We will show project choices and different ways to use technology to create these projects (i.e. Popplet, Prezi, Google Presentations, iMovie, Animoto, etc.).

1. Engaging Project
Choices Using
Technology in
Language Arts
TIA 2014
Jenifer Hamilton, Michelle Jackson, Meghan Lenert, Rebecca Pattrick

2. Where to find us
@JacksonBMMS (Michelle - djackson3@dentonisd.org)
@LenertBMMS (Meghan - mlenert@dentonisd.org)
@PattrickBMMS (Rebecca - rpattrick@dentonisd.org)
@HamiltonBMMS (Jenifer- jhamilton@dentonisd.org)
www.slideshare.net/jendhamilton

3. Student Google Accounts
Must do! Activate Account
www.dentonisd.org/go
*See your campus IT for help :)

4. Popplet
Popplet is a tool that allows users
to visualize ideas. Teachers and
students can create graphic
organizers, timelines, and many other
forms of visual organization.
Popplet's strength as a collaborative
brainstorming tool, however, should
not lead teachers to overlook its
usefulness as an effective
presentation tool.
Source: www.Teachinghistory.org
Popplet Getting Started
Tips: cannot use DentonISD Google email to
create accounts :(

5. Popplet to Create Thinking Maps
Flow Chart
Multi-
Flow
Bubble/Circle
Students Name

6. Prezi
Prezi is a cloud based presentation tool that
allows you to create, collaborate and present
from virtually any device. Prezi brings
presentations to life.
Prezi: Getting Started
Prezi: Collaborate

7. Soundtrack Project
Popplet
Prezi

8. Poetry Projects
This student chose to use Prezi to
exhibit their poetry project. They put
descriptions of each of the types of
poems they wrote.

9. Tagxedo-Concrete Poem
Tagxedo is a tool that creates word
clouds from text provided by the
user. The words used to create the
word cloud are the words that most
commonly occur in the text provided
to the site. Words that appear more
often are larger compared to words
that appear less often.
Source: http://www.webtwotools.com/tagxedo.html

10. Animoto and iMovie
● iMovie (iTrailer) is a proprietary video editing
software application sold by Apple Inc. for the
Mac and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iPod
Touch).
● Animoto is a cloud-based video creation
service that produces video from photos, video
clips, and music into video slideshows.
o Free version only 30 sec of video.
o Basic Account for $5 per month, gives you more options.

11. Book Trailers
iMovie - Trailer
The Lions of Little Rock
Animoto
Watsons Go to Birmingham

12. BMMS Marketing Campaign
iMovie
Students created iMovies
to persuade future BMMS
students to get excited
about their first year of
middle school.

13. Wordle-Characterization
Wordle, much like tagxedo, is a tool for
generating“word clouds” from text that you
provide. The clouds give greater prominence to
words that appear more frequently in the source
text. You can tweak your clouds with different
fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images
you create with Wordle are your to use however
you like. You can print them out, or save them to
the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Wordle.net
★ Tips:
-Java updated in Software Center
-To make a word larger, enter it multiple times
-Use the Snipping Tool to Save:
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14. Tagxedo - Characterization

15. Google Docs
For more information: http://www.google.com/docs/about/
Ideas for using Google Docs
in the classroom:
● Collaborative brainstorming
● Collaborative writing
● Sharing information with
students
● Students turning in work

16. Google Docs Examples
Text Features Project - small group project
Essay Writing

17. Book Talks
Google Presentations
Power Point
Popplet
Source: Librarian at Harpool via Bonnie McCormick, Crownover’s Librarian
Bibliography

18. Edmodo
Edmodo is private, social
network for education.
-Sharing information
-”Blogging” about a book
-Posting notes and links
-Turning in assignments
★ Tips: Use regularly! Create
Small groups/folders. Use
Firefox, not Internet Explore.

19. QR Codes
This Presentation
QR Codes - Getting Started
Ideas for using QR codes in the
classroom:
● Sharing information
● Gallery walks
● Checking answers
● Inside books-book talks/book
reviews
● Attach to homework-review
information
● Displaying work around the
building

20. Bonus Tools
is an Internet application that
allows people to express their thoughts on a
common topic easily. It works like an online sheet
of paper where people can put any content (e.g.
images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the
page, together with anyone, from any device. Think
of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time
wiki.
How to use Padlet
About Paddlet
padlet.com
Allows you to add links to images and videos to
easily create interactive websites, infographics,
and photo albums.
Thinklink in the Classroom
thinklink.com
Allows you to organize multiple links in one
place. Great for flipped classrooms, project
based learning and differentiation. Just share
one link!
Blendspace-Book Trailers
blendspace.com

21. Questions?