Lesson+Exemplars

=Lesson Exemplars - Technology Integration=

Introduction Keyboarding Lesson
Teacher: All School: All

Keyboarding is an essential 21st century skill students need to survive while learning with laptops. TTL4 is a good simulation for students, but it cannot replace the teacher monitoring and reinforcing these skills. This lesson was designed to instruct the students and the teachers to continue using these techniques and strategies. By teaching these simple techniques, students can apply them in authentic settings while word processing. TTL4 therefore becomes the simulator, while the teacher becomes the keyboarding "instructor". · Why is technology important in our lives? · How do we master a musical instrument? · How are musical instruments and a computer alike? · Why is learning keyboarding skills important?
 * Guiding Questions:**

Have students practice the HOME keys. With a laptop on their desk, have them close their eyes and put their hands in the air. On the count of three, try to find the two keys that are the most special keys on the keyboard- they have a little bump on them. Feel around and when you find them, place your index finger on each key. Do this a few times until they start to "get it". Then place the rest of the fingers on the adjacent keys (HOME KEYS). Repeat this game each time they do a laptop activity.

Inspiration: Webs to Outlines
Teacher: Anne Friedlander Grade: 5 In this lesson students were learning about the US states. Instead of building a fact machine, we had the students answer the following question: //**Why do people choose the state they live in? Students then build a web with these ideas. Ideas may include: Education, jobs, climate, etc). Students are then given their state to research and select the top 10 categories from their web that directly impacts their state, providing 3 examples of each category. Once this is accomplished, the student can turn their webs into outlines with one click in Inspiration. Students can now build sentences while distinguishing topic sentences from supporting details. In the end, the students will end up with nicely written paragraphs.

Extension: Students can now create a podcast addressing the essential question, **//**//Why do people choose the state they live in?//**

Using Wikis for Classroom Collaboration
Teacher: All Grade: All Wikis are a collaborative tool for learning where students can work together across all content areas. Wikis can be used for all sorts of purposes. Click on the WIKI sticky note on the Home page of this site for examples. Here are a few suggestions as to how wiki's can be used.
 * Students can each have their own "student page" and create their own learning profile, portfolio
 * Add on stories- Students can log onto an already started story line, and continue writing and editing, saving it for the next person
 * Build a Poem Page of various poems examples created by students
 * Math Problem Solving- Students can create their own problem solving strategies page, and have other students go on and try to solve them
 * Instructional pages- Students can create pages demonstrating learning strategies for spelling, writing, reading, math etc...
 * Glossaries- Students can create glossaries (vocabularies) for different subjects areas with definitions
 * Students can embed maps from google locating geographic locations of a study
 * Students can create a running list of books to read with short abstracts
 * Students can build mnemonic devices for difficult spelling words

P odcasting: Rhyming With Dr Suess
Teacher: Grade: First In this activity, the students read and share their favorite Dr. Suess stories. Students create their own rhyming stories by through writing, while creating their own "made-up" words to fit the story. Students create drawings to match their stories and capture them with Photobooth using the cameras on the MACs. Students then create a podcast in Garageband - Narrate the stories, Add their pictures, and add a track of music and/or sound effects. Stories are shared on the teachers podcast server.