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- 1. Fall into Technology By Jacqui McGuire-Day Koshina, L. (2014). Autumn. Pixabay. CCO.
- 2. https://www.powtoon.com/ • Simple and free • Alternative to Powerpoint • Tutorials to help you become a pro
- 3. SOL Connection ELA 5.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, narrative nonfiction and poetry. a) Describe the relationship between text and previously read materials. b) Describe character development. c) Describe the development of plot and explain the resolution of conflict(s) (VDOE, 2010). Powtoon (2016). Book report [image]. Retrieved from https://www.powtoon.com/dashboard/templates/
- 4. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Wonder book trailer [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IllG1UoNPw
- 5. Powtoon (2016). 05 Facts [image]. Retrieved from https://www.powtoon.com/dashboard/templates/
- 6. Lamailloux, B. (2013). Se poser des questions en regardant plus haut. flickr. CC BY.
- 7. http://blabberize.com • Use your own pictures • Very user-friendly • Stores your Blabbers for you Munro,D.(2015).Dog.flickr.CCBY.
- 8. http://blabberize.com Start here: and quickly turn your photo into a video clip. Screenshots taken from www.blabberize.com
- 9. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Geronimo Stilton [video file]. Retrieved from http://blabberize.com/view/id/1464585 • Persuasive commercial for the book • Story summaries • Highlight character traits of the characters McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Greg Heffley [video file]. Retrieved from http://blabberize.com/view/id/1464582
- 10. SOL Connection Science 3.9 The student will investigate and understand the water cycle and its relationship to life on Earth. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Water cycle [video file]. Retrieved from http://blabberize.com/view/id/1464589
- 11. SOL Connection History 2.4 The student will describe how the contributions of selected individuals changed the lives of Americans. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Benjamin Franklin [video file]. Retrieved from http://blabberize.com/view/id/1464623
- 12. MakyFoto (2012). Baby. Pixabay. CCO.
- 13. http://bighugelabs.com/ • Easy to use • Image tools • Create projects
- 14. Ed Tech for Teachers (2015). The life story magazine cover [image]. Retrieved from http://edutech4teachers.edublogs.org/2014/10/01/big-huge-labs-magazine-cover/ A New Way to Introduce Yourself!
- 15. Web 2.0 for the Classroom (2015). Magazine cover creator at big huge labs [Image], Retrieved from: https://web20fortheclassroom.wikispaces.com/Big+Huge+Labs (CC BY-SA 3.0) Kditzlerteacherresourcepage (2015). Rosa Parks [Image]. Retrieved from: http://kditzlerteacherresourcepage.wikispaces.com/Big+Huge +labs (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- 16. Web 2.0 for the Classroom (2015). Trading card generator [Image], Retrieved from: https://web20fortheclassroom.wikispaces.com/Big+Huge+Labs (CC BY-SA 3.0) Trading Cards (2015). Einstein trading card [Image], Retrieved from: http://innovatemotivateeducate.blogspot.com/2014/03/trad ing-cards.html (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- 17. SOL Connection Science 1.5 The student will investigate and understand that animals have basic needs and certain distinguishing characteristics. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Image modified from: ReedleyMom. (2014). Turtle. Pixabay. CCO.
- 18. BigHugeLabs.com (2015). Picture Cube Instructions [Image], Retrieved from: http://bighugelabs.com/cube-instructions.php
- 20. • Many free QR code generators online • Easy to make, even for students • Easy to read using QR Code reader McGuire-Day, J. (2015). QR code. CC BY-NC.
- 21. http://www.qrcode-monkey.com http://qrvoice.net Screenshots taken from http://www.qrcode-monkey.com/ and http://qrvoice.net/
- 22. QR Code cube with sentences that tell “All About Me” . McGuire-Day, J. (2016). QR code cube. CC BY-NC. Make a QR Code Treasure Hunt. Go to http://www.classtools.net /QR/index.php Screenshot of http://www.classtools.net/QR/index.php
- 23. Put a QR Code at the bottom of classroom assignments to remediate or challenge
- 24. SOL Connection Math 2.15 The student will describe, compare and contrast plane and solid geometric figures. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Math sheet. CC BY-NC. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). QR code scavenger hunt. CC BY-NC.
- 25. Pezibear (2015). Asking. Pixabay. CCO.
- 26. • Simple and free • Many templates and images to use http://www.easel.ly/
- 28. http://easel.ly/infographic/gbsukr SOL Connection ELA 2.13 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. ELA 3.10 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- 29. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). My road as a reader [infographic]. CC BY-NC. Other ideas for using Infographics: • Alternative options for book reports • Making a chart to show problems and solutions in stories • Tool to create food web or food chains • How-to chart for something that has many solutions, such as multiplication • Reporting tool to document steps taken in a scientific investigation or experiment
- 30. Pezibear (2015). Child. Pixabay. CCO.
