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Pamela Pleviak MLIS
Jason R. Janczak Social Studies Teacher
Grayslake High School District #127
Who Says So?
Sir Ken Robinson
The Element
- Curriculum
- Teaching
- Assessment
We need to teach creativity.
Daniel Pink
A Whole New Mind
Visual tools strongly
support the attitude of:
- Design
- Play
Robert Marzano's High Probability Strategies
- Compare and Contrast
- Non-linguistic representation
- Summarizing and note-taking
- Cooperative learning
An application for generating word clouds
Ideas for curriculum:
- Comparing President Obama's Inaguration to the speechs of previous Presidents
- Comparing literary characters in a particular text
Pitfalls and Workarounds
Cannot save Wordles
Take a screenshot
Size limitation on text
Chunk the text into managable pieces
An application that mixes text, images, music
Ideas for curriculum:
- Vocabulary presentations
- Summarizng a chapter with images and key phrases
Demo mode limits presentation to 30 seconds
not allowing all of student work to get shown
Plan ahead: Sign up for an educational account
and Animoto will send you a password for your
entire class to have access to create full length
videos
http://www.animoto.com/education
Movie Maker
Student created "indie" flicks allow students to artistically represent key concepts, or answer essential questions.
Encourages collaborative learning.
Create a classroom "channel" on YouTube or TeacherTube so students have one place to see all of their classmates work.
Publishing videos allow students voices to be heard outside of their classroom and into the community and beyond.
Pitfalls:
It's not iMovie
Workarounds:
Get your district to buy Macs!
Incompatible with some video cameras
Use inexpensive Flip videos
Huge file size
Students should have a 2GB Flash drive