Engaging Learners with MS Office Applications and Web 2.0 Tools

TIA Conference

June 23, 2009

Leecy Wise: leecy@coloradoadulted.org

CDE/AELFA

Four Corners Professional Development Resource Center

INTRODUCTION

http://sites.google.com/site/engagingstudents/ - Site
http://www.slideshare.net/Leecy/engaging-students-1604403
http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/ _learning professionals from all over the world share their top 10 tools for learning to help build the annual Top 100 Tools for Learning … Note, by "learning" we mean both formal and informal learning (This list was used to produce the 25 Tools: A Toolbox 2009)
http://chiresources.pbworks.com/ - Many links and information from previous workshops on different technology applicaitons.
http://tiecolorado.blogspot.com/ - Please comment on our TIE blog for this session.

INTERACT WITH CONTENT ONLINE

http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3118203 - Websites to Generate Student Poetry Online
http://www.googlelittrips.org/ -This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more! Download trips, and get step by step instructions on how to create a trip and use Google Earth. Use the tabs at the top.
http://www.learner.org/interactives/ - "Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. ->http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html Read additional content in the left column
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/ - Science: The Environment
http://www.shmoop.com/ - Shmoop engages students in literature, history, poetry and writing. “See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. Shmoop is currently a Beta Test. To paraphrase Robert Frost, we know that we still have miles to go before we sleep.”
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/06/sparkle-box-thousands-of-free-things.html - Sparkle Box is a great resource for elementary and middle school teachers. You may download teaching materials for mathematics, reading, basic science lessons, geography basics, and lots of free posters for their classrooms.
http://tilttv.blogspot.com/ - TILT: Teacher Improving Learning with Technology. This blog offers wonderful podcasts on how to do umpteen things with technology among learners.
ThinkQuest – A site with student-created content of all kinds. Go to the library and enter keywords to search projects.
http://www.thinkquest.org/en/projects/index.html - Sign up and have students submit a project. Vast content. Add to it!
http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.library - Project library. Check out some 2009 winners
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/us_map.htm - Interactive maps with lots of activities!
http://www.eslcafe.com/ - Oldest ESL site on the Web, I believe, now with lots of interaction. Check the Stuff for Students link.

Beginning Readers and ESL

For a more complete list of resources, you may review a list I published in recent workshops at http://chiresources.pbworks.com/ESL-Computer-Activitiesand http://chiresources.pbworks.com/TTIX+-+ESL+Activities+Workshop andhttp://chiresources.pbworks.com/Technology-for-Pre-or-Early-Literate-Adults.

ManyThings.com – Games and other activities are matched to vocabulary. Hours of learning fun.
http://www.manythings.org/e/easy.html - Main Site. Explore the links on the side columns.
http://www.manythings.org/lulu/ - Really simple matches (Pairs = concentration)
http://www.manythings.org/listen/ - Listen and read (i.e. Obama)
http://www.manythings.org/ac/ - Audio Concentration game
http://www.thewclc.ca/edge/issue1/index.html - A talking newspaper for ESL learners and beginning readers.
http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/index.html - Great little interactive site for ESL students.
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ - Really, really simple comics creator.

Read Write Think: Many fun activities with which to interact. Check out the Web Resources section for additional suggestions. The Student Materials Tab is loaded with good stuff for beginning speakers and readers.

GAMES (http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/ - “Are you usual or unusual?” )

http://www.freerice.com/ - Help the hungry while you learn vocabulary at different levels with different topics. Create a concentration game from the new words!
http://www.karmatycoon.com/ - Become a non-profit organization Karma Tycoon. The more good you do, the more Karma you create!
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/ - informative and interactivescience activities. Check out the Hearing game.
http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/#%20 -Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-16, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.
http://www.manythings.org/ac/ - Download game scripts for your student sites.
http://www.gotofreegames.com/ - Free games.
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ - Vocabulary building games.
http://education.jlab.org/elementconcentration/index.html - Concentration with Elements.
http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/Concentration/Multiplication_Concentration.html -Math concentration from http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_menu.htm - Long list of games and categories.
http://games.britannica.com/index.htm - Downloadable from Britannica.
http://www.edochan.com/teaching/ - Games from Japan! Check out the long list in the left column.

Be sure to google “serious games” and explore the links! Google “game show templates!” Google “games!”

CREATE CONTENT

Class Marker: The ClassMarker online testing website is a professional, easy to use online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. You simply create your quizzes and your learners or business clients take them online.http://www.classmarker.com/

Hot Potatoes: “The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website.

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - Home

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.htm - Tutorials

http://chiresources.pbworks.com/LL+-+Februray+27%2C+2009 - Links, instructions and examples from a Hot Potatoes workshop in 2009.

