option- spell check, draft
options
• Use interesting titles
• Community
• Formative assessment

5. Web 2.0 as Writing Workshop- Katie
Gingko
https://gingkoapp.com/invite/3684deef58b5e5b8e5000004 (collaborator’s link)
• Work shopping AND collaborative writing
• Gingko is like an outline broken out with content planned right
there
• Can share in a way that people can or cannot change
• Comment dump
• Planning
• Mapping
• Analysis
• Process

6. Visual Thesaurus as Reference Tool-
Margaret
Visual Thesaurus
• Cool websites
• Color coding for parts of speech
• Moving web
• Create word lists
• Resources on home page
• Language options
• Kids actually use it
• Connections of words
• Think of your visual audience
• Wordly wise/ Book vocab lists
• Definitions, too
• Costs $$- let’s work it out

7. Evernote as Accountability- Karin
Evernote
• Cloud based, multiple devices
• Tags
• Organize anything
• To do/Reminders
• Collaborative
• Class ebook of literacy narratives
• Sub groups in projects
• Online, updated submissions
• Process
• Evernote business as a digital resource request?

8. LMS as Learning Community- Becky
Edmodo
• Example of LMS
• Polls
• Non-threaded discussion
• Embedded in multi-step learning activities
• Reading check
• Good choice for assignment submission
• Group work
• Central location for information sharing
• Dovetails with face to face, in class work
• Formative assessment

9. Tech Tools as Writing Assessment-
Chad
• What’s your writing philosophy?
• What’s your writing assessment philosophy?
• Creativity
• Makes sense
• What can you see on the paper?
• Helping students’ understanding of themselves as writers
• Help the writer
• Question based feedback
• Reflection
• Skill builder
• Creative or critical thinking tool
• Means of communication
• Self-reflection/growth
• We need to talk more about this
• What tech tools could address these issues?
• Reflect on your ideas of writing and writing assessment and think about
implementation and share with someone – journal with each other

10. Edtech as Journey-Martha
Martha's Slideshare

11. Blogging as Reading Community- Angie
http://edwards-reading2.blogspot.com
http://edwards-reading6.blogspot.com
http://edwards-reading7.blogspot.com
Outside Reading Blogs Handout
• Commenting
• Tied to outside reading requirement
• Modeling

12. Google Drive as Paperless
Professionalism- Kristen
Kristen’s Prezi
• No more dog ate my homework
• Accountability
• Professional Gmail account names
• Options for those who don’t have access to
Microsoft Office

13. Social Media as Character Ed- Kealy
Slideshare Presentation To Go