Through the ITA and EETT grant, Roberta Champeau and Mike Scoville are creating a project that infuses Technology into Mike's 6th Grade classroom.  The plan is to use various new technologies like VoiceThread, Animoto, Wordle, Photostory, Skype, Pixton, Wordle, Garage Band, Voxopop, and Podcasting with Audacity as part of this project.  The project will involve a tic-tac-toe board with a different project in each.  Once the students decide which direction to go, the project will follow.  This technology project will be incorroporated into a Science Fiction unit.  The final project has not been fully developed at this time.

Visit my home page at www.thehallofheroes.weebly.com for new and up to date technology info!  Also available is the Gibraltar School site athttp://www.gibraltar.k12.wi.us/pages/Gibraltar_Area  

Inspirational video showed during SITA class   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYyKpI4RhQA

Science Fiction book test

http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/

http://pixton.com/ 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Animoto 

Wordle

Voicethread 

http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

http://www.voxopop.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx

Pixton:  Digital knowledge cartoon: 

------ example of pixton

Copyright: http://www.copyrightkids.org/quizframes.htm

Copyright Chart:     http://www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.html 

http://www.delicious.com/gibraltar6thgrade  

Mike's Pageflakes page: http://www.pageflakes.com/default.aspx?u=30776791 

Roberta's Pageflakes page: http://www.pageflakes.com/default.aspx?u=29193999

 Badgerlinkart.doc

Interesting web sites:

collaboration from Tech and Learning

http://techlearning.com/blogs/26378

Makezine is a technology show and publication: Technology on your time!

http://makezine.com/ 

Our Unit Plan: Tic-Tac-Toe Technology Tic-tac-toe technology unit plan.doc  

Our Action Research Project plan: Sci Fi Tic-tac-toe Technology Action Research plan.doc

----Reflection of Action Research Article---tools vs. skills

***TIPS FOR WORKING WITH STUDENTS***

--Be sure to have students send an email stating they are done, where to find the project and any usernames used.

--Be sure to discuss private versus public----some, like voxopop, you can change---everyone could see

--Be sure to remind students to NOT use last names-----security

Reading books used for this unit.

Student choices

Hunger Games example--Photostory3

Among the Hidden example--Photostory3

Here is the Tic-Tac-Toe board.  The document includes a description board with links, a project board, and rubrics for each project.  Enjoy!

NEW THINGS FOUND THIS WEEK!!!!!

http://fur.ly/   when you want that one page of sites that you have previewed 

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/  massive collections of tools---YOU WILL WANT THIS ONE!

http://www.wallwisher.com/  wait til you see this sticky note marvel!           YOU WILL USE THIS TODAY:  http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/TTTTechnology