- 31. Are you ready to be on the of technology? ClkrFreeVectorImages. (n.d.). p-24242. Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/p-24242/?no_redirect CC0
- 32. Alexa. (2015). Rosenblatt. Retrieved from: https://pixabay.com/p-746771/?no_redirect CC0 Kinney, J. (2010). Diary of a wimpy kid. New York: Amulet Books. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Geronimo Stilton. CC BY-NC. McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Greg Heffley. CC BY-NC. Mhars. (2012). Cooking conversion chart. Retrieved from: http://visual.ly/cooking-conversion- chart Morgan, C. (2015). Capitalization rules. Retrieved from http://easel.ly/infographic/gbsukr Online Behavior. (n.d.). Nuts and bolts of chart types. Retrieved from: http://online- behavior.com/analytics/chart-types Stilton, G. (2001). It’s Halloween, you ‘fraidy mouse. New York: Scholastic, Inc. VDOE: The standards & SOL-based instructional resources. Retrieved from http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/
Editor's Notes
- Hi everyone! My name is Jacqui McGuire-Day. I wanted to take a few minutes before I begin to introduce myself. I’ve been teaching for 11 years, all at the elementary level. I’ve taught Reading Recovery, kindergarten, and first grade. I’m currently working on my Library Science endorsement from ODU. This presentation was actually an assignment for me at the end of the Production and Design course that I took with Dr. Perry at ODU. There was a whirlwind of information in the class . . . we looked at different web based tools every week, started a blog, made a website, and learned about many other audio and visual presentation tools. I have chosen just a few that I am excited to share with you today, and hopefully, after our time together, you’ll have some new ideas that will spark your creativity and give you some practical ideas that you can take back and use with your own students. Time: 1 minute 5 seconds
- The first tool that I’m going to highlight today is PowToon. It is a popular animated presentation. Students will enjoy this hands-on approach to learning. They can incorporate their unique sense of humor into their presentations. Presentations are quick to create, which is great for learners with short attention spans. PowToon is an alternative to Powerpoint. The basic version of PowToon is free, but you must have an email to sign up. Pro accounts are available for a fee as well. With a free account, your presentation can be up to 5 minutes long. The main drawback of the basic account is that the PowToon logo will always be a part of your presentation. You are also limited to the basic selection of templates and styles. For a free tool, though, the positives outweigh the negatives. Time: 1 minute 3 seconds
- Students can use PowToon for book reports. Students can create book characters and props that enter at preset times, to complement their text and audio. Everything can be edited to fit their needs, and their book. Powtoon is uniquely suited for individual and group reports. After completing their assigned readings, students can report on character and plot development within a book. This connects directly with reading SOLs. Time: 45 seconds
- You could also use Powtoon to add a new element to book reports by having students add visual and audio components to book reports to create book trailers. Book trailers are short videos to spark a viewer’s interest in a book. Student created book trailers can be shown during morning announcements. Here is a book trailer that I made for Wonder by R.J. Palacio. (Click) Time 1 minute 47 seconds
- Students can use Powtoon when they have to find information. Students can investigate and record geological characteristics of the earth’s ocean environment (SOL Science 5.6a) on virtual paper PowToon slides instead of using actual paper. Students can use the same type of presentation to identify different rock types (SOL Science 5.7a). Time: 36 seconds
- Does anyone have any questions before we move on? What are some other ideas that you can think of for using Powtoon in your classroom? (Pause for questions and comments.)
