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Tracy Watanabe

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  • Using an iPod Touch in the Primary Classroom Posted by Mrs Kathleen Morris on Monday, August 8th 2011      2011 is the fourth year I’ve been using an iPod Touch in my classroom. My students enjoy using these hand held devices and they can be used to enhance student learning in many different areas. In this post I will describe how we set up our iPod Touches and how we use them. Funding In 2008, I was successful in applying for a DEECD Emerging Technologies Trial Grant. We purchase 8 iPod Touches and some professional development time. Since then, our school has budgeted to purchase a small number of iPod Touches. We generally buy our iPod Touches from BigW and get the lowest memory model. More than half of the classes at our large primary school now have an iPod Touch in their room (we also have a small number of iPads that we’re beginning to trial). Equipment A headphone splitter was purchased for each iPod Touch which allow the device to be used by a group of five students at one time.
  • A headphone splitter was purchased for each iPod Touch which allow the device to be used by a group of five students at one time.
  • While our headphone splitter works well to share one iPod between 5 students when they are listening to stories, podcast or videos, activities that involve apps are better in a 1:1 or 1:2 situation. We have found one way to get around this. If a group of students were playing an app, they might take it in turns to have a go with the app while also engaged in another related activity. For example, students could be taking it in turns to play the app Wurdle, while other students play the Boggle board game.
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  • Sample Apps
  • This is Tania’s website with links to some great literacy and numeracy resources for the junior primary classroom.
  • http://www.iear.org/
  • http://www.apple.com/education/apps/ipodtouch-iphone.html
  • Sample Activities
  • Students listen to various stories.
  • How-to videos from the Howcast site have been stored on the iPod and students have followed the instructions to complete a task (eg. making origami). Tip: don’t let students on the Howcast site unsupervised.
  • Students have listened to songs and sequenced cards containing the lyrics to the song
  • Students listen to a recording of instructions which they must comprehend to draw something or complete a simple task.
  • Students have watched short videos
  • Student created videos and podcasts
  • Other Ideas Tom Barrett and his readers have put together this slideshow with other ideas about using the iPod Touch in the classroom.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 09 Aug 11
     
    ipod touch info -- might also be relevant for ipads too
Tawnya Woronec

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NASA earth science space STEM resources

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  • Tawnya Woronec on 13 May 11
     
    This is a way for students to assume the role of NASA scientist to learn more about the Earth and collect data.  Students can view real data about sea levels, the Arctic sea ice minimum, carbon dioxide readings, global temperature and the ozone hole.  Students can study each mission to gain a better understanding of  what NASA scientists do and study.  For younger students, the 3D globe is a great way to help students understand continents, oceans and earth rotation.
Tracy Watanabe

Free Technology for Teachers: FluencyTutor for Google - Students Listen and Practice Re... - 0 views

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Free Tech for Teachers fluency Chrome Web Store

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 26 Jul 14
     
    "FluencyTutor for Google is a Chrome web app (works on Chromebook, PC, Mac) that allows teachers to share selected reading passages with their students. Students can hear the passages read aloud. The text being read aloud is highlighted to help students follow along with the reading." After hearing passages read aloud through FluencyTutor, students can create recordings of themselves reading the passages. Those recordings can be downloaded."
Tracy Watanabe

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global collaboration pen pal epals

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 22 Aug 13
     
    "Project Goals: Students will engage in discussions with other students in the project about their country, school, hobbies, favorite activities, etc. Students will learn to respect and appreciate the opinions, cultures and customs of others. Students will be able to see the differences and similarities between themselves and others around the world. Duration: Round 1: Starting Sept/Oct 2013 Round 2: Starting February/March 2014 Targeted Grade Levels/Age Groups: Ages 7 and up. Classes will be grouped with others in a similar age range. I will do my best to connect classrooms in different areas but it all depends who signs up."
Tracy Watanabe

AAAS - AAAS News Release - "SCIENCE Honors Electron Bugscope Project with SPORE Award" - 0 views

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bugscope biology microscope science interactive

