Week+3+-+Harris+&+Hofer+Activity+Types

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//**Make sure you have read the article for this week by Harris and Hofer! For this assignment you will think about an activity that you do in your class and consider some technologies that may support that activity in a different way based on your TPACK understanding. Some examples are provided below in different styles, you can decide how you will enter your contribution to the knowledge being constructed in the chart!**//

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Glenwood || Reading fluency || Student practices and individually reads a passage/short story to create a fluent recording (and possible video for more advanced students) to share with primary students. || Voice Thread, iMovie, animoto, podcast, garageband/audacity. || Newark || Gather statistical data || Eye color of all 9th graders: students gather analyze and organize information, present findings || Word, Excel, Inspiration, VoiceThread, Movie maker, Powerpoint, FlipCam, Podcast || Ashland || Communicating the District Plan || As Co-Facilitator of the DLT, we are employing multiple strategies to communicate the district plan || web page, common folder, emails, videos - I plan on integrating Google Docs and podcasts || Adams Jr. High || Generate Questions || Students develop questions related to the book we are reading (possibly questions they would like to ask the characters or the author)/concepts we are learning. || Word, Wikispaces,Google Docs-to track and monitor all comments. || Adams Jr. High || Create a Map || Students will create maps of regions studied as part of an oral presentation. || Powerpoint, Digital Archives, Google Earth would be used to gather info and create maps and Powerpoint presentations. || Adams Jr. High || documentary || Students will tape a day in the life of and show how ADHD or ADD affects their day. They will then analyze, create strategies, and see what things are keeping them from being successful in the classroom. They journal via voice thread and then create a movie with voice overs explaing whats happening and why! || voice streaming, fip video, making a movie, presentation || especially the use of researched based reading improvement strategies. || Use of Google Docs would be used to allow teachers and easy way of communicating their usage of reading strategies. Also the profilerpro survey would be an easy way to communicate both the percentage of teacher using the straegies but what strategies being used are affective. || Kenton MS || Persuasive Speech || Students will add a multimedia dimension to their persuasive speech by creating a presentation that emphasizes their position. || iMovie, Powerpoint, flip video || Newark High School || Lab Activity/Lab Report || Student will gather data, analyze it and write a lab report || Word, Excel, graphing calculator or graphing program, Voice Thread, power point, Movie Maker || Kenton MS || Conduct an Interview || Students will conduct an interview of a community member and discuss with them the importance of math in their field of work. || Movie Maker, IMovie, Digital Camera || Westland High School || Photo Essay with Soundtrack || Students will produce a photo essay- a collection of images generated from research which tell the classic story of Romeo and Juliet in a multicultural or modern way. The images will be collected and organized into a sequence which appropriately tells the classic story, focussing on main events, character traits, thematic implications, or symbolic relevance. The essay will be complimented with a soundtrack which will enhance the images using an additional media to tell the story of the two "Star-crossed lovers" putting their own spin on the tone of each image or song chosen. || Movie Maker, I Movie, Photostory, Photosynth, Ipod, Digital camera, Audacity || Glenwood M.S. || Virtual Tour || Our district passed a levy for construction of two middle schools and are in the planning process. Tours of various middle schools have taken place, but only a representative group have been able to take these tours. I would like to create a video of digital media of the various building for sharing with others who were unable to attend. This video could also be posted on our district server. || Movie maker, iMovie, flip video, digital camera || Wilson Middle School || Create a presentation || Students will compare and contrast the social classes of ancient Egypt with modern groups and present