- The 2nd tool that I want to talk about today is Blabberize. It’s made my students giggle over and over again. Blabberize is another free tool. It requires an email to sign up. The application will store your completed Blabbers so that you can go back and retrieve them. Time: 30 seconds
- Here is how it works: You’ll go the the Blabberize website (point to the blue screen shot) and the website walks you through making your own Blabber. You insert a picture, add a mouth, add audio (you can record right there on the spot or use audio that is already recorded), and finally, they put it all together for you. What I love about this tool is that they give you a number of ways to share your finished Blabber. You can send someone to the Blabberize website using a url provided for you, you can embed the video into a blog or website, or you can convert the video and download it to use it in a project. This flexibility is great! I’ve found some limitations with this tool, though. One is that you can’t go back to the other steps in the ‘making’ process without erasing the work that you’ve done. If you’ve added audio and want to go back to adjust where the mouth is, then your audio will be erased. Also, if you want to edit your picture, you’ll need to use another tool for that. The only thing Blabberize lets you do is crop the picture, choosing the part you want to use. I do think that this simplicity makes it perfect to use with elementary students. Time: 1 minute 31 seconds
- I’m going to take a few minutes to highlight some of the ways that I thought you could use these Blabbers in your own classroom. Blabbers would make a super motivator to get your students to read. Can you imagine how much fun the kids would have using pictures of the characters and adding words to them? After a child has read a book, you could encourage him or her to make a Blabber that would persuade other classmates to read the story. The students could also write the story summary telling what the book was about, or pretend that they are the character in the story and talk about some of the character traits that each individual possesses. Listen to the Blabber that I’ve created about the Geronimo Stilton series. (Click) In the next Blabber, Greg Heffley describes himself using a few character traits. (Click) Time: 2 minutes 40 seconds
- I’m sure you can think of hundreds of ways to use these little Blabbers to get students to remember things that you teach in science or social studies. Here is another idea that I had. This is a Blabber that has raindrops that are talking to reminder students about the main parts of the water cycle, something 3rd grade teachers teach in science. The students think these Blabbers are hilarious because there are many ‘talking mouths’ that move together to give you a message in the video clip. Watch. (Click) Time: 1 minute 12 seconds
- Students can also use Blabberize after learning about the contributions of significant people. They can use a Blabber to tell what they’ve learned by having the famous person talk about their accomplishments. (Click) Time: 45 seconds
- : I’m going to stop for a minute and see if anyone has any questions about Blabberize. I’d love to hear if you have any ideas about how you’ve used it in your classroom. (Pause for questions and comments) Time: 19 seconds
- The 3rd tool I want to highlight is Big Huge Labs. Big Huge Labs is a collection of free tools that allow users to turn digital images, either your own images or those you found on the internet, into learning tools. The site does not require registration; users can create and download projects without an email address. Once teachers have created accounts, students get their login information and can access their accounts wherever there is internet connection. (Click link to website and scroll during short narration) Some of the cool things that students can make from photos include badges, mosaics, cubes, trading cards, movie posters, and magazine covers. The site also offers a map maker, pocket album and calendar creator, CD covers, billboard messages, photo mats, and frames. Time: 1 minute 5 seconds
- Photo magazine covers are specialty photography products that have long been available at drug store photo labs for a fee. Now, they’re available for your students in the classroom. As they get familiar with tool, students may want to make a magazine cover featuring themselves. They can take, an upload photos of themselves, and write article titles that introduce themselves to their classmates at the beginning of the year. Time: 37 seconds
- Students could also create a magazine cover to show their knowledge about a particular topic such as characters from a novel, an historical time period or an historical figure. Here are a few magazine cover images that I found online that show the possibilities clearly. The first one, The Explorer, is a perfect example of the type of magazine cover student could design for use with US history. Students could make a magazine cover to accompany Virginia studies. Articles could describe the regions of Virginia, the American Indian natives of Virginia, or the Jamestown settlement. The Civil Rights activist magazine cover is an example of cover that students can make to show their knowledge about the contributions of significant people. The next Big Huge Labs tool, though rather small, is mighty indeed. Time: 1 minute 8 seconds
- : I’m talking about trading cards, of course! Trading cards have many uses beyond sports. Students can create and collect trading cards for historical figures, black history month, authors, books they have read, states, types of rocks, and vocabulary. They’re easy to create and attractive. Students can search for useable images online or upload images they’ve taken. Time: 41 seconds
- In first grade, students complete an animal research project. After they have found facts about their animals, they can create trading cards and those cards can be shared with other students in the class. Here is a trading card that I made about turtles. Time: 22 seconds
- The last tool from Big Huge Labs that I will feature is the photo cube. To make the cube, students will upload photos into Big Huge Labs. Cubes like this can be used for group work, with actual images of 6 different students who are in a group together. Once assembled, their cube can be ‘rolled’ along with a cube of individual assignments, to determine who gets which assignments within a group. Cubes work well for stories as well. Students can make “story cubes” that feature different elements of a story they have read. One side might have a photo of the book jacket or a photo of the author. Other sides would include information on the literary elements in the story like the plot, theme, genre, and conflict. Big Huge Labs has a lot to offer and the classroom curriculum connections are endless. It does have a few negatives though. Classrooms that use Big Huge Labs need to have devices that support photography and photo uploading, and if printing is involved, a color printer is a necessity. Also, some of the tools, like the magazine cover creator, require a little trial and error to master. Time: 1 minute 20 seconds