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 06 Sep 11
     
    K-12 FREE Opportunity: If your students investigate bugs, use a microscope, need an authentic purpose for research, I'd like to suggest partnering with Bugscope. You get to collaborate with expert scientists to explore bugs (i.e. looking at a bug's tongue). You would do this all via the internet. It looks amazing! Below is a response from them, with an attachment.  A news-release summarizes a history of Bugscope (http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0729sp_spore.shtml). Bugscope allows teachers everywhere to provide students with the opportunity to become microscopists themselves-the kids propose experiments, explore insect specimens at high-magnification, and discuss what they see with our scientists-all from a regular web browser over a standard broadband internet connection. You sign up, ask your students to find some bugs, and mail them to us. We accept your application, schedule your session, and prepare the bugs for insertion into the electron microscope. When your session time arrives, we put the bug(s) into the microscope and set it up for your classroom. Then you and your students login over the web and control the microscope. We'll be there via chat to guide you and answer the kids' questions. If you would like to see the response from one class who have done this, read Mrs. Krebs' blog post: http://krebs.edublogs.org/2011/09/04/bugscope-session/  If you need any help with this, just let me know. If you end up taking them up on this FREE collaboration, please let me know when/where so I can drop by. This looks fascinating! Kind regards,Tracy
Tracy Watanabe

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » ScootPad: self-paced learning - 0 views

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  • What it is:  ScootPad is a really neat site that recognize that no two students are alike and that they will master skills in different ways.  ScootPad helps students gain mastery through gradual and thorough practice that is personalized to teach the student.  This personalized practice helps build confidence in learning and keeps students moving forward at a pace that is appropriate to them.  Students can expect a fun learning environment.  Teachers can expect automated practice, real-time progress tracking and assessments that will help you to formulate next steps for students. All curriculum is based on Common Core Standards, including math and English/language arts for k-5 classrooms.  For students in kindergarten or first grade, there is a voice/read-aloud feature.
  • Best of all…ScootPad is FREE!
Tracy Watanabe

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science blog 21stCentury

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 05 Oct 11
     
    Here's a list of individual student bloggers, grades 6-8. Their posts are about digital citizenship & science. I'm sure they would love students to comment on their blogs.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 05 Oct 11
     
    If you are into science, and grades 3-6th, this is a place to allow your students to comment to other students. Always review safety and netiquette first, then model making some class comments before having them work on comments as partners.
Tawnya Woronec

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writing collaboration web2.0 boomwriter

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  • Tawnya Woronec on 31 May 11
     
    Register your class for FREE!  Students can contribute to one project. Boom Writer provides a "starter chapter: for a story and students continue the story by writing additional chapters. Teachers can oversee each student's writing, comment, and edit. When all students have written their contributions the class reads the submissions and votes. The names of the writers aren't revealed until after the voting.
Tracy Watanabe

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bugscope science microscope biology interactive bugs education insects

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 06 Sep 11
     
    You sign up, ask your students to find some bugs, and mail them to us. We accept your application, schedule your session, and prepare the bugs for insertion into the electron microscope. When your session time arrives, we put the bug(s) into the microscope and set it up for your classroom. Then you and your students login over the web and control the microscope. We'll be there via chat to guide you and answer the kids' questions. The proposal was to participatein the Beckman Institute's Bugscope, http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu, a free educationaltechnology outreach project, whichenables kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12)and undergraduate students and teachers toremotely access and control the microscopein real time from their classroom computers. See also: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0729sp_spore.shtml
Tracy Watanabe

Contest: K-12 Students Can Change the World « Generation YES Blog - 0 views

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  • The 2012 Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is now open! This national sustainability challenge empowers K-12 students to develop and share environmental solutions that may just change the world. Students from kindergarten to high school develop environmental solutions for their schools, homes, and communities for a chance to win prizes for themselves and grants for their schools. Teams of students work and compete with other students across the United States. The challenge is open August 24, 2011 through March 15, 2012. Prizes include scholarships and school grants – up to $50,000 for the first place team! For more information go to the contest website: WeCanChange.com
Tracy Watanabe

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scrumblr whiteboard sticky_notes web2.0 collaboration technology Kathleen_Morris

