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TSD Technology Toolbox February 2009 Volume 5, Issue 4
Texas School for the Deaf
As a member of TCEA (Texas Computer Education Association) I get a magazine several times a year called TechEdge. In the most recent edition, there was an article by Linda Brupbacher and Dawn Wilson about using an effective educational practice called TEASing. Those of you who have been around as long as I have remember hearing all about the Anticipatory Set as part of Madeline Hunter’s Elements of Effective Instruction. It’s that introduction and motivational part of your lesson. The part that is supposed to grab their attention and leave them wanting more. The TEASe is just that, but with a twist of technology involved (a Technology Enhanced Anticipatory Set.) Back when I was in the classroom, I often found that helping students make that connection between the lesson and their future well-being was sometimes difficult. I wanted to help them see the purpose of the lesson and see how learning that information could help them in the real world somewhere along the line. That simply isn’t possible or feasible with every single lesson. Sometimes, our connection can just be an emotional thing. Just making students care about and have an interest in the content is a good start. If we can get them “hooked”, then perhaps they will be more likely to be selfdirected and take more responsibility for their own learning (PDAS Domains I & II). I think technology is a wonderful tool for making that anticipatory set something special. In the article, Ms. Brupbacher and Ms Wilson give an example of a TEASe used in a high school social studies classroom. The teacher
Sharee Darcé began his class with a “docu-drama.” He put it together using music, images and a recording of a child reading from a journal. The topic was the Holocaust and his TEASe involved a child riding the train to Auschwitz. Needless to say, it was an attention-getter. It not only motivated the students to know more, but connected this lesson to prior knowledge from Middle School when they read The Diary of Ann Frank. The social studies teacher noticed a change in the students’ attitudes and behavior. Not only were they inquisitive, but they were cognitively and emotionally engaged…something we would like all our students to be. So, what might a TEASe look like in your classroom? It might be a simple movie you made yourself with iMovie or Photobooth. Maybe it’s a video with captions you’ve downloaded from Discovery Education Streaming or something enticing from YouTube. It might be an Animoto presentation you’ve made with photos you’ve selected from the internet or scanned from a book and a few carefully chosen words of text. It could be a simple PowerPoint or Keynote using some of the special effects. Whatever you choose to do, it doesn’t have to be any longer than 5 minutes or so. You might even find that your students learn to do the same thing when they give their own presentations. Have fun with it and share your results with fellow teachers so they might be inspired as well. Reference Brupbacher, Linda, and Wilson, Dawn. "When TEASing is a Good Thing." TechEdge Winter 2008-2009: 38-39.
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So you want to create a TEASe, but you’re not sure where to find the media you want? Here are a couple of good sources for images and videos: 1) Discovery Education Streaming – There are many images and closed captioned clips available on a variety of subjects. Some videos have an editable symbol...meaning you can download them, import them into iMovie, and then cut out just the parts you want. 2) Teacher’s Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org/ There are videos and images in the areas of science, social studies, arts, language arts, and mathematics. “As your island of knowledge grows, so does your shoreline of wonder.” Anon.
3) PicLits.com – Find incredible pictures and add text to them. Bring up your saved picture from the site or take a screen shot of it to use in a different program. 4) Flickr Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_ of_congress - Collections of historical photos.
5) LIFE Photo Archive – Search through millions of historical photos from the 1750’s to today. http://images.google.com/hosted/life
6) Pics4Learning – This is a copy-right friendly image library for teachers and students. http://www.pics4learning.com
Page 2 of 4 7) Europa Film Treasures – Many old films from Europe. Some are silent and captioned. A few are inappropriate for students under 18 and will warn you. http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/
8) Edupic Graphical Resources – Lots of pictures for a variety of subjects designed for education. http://www.edupic.net/index.html
9) KidsKnowIt Network – This site has some captioned movies that would be great for introducing units. http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactiveeducational-movies/index.php 10) Flickr Creative Commons – Flickr users willing to share their pics with various levels of copyright. http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ 11) FlickrStorm – Search for a particular level of creative commons with a key word. http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ 12) America.gov – Captioned videos about people, places and events in the news. http://www.america.gov/multimedia/vide o.html?videoId=1636629368 13) National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/an imals/article/filmmaker.html Create movies about animals with clips from National Geographic.
TSD Technology Toolbox What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a way for content creators to assign rights to their work. You may see these symbols on digital works. creativecommons.org
Page 3 of 4 Poladroid continued… on the film and choosing “I want a sample now.” This could be a fun, free reward for students. Find the application at http://www.poladroid.net/.
Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit. Noncommercial means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only. No Derivative Works means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it. Share Alike means: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
Poladroid – A Fun, Free Application If you’re not too young, you may remember the era of the Polaroid camera. It was the only way to get a photograph quickly in the “good old days.” Now there is a fun application that reproduces that feeling. It’s called Poladroid and it is a free application you can download from the internet. (You should get the helpdesk involved if you want it on a school computer.) Just drag and drop an existing photo onto the application. Then watch the picture develop. You can even shake it to hurry it along. What you end up with is a photo complete with the large white border and a definite “retro” look. You can even stop the processing anywhere along the way by right clicking
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Web Sites of Interest : Math Videos: http://www.mathtrain.tv/ Interactive Whiteboard Resources: http://www.teacherled.com/ ScienceNewsforKids: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/ Interactive English Grammar: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cramup/grammar Create Jeopardy Games Online: http://jeopardylabs.com/ Webquests K-12: http://www.zunal.com/ Simple English Wikipedia: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_ Page
SND – Ellen Weed MS – Angela Campion HS – Michelle Halvorsen CTE – Dan Guerra
Mac Tips – Show File Path Texas School for the Deaf
If you want to see exactly where the file is located you are looking into, you just have to right click (control-click) the name at the top of the finder window (A). Or, in the Finder menu bar – View – you can turn on Show Path Bar and it will be shown to you at the bottom of your window(B).
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The Northwest Sertoma Club has come through once again with a generous donation. Fifteen Neo Alphasmart laptops were donated to TSD. Kristi Bryce has been using them this year with the students that come to Communication Lab. The laptops have been useful for students practicing their writing prompts and grammar practice in order to do well on the 4th Grade TAKS tests. Along with teacher editing, students have been learning to do peer editing as well. When students are finished with their work, they can beam the data to the teacher computer. She can then print the information or edit it and beam it back to the laptops for student revision. The students were able to use the laptops during the Harvest Pie Café for placing orders from non-signing Sertoma club members. The students have enjoyed using the laptops and are more motivated to write as a result of having them. We are grateful to the Northwest Sertoma Club for all of their support and donations over the years.
Dylan explains the role of an astrophysicist.
On February 20, Caroline Koo’s fourth grade science classes were involved in a TETN videoconference as part of NASA’s 50th Anniversary Celebration. After researching and making PowerPoints, the students presented to other schools around Texas about jobs at NASA and the requirements and interests that go along with them. They also included information about two Deaf employees who work there. Students stood in front of a green screen so their image along with their PowerPoint slides could be projected to other participants. Students then got to watch other schools present, as well as some presentations by NASA staff. Our students did an excellent job and represented TSD proudly. If you are interested in participating in future videoconferences, please see Kenny Richter.
