Oct. 23rd (Research and Application: Technology across the Curriculum: Inspiration)

* Intel book - you should already be on Module 4/5 for Unit Plan.
- For your Wiki - and you have little ones - you should set up your Wiki based on parent
communication.
I. Graphic Organizers
A. For SH and preschool/infant don't hear about graphic organizers at all. (Terminology
wise). Mind Mapping.
- There are lots of ways of doing graphic organizers that you can teach in the classroom.
**B. Inspiration
- A way to make a graphic organizer pretty easily. You can go to www.inspiration.com and
use it for 30 days for free. You can save it as a jpeg (picture).
- Graphic organizers can be pictures, sounds - if you don't have it on your computer, you
can use Word. If you have Office 2007 you can save it as Dot.x but only Office 2007 will
be able to read it.
- Graphic organizer - the one that will create tonight will go with the theme of the unit that
have been working on for the project at the end of the semester.
*****Graphic organizer websites*****
1. http://www.readwritethink.org/
http://www.graphicorganizers.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/ (Houghton Mifflin website)
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index2.html (Gives for preschool and early childhood
ed a bunch of stuff).
http://cmap.ihmc.us/Index.html (Graphic organizer tool/concept tool)
http://www.internet4classrooms.com (has really cool Daily dose of the web - cool
websites to check out)
http://www.factmonster.com
**** Don't discount homeschool websites - there are a ton of resources!
- To create a graphic organizer - can do rapid fire- everyone gives an idea and will be
creating a graphic organizer. Teacher will type in all the ideas
- Can create using Word or Inspiration - check out kidspiration at school too.
- Great to use for 50 States
For Word: Can use ovals to format graphic organizers
II. Unit Project
- You want it linked to state standards.
- What will you title it?
- Something catchy, something serious
- What topics and reference materials will be researched on the Internet?
-What's your project
- What other resources will you need?
- You need to think of that in your unit plan
- Questions to Answer
- Is the unit plan student centered?
- Want it as interactive as possible
- What 21st century tool will you use?
- Outline of project requirements?
- What's the plan?
-Resources for students
- Daily activities
- Prompts for discussion and open-ended tasks
- Links and descriptions of appropriate websites
-Models of student work
- Resources for homework assistance
- Classroom announcements and news
-Design Elements
- When you create a website
- Photographs
- animations/charts
- Scanned illustrations (student works,etc.)
*** - On a website - you want to have the most important info on the top part. If have to scroll
down, then not going to work.
**** You're graphic organizer needs to be tied into what you did your lesson plan on that you turned in last week. It's similar to what we turned in for the class assignment tonight. Has to be based on the concepts that are/were written in the lesson plan -unit plan.
The unit plan, the graphic organizers, everything will tie in together for the assignment due at the end of the semester.
*** Next Week:
- Covering things over the Intel Binder
- Covering technology for curriculum
- Graphic organizer assignment - don't need to write a blurb on that. Sharon will open the assignment up and how it fits into the lesson that turned in last week. If you got the graphic organizer turned in already and it was already uploaded then you don't need to turn one in for next week.

Reflection:
Question: How can you use graphic organizers to support student learning?
It was interesting and fun to play around with the graphic organizers. The Word one was a little hard at first to play around with but the end product was neat. As we were discussing Inspiration - I realized that I do have kidspiration at school and never realized it! That is very neat so all I need to do is play around with it at school before having my students use it.

Question -
I use graphic organizers already in my classroom to teach my students the writing process - using what we call a "Star Chart " graphic organizer -one arm for each separate idea. Students generate ideas for each arm. It is a great way for students to organize their thoughts as well as how to write 5 full, complete paragraphs.
- Graphic organizers will also come in handy when my students start designing their Power Point presentation on their 50 states to organize their thoughts and ideas.