Transcript Beyond the Overhead - Effingham County Schools

Beyond the Overhead
Ways To Make Your Classroom
More Interactive
http://tinyurl.com/beyondtheoverhead
Gregg Miles
Who am I?
• Currently
– Instructional Technology Specialist for
Effingham County (3 years)
• Former
– High School Media Specialist (4 years)
– Middle Grades teacher (8 Years)
– Elementary School Teacher (1 year- whew!)
– Adjunct professor (GSU – 4 semesters)
“The Overhead”
• Idea conceived in
early 1900s
• Reached it’s height of
popularity in the 80s
• Use declining but still
can be found in many
classrooms.
I have an LCD projector in my room.
True or False?
I have either an Interactive Board or
Interactive Pad in my room.
True or False?
I have the following brand system in my
room.
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Promethean
InterWrite
Smart
Other
Proverb
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish he eats for a
lifetime.
Any TapFish fanatics in the room?
Use Available Resources
A few ideas…
Find good “fishing buddies”
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Teacher Challenge
The Whiteboard Blog
Free Technology for Teachers
Larry Ferlazzo’s Website
Suggestions?
“ I don’t have time to read 5
blogs or more a day!”
RSS Feeds
• Google Reader
• Tracking Blogs
Now for the fun stuff…
“Give me a fish”
Take Them Places
Google Art Project
The Secret Annex Online
Google Street View
Take Them Places…
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Google Outreach Showcase
Stellarium
Google Earth for Beginners
Ookaboo
Let Them Create
Let Them Create
• Wordle
– Uses?
• Guess the story Free ebooks
• Analyze famous speeches
Obama State of The Union
2011
Lincoln State of the Union 1862
More Ways to Use Wordle
• Analyze student writing
• Turn Essays into posters
• 51 ways to use Wordle
Let Them Create
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Wordlings
Bomomo
This is sand
Jackson Pollock
Crayola
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Corkboard.me
Wallwisher
Letter Generator
Museum Box
Let Them Play
Spin and Spell
http://www.spinandspell.com/
Physics Games
http://www.physicsgames.net/
Spelling City
http://www.spellingcity.com/
Let Them Play
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Cyberkidz games
E-bug
Bitesize Bingo
The Lost Army
Everest the Experience
toporaopa
Watch Learn Participate
Solar System Scope
http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
Periodic Table
http://www.ptable.com/
Time Zone
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12849630
Watch Learn Participate
• Heart Interactive
• Heart and Lung
Interactive
• National Geographic
Mapmaker Interactive
• Whyfiles – Build your
own Tornado
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Interactive voyages
Civil War Casualties
Civil War Timeline
Japan earthquake
interactive
Where are we going?
• Interactive textbook
• http://www.smashcards.com/
Other Places to Explore
• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/
– Elementary and Middle Interactive Resources
• http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/
– Interesting ways series
• http://www.wheredidmytaxdollarsgo.com/
– Put in salary and dependents and it gives you a break
down of where your money went
• http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/hows
/mod01/sim_mod01_01.jsp
– Simulates filling out a W-4
Other places to Explore
• http://chartsbin.com/graph
– Charts and maps that illustrate various types global
data
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/
– Lots of interactive games and activities
• Www.thinkfinity.com
– Interactive games and activities divided by grade level
and subject
• http://www.geotrio.com/
– Create, share, view tours
Other places to Explore
• Interactive maps with audio
– Great interactive maps from Glenco online
• http://www.vocabulary.com/
– Interactive to improve your vocabulary
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/29/o
pinion/20101029-civil-war.html
– Interactive maps relating to the Civil War
• http://learning.snagfilms.com/
– Film with lesson plans
• Joplin tornadoes
Other places to Explore
• http://explore.org/education/
– Short films with lesson plans
• http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
– Library of Congress National Jukebox
• http://www.random.org/
– Need a random number?
• http://artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp
– Instrument lab games and activities
Thank You!