in visual/digital form. || Movie maker, iMovie, you tube, voice thread || Newark High School || Peer review || In many of my classes I like to have students do a focused peer review before moving to a final draft. It would be great to have the kids be able to do this electronically. || I'm not sure of the best electronic support for this. A wiki or voice thread? Might be too cumbersome? Students would have to upload their papers before sharing could occur. Privacy issues? Need to see what I can develop here. || Franklin Hts. H.S. || Students will collect and analyze data, create a presentation || Students will reseach climate change and present a power point, video presentation, or voicethread that details what they have learned. They must include both sides of the story, who they support and why using informmation gathered from any podcasts, interviews, skype and web resouces. || Power point, voicethread, podcast, movie maker, internet web pages, Google Earth, Skype ||
 * **Participant Name** || **Activity Type** || **Brief Description** || **Possible Technologies** ||
 * Cheryl Ward || Listen to Audio || Students listen to recordings of speeches, music, radio broadcasts, oral histories, and lectures; digital or non-digital || Podcasts (“Great Speeches in History,” etc.), Audacity, Garageband, Odeo, Evoca, Podcast People ||
 * Teacher || Peer Feedback || In my class students give each other peer feedback on a writing project, but it would be great to do this electronically. || I may consider a wiki where they would post their writing and then others could comment sort of non private? Could use Google Docs and peers could comment using the comment option and it would be more private. ||
 * Jason Ross/ Newark || create a podcast or video || Students will work be assigned a topic in math or science and told to become the masters of the subject. We will then come back together to bring their jigsaw pieces back together. students could then download the podcast of video. I could assign stations where every student is asked to go to a different area to learn a new concept with the student's finished products. || Podcasts or video podcasts. I even think a wiki would be good for a follow up session to see how much each student has learned from the jigsaw experience. ||
 * Jane Galbraith || Create a film || Students in small groups create a news broadcast or late night talk show format to summarized their assigned "labor" from the book of "The Twelve Labors of Hercules" || Possibly Inspiration to use for story mapping or other online graphic organizer, Doogle Docs to collaborate on the script, Freeplay Music or other free mp3 source to choose introduction for video, digital video camera with wireless microphones, Windows Movie Maker to create video ||
 * Tonya Bruni,
 * Katherine Ward,
 * Alan Narovec/Newark || short presentation || students demonstrate an understanding of weather concepts || word, powerpoint, podcast, movie, voice thread, publisher, wiki, smartboard, digital images, photoshop ||
 * Neil Gupta
 * Ann Hinkle || Research || Students gather, analyze and synthesize information on symbiotic relationships || Digitial archives, Google Notebook, Powerpoint ||
 * Sue Becker /Glenwood MS || Create a podcast || Student would research famous Inventors. After they have written a script and done peer editing. They would create a Discovery NEWS Report. Playing the role of a historian news reporter and giving their report on their Inventor. || Podcast will be created using Garageband, Audacity or other similar tools. The students may want to use Google Docs to post their scripts for peer editing prior to their audio recording. ||
 * Lee Bach/Adams Jr. High || Create a vodcast || Students will be assigned a math topic from the textbook. Students will research their topic, write an outline to teach a "mini-lesson". Then the students will create a video that teaches their topic. The students will upload their vodcasts to the classroom moodle and/or teachertube/youtube in order to share with others. || The vodcasts will be created using Smart Notebook Software, Windows Movie Maker, and similar tools. The students will use google docs to upload their lesson outlines and they will also use teachertube/youtube to upload their vodcasts. ||
 * EllenHiggenbotham
 * Traci Harris
 * Heather Loomis
 * Bob Toney / Adams Junior High || Building Plan Monitoring || We will be intering our third year in the Ohio Improvement Process. One of the critical goals is to monitor the plan.
