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School / Group: STECK ELEMENTARY

Attendees: Susan Buck(Tech. Integration Coordinator), Sarah Naughton(5th Grade Literacy), Jessica Harwood(1st Grade)

We're on our way to TIE and we hope to learn:

At TIE, we attended sessions on (give a couple of sentences for each session by each member. You do not all need to attend the same session, however if you do attend the same session then work together for a single response) :

//**SBuck 09/09: Notes in quotes are just description of sessions for now.**//
 * MEMBER || SESSION || How it influences / changes / supports proposed TIE student project ||
 * All || Dr. Tyson's Film Festival Boot Camp || Mr. Tyson gave us the big picture on how to create powerful short films. We are not having a festival, but we walked away with exemplar videos to share with our students. ||
 * Susan || Create Media Rich Lessons with Free PBS resources || We were introduced to several web sites that allow us to download educational resources to mke our lessons more engaging. ||
 * Sarah, Jessica || Wonderful World of Wiki || "Up and down the hallways of every school, many teachers have their own wiki. You should have one too! This session is specifically geared to the beginner to mid-level technology user who wants a website that is simple to create and even easier to update. Learn how in one hour, create one in the next hour, then learn to easily add a daily or weekly audio podcast or amazing Web 2.0 applications (picture viewers, online timeline, talking avatars, etc.) to your page. Bring your creativity and ideas about what you would like to include on a webpage and become a 21st century teacher! All resources and training materials will be available online." ||
 * Susan || Promethean Instruction that Works || "Come and see how combining the use of Promethean interactive whiteboards with the research-proven best practices from Classroom Instruction That Works will make your classroom engaging and impressive. This session will showcase lessons that demonstrate effective, purposeful uses of Promethean products and will also provide participants with hands-on time to explore Activstudio, the software that comes with Promethean products. Attendees will have the opportunity to use the board and will leave with a selection of sample lessons that combine the strengths of Promethean's tools with the smarts of Classroom Instruction that Works. (Note: This session will use Activstudio on the PC platform; it’s similar, but not identical to the Mac version.)" ||
 * Susan || Wow, Your Wonderful Wiki || "Do you already have a wikispace, but wonder how you can set yourself and your students apart from everyone else? Learn how to transform an old-school wiki into a beacon of online interaction between yourself, students, parents and the wider school community. You will walk away from this session with your own energized wiki; bring your link and login! Note: This session is geared toward participants who currently have a wikispace." ||
 * Jessica, Susan || Early Literacy Instruction with Technology || "Using technology in early literacy instruction is a focused and explicit way of teaching the phonics, fluency and comprehension skills early readers need. You will learn how to use GarageBand to develop a Read-A-Long center in your classroom, providing an opportunity for the repetitive reading of text that targets phonics and fluency development. Learn how to develop a purpose for recording students reading and sharing that recording with parents thus connecting the activities of the classroom to home. Using Comic Life is a visual way to teach an auditory concept while developing sequential retelling skills. It makes the retell more concrete and understandable for young students. While these ideas are targeted for grades K-2 they can be adapted for grades 3-6." ||
 * Sarah || Poetry Interation "Apple-palooza" ||  ||

Our classroom learning project for students is: 5th Grade - Civic Issues: Persuasive Essays & iMovie: This project will integrate Literacy and Social studies standards and content areas, as well as Technology knowledge and skills. The ultimate goal of the integrated unit is to have students take a stance and present information on a civic issue by producing a persuasive essay and short iMovie. Within the unit, students will research, outline, and write an essay in which they take a stance on a civic issue. They will then write a script, map out a storyboard, and create a one-minute iMovie as a commercial or public service announcement. In their announcement they will persuade their audience to agree or disagree with their civic issue stance. The iMovies will be presented by the students to the class at the end of the unit.

To integrate technology, our hope is to attain more knowledge regarding online researching skills for our students. To outline their essays and multimedia project, we would like to use advanced graphic organizers such as Kidspiration or Inspiration. As previously stated, story boarding and iMovie will be used near the end of the unit for students to create this multimedia project.

1st Grade - Using technology to improve writing skills In 1st grade students are required to complete a personal narrative at the end of the year. We want to introduce electronic graphic organizers to help our 1st graders organize their thinking. They will then use digital drawing programs to illustrate their narratives. Our goal is to mimic the publishing cycle of real authors by electronically moving through the process of planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. This may be followed up with a podcast to share with their families.

Our school has made a strong technology commitment. Besides purchasing new equipment (including a mobile MacBook lab and document cameras) we also hired a 0.5 technology integration coordinator. We would like to go to TIE as a team to plan for next year and take our technology commitment to the next level. We also want to attend TIE in order to meet other teachers that have used these tools in their classroom to share project and time management skills.

Our timeline for implementation of our plan is:

**Below are posted the projects we developed and used as a result of attending TIE: 1st Grade -** We used Tux Paint to create three pictures to organize our story with Beginning, Middle, and End.