This presentation is directed at anyone who is interested in getting a little technologically savvy to try to impress their students for the upcoming school year.

1. EDGY TECH TOOLS
or
How I Plan To WOWStudents This Year!

2. WELCOME!
• Insert Voki avatar here.
(Made it but could not manage
to upload it to the Powerpoint.)

3. Today’s Agenda:
We will explore various technological
tools together for use in a classroom or
library setting that will WOW! your
students!
We will learn the purpose of the tool as
well as educational applications for its
use keeping the SOL’s in mind.
We will receive tech tool links for our
own exploration as well as classroom
invitations that we may be able to use
across several content settings.

4. VOKI

5. Voki Book Talk
• Reading SOL 9.4
The student will read, comprehend, and analyze a variety of
literary texts including narratives, narrative nonfiction,
poetry, and drama.
a) Identify author’s main idea and purpose.
b) Summarize text relating supporting
details
e) Explain the relationships between and
among elements of literature: characters,
plot, setting, tone, point of view, and theme.
f) Compare and contrast the use of rhyme,
rhythm, sound, imagery, and other literary
devices to convey a message and elicit the
reader’s emotion.
g) Analyze the cultural or social function of a
literary text.
l) Make predictions, inferences, draw
conclusions, and connect prior knowledge to
support reading comprehension.
m) Use reading strategies to monitor
comprehension throughout the reading
process.
Insert Voki Book Talk
example here.
• Book Talk Expectations
 Create a Voki for each book you would
like to share with others.
• It must include your Name. (First Name
Only) Ex. “Hi, George here.”
• Title of Book and Author of Book
• Three specific details about the book.
• Your favorite part of the book.
• Would you recommend this book? If
yes why? If no, why not?
• Your Voki must be written in complete
sentences, using correct conventions,
and it must make sense.
• Email your Voki to your teacher and
any friends you want to share it with
who have school email accounts

6. Other Classroom Invitations to Use
Voki
• Back to School student introductions
• Reluctant students talking
• Vocabulary review
• Book character monologue
• Historical figure

7. BLABBERIZE

8. George Washington Biography
History SOL 1.2, 1.3, and 1.11
• The student will describe the stories of American
leaders and their contributions to our country,
with emphasis on George Washington, Benjamin
Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington
Carver, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
• The student will discuss the lives of people
associated with Presidents’ Day, Columbus Day,
and the events of Independence Day (Fourth of
July).
• The student will recognize the symbols and
traditional practices that honor and foster
patriotism in the United States by
a) identifying the American flag, bald
eagle, Washington Monument, and
Statue of Liberty

9. Other Classroom Invitations to use
Blabberize
• Explain a math problem
• Explain a science process
• Create student biographies
• Get an inanimate object’s point of view
on a debate
• Have students deliver a historic speech
• Practice speaking in a foreign language

10. TAGXEDO

11. Cell Vocabulary
Science SOL 5.5
• The student will investigate and understand
that organisms are made of one or more cells
and have distinguishing characteristics that play
a vital role in the organism’s ability to survive
and thrive in its environment. Key concepts
include
a) basic cell structures and functions;
b) classification of organisms using physical
characteristics, body structures, and behavior of
the organism; and
c) traits of organisms that allow them to survive in
their environment

12. Other Classroom Invitations to use
Tagxedo
• 6 word Book Review
• Vocabulary Review Guide
• Song lyrics
• Introduction to a new unit
• Reading from a book that you like
• Events from a timeline
• Recipe

13. PIXABAY

14. Proportion in Art
Art SOL 6.5
• The student will use elements of art
and principles of design, including the
following, to express meaning in works
of art:
1. Color—relationships
2. Line—variation, implied
3. Texture—visual, tactile
4. Value—gradation
5. Proportion—realistic,
distorted

15. Other Classroom Invitations to Use
Pixabay
• Use the images for projects
• Use for your website

16. TELLAGAMI

17. Rock Science
Earth Science.6
• The student will investigate and understand the
rock cycle as it relates to the origin and
transformation of rock types and how to identify
common rock types based on mineral
composition and textures. Key concepts include
a) igneous (intrusive and extrusive)
rocks;
b) sedimentary (clastic and chemical)
rocks; and
c) metamorphic (foliated and unfoliated)
rocks.

18. Other Classroom Invitations to Use
Tellagami
• Introduction to students/parents from different areas in the
classroom
• Speak in a different language
• Use on a class wiki or blog
• Use a plant cell as the background and have the avatar name and
discuss the function of each part of the cell.

19. Any Further Questions??

20. References/Further InformationVOKI
• Article on the use of avatars in the classroom
http://technology4kids.pbworks.com/w/page/24535850/Voki%20Talking%20Avatars
• Read Write Think website with ideas on teaching using Voki
http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/speak-teaching-with-voki-30884.html
BLABBERIZE
• Directions on how to Blabberize
http://alabamalearningexchange.wikispaces.com/file/view/Blabberize+Tutorial.pdf
• Talking poetry with Blabberize
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/talking-poetry-with-blabberize-30913.html
• Suggestions for use of Blabberize in the classroom
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2014/08/blabberize-in-the-classroom/
TAGXEDO
• Using Tagxedo in the classroom
http://www.gallitzvi.com/home/3-ways-to-use-tagxedocom-with-your-class
• More uses for Tagxedo in the classroom
https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/tagxedo-amazing-word-cloud-generator-and-101-ways-to-use-it-word-clouds-in-education-series-
part-4/
TELLAGAMI
• Tell your story with Tellagami
http://evscicats.com/blog/day-2-30dc13-tell-your-story-with-tellagami/
PIXABAY
All graphics were retrieved from www.Pixabay.com.