Tech + CCSS = Engagement
Using tech tools to increase achievement and engagement
Valerie R. Burton, M. Ed. presents ways to integrate technology into your Common Core Class
USE GOOGLE
Google Docs can facilitate connections and conversations
Google documents can assist you in prompting students to make connections between their prior learning and experiences, personal, cultural, or community assets, and the content to be learned. Google documents can be used as quizzes, questionnaires, exit tickets or to activate prior knowledge.
Create a Google Form
Video below shows how quick and easy it is to create a Google Form
screencast Creating Google Forms
WIKIS
Working with Wikis
Wikis support all aspects of writing: notetaking, word processing, brainstorming, collaborative writing, and more. A wiki are a communication/collaboration tool that is used best for group work. A wiki is a collaborative web space where authors can write web pages together. Wikis are chronological and work well for developing content.
- Group projects: Students work together in one place to research, outline, draft, and edit projects within the wiki; instructors can track participation.
- Resource Collections: Instructors organize articles, websites, videos, glossaries, and other resources for students.
- Multi-Authoring/Peer Review: Instructors post questions for student brainstorming, or have students post papers for peer feedback.
- Group FAQ: Students and/or instructors post and respond to questions on a given topic.
- Sharing: Students share ideas, bookmarks, and responsibilities.
Editing wikis
This video shows how to manipulate wikipages.
Working with wikis
Blogging is Communicating
Blogs work well for delivering messages or sharing ideas. They are an online journal that allows an author to communicate with an audience. Here are some quick ways to use blogs in your class:
- Instructional Tips: share instructional tips for all students in course.
- Reflective Journaling: Students reflect on reading assignments, images, URL’s.
- Group Discussion/Coordination: Students communicate with fellow group members and coordinate projects and assignments.
- Record Ongoing Research: Students pull research materials and report on their findings.
Sample student blog
In the video below, I share Sarah's blog with you.
Sarah's work
Posting to wallwisher
I explore Wallwisher (Padlet) in the video below.
wallwisher how to video
sTUdenTS as CReATORS
Using tech tools students can:
- Record performances, projects, and presentations and upload them to the web
- Create “book talks”
- Make commercials or advertisements, to record responses to books, projects, lessons, and units
- Creating “how to” videos
- Record student progress over time (i.e., fluency)
- Create online class books
- Create a digital class archive
- Record themselves teaching (as a self-assessment)
- Record special experiences such as interviews or trips
- Create photo prompts for writing and discussions
- Create images and articles for a school newspaper, class newspaper or newsletter
- E-mailing class updates to parents, with attached photos
- Creating portfolios
- illustrating the process for complicated projects
- Develop a student-generated, graphical web research site as a school showcase
Let them be artists
This video was done by one of my scholars, Evan, in response to a writing assignment that we completed in class. Creating a this video allowed him to express his 'true self' more than he could in an essay. Technology allows students to become more involved and invested in an assignment.
Evan's Paper Slide Movie
Valerie R. Burton, M. Ed.
I am an English Language Arts teacher from New Orleans who looks for all opportunities to integrate technology into my classroom.
I am an English Language Arts teacher from New Orleans who looks for all opportunities to integrate technology into my classroom.
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