TCEA Technology Jamboree

TCEA
Technology
Jamboree
Tech Know…
Tech Yes
Tech Know…Tech Yes
Shelly Willeford – Principal Crestview Elementary
swilleford@canyonisd.net
Shanna Alstead – 2nd Grade
salstead@canyonisd.net
Amy Griffith – 3rd Grade
agriffith@canyonisd.net
We were honored to attend the
TCEA 2015 Convention & Exposition.
We gained valuable tools to bring
back to our classrooms.
http://www.tcea.org/
Check out 2016 TCEA Convention
February 1-5, 2016
Austin Convention Center
http://www.tceaconvention.org/2016/
Dropbox
Dropbox is a free file storage and synchronization tool
that gives you access to your files from any computer
or device. Dropbox keeps your files safe, synced and
easy to share. An individual can receive up to 8GB of
free space when you invite friends to share your files.
At our campus, we use Dropbox for our lesson plans
and PLC notes. This enables staff members to have
access to shared files from anywhere.
Twitter
Twitter is a tool CISD uses to communicate with parents,
students, staff, and community. There is no need to have a
Twitter account to follow your child’s campus Twitter.
You can choose to receive the short messages through
texts and you can follow more than one campus at a time. I
use Twitter to send daily reminders, updates on weather,
information concerning school, or celebrations for grade
levels. Within our school account, we also have grade level
accounts where parents can receive information from
their child’s grade level.
Twitter
Twitter App
Twitter App
Text View
High Yield
Instructional Strategies
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Lead4ward- http://lead4ward.com/
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#CISDTopChef (Examples from Twitter)
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The lead4ward instructional resource is designed to provide teachers
with detailed descriptions of specific high-yield strategies. It is intended
to support educators in using an intentional planning process to include
these strategies in their efforts to deliver rigorous, engaging instruction
that incorporates various learning modalities, aligns to the TEKS, and
infuses the highly tested process standards.
Comprehension Tower
1. Groups of students are provided a set of wooden
blocks. One number is written on each block.
2. Students build a tower.
3. One student at a time removes a block from the
tower trying not to collapse the tower. Using a
provided list of numbered discussion prompts and/or
questions, each student removes a block and addresses
the corresponding prompt or question.
4. After the prompt or question has been addressed,
the block is placed on the top section of the tower.
Dice Game
1. Organize students into groups of 2, 3 or 4’s.
2. Students will solve a practice assessment item.
3. Each student will roll a dice.
4. If they roll:
1 - They decide if the problem looks like a sample their
teacher has used in class or if it looks different and
why.
2 - They describe the problem solving model/strategy
they used to solve.
3 - They identify one wrong answer and explain.
4 - They create a new problem similar to the one solved.
5 - They resolve by changing the process.
6 - They identify all academic vocabulary needed to solve
and then define in their journals.
Investigating the Question
(IQ) Slap Down
1. Organize students in groups of 3-4.
2. Each member should get a set of “ABCD” cards.
3. Round 1: At the teacher’s signal, students slap down
the answer choice that represents the worst answer
and then justify their response.
4. Round 2: At the teacher’s signal, students slap down
the answer choice that represents the best
wrong/incorrect answer and then justify why many
students may have mistakenly chosen that answer.
5. Round 3: At the teacher's signal students slap down
the answer that represents the correct answer and
then justify why this is the appropriate response.
Break:
Think-PairSquare-Share
Fresh Grade
Xtra Math
Xtra Math is a free online tool designed to help children master
their basic facts with a focus on fluency. Some things that
make this site ideal are:
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It is FREE and there is no advertising!
It can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection
It connects you with students and parents
It does everything for you – including a letter to send home
and videos for teachers and parents. It creates certificates
once an operation has been mastered.
• Weekly email detailing each student’s progress and needed
support
Xtra Math
Example of Weekly email report.
Xtra Math
NCTM Illuminations
Illuminations is a project designed by the
National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics and supported by the
Verizon Foundation.
• Lessons and Interactive Activities
searchable by Principals and Standards
• Over 600 Lessons
• Over 100 activities
• 5 Mobile Apps
NCTM Illuminations
Mobile Apps
Pick-a-Path
Grades 3-7
Integers
Factors
Powers of 10
Measurement
Fractions
Decimals
Exponents
Deep Sea
Duel
Grades 3-5
Reach Specified
Sum B4 Octa
Whole Numbers
Decimals
Octa’s
Rescue
Pre K-2
Counting Skills
3 Levels
Custom Set
Equivalent
Fractions
Grades 3-5
Create by
dividing whole
Number Line
Math
Concentration
Pre K-2 & 3-5
Whole Numbers
Shapes
Fractions
Multiplication
Equivalent
Representations
NCTM Illuminations
Online Activities
Equivalent
Fractions
Create Equivalent Fractions
Geometric
Solid Tool
Virtually Manipulate Solids
Faces ~ Edges ~
Vertices
Patch Tool
Create designs using
pattern blocks
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Create your own design using
pattern blocks. Then find a numerical
value for the design based on the
value of the triangle.
Break: Toss a Question
Chatterpix
Chatterpix can make anything
talk. Simply take a photo, draw
a line to make a mouth and
record your voice. Then share
your pix with friends and family.
Popplet
Popplet is a simple tool to capture and
organize your ideas. You can jot down
your ideas and sort them visually.
Create Thinking Webs
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Presentations
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Story Maps
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Problem Solving
Evernote
• Great tool as an administrator to keep
professional learning tools in one spot
and easy to refer back to
• Can easily email notes to someone to
share learning with others
• Networking...can take a snapshot of
business cards and file them within this
application
Aurasma
Aurasma allows you to embed videos into
printable projects.
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Augmented reality experiences are
called Auras.
Bring tagged images, objects and
physical locations to life with
interactive digital content
Prodigy
Prodigy has free Math games for
Grades 1-8.
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Over 600 Math Skills
Diagnostic tests
Embedded assessments
Automatic differentiation
Individual student reports
7 Little Words
Subscribe to the Daily Puzzle
for free!
• 7 clues
• 7 mystery words
• 20 letter groups
7 Little Words
Charades
Charades is a fun and exciting multi-activity
game. Includes different challenges from
singing, acting or sketching.
• Hold device up to head
• Class guesses before time runs out
• Tilt device to draw a new card
Groovy Grader
Groovy Grader replaces
“old school” sliding
grading calculator.