- Does anyone have any questions before we move on? What are some other ideas that you have for using Big Huge Labs in your classroom? (Pause for comments and questions) Time:19 seconds
- The 4th tool that I wanted to highlight today is QR codes. I know that you’ve probably seen them before. I wanted to talk about a few ways that they could be used by the students in your classroom. There are many different QR code generators online. They’re all very easy to use: you input your information, click submit, and voila! Instant QR code, and reading them with a QR code reader is just as easy. One limitation that I found is that QR code readers don’t have the capacity to store large amounts of data. I wanted to use one to show a picture, but it wasn’t possible. There are websites that will store the picture for you, so you can use the url to make a QR code. When this code is scanned, then you would read the url and go to that address to view the picture. Time: 1 minute
- Two great websites that you could go on the web to create simple QR codes are QR Code Monkey and QR Voice. QR Code Monkey lets you type in text or your contact information to make a QR Code. You can customize the resolution and the color of your code. You can also get fancy and have a logo right in the middle of the QR code. QR Voice lets you type in a sentence that will be turned into audio when the QR code is scanned, so this would be an especially good tool to use if you are working with struggling readers. Both of these tools are really easy to use. They will both let you save your QR codes as pdfs so that you can use them in any project, or you can link to them using the url provided. The QR codes can be easily read with any ipad or phone that has a QR code reader app on it. Obviously, this would be a difficult tool to use if you don’t have devices that you are able to use that have a QR code reader, but keep in mind that you wouldn’t need one for each child because the students could work in groups. Time: 1 minute 3 seconds
- : I’m going to spend a few minutes talking about the different ways that you could use QR codes. A cool “back to school” or “end of the year” idea would be to use the QR codes to generate 6 sentences about each student. When the codes are glued on a cube, the other kids could read each code and try to figure out who made the cube. Another website that you might want to explore is the QR Treasure Hunt Generator. You can go here to make an exciting treasure hunt by typing in your questions, getting the codes and displaying them around the school. The kids race to find the codes and answer the questions to win the race. Time: 40 seconds
- I have a couple of other ideas to share with you. I like to give students prizes for good behavior or good work. QR codes would be a very motivating way to present these special prizes. You could make QR codes for things such as “wear your socks for a day” or “change desks with anyone in the classroom” and then kids would draw a random QR code to find out what their prize is. I can also use a QR code to give parents my contact information so they can contact me throughout the year. I think it’s a great idea to post my QR code right outside my classroom door on Open House night. Finally, you could use QR codes on classroom assignments to give a little extra practice or challenge to those who might need it. Time: 41 seconds
- One idea is to put QR codes on stickers, number them on the backs of students to make a fun ‘inside’ scavenger hunt where you wouldn’t have to leave the room to answer questions about a topic that you’ve just studied. When you scan each QR code, it would have an answer that matches a question on a worksheet. Kids could write the corresponding number on their worksheet and tell which question it matches. In this slide, you can see a student working on a Geometry scavenger hunt to identify and name geometric figures, like kids learn in 2nd grade, but you could use the idea with many learning objectives. Time: 38 seconds
- Does anyone have any questions before we move on? What are some other ideas that you can think of for using QR codes in your classroom? (Pause for questions and comments.) Time: 19 seconds
- The last tool that I’m going to feature today is easel.ly. Easel.ly is a website that lets you use text and graphics to make an infographic. Infographics come in many shapes and sizes. Easel.ly is free to use; you just sign up with an email address. You can watch a number of YouTube videos to help you get started and to continue your learning. After you choose a project to work on, you can use one of the templates or you can start from scratch, then add graphics from the Easel.ly library. You’ll probably be surprised at how professional your finished product will look. A limitation with this tool is that there are not a lot of choices as far as adding clip art and shapes, however the choices that were available are easy to use. Time: 47 seconds
- I want to show you just a few infographics that I’ve found on the internet. You can make some just like these using Easel.ly. The first one is about different kinds of charts and graphs. There is a lot of stuff on this chart. I like how the information is lined up in rows, making it easier to read and digest. Not only does it show us examples of different kinds of charts, this infographic talks about when to best use each kind of chart. In the second example, the measurement conversion chart shows how different sized measurements relate to each other. What I liked about this infographic is its good of color. Different sizes are different colors and measurements that are the same are the same color. Time 49 seconds
- This infographic is on the rules of Capitalization. Elementary students have difficulty realizing when a word needs to be capitalized so I though this infographic would be a good reminder. Time: 12 seconds
- This is an infographic that I made about my history as a reader. I love the idea of students creating their road as readers to reflect on their reading choices throughout a school year or throughout their elementary years. Other ideas for using infographics would be to use them as alternative option to book reports or students could make charts to show problem and solution, cause and effect, or facts and opinions within a story. You could also use it as a reporting tool to document the steps taken in a scientific investigation or experiment or possibly create a food web or food chain in science. An infographic could show examples of how to solve problems using arrays, number lines, repeated addition, or skip counting. Time: 37 seconds
- Do you have any questions about infographics. What are some ideas that you can think of for using infographics in your classroom? (Pause for questions and comments)
- Are you ready to be on the cutting edge of technology? If your answer is yes, tack some time to explore the tools we’ve talked about today. They’re free, they’re easy, they’re fun, and when you put them together with your good ideas, they’re sure to motivate your students to learn new things. Thank you for coming today! Time: 22 seconds