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 20 Jul 11
     
    The following quote is from Teaching Generation Now techtoolsforteachers@gmail.com -- Sign up for their newsletter (and view archives) for more tips on how to use Scrublr (and many other tech tools) "Scrumblr is a free online tool that allows you to create a virtual whiteboard. This whiteboard can be accessed from multiple computers and used as a collaborative space for education. We like scrumblr because: ● it is free and extremely easy to use. ● no sign up is needed to create and collaborate on a scrumblr board ● only people with the URL link that you create can access the scrumblr. ● it has no ads. ● it provides the opportunity for students to be active in their learning, reflect, clarify, stay focussed and learn from one another. ● it lets participants be anonymous. ● it allows for students from all over the world to work together. ● it allows you to customise the name and setup of the scrumblr ● it has many uses across all age groups and subject areas. ● it allows for students who don't normally speak up in class to be involved in conversations about their learning"
Tracy Watanabe

Learning Maths with 4KM and 4KJ | 4KM and 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School - 0 views

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Kathleen_Morris math videos student centered classroom

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  • Learning Maths with 4KM and 4KJ Posted by Mrs Kathleen Morris on Friday, September 21st 2012      We were recently inspired by the work of our blogging buddies in B4. These students from New Zealand made some maths videos with their teacher, Mrs McKenzie. When 4KM and 4KJ saw the videos they decided they’d like to make their own. All of the students chose a topic that we had covered this term in our maths classes. We came up with some tips for making a maths video that teaches the audience something. Some of our tips were: I
  • We came up with some tips for making a maths video that teaches the audience something. Some of our tips were: Introduce yourself Talk about the learning focus Define new words Give an example Solve your problem step-by-step End with a tip/farewell message Speak clearly and loudly Use kid-friendly language Do things slowly
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  • Prime and Composite Numbers
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  • Percentages
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  • Tracy Watanabe on 13 Oct 12
     
    Great example of student-centered learning for math
Tracy Watanabe

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Scholastic's Listen and Read: Free non-fic... - 0 views

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  • Listen and Read has fantastic online reading activities for early learners.  There are 54 nonfiction read-along books that include words, images and sound.  You can sort books by subject including: Community, American History, Animals, Civics and Government, Environmental Studies, Plants and Flowers, Science and Social Studies.  You can also sort books by level (A or B). How to integrate Listen and Read into your curriculum: Non-fiction can be hard to read in the early years.  It often includes unfamiliar words and vocabulary and concepts that students don’t have a lot of prior knowledge of.  Scholastic’s Listen and Read is fantastic because it helps students navigate their way through non-fiction with the support of a read-aloud, sounds and images.  These interactive books help students better comprehend content because they aren’t focused on the words they are stumbling through.  At the end of the book students can click on the unfamiliar new vocabulary to hear the word said again.  This follow-up exposure reinforces word recognition, vocabulary and ideas.
Tracy Watanabe

Learning About Blogs FOR Your Students- Part I: Reading | Langwitches Blog - 1 views

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  • When digging a little deeper he/she might recognize that blogging is more about WRITING than technology. But let’s roll blogging back even a little further and we will discover that blogging starts with READING!
  • Blogging is about writing, but it begins with reading. Teachers recognize that in order to teach about blogs, they have to read good blogs. Most want to jump immediately in and have their students start blogging, sit back and expect students to write quality blogs. It won’t happen. Teachers need to take time in reading other blogs, before they expect to be able to lead their students in quality blogging.
  • Start with your PASSION! Passion is what will make you read when you are too tired or have too many other things to do.
Tracy Watanabe

Hour of Code | SciTech Tucson - 0 views

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  • SciTech Tucson is hosting Southern Arizona Hour of Code Week – March 24th-30th, 2014. Whether you are a K-12 classroom teacher or an after school club advisor, SciTech Tucson challenges you to open the door for your students to experience the world of computer programming. The largest initiative of its kind, the Hour of Code is a campaign to recruit 10 million students to try computer science for ONE HOUR. It is so easy, you do not even need experience as a computer programmer to engage your students. You also do not need access to computers for your students to participate. Register, and engage your students for an Hour of Code, to receive certificates for you and each one of them!*
Tracy Watanabe

