working with school for the deaf
center for tech and school change
teach teachers how to integrate tech
start with example of student work then help teachers show kids how to use tech
Bringing the Outside In by Dr Sara Kajder
addresses what the kids are doing outside the classroom and hook reluctant readers and writers by bringing "the outside in"
visual think-alouds
what we know about reading comprehension:
reading comp is a highly visual process
invoves creating mental movies for what is happening in the text
reflects on what students bring to text
involves reflecting on how students interact with the text
visual think alouds:
students find visual images for reflections
use images and reflections to create short movies
can be about what is happening in the text/in student's mind/both
www.microsoft.com/photostory
Sample timeline
day 1 teacher model think aloud
2 students use post-it notes to ID "sparks" for what they think of during line (no right or wrong)
3 storyboard with sparks and begin script
4 complete scripts and begin collecting and arranging images
http://images.google.com
www.pics4learning.com
www.surweb.com
www.alltheweb.com
www.images.clusty.com
www.freeplaymusic.com
www.bringingtheoutsidein.com
make sure you save the project(to edit it) and the windows media file(to show it)
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