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Saturday's Agenda:

1. Let's make a WIKI to use with your students. If you already have a WIKI space that you use, please use it for this activity.

2. Today you will create a lesson to use one computer in the classroom. We are going to write the lesson on the WIKI, upload a document and a video to the website.

Considering embedding a video from a site that isn't blocked. Just click on the embed video icon and paste the embedded html from the website.

media type="custom" key="4748467"

Web 2.0 Tools
 Consider this:

Talking Worksheets Pages and GarageBand
Why spend hours making and doing worksheets? Students create their own understanding of concepts and ideas.
 * Talking Worksheets -Never work harder than your kids.**

Math Videos Search iTunes Music Stores for myteacher.com

Create a podcast on a classroom topic...same process
Here are some uses for Photo Booth in curricular settings. Our science teachers are using Photo Booth with their students to capture still and moving images of lab procedures or outcomes. They also use Pro Scopes, but there are times when Photo Booth is more readily available. Working with a group of math teachers, we found an interesting opportunity using Numbers and Photo Booth. After creating a table with calculations to solve a problem and a chart to help communicate the results, we recorded a short video that described our problem solving process and our interpretation of the results. This video can be dragged right into the Numbers page. This is also a great way to make the assignment "copy proof"! Our art teachers find it to be an ESSENTIAL piece of their toolbox. They use Photo Booth to capture student images when they are finished. They simply set up a station and as students finish up they step up to the computer and take their picture. Some teachers take 2 pictures. One with the student holding their work, where the student's face can be seen and another that focuses in on the work. We have teachers who use photo booth to record short videos where their students are asked to respond to an assessment prompt. For example, "In today's lesson we discussed symmetry and asymmetry. Can you give me an example of each and explain how you could tell." The videos give the teacher a quick way to see where students understood and where their may be misunderstandings. In essence, it gives us a way for each student to be called on in a robust and formative way. Several teachers have used Photo Booth to support their substitutes when they have to be away from their classroom. They just record a quick movie of themselves giving directions and setting up expectations for their class. The sub is left the movie on a flash drive and asked to launch it using the computer projector. They reported back to me that the substitute felt the mood in the classroom shift when they played the video. There were fewer behavior incidents and no instructions were lost in translation.
 * Photo Booth in the Classroom**
 * Collecting data**
 * Explaining your work**
 * Capturing "analog" work into digital forms**
 * Checking for understanding**
 * Substitute Support**

Evaluation
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