10 Internet Safety Tips for Students | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom - 0 views

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  • Here are some key messages around internet safety that I believe all students should be aware of. Most of these are tips I share with my students with some ideas from Susan McLean. Always ask an adult if you’re unsure of anything when you are online. Don’t sign up for sites that are 13+ if you are not old enough (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram etc). Remember YAPPY (the personal information you should not share online) – Your full name, address, phone number, passwords, your plans.  Don’t add people as online friends unless you know them in real life or have parent permission. Never arrange to meet an online friend without talking to a parent. Remember that you cannot believe everything you read on the internet and you can’t trust everything online friends tell you. Choose sensible names for usernames, email addresses etc.  Talk to your parents about what you’re doing online and let them know when you’re going on the internet. Know what cyber bullying is and tell someone if you think it’s happening to you. Cyber bullying is when someone picks on you, annoys, embarrasses, or threatens you over and over again using technology, such as the internet or a phone. Protect your digital footprint: don’t put anything online that you wouldn’t want all your friends, family, teachers and future employers to see. Treat others online the way you’d like to be treated.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 12 Oct 12
     
    Great tips!
Tracy Watanabe

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Draw a Stickman has a new episode! - 0 views

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  • Draw a Stickman is a delightful place for kids to be creative, read, imagine and draw.  Students are given sets of directions that they must complete to help out the hero of the story, a stickman figure that they created.  Everything that they draw comes to life and interacts with the rest of what is on the screen.  Brilliant!  These mini interactive stories that have students reading and following directions, solving mysteries, thinking creatively and solving problems. The new episode is just as charming as the last!
  • How to integrate Draw a Stickman into the classroom:Draw a Stickman is a fun interactive site that uses student creations to tell a story.  Students can complete the interactive on individual computers, iDevices (the site works great!), interactive whiteboards, or classroom computers.
Tracy Watanabe

Free Technology for Teachers: Most Popular Posts of the Year - #2, 11 Mathematics Resou... - 0 views

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free_tech_for_teachers math fact multiplication

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  • Brain Nook is a virtual world in which students can practice their mathematics and English skills
  • Learn Your Tables is a neat little site for students to use to learn and develop multiplication skills.
  • Ten Marks, an online mathematics tutoring service, offers a free program for teachers.
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  • Yummy Math is a website designed for the purpose of sharing mathematics problems and scenarios based on things happening in the world today.
  • Web2.0calc is a free online scientific calculator.
  • Math Open Reference is a free online reference for geometry teachers and students.
  • Math Maps are Google Maps on which Tom and others have created placemarks which when clicked reveal mathematics questions for students to answer based on the maps.
  • Math Live is a neat mathematics website developed by Learn Alberta
  • Conceptua Math is a provider of interactive visual mathematics lessons
  • Tracy Watanabe on 30 Dec 11
     
    Lots of great resources here.
Tracy Watanabe

Free Technology for Teachers: Reading Bear - Online Reading Lessons for Kids - 1 views

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  • Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons on prefixes and suffixes. Students can control the pace of each lesson to match their needs. After each lesson on Reading Bear students can take quizzes to test their skills. The quizzes present a picture and a set of words. Students have to match the correct word to the picture that they see. Through the narrator, students receive instant feedback on each question in the quiz.
Tracy Watanabe

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  • There are three considerations when addressing Internet safety with these students. First, the transfer of handling strangers in "real life" to those in virtual environments is not automatic. It needs to be taught. Second, while most "Stranger Danger" programs teach that strangers are scary, mean and want to hurt or abduct children, this contradicts the way collaboration occurs between strangers online. Not all strangers are dangerous. Lastly, in "real life," students can walk or run away from a potential threat. In an online environment, the danger is inside a student's home and hard to escape without the necessary skills for handling tough situations. This is a lesson that I have done with my kindergarten and first grade students to introduce the idea that strangers exist on the Internet and to discuss how we should interact with them.
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