 * Jan McCreary/Kenton MS || Create a Presentation || Students will develop a presentation to share how an author conveys mood and tone by their choice of words or figurative language || Use powerpoint, podcasts or iMovie to "act out" their understandings from reading text. ||
 * Kyle Lacy/Glenwood MS || Complete talbe/chart || Students will be given a table and chart and have to complete them using different stats that they gather from the student population to develop trends based on the data and the students in the school. Then students will create a table and chart based on some of the following ideas: possible collection activites could be technlogy needs, baseball stats, students opinion, student movement through hallways and different times of the days || Excel to help create charts, Word to explain the data and methods of collection, Powerpoint to display and present materials to the class/student body, Googledocs to compare results more efficently ||
 * Sarah Pfeifer/Westland || Generate Questions || Students will develop questions (and answers) based on content discusses/presented. These student generated questions will serve as future questions for homework, quizzes, tests and activities. || Word, Wikispaces, Googledocs. ||
 * Amy Wood/KMS || Group Discussion || Staff members will contribute ideas for the building mission statement. These ideas will be gatherer by the Building Leadership Team and used in the construction of the statement. || Wikispaces or Google Docs. ||
 * Kathryn Buckerfield Westland/SWCS || Create a video || In a career class, students will develop interview questions, assign roles, and videotape interviews for classroom evaluations. || Word, videotaping, Wikispaces, and Googledocs ||
 * Shana Stout
 * Mary Anne Lenhart/Sandusky || Field Trip || With actual field trips being removed in our district as an option for first-hand learning experiences with experts, students will take a real-time, virtual field trip to the Columbus Zoo to interact with zoo experts to learn about animal adaptations. || Video Distance Learning/Skype ||
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 * Jamie Bartlett
 * John Weddendorf/Westland High School || Create a Scene || Students will create and video tape a scene from a play. The scene would be posted on voice thread so that students could not anly critique the scene, but the creaters could describe what and why they did what they did similar to" director's comments" on DVD. || digital cameras, imovie, voice thread ||
 * Laurie Maurer/Ashland || Produce an Artifact || Students will produce a 3D artifact (a 3D space figure such as a prism or cylinder) with a specified surface area or volume, then increase or decrease the height or radius to see the resulting change in surface area or volume; results will be compiled in an Excel spreadsheet for comparison purposes || Imaging Tools, Excel ||
 * Kerri Terman
 * David Alvarado
 * David Alvarado
 * Diane Lewis
 * Ron Meyer, Franklin Heights High School || Group discussion || This summer, my staff is reading the book "Why Culture Matters, Teaching Children in Poverty". Teachers will be asked to share their aha moments from reading and what different strategies they will employ in their classrooms as a result || word, wikispace, google docs, voice threads ||
 * John Davis/Wilson Middle Schol || Create a film/presentation || Students will develop a video/presentation outlining the different programs and activities that are offered at Wilson Middle School. They will create a promotional movie(short) for incoming 5th graders and prospective students. It could be linked to the district website or transferred onto a CD for distribution. || Video Podcast, Digital Video Camera,Movie maker,Publisher,Photoshop, Power point,voice streaming, Imaging tools, I Movie ||
 * Kim O'Dell
 * James Deppen/ Ashland MS || Preview of Unit Material || Students will research, compile and share their knowledge of science concepts or scientific knowledge on scientific features with classmates of their class and others throughout the day. || Internet, Word, Wikispaces, Google Docs - to track, monitor and comment/question on at least two statements made by classmates. ||
 * Rob Adams/Franklin Heights High School || Students create a presentation about marine invertebrates || Students will be presenting material about specific marine invertebrates (not just cephalopods, but a specific one such as the blue ringed octopus) Students will create a power point presentation with audio and video embedded into it as well as a voice thread embedded into it. These presentations will be given in marine biology and i hope || Students will use power point, Internet, Word, video podcast, digital camera, audio podcast, voice thread, united streaming ||
 * Jennifer Staten/Franklin Heights High School || Students research and create a presentation about nuclear medicine || Students will be researching and presenting on a specific type of nuclear medicine (gamma knife surgery, PET scans, etc). They will be given some liberty on how they would like to present the information they learn -- powerpoint with embedded audio and video, voice thread, make a movie, etc. || Internet, power point, movie maker, voice thread, podcast, etc. ||
