What's Your Tech?
Using Technology to Add Spice
to Your Teaching
Nancy Stone Penchev
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17 years classroom experience in grades K-5
Lifelong learner
An Archeolibrainologist
Children’s book enthusiast
Blogger
Passionate sharer of instructional technology
Best daughter, sister, aunt EVER, pretty good wife
And a person never
scared to say...
Uhhh I don't know, let's
figure it out
Lesson planning
You would never start planning a lesson by
saying I really want my kids to create a poster
this week, what can I teach them. Similarly, you
should never start planning a lesson focused
on the technology. Decide your objective and
your goal, then see where tech can be added
so it flows with the lesson, not distract from it.
Commercial: Play Osmo
Social Studies lesson
Florida Social Studies standards grade 5
SS.5.A.5.1 Identify and explain significant events
leading up to the American Revolution.
Objective:
TSWBAT explain why colonist dumped tea in to
Boston Harbor.
Lesson planning
Procedures:
Read SS chapter
Read Patriotic Mouse:
A Boston Tea Party
Participant
Who, what, when,
where, why, how it
affected Revolution
Primary Source
explore
Tea tasting
Connections to today
Tech Spice
Liberty Kids episode #1
BostonTea Party
Create an ISSUU (online
newspaper) with articles pro
tea party and anti tea party
Online “game”
http://www.havefunwithhisto
ry.com/activities/btp.html
TV news interviews live
from the scene posted to
youtube
Create an edublog as a
participant, an eye witness,
or the tea owner
Other standard addressed with Tech Spice
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals,
events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on
specific information in the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9
Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or
speak about the subject knowledgeably.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.8
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information
from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes
and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
ISTE Student Standards
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and
develop innovative products and processes using technology.
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new
ideas, products, or processes
b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work
collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and
contribute to the learning of others.
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a
variety of digital environments and media
b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a
variety of media and formats
Commercial:
Planbook.com
Adding Tech Spice
*QR codes
*Edmodo
*Animoto
*Toondoo
*GoAnimate
*Blabberize
Adding Tech Spice
*Glogster
*Voicethread
*Wordle
*Big Huge Labs
*Popplet
*Weebly
*Social Media
Commercial:
Educlipper
Adding Tech Spice
*Educreations
*Haiku Deck
*Screen Chomp
*Educreations
APPs
Adding Tech Spice
*Sock Puppets
*Pixn Tell
*Tellagami
*VidEditorFree
*Aurasma
*colARmix
APPs
Commercial:
Gmail/Googledrive
No Tech/Low Tech
Create a social media wall for students to post
character status updates, create character
profiles, and make connections between
characters in the books they are reading.
Can also be used with historical figures or
famous scientists/mathematicians.
No Tech/ Low Tech
Foldable/Popout report
Have students create a visual report with a
folded piece of construction paper, then have
them record their information. (Think a singing
birthday card.)
No Tech/Low Tech
Photography can be used in many ways to
expand on the subject matter.
No Tech/Low Tech
Sticky Blog
A teacher/student selects a topic to discuss and
writes the idea on the top of a chart paper that
is attached to a table. Students use sticky notes
to respond and reply to the topic.
Low Tech/No Tech
Plickers
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets
teachers collect real-time formative assessment
data without the need for student devices.
Commercial:
Remind
Inspiration points
www.nancypenchev.edublogs.org
www.freetech4teachers.com
http://blog.web20classroom.org/
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=10862
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Inspiration- TWITTER!!!!
And now...
Questions?