Eduslide

http://www.eduslide.net/ - “Eduslide allows anyone to create educational content and deliver it online, free of charge. Within the system we offer different ways of presenting information, using testing modules, wikis, chat, blogs, slideshows, and more. We welcome requests to produce more lesson types.” ->http://www.eduslide.net/app/modules/learn/allCourses.php à Search Math

Audacity - http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - Create sound files.

Slide Share

http://www.slideshare.net - Home
http://www.slideshare.net/alexisalexander/web-20-and-open-resouces-for-online-teaching
http://www.slideshare.net/janehart/25-tools-a-toolbox-for-learning-professionals-2009-1448214?src=related_normal&rel=948001 Toolbox for Learning Second Life
http://secondlife.com/ - Home

Google

Documents

Images

Blogs

Sites

Maps and Earth

http://sky.google.com ->http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

http://mars.google.com

http://moon.google.com

YouTube and Teacher Tube: Watch movies created by all sorts of folks. Have students upload their movies and share them. Embed movies into blogs and presentations. NOTE: Research the material before you assign it!

Support Resources

http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3152550 - Best sites for finding public-domain images and sounds for student projects.
http://www.engrade.com/ – “Engrade is a free set of web-based tools for educators allowing them to manage their classes online while providing parents and students with 24/7 real-time online class information. It's private, secure, truly free, and unbelievably easy to use.”
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx - Microsoft Images

Blogging

http://chiresources.pbworks.com/Blogging-with-ESL%2C-ABE-and-GED-Students
http://www.reconnectioncompany.com/ulcbloggingsession.htm
Samples
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml - Browse and download!
http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ - This is an outstanding blog for teachers who want to integrate technology in learning. Thanks Richard Byrne!

MS APPLICATIONS

WORD (Tables, timelines, diagrams, charts, cloze, pictionaries, on and on)

http://chiresources.pbworks.com/MS-Word-2007-I - Introduction to Word 2007 from an earlier workshop. http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/kjain/intro%20to%20comp/> Microsoft%20Word/Word%20projects.htm – Descriptions of a few projects
http://www.janinelim.com/bc/2tues/word2.pdf - instructions for creating projects using tables, venn diagrams and more.
http://esl.adultinstruction.org/documents/ProjectsusingWordforESLBeginningLiteracy> WindowsXPMarch2007version.pdf - Give this PDF file time to load. Great ides for ESL learners or beginning readers. Adapt!
http://chiresources.pbworks.com/ESL-Computer-Activities - Includes downloadable samples of activities.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/timelinesword.mspx - Create a timeline

POWERPOINT (All of the above with the added ease of creating interaction and options for automatic or manual presentation modes. Try the photo album for starters. Students can take their own learning to a higher level as they apply PP tools in creating and publishing slides.)

http://chiresources.pbworks.com/Interactive-Power-Point - Agenda with links to resources from an earlier workshop. AND http://chiresources.pbworks.com/MS-Power-Point-2007-I
http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/powerpoint.htm - Review the links, such as games and Premade Presentations.
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ - Lots of templates with very simple instructions that students can apply in developing games for themselves at any level.
http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/jeopardy.htm - Play the fractions game for a different use of the game.
http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm - Huge list from which to download.
http://www.jmu.edu/madison/teacher/jeopardy/jeopardy.htm - Template and more.
http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm - More templates with examples in different disciplines.

Jeopardy Question Banks

http://www.j-archive.com/listseasons.php - Huge list of archived games with categories and questions. You may search a keyword and find dozens of related “answers.”
http://www.edochan.com/teaching/jeopardyqus.htm - Shorter Jeopardy list.
http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?display:928151223-1766.txt - ESL bank.
http://www.salem.k12.va.us/south/soljeopardy/Science3/question_answer.htm - For Third Grade Science fun.

Activity: Create a Jeopardy game using the content list in the links below:

EXCEL (All of the above with the added ease of creating interaction through formulas!)

http://chiresources.pbworks.com/Using-Excel-with-Adult-Learners - Agenda with links to samples and resources from an earlier workshop. ANDhttp://chiresources.pbworks.com/Excel-2007-I
http://collaboratory.nunet.net/hou/i_excel/interactive_excel.htm - Huge list of science project to download
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/lehmann.htm - A Google book filled with instructions, including those on how to create a fractions pie chart.
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/interactiveexcel.html - Lots of Interactive downloads.
http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~technology/excel/ - Download interactive projects.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/createtimeline.mspx - Create a timeline.

Activities:

1. Create an interactive map using the image below as a background. (http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/lehmann.htm )

2. Create an interactive crossword puzzle on parts of the body.

Google “Excel Projects” or “Excel Student Project” for great links to interactive Excel.

US Map to complete the activity: http://www.energycodes.gov/images/us_map_colored.gif

Engaging Learners with MS Office Applications and Web 2_0 Tools