 * Clarissa Furlong/FHHS Heights High school || Biology 2 students research, create an informative presentation and survey || Students will research a controversial molecular genetics topic that interests them. For example: Stem cell research, cloning, biotech warfare, vaccines, ect. They will then create a multimedia presentation fr Bio 1 classes to view. They will then create a survey about the topic and administer it to te students who viewed their presentation. The ramifications of how public opinion then sways governmental policy regarding research grants will be researched and discussed. || Internet data base like info-ohio, power point, voice thread, movie maker, story board, and podcast. on-line survey forum ||
 * Robert Boggs
 * Kathy Gadomski/Westland High School || Conduct an Interview || For years I have wanted to expose math students to more adults who use math in their everyday life and to more professional opportunities that use algebra and trigonometry. I have always been thwarted by the task of locating appropriate persons and arranging their visits to our school. Technology could allow students themselves to research, contact, and interview these persons. They could then share these findings with other class members. || Internet, e-mail, digital camera, webcam or Skype, voice thread, MovieMaker, iMovie, power point ||
 * Doris Ferguson/Ashland || Introduction to the Autobiography Project || The student will introduce himself to me. He must include information about his birth, his family, his parents, his grandparents, his pets, his hobbies, and anything else that he wants me to know about his life as an eighth grader. || Word, Powerpoint, Wordle, Podcast, imovie, Photoshop, Voice Thread ||
 * Eric Dysert - Glenwood || Create a Presentation || Students will use their knowledge of 3-D figures to find them in real life. They will record and or take pictures and make a presentation/movie to show the class. || Powerpoint, Mviemaker, Podcast, camera. ||
 * Susan Lundy || Field trip || Students will research different types of volcanoes and then present their findings in a virtual fild trip || voicethread, virtual fieldtrips, photostory ||
 * Ryan Ludwig || evaluate primary & secondary sources || Students will examine different types of documents of the Civil War using various types of technologies to determine if they are primary or secondary sources || voicethread, powerpoints,imovie,webcasts ||
 * Luke Burton || Collect & Analyze Data || Students will collect water quality data from a stream at various point and evaluate its health. Students can compare the stream health at the various points and determine what may cause an increase or decrease in water quality (septic effluents, runoff, industry, land use, etc.) || GPS, Google Maps, Google Docs (forms & spreadsheets), digital probes, Excel, blog, cameras, rubber hip waders, plastic buckets ||
 * Brian Kettering / Ashland || Create a Presentation || Students will work in groups on an assigned topic of the Civil War with the understanding that they must share their findings with the class. Their findings will then be joined with the other groups to create a more well rounded understanding of the war. || Powerpoint, iMovie, Moviemaker, Web, Google Earth ||
 * Mark Kryling/Newark || Create a Presentation || In my AP Government class, students in pairs lead a discussion over an issue of controversy. || Powerpoint, iMovie, Moviemaker ||
 * Mark Shively/Glenwood || Identify botanical species || In biology class students will be given a Garmin GPS handheld system and map of small wooded area behind school and area around school. Students will follow instructions and coordinates to find hidden "Geo-Caches" with dichotomous keys for deciding what plant is next to the cache. Upon deducing plant they will make a leaf rub of the plant or bring back leaf or bark specimen. They will confirm specimen via taxonomic web sites. They will take digital pictures of their specimens and capture pictures of organism from website. They will use computer to overlay images of specimens and organism examples and place on map along with gps coordinates. || GPS system, MicroSoft Publisher, internet, digital camera, photo editing software, possibly United States Geological Survey information and topographic maps from USGS website, or just plain old google maps. ||
 * Jared Manns/Kenton Middle School || Create a Video || Students will be given one of Newton's Laws of Motion and be required to create a short film emphasizing the law. The video will be edited to exaggerate the motion in which classifies as the law assigned to them. Video will also be required to have a narrative explaining the action. || Windows Movie Maker, Flip Camera, Google Docs to share and collect data/information, Computer. ||
 * Maura Horgan - Newark High School || Make a Presentation || Work with curricular leaders to create a presentation for the entire staff on vision and goals during a time of change and chaos. || PowerPoint; Inspiration; wikis; wordles ||
 * Maura Horgan - NHS ||  ||   || //I just wanted to comment on all of the creative lessons that were generated in this wiki---being in the classrrom today with the types of technology now available creates tremendous opportunities for our students.// ||
 * Melissa Phillips Adams Jr. High || Create a Video or Podcast || Give students a concept in Math they have recently studied and have them create a video or podcast of how that particular concept is used in the real world and show how to solve problems involving that concept. This would allow time for reinforcement of the concept and could help serve as a source for students to access as a reteach if they forget the concept. || Windows Movie Maker, Flip Video, Podomatic or Audacity, GoogleDocs to share peer reviews or VoiceThread ||