Workshops

Differentiating Instruction Using Technology: Using Simulations, Tutorials, Games, and Animations
====Participants will become familiar with free online resources and develop ways to utilize them in the classroom to differentiate instruction. Simulations, tutorials, games, and animations can be used to reteach, provide practice, motivate students, or extend learning for more advanced students. Come to this class prepared with laptops and class materials. ====


Differentiating Instrutction Using Technology: Pageflakes RSS Feed Aggregators like PageFlakes are free online tools that are used to automatically keep you updated with current information from a set of websites or blogs. This tool allows students to collaborate on research projects, view up to date information in your content area, and connect with the world outside of the classroom in motivating new way. Participants will create a PageFlakes account, and set up a page for immediate use in their classrooms.

Differentiating Instrutction Using Technology: Voice Thread Participants will learn to use the free Web 2.0 tool, VoiceThread. This tool helps students to communicate more effectively as they type sentences or use a microphone to narrate a series of slides that are uploaded on the Internet. The VoiceThread presentations can be shared with parents, used to enable collaboration between classes, and review lesson information with the click of a link.  Differentiating Instrutction Using Technology: Creating a Class Wikispace

Participants will create an account at Wikispaces.com and set up a wiki to use in their content area classroom. Wikis can be used to manage and share resources with students, to organize research projects, display student work, and to collaborate on projects. Bring your laptop and class materials because part of the class time will be used to implement this technology for use in your classroom.  


 * Digital Story Telling
 * Helping reluctant writers find their voice.
 * VoiceThread
 * Digital Notebooks

Managing Independent Learners Presentations
 * Pageflakes - Using RSS feeds, message boards, and bookmarks.
 * Wikispaces