socialstudies

January 27, 2011
iCivics-[| http://www.icivics.org] History Tours- http://historytours.wikispaces.com Stories of America-[| http://storiesofamerica.blogspot.com]
 * Ian McCoog- Southern Columbia, imccoog@scasd.us**

__Microsoft Office 2010 - One Note and Sharepoint__
 * Jason Heiser - Selinsgrove - History Teacher and Coach jheiser@seal-pa.org**
 * One Note** plug-in : "Interactive Classroom" (records students results on the fly)
 * SharePoint:** uses SilverLight - examples [|http://sp.seal-pa.org] - he had 23 students editing a Word document at one time, click the refresh/save button to see the additions other students make as they work


 * Web 2.0 Tools - Jay McHenry - Benton - Science Teacher and Coach**

[|Live Binder] - share your links - similar to Diigo or Delicious [|Prezi -]alternative to Power Point presentations [|Myebook] - students/teachers create a book with video, text, images, links - can create student accounts to keep track of them - presentation tool [|Voicethread] - presentation tool - easy to use - small fee if you want to create students accounts [|embedit] - take any document that you have and give it an embed code so that you can put it on your web page - can be printed, downloaded, etc [|Animoto] - alternative to power point - add music to photos and video - create student accounts [|ClassMarker] - set up classes, create online tests and quizzes, can set to full or partial credit, can be set up as a homework assignment too - you can incorporate web images into your test questions, once you create the test you can view it as the students will see it - gives immediate feedback of their score - free [|YacaPaca] - create tests and quizzes - more suitable to younger students - free


 * Miscellaneous Resources - Phil Burrell - Bloomsburg - History Teacher and Coach**

[|Twitter] - professional development communities - Social Studies Chat (#SSChat) include this hash tag in the conversation if you others in the group to participate [|SSChat wiki]- wiki with past twitter conversations from sschat - geared for social studies teachers [|edmodo] - free, protected, looks like facebook - calendar - library - discussion - ex. have students post a current event and have them post responses to 2 more students who posted their current events - set up different classes - set up polls - students can post and submit assignments - assignments can be sent to their cell phones [|superteachertools.com] - create a variety of online games including Jeopardy [|etoolkit.org] - searchable database about using technology in school, problem based learning, professional development, reflection tool based on NETS-Ts standards


 * Digital Storytelling**

Some websites to help you along the way:

__Lesson plans and ideas for Social Studies teachers__

__Ideas for integrating tech:__

Moodle - This is a perfect way to bring tech into the classroom and use great collaboration tools, typically blocked, in a safe a secure environment. Activities that are great to start with for a classroom are Choice, Forums, and Chat. Choice is simple in you can do a quick survey as part of a bell ringer or an exiting exercise to look for change before and then after a lesson. Forums are great for having students start converations, answering Essential questions, and turning in assignments. Chat is nice for allowing students to collaborate and share resources in a secure and familiar environment. There are other activities but these are three a teacher could integrate into a classroom tomorrow with little effort.

__Differentiated Instruction:__

Menu lesson - For this lesson on the Cold War I decided to take a project that I like but never feel I got the most out of it. The project is called a Cold War decades project. In the project students are given menus where they are required to do a base project that can net them at most a 79%. From there they have 2 sets of menu options to increase their potential. These are not required parts of the project but options for them to achieve the best grade then can. Each level of the project, makes the requirements higher and requires the students to do more work and go deeper into their decade. Tech in this is used mainly for the purpose of research, however, if students challenge themselves they will have opportunities to use a video editing program or audio editing program.

__"Something Awesome":__ Here are the resources I talked about. Enjoy! []

__LFS Plans__:

Add your LFS plans here....

Video on Cats and Dogs:

Idea for a video format. I did this with my students doing the reformation and showed this in the beginning as a model for how I wanted the video to look.

[|Cats and Dogs.wmv]